Opportunity RadarClad
Project management and billing software purpose-built for infrastructure contractors
Construction management platform for infrastructure contractors (fiber, telecom, tower, and utility builders) that unifies vendor onboarding/compliance, bidding, blueprint-linked field production tracking, materials tracking, and automated invoicing with ERP sync. Its newer Locates module uses AI to auto-draft and bulk-submit utility-locate (811) tickets.
Why This Tool Exists
Infrastructure contractors (fiber, telecom, utility, and tower builders) run vendor bidding, compliance documentation, field production tracking, and billing across disconnected spreadsheets and point tools, which the company says constrains contractor cash flow and leaves network operators without real-time visibility into field progress. Separately, before any crew can excavate, contractors must call in a utility-locate ("811") ticket and hand-write a location narrative for each one - Clad cites 43M such tickets filed per year by tens of thousands of contractors as a manual, time-consuming bottleneck.
Clad combines vendor onboarding/compliance tracking (with document- and certification-expiration alerts), competitive bidding, blueprint-markup-linked field production reporting, cross-project/warehouse materials tracking, and automated invoice generation (including AI-based invoice data extraction) synced to a customer's ERP, which the company states cut one team's invoice-processing time by over 75%. Its Clad Locates module lets a user draw the excavation path on a map, uses AI to write the correctly formatted 811 narrative, then bulk-submits (1-15 tickets at once) and automatically tracks ticket status/expiration against state one-call systems - live in Alabama and Texas as of this research, with a stated goal of covering all 50 states.
How You Use It
Data Transparency
Exactly what this tool uses and how
Contact vendor for API accessUse Cases
- ·Onboarding and tracking compliance/certification status for fiber, telecom, and utility subcontractors
- ·Running competitive bidding for infrastructure construction work across multiple vendors
- ·Tracking field production against blueprint markups to speed up progress reporting and billing
- ·Automating vendor invoice data extraction and approval to reduce accounts-payable processing time
- ·Auto-drafting and bulk-submitting utility-locate (811) tickets and tracking dig-safe status before excavation
Pricing
Research Sources & Data QualityLast verified: 2026-07-17
- https://www.withclad.com/
- https://www.withclad.com/about
- https://www.withclad.com/locates/overview
- https://www.withclad.com/legal/privacy
- https://www.withclad.com/blog/introducing_clad_compliance
- https://www.withclad.com/blog/w24_invoice_ai_extraction
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clad
- https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OLU-clad-locates-ai-for-infrastructure-contractors
- https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clad-9cfa
- https://www.btv.vc/companies
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/withclad
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