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 it earns one — a dollar BUDGET. This doc covers the finding tile and everything inside its Edit and Preview sheets. How to get there. Every capture becomes a tile in its section. Each tile has Delete · Important · Preview · Edit, plus the finding number and — once reviewed — the green HR Verified shield. What every button does On the tile: the component name, the rating chip (your firm's own words), chips for Important, Limitation, and location, the finding number ("this number is on the report and the PDF too"), the photo strip, and any code reference cards. An unreviewed AI draft wears a Review AI finding pill; a finding written while the AI was down offers Draft this finding with AI. Inside Edit (also the Add manually form): Talk & edit finding with AI — say the correction ("that's the south side, and make it a safety hazard") and Apply AI edit rewrites the fields. Section (move the finding) · Subsection · Component · Location · Condition rating — the basics, each a simple picker. Equipment nameplate — on water heaters, furnaces, panels: type (or photograph) Make / Model no. / Serial no. and the app decodes the year and frames it against the system's typical service life — "Manufactured 2011 (~15 years old) — past its 8–12 yr typical service life — plan for replacement." Measured value — lines that want a number (water pressure, insulation depth) take the reading here, and it prints in the report. Observation and Recommendation — the words the client reads. View original text shows exactly what you said out loud; fix a voice-to-text slip there and Reanalyze with AI. Add comment — attach one of your saved comments; it prints under the finding as "Inspector's comments." You can also turn this finding's observation or recommendation into a comment for next time. Refer to (who to call) — opens already answered with the trade the write-up names; twelve trades from Electrician to General contractor, or "— No one —". The report's closing "Specialists to call" page is built from these. Unit and Side of house chips — Unit 1 / Unit 2 where a home can have two of a thing, and N/S/E/W where the side matters. Couldn't fully inspect — mark as a limitation — ticks the finding as Not Inspected and lists it under Limitations, with your reason. Save changes — or Delete finding, which asks first and tells you the photos leave with it. Photos & markup: rotate, Mark up (arrows and circles in four colors, burned into the photo — "the AI focuses where you mark"), remove, retry a stuck upload — and a per-photo AI on / AI off switch: off means the photo is attached for reference only (a house number, a serial plate) and the AI doesn't read it. The Budget Genie (on findings rated Repair / Replace, Safety Hazard, or Needs a Specialist): The BUDGET range — low, average, high. How we calculated this opens the arithmetic: government wage tables for the labor, the public materials index for the parts. $0 per inspection, always. Edit the range (your whole-dollar Low and High — your number stands), Run Budget Genie (re-price from the finding as it reads now), Back to Budget Genie's numbers (drop your edit), and Include this budget in the report — unticked, the client never sees it. Code references (Washington and Idaho): a finding the library covers gets a "Code reference — checking…" chip, then a Code reference (informational) card — plain English first, then the state's own wording, with Read the full section → linking to the state's official page. Confirm is what lets it reach the client; Edit changes only your plain-English part (the state's wording is never editable); Dismiss drops it. A long passage has a show-the-full-wording button that expands the whole excerpt. The HR Verified shield: after you review a finding, the shield appears with a short code. Tap it for the Verification receipt — the content fingerprint, who reviewed it and when, the chain position, and each photo's own fingerprint, with a Copy button and a "How verification works" link. Edit a reviewed finding and the shield flips to Changed since review until you re-review it — both receipts are kept. Preview shows the finding exactly as the client will see it — Interactive and PDF views — which is also where Accept lives during review (covered in the inspection page doc). Common questions "Where did this dollar figure come from?" It's a BUDGET, built from free public data — government wage tables times the hours, plus the materials index. Tap How we calculated this and read the arithmetic. It costs you $0 per inspection. "Can I change the number?" Yes — Edit the range. Your number stands until you choose otherwise, even if the Genie re-runs. "Why does this finding have no budget?" It's informational (tap Add a budget with Budget Genie if you want one), or Include is unticked, or your firm switched the Budget Genie off in Business → Business info. "What does the green shield mean?" A person reviewed this finding and the server fingerprinted exactly what they saw. The receipt behind it is tamper-evident and independently checkable — and the same shield prints beside the finding number on the client's report and PDF. "The AI wrote 'north side' but it's the south — fastest fix?" Talk & edit finding with AI — say it, apply, done. Or tap the Side of house chip. "How old is this water heater?" Enter the nameplate's make, model, and serial — the age readout appears right there and prints in the report. "Will my client see the code reference?" Only after you tap Confirm. Suggested references are yours alone; confirmed ones print with the "informational — verify with your local building department" note. Good to know Your rating names are your firm's own — the defaults are Satisfactory, Routine Maintenance, Monitor, Repair / Replace, Safety Hazard, Needs a Specialist, and Not Inspected, but the chips speak whatever words you set in Ratings & Glossary. The sanctioned sentence about review, in full: you review and accept every AI-drafted finding one at a time, exactly as your client will see it. Each accept writes a tamper-evident receipt — a fingerprint of exactly what you reviewed, verified by the server before it's recorded — and the full chain locks into the report and can be checked independently of HomeRecon. Once a report is delivered and locked, budgets freeze too — the panel says so and the client's copy can't change. "Refer to" comes pre-answered on purpose — most findings name their trade; you glance and confirm rather than hunting a list. Related The capture dock — how findings are born The inspection page — review, accept, deliver Ratings & Glossary — your rating words Code settings — which codes may be referenced