Inspection reports
The report is the product. Everything else — the walk, the ladder, the photographs — exists to produce it.
Inspection software
You touch this tool twice on every job — once in the field, once at the desk. Choose it for the second week, not the demo.
AI for inspectors
The useful question is not whether a model can write a report. It is which parts of your day it can take without putting your name on a sentence you never checked.
Running the business
Most inspectors are a technical trade with a company attached, learned in public one expensive lesson at a time.
Marketing and referrals
A question every inspector eventually has to answer deliberately rather than hopefully.
Scheduling and operations
An inspection business is mostly logistics wearing a tool belt.
Checklists and templates
A template is your accumulated judgement, written down once so you stop re-deciding it on a roof.
Standards and licensing
What you are required to inspect, and what you are required to say about it, is not something to learn from a blog — including this one.