About
A product database with opinions
SpecLatch exists for the catalog that has to be right in five places at once: the engineering files, the spec sheets, the price lists, the website, and the distributors' binders. At most manufacturers of engineered products, those five places are maintained by hand — and by hand, they drift.
The standard toolset can't stop the drift. The ERP handles orders and inventory. Excel holds the numbers. Neither can answer the questions that actually come up every week: which documents are stale now that this rating changed? What is the customer-safe version of this record? Why does the metric datasheet disagree with the imperial one?
SpecLatch answers them by construction — a product database where units, formulas, confidentiality, and document generation are part of the data itself, so everything a company publishes is generated from one source of truth instead of copied toward it. It's built for manufacturers whose products are specified, not just sold.
The principles it's built on
Engineering data is typed, not typed in
A torque knows it's a torque. Units convert instead of being re-entered, and every calculation is tested code — the same engineering formula can't be right in one spreadsheet and wrong in another.
Visibility is enforced by the database
Public, internal, confidential — set once per field, enforced on every surface: the grid, the PDFs, the portal, the API. Not by whoever last edited the brochure.
Documents are generated, not authored
A spec sheet is a view of the data, designed once and filled per record. When the data moves, the documents say so — staleness is detected, not discovered by a customer.
Boring technology, deliberately
Postgres, a mainstream web stack, plain CSV import, PDF and XLSX out. Your data is always exportable in formats that outlive any vendor.
Engineering-led, on purpose
SpecLatch is engineering-led: the people who answer your questions are the people building the product, and what early customers ask for shapes what ships next. You can start a trial yourself — and we still like talking to every company that joins, especially about how their catalog should be modeled.
The pricing page has the full numbers — and the changelog shows the pace.