What A Week! | Purpose of Submittal Reports
This episode explores a recurring request from design teams: generating submittal, QA, and other specification-based reports. The discussion questions the actual purpose of...
Deliberate Words
A Podcast by Conspectus Inc.
Join us as we chat with members of the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner communities to learn how deliberate word shape their contributions, their projects, and their world. Through these conversations, words aggregate decisions, and transforms perspectives on transparency in the decision-making process.
2026
Design Intent with a cherry on top, Featuring Ben Caldwell, Director of Specifications at BIG
Design intent is the governing framework of a project, yet it is often compromised as it moves from concept through construction. In this episode of Deliberate Words, Ben...
What A Week! | Peek Behind the Curtain of Conspectus Cloud
This episode offers a rare peek behind the curtain at how a specification platform is developed by the very practitioners who use it every day, experienced specifiers who...
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What A Week! | If It's Not Documented, It's Not Designed: The Design Intent Gap
This episode explores the idea behind the Design Intent Gap and why ambiguity in construction documentation continues to create confusion across the industry. The...
What A Week! | Insurance Requirements: The Hidden Design Driver
This episode explores a frequently overlooked factor in building design: the influence of property insurance requirements on construction documents and specifications. The...
What A Week! | Clarity Before Construction: Documenting with SPDs
This episode was sparked by a familiar and uncomfortable question: should you copy a specification section from a prior project, or start from scratch? Steve Gantner, Elias...
What A Week! | To Copy or Not To Copy Spec Sections
This episode was sparked by a familiar and uncomfortable question: should you copy a specification section from a prior project, or start from scratch? Steve Gantner, Elias...
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What A Week! | Passing the Torch, 4specs Acquisition Announcement
Colin Gilboy, founder of 4specs.com, sat down with Conspectus executives David Stutzman, Steve Gantner, and Elias Saltz in Orlando, FL to button up the final details of its...
Trebuchets, Tenacity, and Technical Curiosity featuring Tucker Beech, Drexel U Architecture Student
This Deliberate Words episode captures a lively and fun conversation between Dave Stutzman and Steve Gantner of Conspectus and their guest, Tucker Beech, a third-year (of...
What A Week! | CURT Conference Recap: AI, Energy, and Productivity
Steve Gantner, Elias Saltz, and Tina Montone attended the CURT (Construction Users Roundtable) National Conference in Orlando, Florida in early February 2026 and returned...
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What A Week! | Reference Standards: Say it Once. Say it in the Right Place.
In this episode, Dave Stutzman, Steve Gantner, and Elias Saltz tackle a deceptively simple question that carries real contractual risk: Where should reference standards live...
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From RFI's to Results:Inside the CURT Dialogue, featuring CURT Members
A conversation captured at the Construction Users Roundtable. CURT members don’t gather to admire the industry as it is, we gather to challenge it. Throughout the year,...
What A Week! | Informational Submittals: What Not to Ask For
In this episode, Dave Stutzman, Steve Gantner, and Elias Saltz unpack a deceptively simple question with serious implications: Why don’t we recommend requiring manufacturer...
What A Week! | 33 Years In: From Survival to Succession
This episode is sparked by a simple question that opened a much bigger reflection: why Conspectus started, and how it became what it is today as the firm enters its 33rd...
What A Year! | 2025 - 2026 Reflections from the Front Line
In this year-end episode, the Conspectus team (David Stutzman, Elias Saltz and Steve Gantner) reflect on the signals, surprises, and steady momentum that defined 2025 while...