Sectors
The trades Specify is built for.
What a customer can order from a bakery, a joiner or a perfume house is decided by what that business can make, and Specify is built around exactly that. Once it is set up for one business in a trade, most of the work for the next is done, which is why Specify thinks in trades.
Trades with a page of their own
Bakeries and patisseries
A special cake starts as a conversation about its size, its design and its date, and is booked weeks or months ahead. Even an ordinary cake carries choices that change the notice it needs and the words on top.
How Specify is built for it
The size, the cake, the decoration, the words on top and the day are chosen in one order, and a day with less notice than you need is refused with the earliest day that works.
Carpenters and joiners
Everything is made for one opening in one building, so a price is an estimate until the opening is measured, and the choices that decide it (the wood, the glass, the fittings) also decide whether the building's rules are met.
How Specify is built for it
The sizes you make to, and the woods, glass and fittings you offer, are recorded once, so a request for a price arrives with every choice made and every size within your limits.
Independent housebuilders
A customer chooses a house from a plan, a set of options and a budget, over months. What they chose, what it costs and what the build team was told have to stay the same thing all the way through.
How Specify is built for it
The customer sees the configured house in 3D, inside and out, chooses only options that can be built together, and brings that exact choice to the first meeting.
Custom interiors
A kitchen or a wardrobe is sold before it is measured. The quote depends on the material, the finish, the hardware and the fitting, and a mistake is a piece nobody else can use.
How Specify is built for it
Sizes within what the workshop can build, the materials and finishes it offers and the rules between them, so a request arrives precise enough to plan the work.
Furniture makers
A table or sofa offered in many sizes, woods and fabrics is one design to the maker and hundreds of products to a website, and the customer has to be told before ordering when it will arrive.
How Specify is built for it
Your sizes, woods, fabrics and finishes are recorded once, each with its own time to make, so a customer chooses only what you make and sees how long it takes.
Custom fragrances
A personal scent is built from choices (the notes, the concentration, the bottle, the box) that are regulated and made in batches, so what a customer may choose depends on what can actually be produced.
How Specify is built for it
A customer composes only what the house can make, is told why when they cannot, and sees a date that follows from what they chose.
Jewellers
A ring is sized, engraved or set to order, so the order has to carry the size, its scale and the wording exactly. Once it is engraved, it cannot be sent back.
How Specify is built for it
A size within your range, the metal, width, finish and stone you offer, and the engraving's words exactly as typed arrive as one structured order, so nothing is copied out of a message by hand.
Tailoring and made-to-measure clothing
Made to measure lives or dies on the measurements: who takes them, how the fittings correct them, and whether they reach the workroom as they were given.
How Specify is built for it
Each measurement is asked for within the limits you work to, and the workroom's docket shows it exactly as the customer gave it.
Print and signage
Print is made from the customer's own file, and the file is checked before anything is printed. A mistake in the file the customer supplied is theirs, and a reprint is a cost someone has to carry.
How Specify is built for it
The customer's file travels with the order, and the run, the paper and the price follow rules you set.
Food and drink producers
A gift box is filled from the shelf and finished for one customer, with their pieces, their words or their logo, for a date that cannot move.
How Specify is built for it
The pieces, the greeting, the logo and the day are chosen in one order, and a company's quantity can be priced by you or earn a lower price per box.
Florists
A bouquet is ordered for an occasion, a price and a day, and made from flowers bought through wholesalers and auctions. What the florist may swap has to be agreed before the order is placed, because a fresh bouquet cannot be sent back.
How Specify is built for it
The substitution you allow is written beside the choice, and the customer's answer travels with the order to the bench.
Also built for
Your trade is not on the list?
Specify is defined by a commercial shape more than by an industry: customers who ask for outcomes, capability that exceeds the published catalogue, and decisions that need a person. We take 3 founding partners in each sector, and the first business in a trade shapes how it is served.