The last two posts in live video for construction inspections were about one moment on one site: the walls closing and the pour. This one is about the person responsible for three sites at once who has one truck.
Kitchen and bath remodel on the east side, twelve minutes from the office. Second-story addition across the river, thirty-five minutes. New build on a county road, fifty minutes out and the last ten of it gravel. A lead on each one who knows what he is doing. And me, the superintendent, who used to start every day by driving all three and getting to the office at one, having looked at each site for eleven minutes and spent the rest of the morning on the highway.
I still drive. Less. The morning look happens on a link now, and the truck goes where the truck is needed.
Three links before the coffee is cold
Each lead signs in on his own phone, taps Go live, and texts me the link. Seven-fifteen, seven-thirty, seven-forty-five, staggered so I can watch each one straight through. I open it in the browser on my phone, or on the laptop at the office, nothing to install. The lead sees a count that says one, and he starts walking.
Ten minutes each. Thirty minutes total, and I have seen all three sites before I would have reached the first one.
The recordings land in the company dashboard on their own, under the company and not on three different phones. So the morning look is also the site diary I never managed to keep by hand: dated, per site, with whatever stills the lead grabbed along the way.
What I ask for, in order
The lead walks the same four things every morning, in the same order, and I told each of them the order once.
What changed since yesterday. The wall that went up, the trench that got backfilled, the tile that got set. Show it, name it, keep moving.
What is about to be covered. This is the one that earns the whole habit. Anything that will be behind drywall, under concrete, or behind another trade's work by tomorrow gets the camera on it today, slowly, wall by wall. If the pre-drywall look on the addition is today, the lead runs that as its own inspection after the morning look, and I watch that one too.
What is stuck. Waiting on a material, waiting on a decision, waiting on a sub who did not show. Show me the empty opening where the windows should be. I can do something about stuck from the office. I cannot do anything about it if I hear about it Thursday.
The site itself. Material staged and tarped, the dumpster, the fence, the neighbor's driveway, whatever the weather did overnight. Thirty seconds at the end, wide.
That order matters. Changed, covered, stuck, site. A lead who leads with the stuck item spends the whole ten minutes on it and I never see the wall that closes tomorrow.
The flagged frame instead of the phone call
I cannot talk during the walk. The viewer side is watch-only: no chat, no microphone, no way to interrupt. For a morning look that is a feature. The lead narrates and I listen, and nobody is trying to run a meeting at seven-thirty.
When I want a closer look, I tap "I have a question about this." The frame I was looking at goes to the lead's screen with a short note, and he turns around and puts the camera on it. "Other side of that header." "Is that flashing lapped?" The frame stays with the recording, so when I open it later I can find the spot I asked about.
Anything that needs a conversation waits until he ends the look, and then we talk. A phone call on an iPhone suspends the stream, so I do not call mid-walk, and I told the leads not to pick up if I forget.
When I still get in the truck
The link does not replace the truck. It tells me which site needs it.
I drive when I need to touch something: a deflection I can see on video but need to feel, a moisture reading, a subgrade I want to walk. I drive for every pour. I drive when a new sub is on site for the first time, because I want him to have met me. I drive when the owner needs a face and not a phone. And I drive when a lead's narration gets thin. "It's fine, it's all fine" for ten minutes is not a look, and the fix for that is a visit and a conversation, not a sterner text.
What a second truck roll actually costs you does the arithmetic on the drive. Mine came out to about two hours a day on the highway for three sites. Not all of it comes back. Enough does that the pour on the county road gets a superintendent standing on it instead of one stuck behind a tractor on the way.
What it costs and what it does not fix
Three leads each going live means three inspectors on the account, which is a Crew plan. Ten minutes a site, three sites, twenty working days is ten hours of recording a month, inside the plan's forty. The numbers are on the pricing page, and there is a seven-day trial with no card if you want to run one week of mornings before you decide.
What it does not fix. A lead who walks a site for a camera walks it differently than a lead who walks it alone, and mostly that is good, but it means the morning look shows me the site he wants me to see. That is why the order is fixed and why I still show up unannounced. It does not replace the weekly visit where I look at the things nobody pointed a camera at. And it does not let me coach in the moment; the walk is one way, and the coaching happens on the phone at eight, or from the recording that evening, the way reviewing crew inspections without stalling jobs describes.
The municipal inspection is its own thing and none of this touches it.
The viewer's side, tap and watch, is on the how it works page.
InspectStream records what an inspector observed. It is not a public adjusting service and does not prepare, negotiate, or advise on insurance claims.