Speckel is an easy to use specification platform for architects, engineers, builders and fabricators. Don't know much about material specifications, calculations or reporting requirements? No problem. We have done all the work, so you don't have too.

We provide 2 access levels, Community and Practice levels. Community is free to create a project with limited features and designs while Practice is AU$199 for as many projects as you like.

If you have very specific requirements where you want to pay for single project access, please get in touch.

When you sign-up to use Speckel, everyone gets full access to our Practice Level for the first 14 days. No questions asked. You can then extend your trial for a further 14 days at no cost, but we will need to grab your credit card details. After 28-days, you will roll into a monthly payment of $199+ GST that can be cancelled or put on hold at anytime.

Absolutely. You can put your account on hold when projects go on hold, the summer construction break kicks in or you simply don't need to use Speckel apps.

We don't delete your Project data, so you can come back to it when you need to. To put your account on hold, you simply jump into your billing area and click cancel. At this point, no payment will be taken from your account in the next monthly payment and you will retain access on the Community level.

To gain access to your Projects again and the Practice Level, you simply upgrade to the Practice Level in your Team.

Yes. We encourage you to enjoy our platform by making use of the dozens of free features for general use. We ask for your name and email address so we can register you as a user, but that’s about it. While you will get great value, certain features and capabilities are only available by upgrading to our Practice Level.

Nope. We are 100% in the cloud. So no downloading, sharing licences, VPN hacks, upgrade management or software bugs that remain for years.

100%. A Practice Level license is not tethered to an office environment, it is tethered to a Team created in the cloud. So we don't care where the members of that Team are. So you could have 4 members of your Melbourne team and 4 members of your Brisbane team all on one Practice Level subscription for $199+GST per month.

If you sign-up to the Practice Level, you can add up to 8 people to the Team, so everyone within the Team gets all the features on Speckel.

Payments are all made on the Speckel platform. Once you are signed in, you can simply upgrade to our Practice level for a month by month payment. Cancel anytime.

Everyone now starts on the Practice Level but some users might not need all the bells and whistles. This is where the Community Level comes in. We do not charge to use Speckel at the Community subscription level, as we want you to experience our platforms capabilities, get access to supplier data and for you to begin the specification of better building products.

Well, quite a bit.

We believe some of the fundamentals of thermal performance should not be a premium, so we allow everyone to jump on, create as many Projects as they like and add up to 4 designs to each and every project. These designs could be a roof, a floor and maybe 2 different wall types to assess thermal bridging.

There are many features and workflow enhancements that don't come with the Community Level subscription, but don't let that put you off.

While Speckel is a big supporter of correct specification and have many suppliers on our platform, your data related to your projects and design remains with you.

We do review broad analytics from time to time, such as how many walls have steel framing vs timber or what is the average thickness of a wall, but this is always anonymised.

We do not sell data to any entity or intend to do so.

Only if you want us too.
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In a support capacity, we may ask to access your project information to check a design or offer further support. In these cases, we obtain your verbal consent and can access you project.

Otherwise, your project data is well, your project data!

We count a month as 30 days. So when committing to paying for a month, you get precisely that… 30 days of usage for that billing period.

If you decide to deactivate your billing after 10 days, you will continue on the Practice Level for another 20 days before returning to our Community Level. Don’t worry… all project information continues to be retained, and you simply need to grab another 30 days at the Practise Level to continue working on your Projects when they are active again.

This approach puts you in control of the billing and enables savings across the year!

Absolutely not. When we state a month by month cost, we mean it —no ongoing commitments to periods that may not include active usage. So If you are working on other activities where you don’t need Speckel for a few months or want to turn it off over summer when you are more interested in what’s going on at the beach, no problems!

That being said, 12-month commitments are rewarded with savings so once you are comfortable with Speckel, you may want to consider committing to a more cost efficient solution.

No catch, we don't even use your sell your data to the highest bidder. We simply believe everyone with an interest in improving building design should get access to a simple process to answer the basic questions.