PROJECT TOOLS · FOR MANUFACTURERS & REPS
A spec that reaches you as data instead of a scanned page. Pull datasheet values into your configurator, ask for only the lines that touch your product, and send your exceptions back to the engineer on the clause they concern.
Structured export & API · Feedback on the clause
EXPORT
Datasheet JSON
FORMAT
STRUCTURED
{
"project": "Building 400",
"revision": "Issued for Bid",
"fingerprint": "f0d7ef311a02",
"datasheets": [
{
"name": "Indoor 208V Panels",
"elements": [
{ "address": "2.2.1", "label": "Voltage", "user_value": "208Y/120", "units": "V" },
{ "address": "2.4.3.1", "label": "Main Breaker Rating", "user_value": 800, "units": "A" }
]
}
]
}PART 1 — GENERAL
Requirements reach you as PDFs your configurator can’t read, so someone keys them in by hand before you can quote.
Every spec costs an application engineer half a day of skimming to find the handful of lines that touch your product line.
When you spot a misapplied requirement, your note has to travel back up the chain, rep to distributor to sub to GC to engineer, and it rarely survives the trip.
A requirement should arrive as data, not a scanned page.
PART 2 — PRODUCTS
2.01
A share link opens the published revision. Reading, commenting, and responding are free, and you never pay to read what someone sent you.
2.02
Every datasheet exports as structured data: field names, selected values, units, and the fingerprint of the revision it came from. Drop it into your configurator instead of decoding a PDF.
2.03
Ask the AI for the requirements that touch your product line. It reads the whole spec, filters to your scope, and hands back a short summary with citations you can open.
2.04
Attach Comply, Deviation, or Exception to the exact requirement. It goes back up the share chain to the engineer who wrote it, grouped by element, not buried in a marked-up PDF.
2.05
Set up a key for your CPQ, ERP, or your own AI tools with exactly the access each needs. Read-only stays read-only. Every request lands on the key’s usage log.
2.06
You’re notified when a contractor shares a project with you for pricing. Respond while the bid is open, not after it closes.
PART 3 — EXECUTION
STEP 01
Issue a scoped key, or point your own AI tools at SynC with the access you choose.
STEP 02
Read datasheets as data, or ask the AI for only the lines in your scope.
STEP 03
Return line-item responses on the exact requirements. The spec author sees them grouped by element.
OPEN LIBRARY
Your application engineers read more specifications for your product line in a month than any one design firm writes in a year, and they see the same misapplication again and again. Put the functional guidance and the common pitfalls in the open library, in front of the people writing the next spec. Standards stay manufacturer-neutral: your contribution is expertise, not promotion.
Adopted SynC standards are released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Attribution travels with every adopted revision your contribution shaped.
PART 4 — ON THE ROADMAP
ON ROADMAP
The keys, API, and structured export are live, and your team can build on them today. Pre-built connectors for common configurators and ERPs come later.
PLANNED
Your line-item feedback, and other vendors’, rolled into pricing and lead-time signals engineers see while writing the spec.
PLANNED
See which requirements your accounts keep pushing back on across your open bids, and answer once with a standing position.
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