A phone/tablet companion the inspector keeps open during the site visit. Records audio locally, transcribes on-device, and an LLM parses the messy spoken notes into clean structured fields the inspector can review, tweak, and copy/paste back into the SDCI desktop notes application at the end of the day.
Today's route, pulled from seattle_permits where date_scheduled = today.
Audio captured + on-device transcription. Nothing leaves the phone yet.
Transcript → JSON: items checked, code refs, pass/fail, follow-ups, photos to attach.
Inspector confirms each AI-extracted field. Low-confidence items are flagged.
Single "Copy clean note" button produces the formatted block for the legacy desktop.
SBC 2308.4[00:00]"Alright, starting the framing inspection at 1422 East Pine. This is BLDG24-1042, single family with the ADU addition. Let me walk around the exterior first."
[01:15]"OK front of the house looks good, framing is solid on the north side. Headers look properly sized. Let me check the Simpson ties… yeah those are good."
[02:48]"Moving around to the back now, looking at the rear deck. The ledger board attachment looks fine, lag bolts are there…"
[03:21]"OK so the joist hangers on the south side of the rear deck — they don't have the full nail pattern. Looks like only about 4 of the 8 required nails in each hanger. That's going to need a correction per SBC 2308.4. Let me snap a photo of this one."
[04:10]"Rest of the deck framing looks OK. Beam connections are good. Going inside now."
[05:30]"Inside the main floor, walls are framed correctly. Let me check the bedrooms. Bedroom one, egress window looks good, plenty of clear opening."
[08:14]"Bedroom two now. The egress window in here… it looks borderline to me. I'm going to eyeball it at maybe 5 square feet and we need 5.7 minimum. I have my tape measure... it's 5.5. Under, they'll have to swap it out."
copied (configurable).