The features that matter — and the honest words for them

One section per headline feature, in selling order. Each gives the plain claim (the sanctioned wording where one exists), why an inspector cares, where it lives, and the one-sentence honest limit. Support and marketing: answer with these words — they are the ones the fences allow. The report writes itself The claim. Walk the house in any order, say what you see, snap photos and video — the AI files every finding on the right line, writes it up in your words, and checks it against your standards checklist. The report is done before you leave the driveway. Why it matters. The 9 pm typing session is the job's worst part, and it's gone. Where. The capture screen — inspection-capture, the dock, findings. The honest limit. It drafts; you decide. Nothing reaches a client until you confirm it, and low-confidence suggestions are held back for you. Works offline in the crawlspace The claim. Voice notes, photos and video save on your phone and file themselves when the bars come back. If the AI is down, your notes are saved. Why it matters. Basements, crawlspaces, rural jobs — nothing you say ever disappears. Where. Capture, automatically — inspection-capture. The honest limit. What's promised is that the capture is saved and files later — live dictation itself can need signal, and a typed-note fallback stands in when it does. The Ask List The claim. The only tool where the listing agent can respond, and where the agreed list writes itself. The buyer taps + Ask on the findings that matter; the listing agent answers Agree, Decline or Counter on a phone with no app and no password — they confirm the email it was sent to; one tap copies the agreed items as clean text for whatever form the deal runs on. Why it matters. Agents remember who made the deal easy — and the inspector's brand is on the document both agents work in. Where. The client portal — ask-list; the firm's read-only panel on the inspection page. The honest limit. The sent list carries the buyer's own words and finding numbers, never the inspector's narrative; the responder's name is typed, not verified; it produces the attachment a state form was built to receive, never the form itself. The Budget Genie The claim. A repair BUDGET on findings — a low–average–high range built from free public data (BLS wage tables, a materials index), with the arithmetic shown — at $0 per inspection. Why it matters. Buyers ask "what will this cost?" on every deal; competitors charge per report for a number we produce from public data. Where. On a finding — inspection-findings; the client sees it under the finding — reading-your-report. The honest limit. It is a planning figure, never pricing and never an offer to do the work — the word is BUDGET, and the report says so wherever it appears. The Report Lock The claim. The report stays locked until it's paid and signed — then it unlocks itself. Enforced in the database, not a setting: row-level security withholds the findings and photos themselves from an unpaid client, not just the page. Why it matters. No chasing checks after handing over the report. Where. Delivery — inspection-review-deliver; the buyer's side — pay-and-sign. The honest limit. "Paid" includes recorded cash/check/Zelle and $0 deliveries — the gate is about the record, and card payments switch on once the firm activates its Stripe payouts account. HR Verified review receipts The claim. 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. Why it matters. Years later you can show finding #12, its photos, and the receipt proving you reviewed exactly those words on that date — far harder to argue with than a Word document. Where. Review — inspection-review-deliver; the shield the buyer sees — reading-your-report; the explainer — support. The honest limit. The record is tamper-evident, append-only, server-verified, independently checkable — evidence that tampering shows, not a notary service. The interactive report — and ask-the-report The claim. A modern web report, not a 90-page PDF: severity filters, a contents rail, photos and 360°s, four languages — and the buyer can ask the report questions at 9 pm and get an answer from its own contents, with "Ask your inspector" one tap below. Why it matters. The Genie takes the late calls you don't want and routes the ones that matter to you, on the record. Where. reading-your-report, ask-the-report. The honest limit. Genie answers are written the moment the buyer asks — the inspector has not seen or approved them, the panel says so, and an answer that tries to price a repair or call a rules verdict is replaced whole. The client & agent portal The claim. One HomeRecon login shows a buyer or agent every report from every inspector they work with; a locked report says so instead of vanishing; and you get read receipts — know the moment your buyer opened the report and downloaded the PDF. Why it matters. Agents live in it across many deals — and every tile carries your firm's brand. Where. client-portal, starting at my-reports. The honest limit. Portal accounts are created by delivering a report — there's no self-serve signup for buyers, by design. Your branded website with local SEO The claim. Every firm gets its own public website — brand, services with live prices, online booking, per-city landing pages with real local copy, a blog and verified reviews — included in the plan. Why it matters. A working website plus city pages is a bill most inspectors pay separately today. Where. booking-site; edited from Marketing → My Website. The honest limit. The free yourfirm.homerecon.ai address is live now (the *.homerecon.ai wildcard serves today). Using your own custom domain is coming soon — that section is labelled so and its add box is disabled until secure hosting for your own address is switched on; the free address carries the site in the meantime. Verified reviews on autopilot The claim. A review invite after every report — tied to a real inspection, collected for you, shown on your website with the reviewer's own words. Why it matters. Reviews with proof behind them are the ones worth reading — and nobody has to remember to ask. Where. reviews (the buyer's page), marketing-reviews (yours). The honest limit. Every review is tied to a completed inspection, so we can prove the job really happened — that's the claim, and nothing stronger. One login runs the business The claim. Schedule, invoices and payouts, agreements and e-sign, CRM, messages, marketing, team and payroll — one subscription, one login, no per-inspection fees, ever. Why it matters. It replaces the stack you'd otherwise assemble from three or four separate subscriptions. Where. The whole inspector-app folder. The honest limit. Client card payments activate once Stripe payout onboarding is finished, and client texting is coming soon — it switches on once the firm's texting number clears carrier registration, and until then the Text Messages tab says so with a disabled control rather than hiding the feature. Both said plainly in-app. Switch in a weekend The claim. Guided import brings your clients, agents, comment library, inspection templates and branding out of the software you're on now — with per-vendor export instructions and a loadable sample, checked as it lands, so your book comes with you. Why it matters. The switching cost is the moat competitors count on. Where. settings-import. The honest limit. Past reports do not import — only the records above; your old reports stay readable in your old tool's exports. One plan — $299, everything included The claim. HomeRecon is $299/month, everything included. Two real inspections free, no card, no clock; a year up front is 20% off ($2,870) — the only discount; 30-day money-back guarantee; each additional inspector seat $99/month. Why it matters. Nothing held back for a higher tier means the price conversation is one sentence long. Where. pricing, business-subscription. The honest limit. The seat fee is the one recurring number beyond the plan — disclosed on the pricing page, not discovered after signup. The HomeRecon Genie (in the dashboard) The claim. Ask your own business anything — "what's unpaid?", "what's on Friday?" — and get an answer from your firm's real data, with the numbers' sources shown. Why it matters. The answer to most office questions is a question, not a report to build. Where. genie. The honest limit. It reads your data and answers questions; it doesn't take actions, and a question it can't ground in your data gets an honest "I don't know" rather than a guess. Three different helpers answer to the name "Genie": this dashboard Genie, the report's ask-the-report panel, and the capture dock's Help me. When someone says "the Genie didn't…", ask which screen they were on.