chit in the field
An AI note taker for solar installers and site surveyors
Who carries it: Site surveyor / crew
Change orders are born in the survey conversation. chit is a $129 card you hold to record — an AI note taker for solar installers that captures panel counts, shading observations, and main-panel details as you narrate the survey. By evening the survey is ready for the design handoff, with permitting next steps queued.
When a site surveyor presses it
- Roof and electrical survey narration
- homeowner and HOA conversations
- design constraints
“Solar site surveyor; capture panel counts, shading, and main-panel details.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Survey flows to design handoff; permitting next steps queued.
Survey narration handed to design, and homeowner conversations on record through the install.
Homeowner-conversation records reduce cancellation disputes; VPC.
The survey is a handoff, and handoffs leak
A site survey lives or dies on how completely it reaches the designer. Panel count, shading, main panel amperage, the HOA rule the homeowner mentioned, the roof plane you would rather not use. Narrate it on the roof and in the driveway. The design handoff gets your actual observations rather than a form's summary of them, and the permitting steps queue as next steps. Cancellations in residential solar cluster around the gap between what a homeowner was told at the survey and what they were told later; a record of that first conversation is the cheapest insurance against it. Surveyors also use it for the constraints the design team cannot see from a satellite image: the panel that is derated, the vent stack in the middle of the good plane, the neighbour's oak that will be a problem in five years.
See the app work
Good questions
Can I narrate a roof survey without pulling out my phone?
Yes. chit is a credit-card-sized recorder with one physical button — hold it and talk. No screen to unlock, no app to open on a roof.
How does the survey get to my design team?
Your narration becomes a transcript the same day, with the next steps pulled out. Connect mail and the handoff arrives as a drafted message to your design team, with the context of what was said.
Can it capture what the homeowner and HOA actually agreed to?
Yes — hold the button during those conversations and there's a record of what was said. That record is what reduces cancellation and change-order disputes later.
Does it work at rural sites with no coverage?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs when you're back in signal, and the battery lasts about a month of typical use.
We run multiple survey and install crews — how does that work?
Companies deploy chit as a branded device fleet with data resident in their own VPC, so homeowner conversations stay under your control. See hichit.com/enterprise.
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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