The homeowner is standing
on the ground. Put them
on the roof.
InspectStream streams your inspection to the homeowner’s phone in under a second. They tap a text and they are watching — no app, no account, no permission prompt. Every inspection records itself, so you leave with a document instead of a memory.
Built on a roof in Minnesota, not in a conference room
Photos arrive after
the argument starts.
You climb down with forty pictures. The homeowner was in the driveway the whole time. Now you are describing a thing they did not see, from an angle they cannot picture, and asking them to take your word for it.
Some of them do. The rest say let me get another quote — not because your work is in doubt, but because nothing about the last hour gave them a reason to be certain.
A homeowner who watched you find the damage does not need to be convinced it is there. They were there.
Three taps, start to finish
Nothing to teach the crew.
Start the inspection
Enter the address and the homeowner’s name. You get a six-character code and a link before the camera ever turns on.
Text the link from your own phone
It goes out from your number, in your own thread, using the share sheet you already use. A text from a person gets opened. A text from a short code does not.
Go live when they are watching
The app tells you the moment the homeowner opens the link, so you are never narrating a roof to an empty room. Tap once and they see what you see.
Why this works when other video does not.
Four decisions, each of which quietly kills the thing if you get it wrong.
Latency
Ordinary streaming runs ten to thirty seconds behind. By the time the homeowner asks about something you have moved two sections away. Under a second keeps it a conversation.
Friction
The homeowner’s browser is never asked for camera or microphone access, because their access token cannot publish. The single biggest source of drop-off simply does not occur.
Delivery
No mass-texting service, no carrier registration, no waiting weeks for approval. The link is shared from the inspector’s own phone, which is also the version a homeowner actually trusts.
Record
Recording starts with the stream, not with someone remembering. It lands in private storage your company owns, alongside every still photo taken during the walk.
Designed for gloves, sun and one hand
It is equipment,
not an app.
Nothing an inspector taps is smaller than 64 pixels, and the photo button is bigger than that. The interface is near-black with a safety-vest accent because that is the most legible combination on a phone at noon in July.
The screen is kept awake while you are live, so the phone does not sleep halfway up a valley. And a red bar sits across the top the entire time you are recording, for the same reason a broadcast camera has a tally lamp: you should never have to wonder whether you are hot.
Homeowner link
What you are left with afterwards.
The inspection ends, the homeowner’s link goes dead, and the record stays.
The full recording
Every inspection, start to finish, stored privately and played back from your own dashboard.
Stills from the walk
Photos captured mid-stream at full camera resolution, filed against the inspection they came from.
A timestamped trail
When it started, when it ended, when the homeowner joined and how long they watched — recorded as it happened.
InspectStream documents what your inspector saw and shows it to the homeowner. It is not a claims tool: it does not prepare, negotiate or advise on insurance claims, and it does not assess loss value.
Straight answers.
Does the homeowner need to download an app?
No. They tap the link in your text and the video is already playing. There is no app, no account, and no sign-up form. The page is a plain web page that works in whatever browser their phone already has.
Will the homeowner be asked for camera or microphone permission?
No, and this is enforced rather than promised. Viewer access tokens are issued with publishing disabled, so the browser has no reason to ask. There is nothing for the homeowner to grant and nothing for them to accidentally decline.
How far behind is the video?
Under a second in normal conditions. That is the entire point — it is what lets a homeowner say "what is that dark patch?" while the inspector is still standing on that section. Conventional streaming runs ten to thirty seconds behind, which turns a conversation into two monologues.
What happens on bad cell signal?
The stream sends several quality layers at once, so a weak connection drops to a lower one instead of freezing. Both the inspector and the homeowner see a plain warning when the connection degrades, rather than staring at a stalled image and wondering.
Where do the recordings go?
Every inspection records automatically to private cloud storage owned by your company. Recordings are not public. They are served through short-lived signed links, so a URL that leaks is useless within the hour.
How long does the homeowner’s link stay alive?
Twelve hours by default, and it dies immediately when the inspector ends the inspection. A link that outlives the job is a link that can be forwarded to people who were never meant to have it.
Does it work on iPhone?
Yes, on both sides. One honest limitation: if the inspector switches apps or takes a phone call mid-inspection, iOS suspends the broadcast. That is a browser restriction rather than something we can code around. The homeowner side is unaffected.
Can the homeowner see who else is watching?
No. The homeowner sees the roof and hears the inspector. Viewer counts, connection quality and the photo tally are shown to the inspector only.
Show them the roof.
Fifteen minutes, your phone, a real roof. That is the whole demo.