For owner's reps and special inspectors
Independent proof, not just a signature.
Ready To Inspect (RTI) is third-party and special inspection software for owner's reps. You were hired to be the independent set of eyes. Your value is a record the owner, their counsel, and the AHJ can trust without taking anyone's word for it. RTI captures each inspection point behind the Photo Gate and seals it into a tamper-evident record that anyone you hand the verification package to can check for themselves, so your findings stand on evidence instead of reputation.
Built by Owen Pile, CBO. ICC building · electrical · mechanical · plumbing · Federal QA under USACE & NAVFAC standards.
What gets in the way, and what RTI does about it
Today
Your signature is only worth the trust behind it, and trust is exactly what is in dispute when something goes wrong.
With RTI
The record proves itself. Each inspection is photo gated at the point of work and hash chained, so an owner, their counsel or the AHJ can confirm the answers and decisions were not changed after you signed, without taking your word or ours.
Today
The owner hired you to be independent, but the proof still lives in your inbox and your camera roll.
With RTI
Every inspection point is captured on the tag it belongs to and rolls into one turnover package, each record's seal printed in it, that the owner can download from their portal, not a PDF you assembled by hand the week it was due.
Today
Months later a defect surfaces and everyone argues about what was inspected, by whom, and when.
With RTI
Every submission, review decision, markup, NCR step and client sign-off is written to an append-only log that hashes each entry over the last with SHA-256. Alter a record and the check fails from that entry on, and shows which one it is.
What this looks like on your job
One tag, one checklist, and the photos that have to come with it.
Tag
Level 4, Column Line C-7
SI-STL-L4-C7
- Sticker location
- Base plate and connection, grid C-7
- Assigned checklist
- Structural steel, high-strength bolting (special inspection)
- Bolt pretension verified to spec2 photos required
- Connection welds visually inspected2 photos required
- Base plate set, plumb and grouted1 photo required
- Member marks match the approved shop drawings1 photo required
Start from a checklist that already knows the walk
Real guides from the RTI library. Sections in build order, what to look for on each item, and the photos that prove it. Free to read, one click to run on a tag.
- High-strength boltingHigh-strength bolting special inspection checklistFastener assemblies, pre-installation verification, snug-tight and pretensioned.14 items17 photos
- Cast-in-place concreteCast-in-place concrete special inspection checklistReinforcement, mix and batch verification, sampling witness, placement and curing.14 items16 photos
- Soils & foundationsSoils and foundations special inspection checklistBearing verification, engineered fill and compaction, deep-foundation installation.14 items14 photos
Questions owner's reps and special inspectors ask
3 answers
- How is this different from signing off on an inspection report?
- A signed report is only as good as the trust behind the signature. In RTI the record is photo gated at the point of work and each entry is hash chained, so an owner or their counsel can run the verification package through a free, open tool and confirm the answers, decisions and times were not altered after you signed, independent of you and of us. Your independence becomes something a third party can check, not just assert.
- Can the owner see the record without an account to manage?
- Yes, on the Company plan. You invite them to a portal login scoped to the projects you choose. It is read-only apart from sign-off: they review the approved evidence, download the package and sign off, and each sign-off lands on the same tamper-evident record your inspection is built from.
- Do I keep my records, and are they independent of RTI?
- You hold your own record. A manager can download your workspace's verification package from Activity at any time, and a free, open tool checks it offline, on its own, even if RTI no longer exists. Nothing about your proof depends on us staying in business.
Want to see it on an engagement like yours?
Talk it through with Owen Pile, CBO, the Certified Building Official who built RTI. He’ll walk you from a QR sticker on an inspection point to a turnover package, and show how an owner or the AHJ checks the record behind it.
Built by a Certified Building Official
- Certified Building Official (CBO)
- ICC certified in building, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing
- Federal QA under USACE & NAVFAC standards
- City building inspector · residential & commercial