Customer-readable spec rows from a SmartBuild job

SmartBuild answers are turned into plain spec lines a customer can read — dimensions, roofing, siding, support structure, foundation, openings — with post-frame and stud-frame variants.

What it is

Templated spec rows filled from the job's answers, with per-frame-type template sets. Post-frame gets posts spaced along the eave wall; stud-frame gets dimensional studs at a fixed spacing and a perimeter footing row. Frame type is auto-detected from the answers.

Also called: spec sheet · building specifications · what is included · proposal specs

See it
Customer-readable spec rows from a SmartBuild job
Prepared for
Ivy Brubaker
1140 Ridge Line Rd · Fair Play
Shell package$36,239
Concrete & site$10,521
Doors & windows$7,014
Trim & finish$4,676
Total
$58,450
Signature
Client-facing spec card: dimensions, roofing, siding, support structure, foundation, openings — each one sentence. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Templates use {FieldName} placeholders with pipe alternatives, filled case-insensitively from the answers.
  2. 2Post and bay spacing comes back from SmartBuild in INCHES and is formatted in feet; stud and girt spacing stays in inches, because that is how each is read.
  3. 3Truss spacing is printed in feet to match the proposal rather than inches.
  4. 4Orphan-prefix cleanup handles a leading placeholder resolving empty, and a row that filled nothing or reduced to punctuation is hidden rather than printed.
  5. 5Openings are built from the estimate's Doors and Windows material section, ordered garage then walk doors then windows, skipping hardware and custom or labor lines.
Why we built it

Customer proposals were going out with lines reading @A1 wall steel and on-center LM326{LF} — internal codes printed straight onto a document someone was being asked to sign. A specification a customer reads should read like a specification, not like a database dump. Spec rows are resolved to real descriptions before they reach a proposal, and a code that cannot be resolved is handled rather than printed.

The problem
  • Internal SKUs and raw units printed on a customer document.
  • Spec sheets hand-written per job.
Sound familiar?
What you get
A readable spec sheet generated from the job.
Spacings printed in the unit each trade reads.
Rows that cannot be filled honestly are hidden.

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