Clad

Project management and billing software for contractors building internet and power infrastructure. The homepage (read Oct 18, 2026) lists production tracking with blueprint markups linked to quantities, reporting and forecasting, milestone schedules across a portfolio, invoices built from production data with retainage tracking and ERP sync, vendor invoice review and approval, and vendor and materials management. Clad Locates is an AI-powered 811 ticket management system for excavators: draw on a map and AI writes a correctly formatted locate narrative, with automated response tracking, bulk submit, scheduled tickets and one dashboard across states. Its YC profile says Clad unifies project operations and finance to automate project tracking, payments and permitting. Vendor claim, not verified: Locates makes calling in a locate request 10x faster. Y Combinator batch: Winter 2023 (YC company profile).

Infrastructure contractors (fiber and power), excavators who call in 811 tickets, and the operators and utilities they build for.

Vendor publishes prices Billing basis: Locates: monthly plan by ticket volume; core product quote

Clad Locates publishes prices (withclad.com/locates/pricing, read Oct 18, 2026): Free $0 a month (20 tickets, one state, AI ticket creation, status tracking, map view); Standard $250 a month (50 tickets, extra tickets $5 each, unlimited states, renewals, expiring-ticket notifications, bulk address upload); Pro $450 a month (50 tickets, extra tickets $9 each, KMZ-to-ticket tool, API access, SSO as an add-on, custom integrations and reports). The core project management and billing product has no public prices; the homepage offers a demo to explore custom plans and pricing.

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• https://www.withclad.com/ (accessed Oct 18, 2026)
• https://www.withclad.com/locates/overview (accessed Oct 18, 2026)
• https://www.withclad.com/locates/pricing (accessed Oct 18, 2026)
• https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clad (accessed Oct 18, 2026)