Change and extra-work recovery platform for specialty contractors
Suggested by the multipliers.ai team · Oct 17, 2026
The problem
Specialty contractors do extra work on nearly every job, but turning field tickets into approved, billed change orders runs through paper tags, email and spreadsheets. Late or poorly backed requests get cut or written off, and the trade and the general contractor argue from different change logs.
Who has this problem
Mid-sized electrical, mechanical, concrete, drywall and site contractors that self-perform work for general contractors.
How we'd know it worked
Every field change is captured, priced and submitted within days, and the change log both sides see matches.
Market facts
A 2026 industry survey found 92% of subcontractors say change orders are not always paid in full and 66% wrote off change-order revenue in the past year.
Source: Clearstory and Dodge subcontractor report (opens in a new tab), 2026
The same survey put the gap from a signed time-and-material ticket to a priced change request at 22 days, with 84% of requests sent by email.
Source: Clearstory and Dodge subcontractor report (opens in a new tab), 2026
Federal data counted about 597,900 private specialty trade contractor establishments in the first quarter of 2026.
Source: BLS Industries at a Glance, NAICS 238 (opens in a new tab), 2026
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