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Choosing a tool

How to choose home inspection software

There is no single best one. It depends on which part of the job is costing you most.

Six things worth comparing, and where we land on each. Including the one where we would tell you to buy something else.

Six things worth comparing

Use them on us as readily as on anyone else.

Bedrock is strong here

Report delivery time

Two hours of desk work per inspection is ten hours a week.

Bedrock: The draft builds while you log findings, so most of the report exists before you leave the property.

Bedrock is strong here

Comment library portability

Years of your own wording. A tool that cannot take it is asking you to start over.

Bedrock: Your comments import automatically, in your own wording, not normalised into someone else's phrasing. If an import hits an edge case, we sort it out with you.

Bedrock is strong here

Working with no signal

Crawlspaces, basements and rural properties are exactly where the signal goes.

Bedrock: Offline on every plan. You inspect with no signal and it syncs when you are back in range.

Bedrock is strong here

Time to proficiency

How long before a new inspector is productive, not how long before they can log in.

Bedrock: A day or two. We set your standards of practice up with you during onboarding.

Bedrock is strong here

What currency you are charged in

Software priced in US dollars moves with the exchange rate. Your fees do not.

Bedrock: Priced and charged in Canadian dollars. Starter is $111.20 a month on the launch promotion, against a $139 list price.

Bedrock does not do this yet

Running the business, not just the report

Scheduling, invoicing, payments, more than one inspector on a job. For a lot of firms this is the whole decision.

Bedrock: Not today. Bedrock is a report-writing tool for a solo inspector. CRM, scheduling and invoicing are in development for Pro, and multi-inspector support for Teams, but neither has shipped. If this is what decides it for you, buy something else now rather than waiting on us.

Two more things, from us

We are not the cheapest

There are tools well under our price, and if cost is the only axis that matters we lose that one. What you are paying for is a day to learn instead of a month, and a report that drafts itself while you work. Check what the cheap option costs you in desk hours before you call it cheaper.

Ignore the “best inspection software” lists

The ranking sites that come up first are paid placements, not reviews. The vendor at the top of the list paid to be there. Ask other inspectors in your association instead, and ask any vendor to put you on a call with someone who actually uses their software.

How to test any of them in an afternoon

Works on us too.

  1. 1

    Get a trial that does not take a card.

  2. 2

    Run one real inspection end to end. Not the sample property.

  3. 3

    Time the desk work separately from the walkthrough. That is the number that changes your week.

  4. 4

    Try a section in airplane mode, and import a few of your real comments.

Where that leaves us

Bedrock does one job: the report. It takes a day to learn, it keeps working with no signal, and most of the draft is done before you leave the property.

If that is what is costing you, this is the case for Bedrock. If it is the scheduling and the invoicing, it is not. Not yet.

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