Every line of every change order checked against the agreed rates, the scope of work, and the drawings. Your own number, before you sign.
The revision is measured off the sheet, then priced from the agreed rates. The arithmetic below is what the register carries.
Every reissued sheet compared against the last, even renumbered ones. Additions, deletions, credits, and the text-only changes nobody clouded.
Every claimed line priced from your own agreed rates and go-forward pricing, the source cited on every figure. Your clients keep money they would have paid out.
The measuring work is automated, the judgment stays with your professionals. The same cost managers cover more projects.
Documents in, evidence out. No integration project required.
A contractor submits a change order for revised work at Level 3. Forty one lines, priced by the party asking to be paid. The drawings, the contract, and the agreements behind the project go in alongside it.
Each reissued sheet is set against the one before it, renumbering and all. Additions, deletions, credits, and the text-only changes nobody clouded come out as a list of what actually changed.
Every line is priced from your own agreed rates and go-forward pricing, with the source cited on the figure.
Lines that cannot be settled against the contract are held and printed with the reason they need attention. The system does the proving. The professional does the deciding.
The register goes out as the cost report: submitted against assessed on every line, savings computed, every figure carrying its citation.
The unit price is contested: $17,900 per connection is claimed against $13,789 derived from the agreed hookup kit and the assessed hours.
The deletion is under-credited: 6 of the 14 hookups Rev C removes are credited, leaving 8 EA of the removal unreturned.
Demolition of the full plenum is claimed; Rev C reuses the plenum with closure pieces at the deleted CRAH positions, so the demolition scope needs review.
Present in Rev C but not clouded by the issuer; identified by the comparison rather than the narrative.
This report uses the issued snapshot. Open change orders remain an assessment, not an executed fact.
Submitted against assessed on every line, with the citation for each figure.
Your pitch is that you save clients multiples of your fee. Craics instruments that claim, and takes the ceiling off how many projects each expert can carry.
Every claimed line arrives checked against the agreed rates, the scope of work, and the drawings, with the backup cited.
Savings computed natively, submitted against assessed on every line, with the reason recorded.
The measuring work is automated, so the same cost managers carry more projects.
Change orders arrive priced by the other side of the table. Craics gives you your own number for every one of them, built from your own contract, before you approve anything. Software you standardise on travels down the project: your owner’s rep and your contractors work to it.
Rates, markup, quantities, scope, and backup on every line. You stop paying for what you shouldn’t.
Budget, allowances, and contingency tracked live as changes settle.
Final accounts accrue as changes settle, so the reconciliation is already done when the work is.
Craics sits on the owner’s side of the table, and the engine it runs takes no side. Your change orders move through review on evidence instead of argument.
A claim that lands in an evidence-linked register gets ruled on, because the small changes stop being arguments.
The same check that catches an overpriced line catches the cost you missed.
When every number carries its source, disputes shrink and the final account is largely agreed.
The money moves on paper. The work happens on the sheet first.
Illustrative lineworkin annual change order volume, negotiated between parties with asymmetric information. Conservatively assessed; published change rates support $170B to $290B.
of US construction put in place annually.
of contract value arrives as change orders.
of budgets driven by design errors and omissions.
What does not get checked gets paid.
A change order arrives priced by the party asking to be paid. The professional questioning it starts from behind, with a stack of drawings, a contract, and not enough hours. That asymmetry is the whole problem, and it is the reason so much money in construction moves on the weaker argument rather than the better one.
Craics puts the evidence on the number instead. It is built by people who manage construction cost for a living, not generic AI pointed at a job site. The engine takes no side: an evidence-linked register serves everyone at once, because when the small changes stop being arguments, attention goes where the money is. The system does the proving. The professional does the deciding.
Tell us about the project and where you sit on it. We will show you what the register looks like on work like yours.
Bring one project and one contested change order. We will walk the register line by line with your team.
Your firm’s data is never mixed with another firm’s.
In transit and at rest.
Role-based, with administrative actions recorded.
Uploaded documents are purged on a set retention schedule.
Take your data out, have it deleted, on request.
Your project material trains nothing unless you say so.