Understand and Track Certified Spend Across Your Organization
ClearSpend gives construction teams and compliance leaders real-time visibility into spending with small and certified subcontractors — at both the project and organization level.
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What ClearSpend Delivers
ClearSpend helps organizations confidently monitor payments, measure utilization against goals, and generate accurate, comprehensive reports without manual data aggregation or spreadsheets.
Company-Wide Spend Overview
A centralized spend dashboard for certified subcontractors, aggregating payments across all projects in real time.
Project Spend Insights
Drill down into certified spend on individual projects to measure progress toward compliance and utilization goals.
Goal Tracking & Alerts
Monitor payment progress against compliance goals and receive alerts when spend or utilization falls behind expectations.
Seamless Reporting
Generate accurate, consistent spending and utilization reports for owners, agencies, and internal stakeholders — without manual extraction.
Manual Spend Tracking Creates Blind Spots and Compliance Risk
In today's construction environment, tracking certified spend is complex and often fragmented across multiple systems, making it hard to produce accurate reports or understand true utilization. Data is scattered, goals are difficult to monitor, and manual aggregation introduces errors — especially at scale.
Lack of Real Visibility
Inconsistent and siloed financial data makes it hard to see true spend.
Organizations struggle to consolidate certified spend across projects and departments, leaving teams with an incomplete picture of actual utilization.
Manual Aggregation & Data Errors
Reporting depends on spreadsheets and time-consuming clean-up.
When data has to be pulled, matched, and reconciled manually, mistakes slip in — and teams lose hours just trying to get to “one version of the truth.”
Goal Tracking Gaps
It’s hard to know if you’re meeting utilization targets.
Without timely tracking, teams can’t reliably measure progress toward participation goals or flag issues early when targets start to slip.
Reporting Headache
Accurate, defensible reports are difficult to produce.
When spend and vendor data live in different places, audit-ready reporting for owners and agencies becomes slow, inconsistent, and difficult to defend.
Organization-Wide Visibility That Changes the Conversation
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Uncover True Certified Spend Across the Organization
ClearSpend helps organizations identify their actual certified subcontractor spend across projects and departments — often revealing significantly higher participation than previously reported.
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Faster, More Accurate Spend Reporting
ClearSpend replaces manual spreadsheets with centralized reporting — improving accuracy and reducing the time required to prepare reports for owners, agencies, and internal stakeholders.
We thought our certified spend was $350M. ClearSpend proved it was $1.4B—strengthening our reporting, compliance, and reputation."
- Exec, ENR 400 General Contractor
Additional outcomes teams see with ClearSpend:
- Clear visibility into participation and spend across projects and departments
- Earlier identification of participation gaps before they become compliance issues
- Improved reporting accuracy for agencies and owners
- Faster, clearer spend reporting without manual spreadsheets
Part of the Tough Leaf Ecosystem
ClearSpend complements Tough Leaf's sourcing and compliance products by extending visibility and reporting across projects and enterprise portfolios. Paired with ClearSource and ManagedOutreach for pre-construction sourcing and ClearComply for construction-phase compliance, ClearSpend completes the lifecycle — giving teams full visibility from the first sourcing search through final closeout reporting.
Accurate, Up-to-Date Spend & Certification Data
ClearSpend uses Tough Leaf’s data infrastructure — including real-time certification tracking and comprehensive subcontractor records — to ensure spend and participation measures are accurate and defensible.
Centralized certified spend repository
Real-time certification and status updates
Insight into payment distributions across certified firm categories
Built for Teams Doing the Work
What customers say after using Tough Leaf.
Finally, I don't have to spend hours looking through outdated databases!
Tough Leaf made sure that the subs would at least meet our minimum requirements. The real value for us was knowing that Tough Leaf vetted the subs.
This would have taken us 2 people for a month - we received the necessary information from Tough Leaf in a week.
Tough Leaf demonstrated exceptional diligence and support throughout the process, which ultimately led to us being awarded the contract. They helped us navigate the qualification requirements, understand the project scope, and position ourselves effectively during the bidding process.
We'd probably be taking money out of our own pockets to hire you to help us out.
With other platforms, if you want more, you pay the premium as a subcontractor. They catch you. With Tough Leaf, it's intentional - here are the projects you can do, in your area, and we'll connect you.
Know Your Spend. Strengthen Your Compliance.
Track certified spend with confidence, identify participation gaps early, and simplify reporting across the organization.
Built for Prime Contractors, Government Agencies, and Certified Subcontractors.
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