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ClearTract vs. Dodge
One is a hundred-year national institution with a human research floor. The other reads every Southern California filing and shows you the receipt. Which fits depends on where you work.
Choose Dodge if
- You bid in many states and need one national provider.
- You want human-curated project intelligence in markets you can't ground-truth yourself.
- Your workflow already runs on their ecosystem.
Choose ClearTract if
- Your work is Southern California, and you'd rather pay for depth here than breadth everywhere.
- You want the planning signal and the permit grain in one feed.
- You want the price on the page and terms you can leave.
| Dodge | ClearTract | |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage model | National — all 50 states, brand of record for a century | Southern California, wall to wall — 431 cities, 49 counties |
| Lead grains | Project-grain: pursuit intelligence for GCs and suppliers | Project and permit grain, linked — the GC's pursuit and the sub's scope from the same filings |
| Data model | Research-team curated; 400+ human researchers | Every filing from 572 jurisdiction sources, each record linked to its source with dates |
| Contacts | Research-maintained project contacts | The parties named on the filing itself, source attached |
| Pricing | Quote from sales; annual terms | Price on the page, month to month (final tiers land at launch) |
| Getting started | Request a demo | Start a free trial on the site |
Dodge details from Dodge's published site and materials, as of July 2026.
"Anyone can aggregate. We validate."
That's Dodge's line about products like ours, and it deserves a straight answer. Dodge employs hundreds of researchers to confirm projects by hand — a real capability, priced accordingly, and we don't pretend to match it. Our answer is different:every record links to the issuing jurisdiction with a dated status history, so you can check anything we show you against the public record it came from. Validation asks for your trust. Receipts don't ask for anything.
Depth where you actually bid
A national database is broad by necessity. We read 572 sources across 431 SoCal cities — the small jurisdictions included, because the $2M job in Duarte files paperwork just like the tower downtown. If your trucks don't leave Southern California, national breadth is something you pay for and never use.
The grain that fits a sub
Dodge is built around project pursuit. ClearTract holds the permit grain too — the scope a subcontractor actually bids, filtered by trade, linked up to the project and the GC. Two buyers, one linked store.
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