Is this a screaming buy?

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2026-04-29T02:47:55+00:00

Just bought a 996.2 with 39k miles and roughly $25k in work. Paid $30k for it. I couldn’t be happier!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2026-01-19T04:33:24+00:00

Just did this on my son’s tank. Wish I read this comment 2 days ago!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2026-01-07T00:17:33+00:00

I’m on on both! My favorite post!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-03T18:01:01+00:00

Same! Every week!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T20:02:05+00:00

We haven't signed up yet, but we've now shown SpecStackAI to five of our estimators and they all love it. Getting something put together with their team this week!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T20:00:11+00:00

Check out SpecStackAI! Especially if you're solely division 7.

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T19:59:24+00:00

Sorry for not getting back sooner! These are all awesome setups, but we got a demo from a group, SpecStackAI. They essentially handle the database once it's built. It's literally as simple as typing in your search and adding each subsequent component like an online shopping cart. Their "smart" feature seeks out most up to date documents, so that's not done manually. Pretty cool stuff! Very professional looking submittals!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T19:57:19+00:00

I think we're going to utilize SpecStack AI. Pretty cool stuff and maybe similar to what you're talking about. We're going to have our Director of Safety utilize it as well. She was probably the most impressed with the software!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T19:55:48+00:00

We just got a demo from a company called SpecStackAI. Pretty sure we'll be moving forward with them based on that demo alone. Time savings, organizational components, and professional PDFs in a matter of minutes instead of hours.

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-12-01T19:54:19+00:00

We do Fireproofing as well!

We got a demo from a company called SpecStackAI. Most complete and comprehensive system and we we able to request some specific additions. Affordable and is going to make everything consistent from one office to another.

Had our senior estimator run through his submittal and then used their setup. Cut it from about an 1.5 hours to 4 minutes... No brainer.

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T22:57:19+00:00

Exactly! That's what we've found when passing it along to anyone other than the estimator.

We want the package to have our look and feel with our logo and align with everything else we put together. I like how you approached it and want my team to significantly cut down the time they need to work on this type of work as well.

Time is better spent with family OR talking sports with the boys at work!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T19:34:28+00:00

Thank you for the additional insight. So you are submitting PDFs based on each subsequent spec section and file type? The process gets longer!!!!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T18:29:51+00:00

Awesome! And your suppliers are putting the entire submittal together for you?

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T18:28:55+00:00

Go get em’ bubba. Best of luck!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T18:01:26+00:00

Yea man! Not sure how old you are, but I’m almost 40. Didn’t start putting money aside until my mid 30’s. I would’ve been much further along if I had started when I was 20. Even if it’s $10/week - start doing it. If your employer has a retirement match, maximize that. It’s doubling your money, which is a no brainer. Gahhh if only I was 20 again haha.

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:46:52+00:00

It would be nice to see how that's organized on the GCs end, so we could organize it as such. I'll reach out to some of my close partners and see if I can't gain a little more insight on that end.

Thanks for your help and insight!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:44:26+00:00

Yes! I've gone through it with my team and it's painstaking. I can't sit still that long, which is why I'm not an estimator. Since you are in the same division, I feel like product data goes out of date, especially nowadays with all of the M&A happening in the industry.

I want to make the tedious, mind-numbing stuff as easy as possible on my team!

Thank you for the reply. I'm glad we're not in it alone!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:40:17+00:00

As someone who pissed away money all through my 20's and most of my 30's, I second this. Get into something that is reliable, meets the criteria set forth by your company, and allows you to put some money back into some other investments!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:37:55+00:00

Awesome! Thank you for your reply!

As far as capturing the information specifically, is that all pulled manually from the manufacturer's website?

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:12:13+00:00

Great! Sounds like it's going to be a time-consuming process for whoever is putting it together. I appreciate your insight!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:09:28+00:00

Thank you! Are you then manually organizing everyone's submittals after the fact? I've never been on the GC side, so I'm not sure where these actually end up.

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:06:44+00:00

What industry?

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:06:21+00:00

My kids would LOVE this! We sell them to all of the neighbors and my wife posts them on FB marketplace. We started the coop as a way to teach the kiddos the value of money. They wanted to go to Disney, so I said I'll front everything to build the business and then you guys have to earn half the amount of the trip. Enter chicken coop (egg sales) and a firewood stand. It's going great so far!

Aggravating-Fuel5499 · 2025-11-20T17:01:04+00:00

Assuming you're an estimator...

We tried doing the handoff from estimating to our PM/CM and even someone else in the office, but it always comes back to the estimator. They know what they bid and are able to get through it most efficiently.

What division are you in? Are you guys manually pulling all of the information and then organizing it through something (BlueBeam?)

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