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Built by People Who Know Construction

ChangeGuard was founded to solve a problem every project team knows too well — scope gaps that hide in plain sight until they become costly change orders.

Will Denton

Will Denton

Co-Founder

Will is a Project Engineer and Building Science graduate from Auburn University. He's managed real scopes on real jobsites — and built ChangeGuard to catch the exact gaps he's seen turn into six-figure change orders.

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Gabriel Forthofer

Gabriel Forthofer

Co-Founder

Gabriel is a Data Science graduate from the US Air Force Academy and a graduate student in Philosophy at Boston College. He engineered ChangeGuard's analysis engine from the ground up.

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We Find What Bid-Phase Review Misses

Somewhere in every set of construction documents, there's work that no trade has claimed. Those gaps become change orders, finger-pointing, and blown margin. ChangeGuard cross-references every page against every clause and surfaces the exposure during bid prep, while you can still adjust the price.

Scope Gaps Cost More Than You Think

35–50%

of change orders trace back to scope ambiguity — work that was on the drawings but not in any sub's scope sheet.

Source: FMI/CMAA Industry Reports

5–10x

more expensive to fix a gap once steel is in the air than when you're still reviewing documents at your desk.

Source: Construction Industry Institute

$177B

lost to rework in U.S. construction every year. Most of it starts with a document someone didn't read closely enough.

Source: Navigant Construction Forum

See what's hiding in your documents.

Upload your drawings, contract, and scope sheets. Get a gap report with dollar estimates in minutes.