Marapone SpecChecker

01

Both sides, read into the same shape

A clause in a manual and a cell in a door schedule are the same fact wearing different clothes. So both are normalised into one structure — a single measurable property, of one named assembly, in one canonical unit, carrying the page or sheet it came from. Everything downstream operates on those, which is what makes the comparison possible at all.

Where both documents state a value for the same property and the values disagree, that is a finding: both statements, both citations, and the exact wording each document used. Fire-resistance ratings, gypsum thickness and core type, concrete strength, steel grades, R-values and U-values, SHGC, airflow, filter efficiency, sprinkler design density, interrupting ratings, glazing make-up, hardware grade, warranty terms.

02

The conflicts a document has with itself

The obvious check is manual against drawings. Two of the eleven conflict types are stranger and more common than anyone expects: a manual written by three people over two years that contradicts itself, and an old general note on one sheet that the revised note on another sheet was supposed to replace.

There is no precedence rule to fall back on inside a single document, which is exactly why those have to be asked rather than resolved. It also catches addenda that were never carried through — the two-page PDF that arrives by email during tender and changes one number while the manual and the drawings both keep saying the old thing — and cross-references to sections that were cut.

03

Silence looks exactly like agreement

The audit can only report a conflict where both documents say something about the same property. Where the drawings are silent there is nothing to disagree with, and on a findings list that is indistinguishable from the two documents matching. A tool that hid this would be quietly worse than no tool, because a short list reads as reassurance.

So coverage is a first-class screen, not a footnote: what was checked, what could not be read confidently, and where the silence is. Findings are then sorted by what stops a material order today rather than by how many there are, and one click drafts the RFI — one letter per spec section, quoting both documents and asking which governs, because deciding that is the consultant of record's job and not the software's.