From Buried Details to Clear Decisions — Surface What Matters
Below the surface, Change Orders have always been more than just numbers. They hold the story of a project — where things shifted, where changes piled up, where money and time were saved, and where they slipped. The challenge hasn’t been collecting that information, it’s been deciphering it quickly and clearly.
Over the past month, we’ve been focused on refining that clarity. The result is a release that brings your data forward in simpler, more usable ways, making Change Orders easier to approve and cleaner to analyze.
COR Line Item Consolidation
Take COR creation and review. When a Change Order Request pulls from multiple T&M Tags, line items can add up fast. Fifty tags with a few labor classifications each, and suddenly you're sending a COR with hundreds of identical entries, tagged differently, and stacked in a way that's hard to read and even harder to approve.
Most teams work around this by manually consolidating before sending. It’s time-consuming, introduces risk for errors, and ultimately slows down the process.
COR Line Item Consolidation changes that. When building a Change Order Request, you can now control how your Labor, Materials, Equipment, and Other line items are displayed. Instead of overwhelming detail, CORs are presented in clean, summarized views with one click, while still preserving every underlying row for full traceability when needed. The result is the elimination of manual consolidation, a clearer cost story, easier reviews, and faster approvals.
COR Savings Insights Report
That same focus on clarity extends into reporting.
Today, many teams struggle to answer fundamental questions about their Change Orders: Were requested amounts negotiated down? How many CORs were revised? How often are requests rejected or voided, and why? Getting those answers meant manually reconciling logs, building custom summaries, or exporting data into spreadsheets — until now.
Clearstory’s updated COR Savings Report unlocks this data and puts the answers right in front of you. A new Summary tab brings the full lifecycle of your Change Orders into one place with new views to help surface submitted, revised, rejected, or voided CORs and their financial impact. You can now compare requested vs. final approved values, understand where your review process is driving real savings, and break it down by project, contract, or contractor.
These added details prepare you for everything from day-to-day project management to executive conversations.
AI Reason Categories is Available to All Customers
Finally, there’s the question every team wants more clarity around: what’s actually driving all these changes?
Last month, we made it possible to answer that question by introducing AI Reason Categories. Automatically categorize every Change Order as it’s sent or received, surfacing insights into what’s driving changes, their impact, and how to improve processes moving forward. This feature is now available in all accounts. But as always, you have the ability to opt in or out of AI features at any time using the AI Settings in Clearstory.
Effortless Information Capture
This month’s theme is simple: information with no added effort. Cleaner inputs, clearer outputs, and faster understanding of what’s happening across your projects. The end result is reduced friction for better decision-making.
Log into Clearstory to start sending cleaner CORs, uncover hidden savings, and see what’s really driving your change orders.
