Walk the property. Talk your notes. Get a structured report — not a voice memo you'll transcribe later.

Who this is for

• General managers doing regular property walkthroughs who need inspection documentation that doesn't eat an hour of desk time after every site visit.
• Assistant property managers covering inspections across multiple properties who need consistent, structured findings regardless of who's holding the phone that day.
• Property managers handling vendor walk-throughs, capital project punch lists, or routine condition assessments who need findings tied to specific locations and categories, not a loose paragraph.
• Anyone inspecting a property solo who needs both hands free — climbing, holding a flashlight, opening a panel — while still capturing detailed notes in real time.

What it solves

The standard property inspection workflow has a gap between what happens on-site and what ends up in the report. You walk the property, you notice things, and then — often hours later, at a desk — you try to reconstruct what you saw into something structured enough to act on. Details get lost in that gap. A note like "roof drain near the northeast corner had some ponding" written from memory an hour later is a worse data point than the same observation captured the moment you saw it.

Typing notes in real time while inspecting isn't realistic either — you often need both hands, and phones are slow to type on while standing in a mechanical room. Voice memos solve the hands-free problem but just push the reconstruction work later: now you're transcribing an unstructured recording instead of typing from memory.

ChiefEO Inspector closes that gap. Push-to-talk dictation captures your observations as you make them, in the moment, hands-free. Deterministic field capture means the structured data — location, category, severity, whatever fields your inspection template requires — gets recorded as data, not buried inside a paragraph you'll have to parse later. The AI's role is narrowly scoped: drafting the narrative write-up from what you dictated and captured, on top of that structured foundation, not deciding what the structured facts are.

Features

• Push-to-talk voice dictation. Capture findings hands-free while you're actually walking the property, not after the fact from memory.
• Deterministic field capture. Structured data — location, category, condition, whatever your inspection format calls for — is captured as actual data fields, not left buried in unstructured text.
• AI-assisted narrative drafting on top of structured data. The AI drafts readable write-ups from your captured findings; it doesn't replace the structured capture, it builds on it.
• Offline-capable PWA. Installable as a Progressive Web App with IndexedDB storage, so you can keep inspecting in a basement, a parking structure, or anywhere else cell signal doesn't reach, and sync once you're back online.
• Built for real walkthroughs, not staged demos. Field capture and dictation are designed around how an inspection actually happens — moving through a property, noticing things in sequence — not a form you fill out at a desk.

How it works

1. Start an inspection and walk the property. Open ChiefEO Inspector on your phone or tablet and begin the walkthrough as you normally would.
2. Dictate findings with push-to-talk as you go. Hold to talk, describe what you're seeing, and the tool captures both the structured fields (location, category, severity) and your spoken observations in real time — hands-free.
3. Review the AI-drafted report and finalize. When the walkthrough's done, review the narrative draft built from your structured findings and dictation, make any adjustments, and finalize the report.

Typical input: voice-dictated observations plus structured field selections captured during a live walkthrough. Typical output: a structured inspection report with categorized findings and AI-drafted narrative write-ups, ready for review and distribution.

Real use-case example

Input (anonymized, captured during a walkthrough):

• Location: Parking Structure — Level 2, Bay 14
• Category: Structural / Concrete
• Dictated note (push-to-talk): "There's spalling on the column here, looks like it's been going on a while, maybe six inches across, exposed rebar visible, this should probably go on the capital list for next year."

AI-drafted narrative (from structured fields + dictation):

Parking Structure, Level 2, Bay 14 — Concrete spalling observed on structural column, approximately 6 inches in diameter with visible exposed rebar. Condition appears longstanding rather than recent. Recommend inclusion in next fiscal year's capital planning for structural repair.

The structured fields (location, category) stay intact as data, while the narrative is drafted from what was actually said and captured on-site — not written cold at a desk later.

FAQ

Does the AI decide what the inspection findings are?

No. Field capture — location, category, severity — is deterministic and comes directly from what you select or dictate. The AI's role is drafting the narrative write-up from that captured data, not generating findings on its own.

Does it work without cell signal?

Yes. It's built as a Progressive Web App with IndexedDB storage, so you can keep working offline and sync once you're back in range.

Can I use it one-handed or hands-free?

That's the core design goal — push-to-talk dictation is meant to let you capture findings while your hands are occupied with the actual inspection.

What kind of properties is this built for?

It's built around commercial property walkthroughs — office, mixed-use, and similar — informed by real Class A office property inspections.

How mature is this tool?

Currently at v0.2.1, passing 242 out of 242 self-checks. It's an actively developed tool, not a finished-forever product, but the current version has been tested against a substantial self-check suite.

Is the code available to review?

Yes — ChiefEO Inspector is open source. See the GitHub repo for the code itself.