San Fracisco, CA – Thursday, November 17, 2022 – Parspec, Inc. announced today that it has achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for SOC for Service Organizations also known as SSAE 18. Achieving this standard with an unqualified opinion serves as third-party industry validation that Parspec, Inc. provides enterprise-level security for customer’s data secured in the Parspec, Inc. System.

In late November, I had the opportunity to sit down with Al Uszynski at Inside.Lighting to discuss 5 Big Questions for Parspec. It is always a pleasure to sit down with industry veterans and deep dive into the Parspec submittal app. It’s unbelievably exciting to get connected with those who use our product, understand its value, and actively work with our team to make the product more productive and efficient. Our short podcast is just the tip of the iceberg. We are really looking forward to working with the inside.lighting team for years to come.

In this episode of behind the build, Jolan takes us through the newest enterprise capability released by the Parsepc Product team. Read more to learn how Parspec’s enterprise customers are digitally coordinating like never before.

Zach Mix and Forest Flager recently sat down with the Get a Grip on Lighting team to discuss our newest product: Parspec’s submittal application. The podcast gives a great introduction to the Parspec team, our application, and the problem that we are solving.

Parspec’s co-founders, Pratyush Havelia and Forest Flager, first identified the underlying technology behind the submittal app while still attending Standford’s PhD program. The two of them realized how starved the construction industry was of up-to-date and readily available design documentation and performance specs after attempting to manually comb through hundreds and thousands of web pages to identify the specific sets of product information that met their needs. They were building a design optimization model that would take inputs (design specs, EPD data, and pricing information) and spit out a more efficient design.

For every construction project, it is critical for all stakeholders to be aligned on design choices, product selection, project timelines, and costs. A lot is at stake including meeting deadlines, budgets, code requirements, and ultimately meeting best-in-class standards set for the quality of material or work. The standard procedure for stakeholders to maintain alliance on project design choices is by generating a construction submittal package.

Tired of searching for datasheets? We were too. That’s why a core focus of our submittal app is our dynamic datasheet database The Problem Before using Parspec, our customers would either rely on a static database of manufacture cut sheets or spend the time and patience navigating manufacturer’s websites trying to identify the correct product. […]