Getting Started on Specpoint

Specpoint is an all-in-one cloud-based specification solution and the new home of AIA MasterSpec®, built to connect product manufacturers to design professionals and puts your products in front of more architects, engineers, and specifiers to increase product visibility, set your product apart from the competition, and improve your specification rates.

Specpoint is a cloud-based system providing automatic product updates to architects and engineers to improve your product’s visibility and specification potential. Self-service product listing tools provide quick and easy access to keep product information up to date. Specpoint lets you highlight your product’s characteristics and performance properties to set your products apart from the competition and provide architects and engineers with the information they need to make intelligent product decisions.

For Premium Listings, Premium MasterSpec, and Proprietary Add-On Listings contact your customer service representative to begin the product review/approval process.

Once your product(s) have been vetted/approved for listing and the sales order is complete, you will be provided with your Specpoint login credentials and can begin populating your product’s information to be included in Specpoint.

Specpoint’s self-service tools allow you to maintain your product’s characteristics quickly and easily for representation to architects and engineers.

Yes, you are eligible to list your product in Specpoint even if it does not achieve MasterSpec criteria. For example, one of MasterSpec’s criteria is national product distribution. We realize there are many viable local and regional products that are not available for national distribution that architects and engineers may wish to specify.

Specpoint does not limit who can list their products in Specpoint, as long as, your product is vetted and approved for inclusion as a viable building product.

Yes, you can still be included in Specpoint. You would purchase a Premium Listing ($14,500 annual) and a Proprietary Add-On (one-time fee of $8,000) to have your product listed in Specpoint.

All products considered for inclusion in Specpoint, the new home of AIA MasterSpec, are reviewed and thoroughly vetted by Deltek’s licensed architects and engineers to ensure products meet MasterSpec criteria.

A trial version of Specpoint is not available. ConstructConnect representatives will conduct a thorough presentation of the Specpoint solution for building product manufacturers to understand Specpoint’s functionality and how it will benefit your organization.

AIA MasterSpec is the foundation of product content powering Specpoint and is the most widely used and trusted master guide specification tool serving the architectural and engineering industry.

Although we cannot gauge exactly how much more usage there is of MasterSpec compared to the competition, here are some facts:

• 20 of the top 25 architectural firms use MasterSpec according to Architectural Review (AR)
• 16 of top 20 engineering firms use MasterSpec according to Engineering News-Record (ENR)
• MasterSpec is the most comprehensive and thorough specification guide with 960+ sections and over 50,000 product types in Specpoint
• MasterSpec has been the industry specification standard for over 50 years

Specpoint is an all-in-one cloud-based, collaborative system which both building product manufacturers and architects/engineers use to have the most up-to-date building product information for research and selection to building projects.

The single system allows for a seamless collaborative environment removing silos of information and systems that have previously existed for building product manufacturers and architects/engineers.

BPMs can efficiently maintain and manage product information and architects/engineers will have access to current product information using intelligent spec authoring tools, including the “one-click” specification, to streamline specification writing and reduce errors for better project delivery.

Specpoint benefits include:

• Smarter specification authoring using data-driven product decisions
• Removes silo between designers and BPMs and consolidates all relevant information into a single tool
• Makes MasterSpec content easier to update, maintain, and distribute for high-quality product information
• Enables automation technologies to improve the design process, streamline workflows, and improve project team collaboration

Specpoint offers a variety of reports to provide you valuable product insight.

Specpoint reports include:

• Section opens: Counts each time a user opens a particular section. Our software captures and reports back the section number. 
• Won: Count of times a manufacturer has been inserted into a product type into a user's document. It could be as a Basis of Design (BOD) or just in the list of approved manufacturers.
• Win Percentage: Of all the decisions made for a particular product type, this is the percentage that the manufacturer was included. Multiple manufacturers can be included in a single decision so the total percentage can be greater than 100%.
• Win/Loss Map: IP addresses are recorded when these reporting events come into the system. We use the IP information to identify where the user is located.
• Rank on Market Comparison: Captures the most decisions “wins” for a given month within a section and takes into account shared product types.
• Section Download: Count of how many times a section was downloaded. We filter out obvious scrapers and bots that repeatedly download everything. 
• Section Download Map: Capture IP addresses using the same process of mapping those to a location and align to the map.

All division 00 and 01 will be manually edited by architect/engineer specification writers.

The core content of the MasterSpec will be used to generate the Basis of Design output which will include the product type specified on the premium product card.

Specifying equals will be done by the end user of the downloaded specification document.

The name of architecture/engineering firms specifying project in Specpoint will not be published but the end results of their product selection process will be available in the Specpoint heat map and the accompanying product usage reports and analytics.

No, BPMs will not be provided architecture/engineering firm names or addresses.

There are no automated notifications sent while products are being selected. The Specpoint heat map will be updated daily to allow comparisons over time. 

Product manufacturers who have existing Basic, Enhanced, Product MasterSpec or Independent listing agreements with ConstructConnect; will automatically have their existing listed products migrated to the Specpoint product database.

Manufacturers will be provisioned with access to Specpoint where they can edit and maintain their product listings to keep the information up to date.

Existing listings will be reassigned to new naming conventions/titles in Specpoint as follows:

• Basic Listings become Manufacturer Listings
• Enhanced and Product MasterSpec Listings become Premium Listings
• Independent Listings become Proprietary Listings

Existing BPM customers that want to update their existing product listings will contact ConstructConnect to request an update to their listings. ConstructConnect will coordinate with the Deltek Fulfillment team to enable the listings to a state of Premium MasterSpec Review which will allow the customer to add information to their listings and submit that information for review by the Deltek Fulfillment team.

Your organization’s designated primary contact will receive an email that contains your Specpoint login credentials. If you have any questions about your Specpoint login, contact your ConstructConnect for assistance.

Existing BPMs will sign a new license agreement after their current contract term expires. Upon your initial log in to Specpoint, all BPMs will need to accept the SaaS Terms and Conditions.

Specpoint offers two levels of annual product listing subscription options:

• Premium Listing: Manufacturers can list their company information, general product information, catalogs, images, specific product properties, and more if they meet MasterSpec’s building product and vetting criteria. Product Listings are $14,500 per year and provides access to Specpoint for five users where the BPM can list 10 product types. Additional Specpoint users can be added for $19 per user per month.
• Premium Listing MasterSpec: The same as Premium Listing ($14,500 per year), but the product has been further vetted for MasterSpec attributes including standards, performance ratings, and availability. MasterSpec badge/logo is applied to product listing cards that meet MasterSpec criteria and receive priority ranking in search results for architects and engineers.

With the purchase of a Specpoint Premium Product Listing, BPMs will automatically receive access to Specpoint for five users. Additional user access can be purchased at $19 a month per user ($228/user/year) billed annually.

Contact us at 800-424-3996 or at SpecpointQuestions@constructconnect.com.