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Contract price adjustment tools

Calculators, analyzers, and reference tools for price escalation clauses and index series, each does one slice of the work, no account required.

Clause & Legal

Clause Analyzer

Paste a price escalation clause and see the formula it implies, its base period, averaging window, publication lag, cap and floor, and an enforceability risk score.

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Clause & Legal

Clause-to-Formula Translator

Describe a price escalation clause in plain English and get the structured weighted formula it implies — index components, averaging, lag, cap, floor, and FX conversion.

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Clause & Legal

Clause Health Score

Paste an escalation clause and get a letter grade against the mechanical checklist an enforceable clause needs, with the specific checks that passed or failed.

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Clause & Legal

Dispute Pre-Check

Enter both parties' inputs for the same escalation calculation and see exactly where they diverge — base value, current value, cap, or floor.

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Clause & Legal

Clause Drafter

Pick an index, cap/floor, averaging window, and lag to generate a fully-defined escalation clause skeleton with the exact series code inline — the inverse of the Clause Analyzer.

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Clause & Legal

Clause Redline

Paste two escalation clause drafts and see exactly what changed in economic terms — frequency, cap, floor, threshold, averaging, and lag — not just a text diff.

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Calculators

Escalation Calculator

Enter a base index value, a current index value, and a contract or scope amount to get the adjusted price and the dollar change. Pick a live index to prefill the current value automatically.

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Calculators

Cap & Floor Impact Calculator

Enter a scope amount, the raw index-implied change, and a cap and floor to see the adjusted price with and without the collar, and exactly how much the cap or floor bit.

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Calculators

FX-Converted Escalation Calculator

Apply an index ratio and a manually-entered exchange-rate movement together, for when the index is priced in one currency and the invoice is paid in another.

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Calculators

Retroactive vs Prospective Calculator

See the dollar difference between a retroactive and a prospective price adjustment across a publication-lag gap, side by side.

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Calculators

Rebase / Base-Year Converter

Convert an index value from one base year to another using the splice-point conversion factor, for when a provider rebases or discontinues a series.

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Calculators

Averaging Window & Lag Calculator

Pick a series, an averaging window, and a publication lag to see the exact index value a clause resolves to, next to the naive latest-print value, and the dollar gap between them.

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Calculators

Fuel Surcharge Calculator

Enter a base diesel PPI value and a threshold to see the surcharge on a freight or transport contract scope amount, using the standard BLS No. 2 diesel benchmark.

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Calculators

Multi-Component Basket Calculator

Blend up to three weighted indices plus a fixed portion into a single-period adjustment — a stripped, single-shot version of a real multi-component escalation formula.

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Index Intelligence

Index Volatility Tool

Pick a producer or consumer price index and get its annualized historical and EWMA volatility — a read on how much room a cap or floor actually needs to cover.

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Index Intelligence

Similar Index Finder

Pick one index and see which others in the Escalake catalog move with it — ranked by correlation, each with its own year-over-year change — so you can tell a diversified basket from one exposure wearing three names.

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Index Intelligence

Basket Diversification Checker

Pick 2 to 5 indices and get a correlation matrix and a concentration score for an equal-weighted basket — a check on whether a multi-index clause is really diversified or one exposure in disguise.

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Index Intelligence

Index Recommendation Tool

Describe what you buy in plain English and get 2-4 candidate index series from Escalake's catalog, each with a fit reason, never an invented series code.

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Forecast & Scenario

Single-Index Forecast

Pick a producer or consumer price index and get a 12-month forecast with 80% and 95% confidence bands, from an ensemble of statistical time-series methods.

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Forecast & Scenario

Scenario / Stress Tool

Enter hypothetical shocks per weighted index component — "steel +15%, diesel +10%" — and see the resulting blended adjustment.

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Forecast & Scenario

Escalation Budget Projector

Apply an index forecast to a contract price and see a projected adjusted-price range for the next four quarters, as a budget planning line.

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Forecast & Scenario

Cap Cost Estimator

A scenario estimate of what a price adjustment cap would save if an index's forecasted upper band happens, using the volatility and forecast tools already on this site.

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Reference & Data

Contract Unit Converter

Convert a quoted price between tonnes, kilograms, pounds, US hundredweight, and ounces — for lining up a contract price against an index before building the escalation ratio.

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Reference & Data

Series Lookup

Look up any index in the Escalake catalog by name and get its latest value, publication date, year-over-year change, and a citation-ready summary you can copy.

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