Spec Intelligence

Spec Intelligence reads your tender specification documents and ties each BOQ item back to the clauses that govern it. Instead of flipping between a PDF spec and a priced bill, you get the relevant clause text, extracted properties, and any discrepancies right next to the item you’re pricing.

It’s aimed at quantity surveyors who treat the spec as the contract: turn an NBS-style PDF into structured, queryable evidence so every rate has a paper trail.

What it does

Spec Intelligence runs an AI analysis over the spec documents linked to your project and, for each BOQ item, produces three things:

• Extracted properties — concrete grade, block thickness, finish, fixings, etc. — pulled out of the prose and tied back to the source clause.
• Issues — unresolved clause references, mismatches between what the BOQ says and what the spec says, missing items, scope gaps. Each issue carries an estimated cost impact and a flag for whether you should raise an RFI before pricing.
• A suggested component breakdown — what the item probably needs in terms of material, labour, plant and waste, ready to push into the rate.

You see this in the per-item rate builder, on the right-hand side, across four tabs: Summary, Specification, Issues, and Components.

Prerequisite

You need at least one specification document uploaded under the project’s Documents tab. NBS-style spec PDFs are the typical input. Without a linked spec, Spec Intelligence returns a no spec result and the panels stay empty.

In this section

• How it works — upload a spec, run the analysis, review the output.
• Reading the panels — what each of the four tabs (Summary / Specification / Issues / Components) is telling you.

Related

• Assemblies — once Spec Intelligence has decomposed an item into components, you can promote that decomposition into a reusable assembly.
• Estimates — the rates you build with spec evidence flow into your tender and client estimates.