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Practical knowledge for specialty contractors
Compliance, change management, project controls, and the data discipline that compounds across bids. Written for California specialty subs — owners, PMs, estimators, and the field.
Award a job — what flips when you win
The Award Job button is the moment a pursuit becomes a job — what the three-field form records, what changes underneath, and the setup work that's deliberately still yours to do.
PCO vs CO — proposal versus executed change
A PCO is your priced ask. A CO is the executed contract amendment. Until the CO is signed, the work isn't billable on a pay app.
RFI vs Change Event — when to file which
An RFI asks a question. A Change Event records an impact. Treating them the same is how recovery slips through the cracks.
Set up the subcontract — parse the PDF into the fields the job runs on
Register the executed subcontract once, let Parse Contract read value, dates, retainage, and terms out of the PDF, review each field against its page, and flag what the contract makes due.
T&M tag — why the owner signature is everything
What a T&M tag is, what makes it legally enforceable, and what STrOp does when the signature is missing.
See STrOp in action
Single-pipeline operations for California specialty contractors — bid through warranty.
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