Clue Vs Raken

Raken Overview

Raken is a field reporting platform for construction crews and project teams. Teams use it to fill out daily reports, track labor timecards, attach photos and notes, and keep jobsite logs consistent. It also includes tools like production tracking, tasks and messaging, and safety workflows such as toolbox talks and checklists.

How It Compares to Clue

Both Raken and Clue help construction teams capture what’s happening in the field and reduce paperwork. The difference is what each platform is built to manage day to day.

Raken is built around project documentation and field reporting. It helps foremen and supers create a daily record of work performed, labor and hours, site conditions, deliveries, and progress photos. Office teams get faster updates without chasing texts and spreadsheets, and the documentation is easier to share with owners, subs, and internal teams. It can sync reports into Procore or Autodesk Build automatically. If your biggest pain is inconsistent daily reports or missing jobsite history, Raken is often the fastest way to tighten that up.

Clue is built around equipment operations. Instead of focusing on daily job logs, Clue focuses on the machines that power the work. It connects equipment signals like location, utilization, engine hours, and fault codes to equipment workflows so teams can keep assets productive and reduce downtime. That includes inspections, preventive maintenance schedules, work orders, service history, and parts and labor tracking. It helps teams plan work, assign tasks, and track costs.

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Platform Capabilities Overview

Feature / Capability	How it works	Clue	Raken
Real-time timecards	Capture crew hours in digital timecards now	✔	✔
GPS time proof	Verify clock ins using GPS location checks	✔	✔
Approval workflows	Approve timesheets with signatures and logs	✔	✔
Payroll and accounting export	Export approved time to payroll accounting	✔	✔
Daily reports	Create daily reports with photos and notes	✔ Focused on Equipment & Production	✔
Toolbox talks	Run toolbox talks, collect crew signatures	✔	✔
Equipment logs	Log equipment usage, fuel, idle and status	✔	✔
Fault driven maintenance	Auto trigger service from OEM fault signals	✔	✖
Dispatch planning	Dispatch equipment to jobs by availability	✔	✖
Live telematics map	Show live equipment map via telematics data	✔	✖
Telematics fuel theft alerts	Detect fuel theft via telematics fuel data	✔	✖
Equipment economics	Plan replacement using total cost per asset	✔	✖
Automatic Meter Reads	Tracks machine hours or miles to trigger maintenance and billing.	✔ Automated: Syncs hours/miles via engine API	✖ Manual: Field entry required
Mixed-Fleet Telematics	Displays all assets on a single map regardless of brand or GPS provider.	✔ Native: One map across OEMs & GPS providers	✖ None: No native telematics map/integrations
Rental Return Alerts	Identifies when a rented machine is no longer needed to stop rental costs.	✔ Smart Alerts: Notifies when a rental stops working	✖ Manual: Calendar reminders
Idle vs. Working Analysis	Measures how many hours a machine is actually moving vs. burning fuel while sitting.	✔ Advanced: Engine On vs. Working	⚠ Basic: Total hours only
Geofence Alerts	Sets virtual boundaries around jobsites to monitor machine arrivals and security.	✔ Real-Time: Automatic move/after-hours alerts	✖ Manual: Must tag machine to a project
Maintenance Work Orders	Tracks the lifecycle of a repair from the initial request to completion.	✔ Full CMMS: Labor, parts, costs + fault-code triggers	⚠ Basic: Checklists & service reminders

Clue

Privately held and management-owned, with investment support from Hyundai Infracore.

Where Clue May Be a Better Fit

Clue brings your crew’s time, site activity and labour data into sharp focus, so you can run your workforce smoother, smarter and more reliably.

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Automate time tracking for faster, accurate pay data without manual logs

GPS‑verified mobile timecards reduce time theft and improve accountability

Sync timecards with inspections and work orders for full field visibility

Capture labor in real time across all job sites, eliminating delays in reporting

Generate instant timecard reports and approvals, speeding up the payroll cycle

Maintain consistent time tracking practices across multiple locations

Unified view of labor data alongside equipment performance and field workflows

Improve team accountability with live visibility into workforce activity

Track job-level labor costs and performance, improving budget forecasting and project tracking

Integrations

Connect All Your
Construction Tools with Clue.

Clue integrates natively with your most-used systems, from telematics and OEM platforms like CAT VisionLink, JDLink, and Komtrax, to project and ERP tools such as Viewpoint Vista, Sage, and HCSS.