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Clearstory vs Rhumbix

Two digital T&M tag tools that start from different places. Clearstory is a change order network shared between GCs, trade contractors and owners, with signed T&M tags, shared COR logs and AI agents that draft tags and CORs from voice notes. Rhumbix, which Autodesk has agreed to acquire, is a field-first workforce platform where T&M tracking sits beside payroll-ready timecards, production tracking and daily reports, and it names no AI. Vendor pages read Oct 22, 2026; desk research, not tested, no winner.

DESK RESEARCH, NOT TESTED. Compiled from vendors' public websites (accessed Oct 22, 2026). Vendor claims are not verified by Means & Methods Lab. No scores or rankings.

In short: Clearstory (Change orders & T&M tags; free option; paid prices not listed) vs Rhumbix (Field timekeeping, production & daily reports; no public prices (quote / sales)). Facts last checked Oct 22, 2026. No winner declared; not tested.

Side by side

Clearstory vs Rhumbix: vendor-published facts side by side
Sheet rowClearstoryRhumbix
CategoryChange orders & T&M tagsField timekeeping, production & daily reports
AI role (our label)AI features added to established productNot AI-first
What it doesChange order platform (formerly Extracker) for GCs, specialty contractors and owners, with signed digital T&M tags and shared COR logs. It also lists change order request (COR) logs shared between parties, rate libraries, allowances and contingencies, backcharges, analytics (days aging, ball in court) and ERP/PM integrations. Re-read Oct 17, 2026: the Clearstory AI page lists four agents, including two marked Open Beta: the COR Pricing Agent (send a voice note, attach a takeoff or upload your own priced estimate; it drafts the COR and pulls rates from the project library, and you edit before it is sent) and the T&M Tag Agent (transcribes a voice note, matches work against the project rate library, which the vendor says can exceed 10,000 line items in heavy civil, electrical and mechanical, and drafts a tag ready for signature). The page also lists a COR Review Agent (Closed Beta) and a Change Notification Agent (beta; the page labels it both Closed and Open Beta). Our Oct 16 note that these two agents were no longer listed was wrong (most likely the result of an incomplete text extract): re-checked Oct 17, 2026, the page lists all four, as did a Sept 20, 2026 archived copy. Pricing still lists Bulk AI Import and AI COR Reason Categories. Homepage cites 17k+ contractors on the network, $4.8B in CORs shared monthly and 7+ hours saved per person weekly (vendor claims). Re-checked Oct 19, 2026: the pricing FAQ and the Clearstory AI page both say customer data is never used to train public or private AI models (vendor statement). The AI page adds that the T&M Tag Agent has built-in Spanish-to-English translation and prompts for anything missing, the COR Review Agent validates rates against approved schedules and confirms backup documentation, the Change Notification Agent identifies impacted trades and flags missing information to raise with the architect, and account owners, admins and PMs can turn AI off for the company or for individual projects; beta labels unchanged. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: the Clearstory AI page still lists the same four agents with the same beta labels, the T&M Tag Agent's built-in Spanish-to-English translation and the company- and project-level AI controls, and now groups a Bulk AI Import Agent and an AI Reason Categories Agent under "Beyond the Four Agents"; the homepage figures above are unchanged (vendor claims). Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: the Clearstory AI page still lists the same four agents and beta labels (COR Pricing Agent and T&M Tag Agent Open Beta, COR Review Agent Closed Beta, Change Notification Agent beta) plus the Bulk AI Import and AI Reason Categories agents. The COR Pricing Agent text now also says it can price from drawings and checks a COR against the reviewer's checklist before it is sent. Both the pricing page and the AI page carry a SOC 2 Type II badge, and the pricing table lists Single Sign On on the top tier. Clearstory's own network figures disagree across pages (17k+ contractors and $4.8B in CORs shared monthly on the homepage, 14k+ in the homepage footer, 14,000+ and $2.6B monthly on the AI page), so none of them is used.Field-first workforce management platform for trade contractors, self-perform divisions and GCs, covering timecards, production, T&M and dailies. It lists payroll-ready timecards, cost-coded production tracking against budget, time & materials (out-of-scope work) tracking from submission to approval, and daily field reports that bring daily and weekly reports into one tool, with configurable workflows and analytics. The vendor says many field forms can be trained and deployed in as little as 2 weeks and cites RG Construction saving over 200 work hours each week (vendor claims). The homepage we read Oct 16, 2026 does not describe AI features. Autodesk said on March 31, 2026 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rhumbix. Re-read Oct 19, 2026: the homepage still shows the Autodesk acquisition banner and adds a case-study headline about a specialty drywall contractor saving up to 20 hours a week on timekeeping (vendor claim); it still does not describe AI features. Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: the homepage still shows the Autodesk acquisition banner and still does not describe AI features; its navigation now lists change order tracking, health and safety reporting and a no-code Data Explorer alongside timekeeping, production, T&M and daily reports. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: the homepage still shows the Autodesk acquisition banner and still does not describe AI. Its Packages page (read Oct 22, 2026) lists Essential (Timekeeping or Time & Materials), Plus (adding daily construction reporting, labor compliance reporting and up to 10 active customer forms) and Advanced (enterprise workflows, controls and support); features include guest-mode external approvals of T&M tickets by email or text, digital signatures, offline mode, Field Analytix, a T&M dashboard marked Coming Soon, API access and single sign-on on higher tiers, and a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation. The over 1,000,000 projects line and customer savings figures are vendor claims and are not used.
Who it's forGeneral contractors, self-performing GCs, specialty contractors (trades listed include concrete, excavation, electrical, mechanical, roofing, firestop, plumbing, structural steel) and project owners; heavy civil is listed.Trade contractors, self-perform divisions of GCs, project owners and public-sector teams; foremen through payroll and accounting.
Pricing (as publicly stated)Basic is free for all stakeholders (5 T&M tags and 5 CORs per month, unlimited projects, mobile app, Bulk AI Import). Standard (unlimited CORs and T&M tags, change notifications, analytics, rate management, custom AI COR reason categories) and Professional (API, integrations, allowances, multi-office) through sales. (Pricing checked Oct 16, 2026; unchanged on Oct 19, 2026. The pricing FAQ says Standard and Professional carry a per-user fee plus a platform fee per project, licensed at the project, office or company level; first-level stakeholders you invite get Plus free on those plans, and a free managed pilot is offered.) Re-checked Oct 20, 2026: Basic still free with 5 T&M tags and 5 CORs a month; Standard and Professional still through sales; FAQ unchanged. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: unchanged (Basic free with 5 T&M tags a month, Bulk AI Import and a mobile app; Standard and Professional through sales with a per-user fee plus a per-project platform fee; invited first-level stakeholders get Plus free; free managed pilot).Not publicly listed (contact sales / demo). (Checked Oct 16, 2026.) Re-checked Oct 19 and Oct 20, 2026: still no prices; contact sales / demo. Re-checked Oct 22, 2026: the Packages page shows Essential, Plus and Advanced with no prices; its FAQ says each person with a login is a user license, major credit cards are accepted and pricing is by contacting sales.
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Facts last checked: Oct 22, 2026. Prices change; check the vendor page before relying on them.

Where the vendor descriptions differ

  • Starting point: Clearstory is built around the change order, with T&M tags, change order request (COR) logs shared between parties, rate libraries, allowances and contingencies, backcharges and aging analytics. Rhumbix is built around field time: crew or individual timecards for payroll and job cost, cost-coded production against budget, T&M work tracking, change order tracking, daily reports, health and safety forms and custom forms.
  • T&M workflow: Clearstory converts signed T&M tags into priced CORs using preloaded project rates and keeps a live COR log the GC and trade contractor both see. Rhumbix tracks out-of-scope work from submission to approval, can generate T&M tickets from timecard data, and sends professionally formatted tickets by email or text for guest-mode approval with digital signatures.
  • AI: Clearstory's AI page lists a COR Pricing Agent and a T&M Tag Agent in open beta (the tag agent turns a field voice note and photos into a rate-matched tag, with Spanish-to-English translation), a COR Review Agent in closed beta, a Change Notification Agent, and Bulk AI Import and AI Reason Categories; AI can be turned off by company or project. Rhumbix's homepage and Packages page name no AI features, so it is tagged Not AI-first here.
  • Ownership: Autodesk said on Mar 31, 2026 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rhumbix, and the Rhumbix site still carries that banner. Clearstory (formerly Extracker) lists integrations with Procore, Autodesk Forma, HCSS, Viewpoint Vista and CMiC on its pricing page.
  • Pricing (checked Oct 22, 2026): Clearstory's Basic plan is free for all stakeholders with 5 T&M tags a month, while Standard and Professional go through sales with a per-user fee plus a per-project platform fee, and invited first-level stakeholders get Plus free. Rhumbix's Packages page shows Essential, Plus and Advanced with no prices and says each person with a login is a user license. Both show SOC 2 Type II badges.
  • Not used here: Clearstory's contractor counts and monthly change order volume (which differ across its own pages), time-savings and approval-speed figures and customer quotes, and Rhumbix's project count, customer savings figures and quotes (vendor material). Neither tool has been tested by Means & Methods Lab.

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  • What Clearstory Standard and Rhumbix Essential cost for the same crew and project count
  • Whether a Rhumbix T&M ticket can flow into a GC's Clearstory COR log
  • How Autodesk's acquisition changes Rhumbix's roadmap and integrations
  • How well Clearstory's T&M Tag Agent matches a large heavy civil rate library on real voice notes
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  • How long did setup and training take, and who on your team did it?

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