CLT Toolbox rebrands as SPEC Toolbox after rapid growth

CLT Toolbox rebrands as SPEC Toolbox after rapid growth

Friday 12 Sep 2025

SPEC Toolbox, a leading design platform for mass timber, announced this week its rebranding from CLT Toolbox. This evolution is a key step forward for users and partners, broadening the scope of technical problems the platform is engineered to solve to provide digital tooling to the industry that makes it easier to specify modern, innovative products.

SPEC Toolbox has been deeply committed to eliminating the technical barriers for broader mass timber products for quite some time. The platform originally focused on Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), has grown to include eight product categories and the new brand reflects its expanded mission. The product expansion now provides tooling for Glulam, LVL, light-frame construction, screws, hangers, and brackets, with an acoustics module to be released soon.

This approach of eliminating technical barriers for specifiers is resonating within the industry, with the platform boasting over 5,000 user signups globally and partnerships with 30 major product suppliers.

"Our mission is simple: to make innovation easy to specify," said Adam Jones, CEO of SPEC Toolbox. "Product manufacturers drive innovation for the industry, and passionate engineers every day are seeking solutions for their projects that challenge the norm. CLT & the Mass Timber Industry is an embodiment of this innovation, and I experienced this myself both as a supplier at XLam and a specifier at WSP."

For engineers, the platform eliminates the need to build significant spreadsheets that can take hundreds of hours or to rummage through disparate supply chain data found in PDFs. SPEC Toolbox removes the technical barriers to product specification, scaling engineering capacity and giving designers the confidence to specify the materials of the future. This directly addresses the challenge that innovation is often hard to specify, fulfilling the company's mission to make it easy.

"Now, with SPEC Toolbox, we are giving designers the confidence to specify the materials of the future and enabling a much-needed shift towards more sustainable and cost-efficient construction and putting incredible manufacturer solutions right into the hands of engineers,” said Adam.

This approach is resonating within the industry, with the platform boasting over 5,000 user signups globally and partnerships with 30 major product suppliers.

The platform's success has been driven by its diverse and talented founding team, including:

Adam Jones (CEO), who previously felt the specification problems as a supplier at XLam and a specifier at WSP.
Ringo Thomas Co-founder & CCO, who has poured his career full of experience in B2B sales to help drive the growth of a global customer footprint in a very short time
Lelissie Bedada Co-founder & Head of Engineering, leads the engineering effort of 17 structural engineers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ikhsan Agustian Co-founder & CTO, who invented key technology the team leverages to build the world-class software & leads a team of 20 software developers in Semarang Indonesia.

"If you've got any technical barriers to product specification, then SPEC Toolbox wants to help you," added Jones. "Our goal is to eliminate all technical barriers to innovation, empowering the industry to build a more sustainable future."

Source & image credit: SPEC Toolbox

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