Document rights.

Why the library exists

A submittal package is only as good as the documents in it. A contractor assembling one has to find the right cut sheet and the right safety data sheet for the product the spec book named, at the revision the project is being built to. That means hunting across manufacturer websites, distributor portals, and whatever a supplier emailed last year.

SubPro indexes these documents so that hunt takes a search instead of an afternoon. Every document links back to its source and keeps its manufacturer's name on it. Nothing here is a substitute for the manufacturer's own published literature, and a document in this library should be checked against the manufacturer's current release before it goes into a submittal.

What we do and do not do

We do not modify documents

A document is indexed as the manufacturer published it. We do not edit, re-typeset, or strip branding from it.

We do not claim authorship

A manufacturer's literature is presented as theirs, with their name on it, linked back to where it came from.

We do not train on them

These documents are indexed so they can be found. They are not training data for any model.

A person checked it first

Documents are checked and approved by a person before they appear in the library. Nothing publishes itself.

The commercial boundary

Manufacturers can pay for featured placement in the library index, and every featured entry says so on its face. Payment affects placement and nothing else. It does not change which documents are indexed, what a search returns, or what appears on any contractor's submittal log. A submittal log is built from what a project specification requires, and no commercial arrangement reaches it.

The rule matters in both directions. A library that ranks by who paid is a catalog of advertisements, and a contractor assembling a submittal package under deadline does not come back to one of those. The boundary protects a paying manufacturer's placement as much as it protects the person searching.

There is also nothing here to sell about who is specifying what. Project specifications submitted for processing are deleted once the output is built, and are never used for marketing, training, or examples. No dataset of that kind exists and none is planned. See data handling for the full commitment, or partners for what a partnership does cover.

Getting a document corrected or removed

Write to pilots@sub-pro-ai.com. Tell us the product and the document and we will act on it. That covers a superseded revision that should be replaced, a document attached to the wrong product, a document you would rather we did not carry at all, and a manufacturer page that has the wrong website on it.

The privacy policy covers how requests are handled and how long we keep them. If you would rather talk it through than write it up, the same address reaches a person.

Common questions