Outcome
Protect your margin from unclouded changes
The changes that cost you are the ones nobody clouded.
Once a job is live the documentation only gets messier. Drawings reissue at 75%, at IFC, and again each time a consultant fixes their own work, and not every change arrives clouded. An unclouded change reaches site one of two ways: your team builds it as though it was always in the contract, or they build off the sheet it superseded and rectify at your cost. Either way you have delivered scope you were entitled to be paid for, and it comes straight off the job's margin.
CIM compares every revision against the last and against the contract baseline, and flags exactly what changed - unclouded edits, added scope, spec upgrades in finishes, millwork and FF&E, services running through structure that wasn't there last week - within hours of the set landing, each finding cited to the source drawing and the page it appeared on.
Your team sees the change while it is still a conversation. That matters commercially as well as practically: most amended contracts give you 14 days or less from when you knew, or should have known, about a change, and the clock starts when the revision lands whether or not anyone opened it. RFIs and notices go out inside the window, and the same dated record substantiates the change order, supports a time extension, and stands up at the final payment application when the owner's cost consultant asks where the scope came from.
Before CIM
- Unclouded changes reach site as scope you deliver for free.
- Changes surface weeks late, after the notice window has closed.
- Margin leaks one missed revision at a time.
With CIM
- Every revision compared; what changed is flagged and cited.
- Changes in front of your team within hours, while the window is open.
- A dated, sourced record behind every change order you raise.
Customer story
Catching a $50K+ discrepancy before the package was awarded
A three-document coordination error - RW35 required, RW30 scheduled, no seals specified - caught, cited and confirmed before the window package was awarded.
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