Your next tender is already written.
SpecBase turns your practice's past NBS specifications into a working library. Pick the sections a project needs, fill each clause from tenders you've already issued, and export a clean, structured PDF. No AI — your own words, made reusable.
Free during the pilot · No NBS licence required · Your specifications stay private
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The knowledge is already in your office — locked inside finished PDFs. So every new job, the specification gets rebuilt almost from scratch.
Re-typed every time
Without a reusable library, each tender is assembled by hand from old documents — slow, inconsistent, and easy to get wrong under deadline.
Priced for big firms
A full specification platform carries an annual licence that's hard to justify for a practice that tenders a handful of projects a year.
AI you can't stand behind
Generated clauses have to be vetted line by line — and explained to a client or insurer. That's risk, not a shortcut.
Three steps from blank page to issued tender.
It follows the way you already structure a specification, so the output is familiar the moment it lands.
Pick your sections
Start from a project-type preset or search the full NBS list. SpecBase flags the sections a job like yours usually needs.
Fill from past work
Every clause comes pre-filled with the most complete version from your firm's previous tenders. Accept it, edit it, or swap in another.
Export a tender
A clean, NBS-structured PDF — contents, section notes, the lot. Save the draft and pick it back up exactly where you left off.
Your material. Your standards. No AI guessing.
SpecBase doesn't write specifications for you. It finds the clauses your practice has already issued — and stood behind — and lets you reuse them. There's nothing generated to second-guess, nothing to caveat to a client, and nothing new to explain to your insurer. The output reads like your firm because it is your firm.
Defensible by default
Every clause traces back to a real tender you issued. No invented text to vet.
Consistent across jobs
Your house standard travels from project to project instead of drifting each time.
Yours, kept private
Your past tenders stay in your own library — never pooled, never used to train anything.
Built for the way small practices actually work.
Project-type presets
Residential renovation, larger heritage refurb, civic build — start from a sensible set of sections and refine, instead of a blank catalogue.
The most complete version, first
When a clause appears across several past tenders, SpecBase suggests the fullest one — and keeps the alternatives one click away.
Drafts you can resume
A draft is a whole tender — sections, clauses and your edits — saved and restored exactly. Stop mid-job, come back next week, carry on.
Versioned exports
Every export is kept with a snapshot of the project, so past tenders stay faithful even after the job moves on. Compare revisions side by side.
Pay for a tender, not for the calendar.
No licence sitting idle between projects. The model is built for practices that tender a few jobs a year.
Free for selected practices
We're running a small private pilot. If you tender your own projects, you can use SpecBase on a real job at no cost while we shape it with you.
- Set up with your own past tenders
- A private, managed instance
- We reply to you personally
Per tender, not per year
The plan is simple: you pay around what a tender is worth, only when you actually run one. Pricing is being set with our pilot practices — so it fits how you really work.
- No annual lock-in
- No NBS licence required
- Nothing to pay between projects
The things practices ask first.
Does SpecBase use AI to write our specs?
Where does our tender data live?
Do we need an NBS licence to use it?
How does it learn our material in the first place?
What size of project does it suit?
Try it on a real tender.
Tell us a little about your practice. If you tender your own projects and want to spend less time rebuilding specs, we'd like to put SpecBase in front of you.
- We set it up with a few of your past tenders.
- You build your next tender on it, for real.
- No commitment, and your work stays yours.