2025 Specialty Contractor Change Order Report

Our nationwide survey of trade partners reveals a wake-up call for the industry: outdated Change Order and T&M processes are draining profits and damaging GC relationships. See what’s broken and how top contractors are getting ahead.

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What's Inside the Report

Specialty Contractors across roofing, electrical, mechanical, flooring, drywall, and other trades weighed in on how they’re managing today’s flood of Change Orders. Here’s what we found:

  • Paper still dominates

  • Revisions are the norm

  • Cash is on the line

  • Time drains are massive

  • Relationships are suffering

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What Top Contractors Do Differently

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Capture Every Dollar in Real Time
Digital T&M tags with photos, scope notes, and electronic signatures prevent lost tickets, allow for instant pricing, and eliminate back-and-forth over missing details.
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Improve the Quality of Documentation

Eliminate hand-written T&M Tags in the field, confusing COR coversheets and excel COR logs prone to error and bring clarity to all stakeholders on the project.

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Standardize and Streamline COR Workflows
When every COR includes standardized pricing and organized backup, approvals move faster. Standardization addresses the 56.9% of rejections caused by missing documentation and the 50% tied to pricing disputes
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Stay in Sync with GCs
A shared, cloud-based COR log gives all stakeholders a single source of truth for status, revisions, and backup documentation, creating instant transparency and alignment. 

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