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You own the building for decades. Own its record, too.

Specset reads the design set before you approve it, keeps the submittal register honest during construction, and turns the closeout package into a facilities record you can ask questions of on day one, inside the system you already run.

How the work arrives

Your work arrives at every phase, from other people.

The designer’s set, the contractor’s submittals, the closeout binder: each is someone else’s deliverable, and each carries risk you hold for the life of the asset. Specset reviews them against the program requirements, cites what it finds, and carries the record forward into operations.

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Before construction

Compare the alternatives before you approve one.

When design options or value engineering proposals include revised drawings, Specset compares the two sets sheet by sheet and returns every visual difference, classified and shown beside the revised sheet. You take the actual drawing delta to the meeting, not the cover letter.

Plan comparison →Two sets in, every difference out, matched by sheet and shown beside the drawing.

Why it matters
78%of quality deviations trace to design errors, changes, and omissionsConstruction Industry Institute
< 1 in 10projects finish on time and on budgetOxford, Bent Flyvbjerg, 16,000+ projects
4–10%of total project cost consumed by reworkPlanRadar
Common questions

What owners and operators ask about Specset.

01What does Specset do for an owner from design approval through operations?

Specset reads the design set before you approve it, keeps the submittal register honest during construction, and turns the closeout package into a facilities record you can ask questions of on day one. Each deliverable is reviewed against the program requirements, with a citation on what it finds, and the record carries forward into operations.

02What does an owner get back from a Specset design review?

A verified issue register with the source open beside each finding. Specifications and drawings are read together for conflicts, missing information, and constructability risks. Your reviewer can confirm, dismiss, or downgrade each finding.

03Can Specset compare design alternatives or a value engineering proposal?

Yes, when the options include revised drawings. Specset compares the two sets sheet by sheet and returns every visual difference, classified by what it touches and shown beside the revised sheet. You take the drawing delta to the meeting.

04How does Specset keep an owner’s submittal register honest?

It reads the project manual and builds a cited register of required product data, samples, shop drawings, and closeout packages. If a register already exists, Specset can start from it, keep its fields, and add the packages it missed. Nothing becomes a project record until your team approves the draft.

05What does Specset do with an owner’s closeout package?

It reads the specs, equipment schedules, approved submittals, and the O&M package into a structured asset record: warranties, maintenance plans, asset data, and work orders, with the citation attached. After turnover, the same record answers what a warranty says, and unresolved files are flagged for review instead of guessed.

06Can Specset read the specification formats an owner’s program issues?

Yes. The conformed record covers MasterFormat manuals and agency formats already in production, including Caltrans, WSDOT, FDOT, UFGS, and BNSF, with special provisions amended into the sections they change. Answers and findings cite the paragraph.

07Who decides what an owner approves?

Your team. Specset cites what it finds in the designer’s set, the contractor’s submittals, and the closeout binder. Reviewers confirm or dismiss findings, and a closeout file that cannot be matched is flagged instead of guessed.

Start with one live project

See it on your documents.

Bring a real package. We run it, you check the citations, and you decide whether it earns a place in the workflow.