The Average Project Has
35 Change Orders Worth $2.1M
The Cost of Inaction
Entitlement documentation is assembled after the fact
Change orders require proof of entitlement — contract clause, directive, differing condition, or owner request. Most teams assemble this documentation weeks after the event when memories are faded and daily logs are vague.
Pricing backup does not match field conditions
Labor hours, equipment usage, and material quantities in change order pricing are estimated from office records. Field conditions often differ from what the pricing assumes, creating disputes during owner review.
Approval chains stall without visibility
Change orders pass through PM, owner rep, architect, and sometimes legal review. Paper-based routing means nobody knows where a COR is in the approval chain or why it has been sitting for 3 weeks.
Cumulative change impact is invisible until too late
Each change order is reviewed individually. Nobody tracks the cumulative impact of 35 changes on schedule, budget contingency, and subcontractor capacity until the project is already over budget.
The Return on POD
Voice-captured entitlement records
Document change conditions as they are discovered in the field. POD creates time-stamped, GPS-tagged entitlement records the same day the condition is encountered, not weeks later from memory.
Field-verified pricing backup
Labor hours, equipment time, and material quantities captured from actual field reports. Change order pricing automatically references real field data instead of office estimates.
Approval chain visibility
Every change order tracked through the approval workflow with timestamps, comments, and status. POD shows exactly where each COR sits and sends automated reminders when approvals stall.
Cumulative change impact dashboard
Running total of all approved, pending, and potential changes against original contract value, contingency, and schedule. See the cumulative impact before the next change order is even submitted.
Change Order Intelligence
COR Tracking Dashboard
Every change order from request through approval with entitlement documentation, pricing backup, and approval chain status.
Pricing Verification
Change order pricing cross-referenced against actual field data for labor, equipment, and materials.
Cumulative Impact Analysis
Running impact of all changes on contract value, contingency, schedule, and subcontractor capacity.
“We submitted a $1.4 million change order for differing site conditions. The owner denied it because our daily reports did not document when we first encountered the conditions. We had photos but no contemporaneous written record tying them to the discovery date.”
— Senior Project Manager, Heavy Civil Contractor
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Win Every Change Order Dispute
See how POD builds bulletproof change order documentation from the field up.