For commercial electrical, mechanical, plumbing & fire-protection subs

The change order came back for missing docs. Rebuild it complete — before your resubmittal date.

Send your T&M tickets, field photos, authorizing emails and RFIs, rate-sheet exhibits, and the GC's rejection comments. CORReady Clear returns a first-pass, GC-ready COR Completeness Pack — an evidence matrix, indexed exhibits, a gap chase list, a completeness-risk score, and a draft cover narrative — with a change-order specialist's QA signature.

Priced per COR — never hourly Standard delivery 5 business days, rush 48 hours You attest rates, quantities & entitlement — always
57%
of delayed or rejected CORs cite missing documentation
Clearstory, Why CORs Get Delayed (2025)
10–30%
of specialty-contractor revenue rides on COR / T&M work
Clearstory 2025 Change Order Report
97%
of specialty contractors still run paper T&M tickets
Clearstory 2025 Change Order Report
15–25%
T&M revenue leaks under manual processes
Rhumbix T&M benchmark
The real reason CORs bounce

The work happened in the field. The packet loses weeks anyway.

Rejection is usually a documentation failure, not a craftsmanship failure. A GC returns the COR, it goes through two to three revision rounds, and the priced change slips from the 8–14 day window into 15–30 days while the cash sits. These are the exact gaps that trigger it:

Unsigned

T&M tickets and daily reports with no field signature.Half of CORs are rejected outright when they land late — the signature chase is what makes them late. (AWCI, 2026)

Unlinked

Photos that aren't tied to a specific ticket line or work day.The GC can't trace the labor or material to the extra work, so the line gets cut.

No trail

Missing the RFI or email that authorized the extra work.Without the authorization trail, entitlement questions swallow the whole COR.

Thin backup

Labor hours without cost codes; materials without invoices or packing slips.60% of firms write down or write off change order revenue at least occasionally. (Clearstory 2025)

Mismatch

A cover narrative that doesn't match the exhibit index, or a COR log out of sync with what was submitted.82% maintain COR logs that are often misaligned with the actual submission. (Clearstory 2025)

The tax

Your project engineer spends 6–10 hours a week pricing and submitting CORs, plus 1–10 chasing follow-ups.On a $50M contractor, a 5% change-order loss is an illustrative $2.5M at risk. (AWCI, 2026)

The deliverable

One COR in. A submission-ready COR Completeness Pack out.

You get a single package built around one Change Order Request or T&M ticket set — assembled by AI, gated by deterministic completeness rules, and signed off by a change-order specialist before it reaches you.

Evidence Matrix

Every required item, crosswalked

A line-by-line map of each labor and material claim to its supporting ticket, photo, authorization, and cost backup — with each gap flagged before the GC finds it.

Exhibit Index

Indexed, ordered exhibits

Tickets, daily reports, photos, emails and RFIs, invoices, and rate-sheet excerpts, indexed and ordered the way GC reviewers expect to read them.

Gap Chase List

Exactly what's still missing

A short punch list of the signatures, photos, or backups still needed — with draft chase emails you can send to the field the same day.

Completeness-Risk Score

Know before you submit

A plain completeness-risk read on the pack, so you know whether it's ready to upload or one signature away — not a guess about whether the GC will approve entitlement.

Draft Cover Narrative

A narrative that matches the exhibits

A draft cover letter that tells the change story and points to the right exhibits — so the reviewer isn't hunting, and the narrative never contradicts the index.

Pricing Worksheet Packaging

Your rates, packaged clean

Your attested rates and quantities packaged into a clean pricing worksheet. We package what you attest — we never invent a rate or an entitlement position.

How it works

Deterministic completeness gates the AI cannot overrule.

Machine speed on extraction and crosswalk. Human judgment at the QA signature and your attestation. A hard-fail gate in between that no pack ships without clearing.

You upload the COR set

T&M tickets and daily reports, field photos, authorizing emails and RFIs, contract rate exhibits, and any prior GC rejection comments. Tell us the COR number, the claimed scope, and the due date.

You

AI reads and crosswalks

OCR on tickets and handwriting, page classification (ticket vs photo vs email vs invoice vs rate sheet), and a draft evidence matrix that links each ticket line to its supporting exhibits and flags what's missing.

CORReady Clear engine

Deterministic rules gate the pack

Hard fails on an unsigned ticket, a photo with no ticket or day link, a missing authorization trail, or a material claim with a blank cost backup. The pack cannot proceed until each hard fail is cleared or explicitly deferred by you.

Rules engine

A change-order specialist QAs it

A change-order-aware specialist reviews the evidence match, resolves ambiguous exhibit links, and applies the GC's packaging preferences. Nothing ships on the AI's word alone.

Specialist QA

You attest and submit

You attest the rates, quantities, and entitlement, then upload the finished pack to Procore, Clearstory, or the GC's email — under your name, on your account. We never auto-submit to a GC portal for you.

You attest & submit

Every rejection teaches the desk

If a GC comments, we code the reason into the playbook — so the next pack for that trade and that GC starts closer to clear.

Rejection learning loop
Pricing

Priced per COR. Never hourly.

One write-down cycle costs more than a pack. So does a month of a project engineer's COR hours plus a SaaS seat. The Gap Scan is free — start there.

Gap Scan
Free
Send one prior rejected COR or incomplete T&M set and the governing contract excerpt if you have it.
  • Gap map on your evidence within 24 hours
  • Which hard fails would bounce it
  • A fixed quote to rebuild the pack
Beachhead price
First-Pass COR Completeness Pack
$249 / COR
One COR or T&M ticket set, fully assembled. Typical MEP set; complex multi-ticket or multi-trade sets run $299–$349.
  • Evidence matrix + exhibit index
  • Gap chase list + draft chase emails
  • Completeness-risk score + draft narrative
  • Specialist QA signature
  • Delivered in 5 business days standard
Resubmittal & Continuity
$129 / resubmittal
Keep packs moving across an active project without a full-time change-order engineer.
  • Resubmittal Pack $129–$199 when comments are completeness-driven
  • Continuity Desk $299–$599 per active project / month
  • Rush under 48 hours +$99–$149
  • COR-log hygiene coaching — not a portal seat

The completeness guarantee. If a pack comes back solely for completeness items we marked as clear, we rebuild the resubmittal at no additional pack fee, once. We stand behind completeness — not GC approval of a disputed entitlement, which stays yours and your counsel's to resolve.

Proof

We're new. Here's what we'll show — when it's real.

CORReady Clear is in its pilot. We won't post a testimonial or a win rate we haven't earned. These slots fill with real numbers as the first packs ship.

Awaiting pilot data

First-pass completeness acceptance rate, measured across the first 20 packs. Target is ≥70% by pack 20 — we'll publish the actual figure here.

Awaiting pilot data

Median cycle time from complete intake to delivered pack. Target is ≤5 business days standard — the real median lands here once the pilot closes.

Awaiting first named reference

A named specialty-trade sub willing to say the pack came back clear. We'll add it only with their permission and their words — never a stock quote.

Objections

The questions subs actually ask.

Do you guarantee the GC approves the change order?
No, and any vendor who promises that is selling you a problem. We guarantee completeness — that your pack has the tickets, signatures, photos, authorization trail, and cost backups a reviewer needs, assembled the way GCs expect. Whether the work is entitled extra work is a contract question you and, if needed, your counsel decide. We package what you attest.
We already pay for Clearstory / Procore. Isn't this the same thing?
Those are tools your team operates. They track and sometimes price tickets, but someone still has to assemble the complete first-pass evidence pack — and that's the 6–10 hours a week your project engineer is losing. CORReady Clear is the done-for-you desk that produces the finished pack. We complement your software; we don't replace your seat, and we're not building a Clearstory clone.
Our T&M tickets are handwritten paper. Can you even use them?
That's the normal case — 97% of specialty contractors still run paper T&M tickets. We OCR handwriting and classify pages automatically, then a specialist QAs the extraction. When a ticket is genuinely illegible, we flag it and ask for a re-photo or a typed clarification rather than guessing. We never invent a number to fill a gap.
How is this priced, and how fast is it?
Per COR, never hourly. The beachhead price is $249 for a typical MEP T&M-to-COR set; complex multi-ticket or multi-trade sets run $299–$349. Standard delivery is 5 business days from complete intake; rush under 48 hours adds $99–$149. The Gap Scan is free.
Who attests the rates and quantities?
You do — always. We package your rates from your rate sheet and cite the page; you attest the rates, quantities, and entitlement before anything goes to the GC. We are a documentation-preparation vendor, not a party to your contract. We never present an invented rate as contract fact.
Is this legal or engineering work?
No. CORReady Clear does not practice law, prosecute claims, take a recovery percentage, stamp drawings, or offer professional-engineering entitlement opinions. Design entitlement and legal disputes stay with your design team and counsel. We assemble the documentation you direct and attest — see the compliance section below.
Where we stay in our lane

A documentation service, on purpose.

The boundary, in plain terms

  • CORReady Clear prepares COR and T&M completeness documentation that the contractor directs and attests. The contractor remains responsible for contract compliance, rates, quantities, entitlement, and means-and-methods.
  • We do not practice law, provide lien advice, or prosecute change-order or delay claims. We do not offer professional-engineering design or entitlement opinions and do not stamp drawings.
  • We do not take contingency or recovery-percentage fees, and we do not guarantee GC approval of any change order.
  • We never auto-submit to a GC portal on your behalf in this program — you review, attest, and upload, so accountability stays with the party to the contract.
  • Your bid, contract, and project documents are handled under a data-processing agreement with retention limits, and are not used to train models without your consent.

CORReady Clear is a documentation-preparation service, not a law firm, engineering firm, or claims-recovery agent. Nothing here is legal advice or a professional-engineering opinion. Preparing a complete COR Completeness Pack does not guarantee that a general contractor will accept the change order or the requested pricing. Public-works and prevailing-wage projects may carry additional documentation requirements the contractor is responsible for meeting.

Send the COR that bounced. Get a gap map in 24 hours.

Tell us the trade and the GC platform. We'll return a gap map on your last rejected COR and a fixed quote to rebuild it complete — before your resubmittal date.

Owner, project executive, or controller.
We reply within one business day with your gap map.
One qualifying fact — that's all we need to start.
Thanks — your Gap Scan request is in. Watch for a reply within one business day. In the meantime, gather the COR that bounced: tickets, photos, authorizing emails, and your rate sheet.

[PLACEHOLDER] First-cohort COR package turnaround — our target is 48-hour rush with an evidence matrix, exhibit index, and gap chase. The real measured turnaround appears here once the first pilot subcontractors complete a cycle.

[PLACEHOLDER] First subcontractor reference — added only with a named pilot client's written permission. CORReady Clear never invents a testimonial or a project name.

[PLACEHOLDER] Total COR/T&M packages completed to date — a live, auditable count once real packages have shipped, never estimated.