“Imagine if you could perform an entire home inspection using only your phone”

When we first started thinking about that idea, nothing like it existed. The iPhone 3G was brand-new, technology magazines were covered with the phrase “there’s an app for that!”, and most home inspectors we talked with spent hours every night transcribing their handwritten notes and manually importing their photos into a computer.

As a multigenerational family of home inspectors and engineers, we realized that we had a unique set of skills to turn our idea into reality. Over Thanksgiving dinner we challenged Jason to create a simple prototype, and by Christmas break we were huddled around an iPhone excited by the possibilities.

We had two clear goals as we set out to create our ideal home inspection software:

• The app should be easy and efficient to use so an inspector can finish the report while still at the job site.
• The final report should be simple and clear enough that a client can read and understand it all.

These goals still drive everything we do today.