Parspec

Helping leading sales agents and distributors to bid more, win more and improve profitability.

Parspec is a technology company serving sales agents and distributors in the construction industry, starting with lighting and electrical products. Our mission is to enable our customers to discover and source the best available products and materials for their unique project requirements. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Parspec’s AI-powered platform supports product se

lection, quoting, and submittal workflows. The company is backed by leading deep tech and construction technology venture investors.

08/25/2026

An awarded quote shouldn't be the beginning of a new manual workflow, but for many project-based distributors, that's exactly what happens.

More often than not, BOMs from winning quotes have to be re-entered, status gets chased across email and spreadsheets, and teams piece together the project around their ERP.

We're heading to Eclipse Users Group (UFO) Encounter 2026 — from September 13 to 15 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle — to show you what's possible when one connected record follows a project from RFQ to close-out.

That's a higher bar than smoother handoffs, and Parspec delivers on it by working in sync with Eclipse to give quoting and project management teams a connected ex*****on layer for the work they do every day.

With Parspec, one connected record means:

1/ A single BOM — entered once — moves from quote into ex*****on

2/ Project teams manage quoting without disconnected workflows

3/ Customers get the self-serve order visibility they want, without another status-check email

Eclipse, meanwhile, continues to serve as the system of record for financials and master data.

If you're planning to be in Seattle, stop by Booth 17 and chat with Brandon Shore and Chris Dallau.

08/24/2026

Border States lost 997 years of institutional knowledge in a single year. Find out what they're doing about it tomorrow in a live webinar at 11:00 AM PT.

Join Parspec Founder & CEO Forest Flager, and Jeremy Begg and Christopher Stein from Border States for an in-depth discussion on how AI-native quoting and submittals can help MEP distributors grow without adding headcount at the same rate.

You’ll see how Border States is:

- Already cutting time to quote by 45%
- Ramping new sales and PM staff in half the time
- Preserving institutional knowledge, instead of losing it to retirement
- Rolling out AI responsibly, with governance and security built in from day one

If you're feeling the squeeze between retirements, slow ramp times, and rising customer expectations, there's still time to participate in the 45-minute discussion.

Save your seat in the comments below.👇

08/18/2026

MEP distribution has a math problem: retirements are outpacing replacements, and the gap is starting to show up in service quality.

Every year, about 5 to 10% of the MEP distribution workforce retires. Their replacements need 6 to 9 months just to get up to speed, even though customer expectations keep growing.

Join Parspec Founder & CEO Forest Flager, and Jeremy Begg and Christopher Stein from Border States, for a live webinar on what happened when 57 of Border States employee-owners retired in a single year, taking nearly 1,000 combined years of institutional knowledge with them.

Their talk — on Tuesday, August 25 at 11:00 AM PT — will cover lessons learned and why Border States is proactively:

- Using AI-native quoting and submittals workflows to help employees take on more tasks and onboard new hires faster

- Preserving institutional knowledge with the help of AI

- Implementing and rolling out AI responsibly, with strong product data, governance, and security guardrails

- Turning AI into a customer-experience and revenue advantage

If you're feeling the squeeze between retirements, slow ramp times, and rising customer expectations, this is 45 minutes that’s worth blocking off on your calendar.

Save the date (and your seat) in the comments below.

08/13/2026

When 57 people retired from Border States in a single recent year, 997 years of pricing intuition, product expertise, and judgment calls that only come from decades on the job walked out of the door as well.

Getting new employees up to speed took an average of six months, at a cost of $3 million, but Border States also saw an opportunity to rise to the occasion: get ahead of the next wave of retirements now, instead of scrambling later on.

Join Parspec and Border States for a live webinar on Tuesday, August 25 at 11:00 AM PT that offers a practical look at how AI-native quoting and project management can help distributors expand workforce capacity without adding headcount.

You'll learn how Border States is:

- Cutting new-hire ramp time in half and time to quote by 45%
Doubling the dollar amount quoted without proportionally scaling headcount

- Preserving valuable product and pricing expertise

- Eliminating the need to constantly re-key awarded quotes into their ERP
Improving consistency across teams and locations

- Adopting AI with the right security and governance safeguards

If you lead operations, a branch, or the broader business at an MEP distributor, this session will offer a grounded look at what AI can achieve and what it takes to implement it effectively.

Register for the webinar 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04s_95_0

08/11/2026

On June 16, we reached a milestone that felt like a long way off only a few years ago: *1 million bills of materials* created in Parspec.

What made it especially meaningful was the BOM behind the number.

A quoter at one of our Fortune 500 customers created a 17-line BOM spanning four manufacturers. Eleven minutes later, it was a five-figure quote ready to send.

Quoting teams shouldn't have to spend hours pulling information from drawings, researching products, re-entering line items, and assembling proposals. They should be able to spend that time helping customers, bidding more projects, and winning more business.

That's the gap AI-native quoting closes, and it's exactly what we're seeing one million BOMs later.

Want to see what that looks like for your team?

Join our live product training on Friday, August 14 at 10 a.m. PT. We'll walk through the quoting workflow from beginning to end. Sign up via the comments below.

08/06/2026

For project managers, winning the bid is only half the battle. From there, the award quote must be converted into sales orders, POs, releases, shipments, changes, invoices, and constant customer updates.

More often than not, this work ends up happening across an ERP, spreadsheets, email, vendor portals, and submittal tools that were never built to talk to each other.

This often results in:

- Less time for PMs to identify risks, resolve issues, and coordinate with contractors

- Errors discovered after material has already been ordered and shipped

- Slower billing and avoidable margin erosion

- Contractors learning about delivery risks way too late

The answer is a connected workflow that carries project context from the awarded scope through order management, fulfillment, changes, billing preparation, and contractor communications.

Our latest blog explores the hidden cost of fragmented post-award ex*****on, where processes break down, and what a real connected approach looks like. Link in the comments👇

08/05/2026

For distributors and rep agents alike, manually building submittal packages can eat up hours at a time when you’re looking for the right cut sheet, marking up PDFs by hand, and formatting O&M binders page by page.

Don’t miss our next live training session — on Friday, Aug 7 at 10 AM PT — where we'll show you how Parspec can:

- Auto-extract BOMs straight from quotes and drawings

- Bulk-attach the right cut sheets, manuals, and warranties in one click

- Auto-annotate model numbers and configurations instantly

- Package it all into a polished, branded submittal or O&M package in minutes, not days

Distributors and rep agents are already shipping cleaner submittals in half of the time it used to take.

Save your seat in the comments below. 👇

08/04/2026

Every distributor is asking the same question: How do you grow when experienced talent is becoming harder to replace?

Border States tackled that challenge head-on after losing *997 combined years* of sales and PM experience in a single recent year.

Join us for a live webinar — on Tuesday, August 25 at 11:00 AM PT — to learn how Jeremy Begg and Chris Stein from Border States are preserving institutional knowledge, accelerating onboarding, and increasing the capacity of their sales and project teams without adding headcount.

You’ll also hear about what Border States has learned from deploying AI-native quoting and project management across the business, from governance and security to driving adoption.

Don’t miss this candid conversation about what's working today and what other project-based distributors, including mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, can take away from their experience.

Save your spot in the comments below.

07/28/2026

Tomorrow's the day! Be among the first to see Parspec Sales Management, our new AI-native platform built alongside 16 leading lighting agencies to unify quoting, order management, fulfillment, and commission tracking in one connected workflow.

Join us live for an in-depth product demo and see how agencies can:

- Quote faster with AI-powered crossing
- Turn RFQs into structured BOMs in seconds
- Eliminate duplicate data entry from quote to order
- Capture every commission dollar they've earned

This is your last chance to register, so don’t wait 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04qZtQN0

07/23/2026

As featured in Electrical Trends, US Lighting Trends, EdisonReport, and Inside Lighting, we launched Parspec Sales Management on Monday, an AI-native platform that unifies quoting, order management, and commission tracking for manufacturer rep agencies.

We’re hosting a live webinar on Wednesday, July 29 at 11 a.m. PT to give you a detailed look at how Sales Management automates manual, time-consuming tasks for rep agents from RFQ to commission and helps rep agencies to bid more, win more, and capture every profit.

We'll walk through how it:

- Converts RFQs from quotes and schedules into structured BOMs in seconds

- Surfaces spec-compliant crosses from your line card with pricing and bid history

- Keeps manufacturer pricing current through API and file uploads

- Builds branded professional quotes with linked datasheets

- Moves from quote to order without rekeying BOM

- Tracks manufacturer goals with dashboards

- Reconciles commissions and incentives in real time so nothing gets missed

Save your spot 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04qy5p20

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