The inspector app
The dashboard you run your business from — and the capture flow that writes the report.
Getting started — signing in and your first day — What this screen is for. Signing in to your business dashboard — and everything that happens on your first day: your first sign-in, the quick tour, the "Get set up" checklist, and how the free trial…
Overview — your business at a glance — What this screen is for. The first thing you see every morning: how your business is doing and what needs you next — six live numbers, a chart of your bookings, and what's next on your calendar.
Inspections — the list and starting a job — What this screen is for. Every inspection and its report in one place — find a job, start a new one, and get back into a job in progress.
Templates — your inspection checklists — What this screen is for. A template is your inspection checklist: which report sections you cover, in what order, and which lines you check. You pick one when you start an inspection. HomeRecon gives…
Comments — the phrases you use over and over — What this screen is for. Comments are the phrases you use over and over. Save them once; tap them into a finding while you inspect, and they print in the report. Your library arrives already stocked…
Ratings & Glossary — your report's words — What this screen is for. Ratings are the words and colors your reports use to say how serious something is. Every finding gets one. They decide the color on the finding, the order of the report…
AI Settings — your voice and the four tones — What this screen is for. Your voice is how every report sounds. The AI writes findings in the words you give it here — your phrases, your habits, the way you talk to a client. Fill this in once and…
Code settings — code references and diagrams — What this screen is for. Code references are notes, not verdicts. When a finding touches a rule your state has adopted, the report can add a short plain-English note with the state's own wording —…
What to look for — your on-site reminders — What this screen is for. When you capture an inspection, a short "What to look for" list pops up for the room you're standing in — the findings that turn up most often there, most common first. That…
The capture screen — walking the house — What this screen is for. This is where you inspect: walk the house, talk, snap photos, and HomeRecon writes it up. Everything on this screen is built to be used one-handed, in bad light, with no…
The capture dock — adding a finding — What this screen is for. The bar at the bottom of the capture screen is how a finding is born: say what you see, snap the photo, tap one button — the AI names the component, picks the section, rates…
Sections and their lines — the checklist — What this screen is for. Every section is a room-sized checklist: the lines you check, ticking green as you cover them, so you can't forget the water heater. Sections go green as you go, and the…
A finding — what's in it and how to edit it — What this screen is for. A finding is one thing you found, written up the way the client will read it: what it is, where it is, how serious, what you saw, what to do about it, the photos, and — where…
The Introduction — your report's opening page — What this screen is for. The report's opening page: the front-of-house photo, a 10-second arrival video, the house's basic facts, the day's conditions, and your opening remarks. A brand-new…
The Important pane — shut-offs and access points — What this screen is for. The eleven shut-offs and access points every report calls out — where each one lives, with a photo. It's the page of the report a homeowner comes back to in an emergency, so…
Limitations and the Glossary — scope and definitions — What this screen is for. Two pinned panes at the bottom of the section rail. Limitations is what every report says about scope — plus anything that limited this inspection. Glossary / Terms is what…
The inspection page — review, sign off, deliver — What this screen is for. Everything about one job in one place: the client and agents, the fee and agreement, and the report's whole life — review the AI's findings, sign off, deliver, and watch it…
Payments — invoices, money, and the Report Lock — What this screen is for. Getting paid: invoices, e-signed agreements, and the Report Lock — a report releases only when it's paid and signed. One page, top to bottom: your payout status, the money at…
Schedule — your calendar and booking requests — What this screen is for. Your week at a glance — the calendar, the booking requests coming in from your website, scheduling a job by hand, and managing a booking from first yes to done.
Availability — your bookable week — What this screen is for. Your bookable hours are the only hours your website sells. Set them here once — your booking page, your Contact page, and Google all read from this. You can still take a job…
Calendar sync — your subscribe feed — What this screen is for. One link that puts your confirmed inspections into the calendar you already live in — Google, Apple, or Outlook — read-only and always up to date.
Marketing — the seven tabs at a glance — What this screen is for. Your website, blog, social media, client reviews, and marketing content — all in one place. This page is the front door; each tab has its own doc.
My Website — publish, preview, and the studio — What this screen is for. Your branded booking site's control room: whether it's live, the address it answers on, a live preview, and the seven studio pages that shape it.
Content — what your website says — What this screen is for. The words on your public site. Tap a section to change its words; everything saves to your live site — each sheet has its own Save, so nothing you edit can bump anything else.
Brand — your logo and colors — What this screen is for. The one place your brand lives: your logo and your four colors. They paint your public booking site and every report, PDF, and client portal your clients see.
Media — your website's photos — What this screen is for. The big picture on your home page, an optional photo behind each page's title, and a gallery of your work. Every change here saves instantly.
Areas — what your site says about where you work — What this screen is for. A mirror of the service zones your website shows — each zone with its state, ZIP count, and travel fee, plus the "Everywhere else" catch-all. Nothing is edited here: areas…
SEO & AI — how people find you — What this screen is for. This is how people find you. Buyers search Google — and more and more they ask an AI assistant. Your HomeRecon site is built to be read by both: fill in the two lines below;…
Domain — your web address — What this screen is for. Two jobs in plain words: your free HomeRecon address (yourfirm.homerecon.ai), which is live now, and — if you own one — your own web address pointed at your site, which is…
Publish — your site's status and traffic — What this screen is for. Whether your site is on, the one web address that opens it, and what your site is producing — real booking requests, not vanity numbers.
Blog — articles that help Google find you — What this screen is for. Short articles on your website. Google shows them to people searching for an inspector near you — tell the AI a topic, review the draft, publish. The post goes up on your…
Social Media — connect, compose, post — What this screen is for. Post to your social accounts from here: connect an account, write it (or let the AI), post now or schedule. Everything on this page is honest about what's connected and…
Inspection Reviews — verified reviews on autopilot — What this screen is for. Reviews from your real inspections, collected automatically after every report and shown on your website. Every review is tied to a completed inspection, so we can prove the…
Marketing Content — copy the AI wrote for you — What this screen is for. Ready-to-use marketing words for your business — a tagline, social posts, and a blog starter — with green buttons that carry each one straight into the tool that publishes it.
Text Messages — client texts, coming soon — What this screen is for. The three texts your clients will get automatically — booking confirmed, a reminder the day before, and "your report is ready" — with an honest status: automatic client texts…
Newsletter — email the people who asked — What this screen is for. People who signed up on your website. Write once; we email everyone who confirmed — and only them: a signup isn't on your list until they click the link in a confirmation…
Messages — Report Questions and your inboxes — What this screen is for. Everyone who reaches out to your business, gathered into one inbox — with Report Questions front and center: clients and agents asking about a report you sent, answered by…
Website messages — your contact-form inbox — What this screen is for. Messages from your website's contact form — newest first, so none slips through. Answer the person by phone or email, then record that you did, and the inbox keeps honest…
Email Delivery and the Sent folder — What this screen is for. Every automated email your business sends — booking confirmations, reminders, report delivery, receipts, review invites — with honest statuses in plain words, and a Retry…
Clients — everyone you've inspected for — What this screen is for. Your CRM — add a person in ten seconds, find them by half a name, tap to call, and email them a sign-in link to their own report portal.
Agents — your referring real-estate agents — What this screen is for. Referring real-estate agents — the lifeblood of an inspection business. Track who sends you work, keep their details one tap away, and put their photo on the reports their…
Business — your firm's home base — What this screen is for. Set up and run your firm — your business profile, prices, service area, payments, subscription, legal, and team, all in one place. This doc covers the hub and its first tab,…
Services & prices — your price sheet — What this screen is for. Your price sheet — what you sell and what you charge. This is what your booking page offers and what your invoices bill: one home for the whole catalog, and one tap to change…
Service areas — the towns and ZIPs you drive to — What this screen is for. Service areas are the towns and ZIP codes you drive to. They decide where your website says you work, which city pages Google sees, and whether a booking gets a travel fee.…
Mileage — the tax log that writes itself — What this screen is for. Mileage is money. Every drive to an inspection is worth a deduction at the IRS standard mileage rate. When a job is scheduled we log the round trip for you; add any other…
Payments (payouts) — cards in, bank deposits out — What this screen is for. Accept cards online — your money is paid out to your bank automatically, on a rolling schedule. No monthly fees; you pay only the card's actual cost. This tab is the payout…
Subscription — your plan, pausing, and cancelling — What this screen is for. Your own HomeRecon subscription: the one plan, how you pay, pausing and coming back, your card, your payment history, and the guarantee. There's nothing to upgrade to —…
Legal — your agreement and ours — What this screen is for. Two different papers, kept deliberately apart: Your legal agreements — the inspection agreement your clients sign, which you write and own — and HomeRecon legal documents —…
Team — seats, pay splits, and payroll — What this screen is for. Everyone who can sign in, how each of them gets paid, and the payroll that fills itself in as jobs settle. An office login is included free; each extra inspector is $99 a…
My settings — your own account — What this screen is for. Your account — your name, sign-in email, password, headshot, and the devices you're signed in on. Your business's profile, prices, and legal moved to the Business hub; this…
Import data — switching from another tool — What this screen is for. Bring your book of business over from HomeGauge, Spectora, or ISN — your clients, agents, comment library, inspection templates, and branding — the "switch in a weekend"…
Download data — take your book with you — What this screen is for. Your data is yours. Download any part of your HomeRecon account — or all of it — to keep, back up, or move. Clients, agents, comments, templates and branding come out in the…
Support — tickets and how verification works — What this screen is for. Getting help from the HomeRecon team — open a ticket, follow the thread — plus the page behind the HR Verified shield, "How verification works," for anyone who wants the…
The HomeRecon Genie — say it, it does it — What this screen is for. The floating green assistant on every dashboard page. Tap it and speak or type a plain sentence: it schedules an inspection, adds a client or an agent, or answers questions…