Track change orders with Brad

Why change orders go wrong

The trouble with change orders is rarely the change itself — it is the disconnection. The change gets agreed in the field, captured in a thread, and entered as a number, but the link back to the affected plan detail and the budget is left to memory. Months later, no one can cleanly say what a change actually altered or why the cost moved.

For an owner, that means approving changes without the full story. For a builder, it means an impact that was never connected to the budget surfacing late. For the architect, it means a change that may have drifted from the design intent without a clear record.

How Brad handles it

Brad reads the change order alongside the rest of your connected project. It ties the change to the plan and spec it modifies, the contract language it implicates, and the cost it carries — so the change is something you can evaluate in context, not just a number to initial.

Because the project's documents and conversations are already connected, Brad can also show the surrounding story: the field condition that prompted the change, the clarification that supported it, and the approval that closed it. The change order stops being an island.

What you get

Visibility: open and approved changes are connected to the documents and costs they touch, so impacts do not hide in a thread.

Traceability: when a change is questioned later, the reasoning, the affected details, and the approval are connected and findable.

Cleaner money moments: because changes are connected to cost, assembling a draw package or a closeout record that reflects them is far less of a reconstruction job.

Honest scope

Brad connects and surfaces change-order information from your project's documents and messages. It does not replace your contract's formal change-order process, your accounting system of record, or contractual notice requirements — it makes them run from a connected, verifiable picture.