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How RTI compares to how inspections get tracked today
Most jobs track inspections in a spreadsheet, on paper, in a camera roll or over group chats. Each works until someone asks for proof. Here is what a photo-gated, tamper-evident record changes.
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RTI vs the platforms you are probably also looking at
Good products, built for other jobs. The narrower question: when someone asks you to prove a point was inspected, what does the record carry?
Published price
Ready To Inspect
$79 or $299 / mo, unlimited people
Procore
Custom quote
Photo gate on submit
Ready To Inspect
Submit is blocked server-side until mandatory items are answered and the minimum photos exist.
Procore
Photos attach to observations and inspection items; we found no published server-side block on submitting without them.
Tamper-evident record
Ready To Inspect
Every action is written to a SHA-256 hash chain, so a later edit breaks the chain visibly.
Procore
Change history and item-level audit logs are documented; a cryptographic hash chain is not.
QR to the checklist
Ready To Inspect
Scan the sticker on a room, unit, riser or panel and land on its first checklist item.
Procore
Work is located against drawings, locations and equipment rather than a scan-to-checklist QR sticker.
Offline capture
Ready To Inspect
Answers and photos queue on the device and sync when a connection returns.
Procore
Offline mode in the mobile apps, syncing when back on signal.
Review board
Ready To Inspect
Kanban lanes for submitted, in review, approved and rejected; a rejection carries its reason on the record.
Procore
Inspections and observations move through assigned statuses and workflows; the field view is a list, not a Kanban review board.
Turnover package
Ready To Inspect
Approved work exports as a branded PDF or CSV with answers, photos, signatures and the audit trail attached.
Procore
Closeout and handover tooling is part of the platform.
Client sign-off portal
Ready To Inspect
A read-only portal for owners and inspectors, separate from your internal workspace.
Procore
Owners and collaborators are invited into the project with permission templates rather than a separate read-only portal.
Prices and capabilities above are each vendor's own published information, read on September 3, 2026, and they change — check the vendor's page before you decide. A row marked as not published means we could not find it documented, not that the product cannot do it. Product names are the trademarks of their owners; RTI is not affiliated with any of them.
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- Spreadsheets vs RTIA tracking sheet in Excel or Sheets is a fine index of what's open and what's closed. The trouble starts when the sheet becomes the record: nothing in a cell was captured in the field, nothing requires a photo, and any cell can be changed later with no trace of who changed it.
- Paper & binders vs RTIPaper checklists and a closeout binder are honest work, and a signed page carries real weight. But the page depends on legible handwriting, it can be lost or soaked before it's scanned, it rarely has photos attached to the item they belong to, and it all has to be re-keyed later by someone reading a checkmark.
- Camera roll vs RTIA phone camera roll is the fastest way to grab a shot on site, and everyone already has one. The problem shows up later: the photos have no address, no item they belong to, and no context beyond a timestamp, so a folder of thousands is unsearchable, unattributable and impossible to prove anything with.
- Group chats vs RTIA text thread or WhatsApp group is how a lot of jobs actually get coordinated, and for a quick question it's hard to beat. But a chat has no structure: photos and approvals arrive between memes and lunch runs, there's no lane for what's still open, and a month later the proof you need has scrolled off the top and can't be exported as anything.
- PDF markup vs RTIMarking up a plan set is a fast way to point at a problem. It is a poor way to prove the problem was fixed. RTI ties every item to the real thing on the wall and to a checklist that will not submit until the work is actually done.
- Shared drives vs RTIDropping evidence into a shared drive feels organized until someone has to prove a specific item was done. RTI keeps each photo attached to the item it proves, so the closeout package assembles itself from the record and every file traces back to who captured it.
- Email threads vs RTIRequesting and approving inspections over email means the status of the job lives in a hundred forwarded threads. RTI puts every request on one review board and every decision on a permanent trail, so you can see what is actually ready without reading your inbox.
- Checklist apps vs RTIOff-the-shelf checklist and form apps are good at collecting answers. Construction QA needs more than answers: a tag on the physical thing, a photo requirement that cannot be skipped, a record that cannot be edited after the fact, and an export a client will accept. RTI is built for exactly that.
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Tag one area, run one walk, and compare the record it leaves with what you have today.
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