Spec and brand intelligence for lighting and HVAC manufacturers.
SpecIndex reads the public spec books and shows you, section by section, where your brand is basis of design, where it is only approved equal, and where a competitor's name is on the page.
We track 1M+ US commercial projects from public records. Where the project manual is published, we read it and record what it says, every fact linked to its source.
Win the spec before anyone requests a quote.
- ✓See which projects in your territory still have an open spec, ranked by how much time is left
- ✓Know whether your brand or a competitor's is already named on the project
- ✓Every record cited, straight from the public source. How we differ
1M+ US commercial projects · 50 states · every record cited.
The problem
Commercial building products get specified during design, often a year before anyone requests a quote.
That's when an architect names a basis of design. Manufacturers find out too late, usually at bid, once the spec is already written.
Today a rep finds out by calling the architect, asking the distributor, or waiting for the bid set. By then the basis of design has been named for months.
Or a spec engineer downloads the project manual and searches for the company name, one project at a time.
SpecIndex is built from that gap, out of discovery conversations with manufacturers and rep agencies. Every project in the country, scored for your category, surfaced while the spec is still open.
The pipeline
From public record to prioritized opportunity
Anyone can aggregate permits. SpecIndex scores, enriches, and verifies them so you work the right projects first.
Discover
Permit, bid, and award sources are scanned across every state, county, and municipality, as records are filed.
Score and read
Each project is scored by how open the spec still is. Where the project manual is public, every section that names a manufacturer is read and recorded with its page.
Deliver
Filtered results with source links for verification, pushed to your feed or pulled by your own agents.
Visibility
Know where you stand on the spec.
For every specification section that names a manufacturer, SpecIndex records whether the brand is basis of design, approved equal, or proprietary and closed to substitution, with the substitution language and the page it sits on. Compare your brand against competitors in one division and one state.
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Brand visibility
See every indexed project where your products, or your competitors', are named, and where nobody has been named at all.
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Spec share by MasterFormat division
Measure your win rate against category benchmarks across the index's CSI divisions.
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The window, before it closes
Announced, permitting, bidding, under construction. We flag the moment influence is still possible.
Timing
Chase the projects where the spec is still open.
Every project in your territory scored by stage and how much time is left before the spec closes. Most of the lighting and HVAC projects in the index are still in planning or permitting, which is when a basis of design gets named.
We tell you what we have not read.
Privately bid work does not publish a specification, so the ledger is deepest on institutional, education, healthcare and government projects. Every query returns the number of documents read for that territory. Ask for your state's coverage before you buy.
What's in the index
How the data works
Every score has a paper trail.
No inference, no black box. Here is exactly what sets a project's score and what puts a brand on the page.
Every county, city, and state permit and bid system in scope is checked continuously across all 50 states.
A project's stage sets its score. Early planning scores high, a project already out for final bid scores low.
Brand mentions are pulled from the same public filings and coverage, not inferred from category or guessed.
Every fact keeps its source link, permanently, on the project page. Check any of it yourself.
Records refresh continuously, not on a fixed schedule, so a stage change shows up without waiting for a batch job.
Working with us
What working with SpecIndex looks like.
Built for building product manufacturers who sell through a field team. What you get:
Direct line to the team
Weekly working sessions. Your workflows and product categories shape what we build next.
Pricing you can read
Published rates by territory, unlimited seats, no negotiation. The index itself stays free to search.
First-mover coverage
Start seeing scored projects in your territory before anyone else in your category has access.
Delivered to your stack
Scored projects, straight into your workflow
SpecIndex lands clean, source-linked project data wherever your team already works, from a direct query to your warehouse and CRM, or a plain-language question to your own agents over MCP.
The Spec Desk
From the SpecIndex team
Guides on reading the public record manufacturers rarely check.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
The index covers commercial projects across all 50 states, scored by category and stage. Every record links back to the public filing it came from, so you can check any of it yourself.
Find the open specs in your territory this week.
The public index is free. Request a demo if you want scoring and brand tracking for your division.
Priced by territory. Every record cited.