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The whole paper trail, in one place

Open folder with tabbed documents and a paperclip, representing an organized contractor document library

A contract is a snapshot. A job is a story: customer conversations, an original contract, maybe two or three change orders, photos of the site, drawings, permits, and whatever got imported from an old draft you’d already started before you found ScopeAccord. Most contractors keep that story spread across email, texts, a phone camera roll, and a folder somewhere. ScopeAccord keeps it in one place, organized the way your business actually works: by customer, then by job.

A few pieces of that worth knowing about:

Exhibit A attachments. Upload photos, drawings, or PDFs directly to a saved contract, up to 20MB per file, no cap on how many. Images embed right into the contract’s Exhibit A appendix; give each one a caption and put them in whatever order tells the story best.

Document import. Already have a draft started? A PDF, a Word doc, even a photo of a handwritten page. Import it. ScopeAccord extracts what it can into the same confidence-flagged review you’d get from a live conversation, and the original file stays linked in your library.

Versioning. Every contract is versioned, with a full snapshot history. If your standard warranty or insurance language changes company-wide, existing contracts don’t silently change underneath you. New versions apply going forward, confirmed and dated.

Your brand, not ours. Upload your logo and set your brand color once, and it shows up on every contract and change order you generate, because the document a homeowner signs should look like it came from your company.

Why this matters more in Wisconsin specifically: the construction-defect statute (§ 101.148 / § 895.07) puts weight on written notice and documented opportunity to repair. A dated record of what was agreed, what changed, and what was attached when isn’t just tidy recordkeeping. It’s the kind of paper trail that statute assumes exists if a dispute ever gets that far.

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