Inspection is a liability business. Every sentence in a report is a statement you are answerable for, which makes it an awkward home for tools that are fluent, fast, and occasionally confidently wrong.
This hub is about where that tension resolves. Parts of the job — transcribing a spoken note, tidying a comment you wrote, grouping photographs, drafting a summary from findings you already made — are genuinely machine work. Deciding what is wrong with a house is not.
Our position is narrow and we apply it to our own product: AI should draft, never decide, and everything it produces should arrive somewhere a human has to look at it before it reaches a client.
How the subject breaks down
Where it earns its place
Dictation, wording suggestions, summarising findings you already made, and administrative work — the tasks with a human immediately downstream.
Where it does not
Severity, defect identification from a photograph, and anything that becomes a claim about the house without passing under your eyes first.
Review is the whole design
A draft you must approve is a fundamentally different product from an output you must catch. Which one you have is a design decision, not a settings toggle.
What it does to your exposure
Your name is on the report either way. Understand what you are signing before you automate the sentence.
What to take away
- Draft, never decide.
- Generated text should stay visibly generated until you accept it.
- Speed only counts if the review step survives it.
- You are accountable for the sentence, not the tool that suggested it.
Nothing is published on this topic yet
Answers appear here only once they have been researched, sourced against material we can cite, reviewed, and passed the checks we use before a page is allowed into a search index. Being written is not the same as being published, so this list stays empty until one clears that bar.
The overview above stands on its own — it is what we think is true about this subject, not a placeholder. Where to go next is below.
Common questions
What does this hub cover?
How AI fits into the inspection workflow: dictation and field capture, drafting and comment wording, review, and the parts of the job that should stay human.
Does it rank AI products?
No. What these tools can do changes faster than we can verify a claim about them, so the pages here reason about workflow decisions rather than scoring products.