chit at work
A voice recorder for home inspectors, room by room
Who carries it: Inspector
The report you write tonight is only as good as what you remember from the attic this morning. A voice recorder for home inspectors captures the narration as you work — system, defect, severity, room by room — and hands back draft report sections and queued follow-ups the same evening.
Your report is already spoken out loud during the inspection.
When an inspector presses it
- Room-by-room narration
- defect call-outs
- client walkthrough Q&A
“Home inspector; narrate defects by system and severity as I walk the property.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Narration becomes report draft sections; follow-ups queued.
Every inspector's narration on record, so a report can be traced to what was said on site.
A recorded account of what you called out is the kind of contemporaneous record an E&O defence is argued from.
The second shift, deleted
Every home inspector works two jobs: the inspection, and then the report that takes another two or three hours in the evening. The second one exists only because the findings were made verbally and then had to be rebuilt in text. Narrate the walk instead — room, system, defect, severity — and the sections come back drafted from what you actually said standing in front of the panel. The client walkthrough Q&A is worth capturing for a separate reason: what you told a buyer about the water heater, in your own words, is exactly the record that matters if that buyer's expectations and your report ever diverge. Inspectors who do this describe the change as getting their evenings back, which is a fair description of what a second shift is.
See the app work
Good questions
Can I use it with my hands full in a crawlspace?
You hold one physical button with a thumb while you talk, then pocket it — it's a 53.9 × 86 mm aluminium card, thinner than a phone. There's no wake word and no always-on mic; it records only while held.
Does it work in attics and basements with no signal?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs when it's back in coverage, and the battery runs about a month of typical use — a full week of inspections without touching a charger.
How does my narration turn into the report?
Every recording becomes a transcript, and your room-by-room call-outs come back organized as draft report sections — defect, system, severity, in your own words — so the evening write-up starts half done.
What if a client later disputes what I told them?
The walkthrough Q&A is on the record, timestamped, in context — your own account of what you called out and what you said about it. That is the kind of record an E&O defense turns on.
We run a multi-inspector firm — can we deploy this across the team?
Yes. Firms deploy chit as a branded device fleet with data resident in their own VPC. See hichit.com/enterprise, and ask us about compliance deployments.
Does it work with Spectora, HomeGauge or Horizon?
It hands back drafted room-by-room sections you paste and edit. Your reporting platform stays your reporting platform — chit replaces the two hours of typing that happen before you open it.
Recording laws differ by state, and several require every party's consent. chit only captures while the button is held — know your state's rule before recording another person.
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