ContractShield vs Raken

ContractShield is a full job platform: estimating, project management, milestone payments, and the Work Order Marketplace, on a mobile-first PWA. Raken is a daily reporting app for jobsite supervisors. It centers on the daily log, time cards, equipment hours, weather, photos, and toolbox talks. Raken does not build a bid or run the milestone payment.

ContractShield charges 1% of the accepted job total, paid in milestone draws as funds clear. No seat fees, no per-lead charges. Raken is priced per user per month, usually $15 to $45 depending on tier and features. For a 5 person crew, Raken runs roughly $1,800 to $2,700 per year regardless of job count. ContractShield for that same crew at $250,000 of revenue is around $2,500 per year, only payable when jobs close.

Raken's daily log is mature. Crews submit time, photos, observations, and toolbox talks in 5 minutes per day, often offline. ContractShield's PWA captures field updates as part of the project workspace: task check-offs, photos to a milestone, time entry, and notes attach to the same project that holds the bid. The lift is that you do not jump between a CRM, an estimator, and a daily reporting app.

• Raken: focused daily log app, strong field UX, $15 to $45 per user.
• ContractShield: project workspace with field capture inline.
• Both work offline on iOS and Android.
• ContractShield ties field photos to milestone payments.

Raken stops at the daily report and the production data it captures. It does not own the bid, the change order, or the milestone payment. Some Raken shops sync daily logs into Procore or Buildertrend for the project view. ContractShield runs the project end to end inside one workspace, so the daily entries already live next to the bid and the invoice.

No. Raken is internal field software, not a lead source. ContractShield ships the Work Order Marketplace with direct client posts and government feeds from SAM.gov, grants.gov, Cook County IL, and Boston Buying Plan. That is the inbound channel Raken does not have.

If your only gap is a clean daily report and your project, bid, and payment live somewhere else that is working, Raken is a strong focused tool. If you are running bid, project, and payments out of email, spreadsheets, and a payment processor, ContractShield collapses that into one workspace and adds inbound leads. Most 1 to 10 person shops are better served by one platform than three.