CAIRN
CAIRN // ARCHIVE-NATIVE
EVERY STONE STAMPED
INSPECTOR + COMPANY
● RETRIEVAL, NOT GENERATION
FORGE ▲ CORE
The inspection platform that compounds

Every inspection
adds a stone.

Cairn is the home inspection platform where your work compounds. Write reports faster than you ever have, and every report you finish makes the next one smarter. Your archive belongs to you, for the length of your career.

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LAUNCHING Q1 2027 · BUILT AND BATTLE-TESTED DAILY BY A WORKING TEXAS INSPECTION COMPANY
01 · Your archive

Your reports shouldn't die in PDFs.

Ten years of inspections is ten thousand hard-won lessons: what fails, where, on which houses, and exactly how you learned to write it up. In every other tool, that history is a folder of dead documents, and it stays behind when you leave. Cairn makes it a living asset with two simple rules:

Gate 01

The inspector

Every inspection you perform is stamped as yours. Your entire body of work (every report, every photo, every finding) stays visible to you across every company you ever work for. Change companies, keep your cairn.

Your stones stay yours. Forever.
Gate 02

The company

A company sees everything performed under its banner, including work by inspectors who've moved on. What it never gets: an incoming inspector's back catalog. History doesn't transfer between companies, so there's nothing to fight about, ever.

The pile at the trailhead stays at the trailhead.
Bring your archive with you on day one. Cairn imports your back catalog of reports and photos, links them to you, and your history starts working immediately: search it, learn from it, write with it.
02 · The platform

One platform, two engines.

FORGE writes the report. CORE makes it smart. Every inspection you finish in FORGE adds a stone to CORE, and CORE hands the experience back the next time you're standing in front of the same problem.

THE WRITER

FORGE

A field-first report writer built by inspectors who got tired of fighting their software at 4 PM on a roof.

  • State-form native: TREC, WDI/T-5, wind mitigation, narrative
  • Macro keys: your language, three keystrokes
  • Offline-first field app: crawlspaces have no bars
  • A defensibility spine: event log, damage documentation, limitations (evidence you were thorough, built in as you work)
  • Live client preview while you inspect; polished PDF at finalize
  • Every report explains its own terms: a tap-to-explain glossary for your clients, in the web report and the PDF
THE INTELLIGENCE

CORE

Your archive, awake. CORE reads everything you've ever written and turns it into answers in the field.

  • Point at a photo: see how you documented this before, in your own words
  • Suggested findings and caption drafts: drafts arrive labeled, and nothing enters your report without your tap
  • City & era intelligence: what breaks where, before you arrive
  • Rare-find feed: the unusual stuff, surfaced for the whole team
  • Training galleries: every defect, illustrated by verified field photos

The faster you get at it,
the faster it gets.

Every report teaches it your language. Every report teaches you its keys. By report 25 it is finishing your sentences, and it shows you how much faster you have gotten.

03 · Live product

See it working.

Not mockups: the product as it runs today.

CAIRN / OFFICE
The Cairn office home screen: inspections in progress, the month's team board, and finds shared by the team
The whole company, one screen. What is in progress and who has it, what the team has delivered this month, and the finds worth passing around: the screen an owner opens with coffee.
CAIRN / FIELD APP
The field app home screen on a phone Find in this report, with matched words highlighted
The app in your hand. Your day, your macros and your record on the home screen, plus a search that finds any word you wrote, anywhere in the report, while you are still standing in the house.
FORGE / STARTER LIBRARY
fdr Poor drainage at the foundation DEFICIENCY
Grading around location directs water toward the foundation rather than away from it. Recommend correcting the grade so water drains away from the structure.
  • egfGFCI protection absent/inoperative
  • esmSmoke alarm absent/inoperative
  • rfeRoofer evaluation recommended
  • pwlPlumbing leak observed
  • gdoGarage door opener safety reverse failed
  • wlsWindow seal failure (fogging)
  • avtAttic ventilation inadequate
  • lnaArea not accessible
+ 61 MORE · 70 KEYS INCLUDED WITH EVERY PAID TIER
Three letters, and it's written. 70 professional macro keys included from day one: type the key, your proven language drops in, and the blanks wait for what you actually saw. Then start minting your own.
CORE / CITY INTEL
CORE
HomeCity IntelPhoto SearchMacrosTraining
North Texas Build era 2000–2019 Illustrative

Before you arrive

What this era tends to throw at you, ranked from your own archive, not a textbook.
  1. 01Poor drainage at the foundation WATCH
  2. 02GFCI protection absent/inoperative WATCH
  3. 03Attic ventilation inadequate COMMON
  4. 04Shingle nails backing out COMMON
  5. 05Window seal failure (fogging) OCCASIONAL
▲ Ranked from your archive · sharpens with every stone
What breaks where. Before you pull up, CORE ranks what this city and build era tend to throw at you, drawn from your own archive, so it gets sharper with every inspection you finish.
CAIRN / CLIENT SUMMARY
A client's report summary, findings grouped by severity
What your client opens. Findings grouped and coloured by what they mean (safety first, maintenance last), so a buyer reads the report the way you would walk them through it.
CAIRN / INSPECTOR PROFILE
JD
John Doe
Professional Inspector · TREC license verified · Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas
✓ VERIFIED
every figure derives from stamped
inspection records, nothing self-reported
3,214Verified inspections
121,406Findings documented
987,240Photos documented
14Years · 142 cities
Inspections by year ILLUSTRATIVE SAMPLE
Housing stock experience
Pre-1950 54 1950–1979 461 1980–1999 638 2000–2019 1,027 2020s new build 592 Phase / construction 348 Commercial 9
A resume the industry can finally verify. Every figure on a Cairn Profile is computed from stamped inspection records: nothing self-reported, no addresses, no client information. Sample shown; yours is generated from your archive.
04 · The name

Why "Cairn"?

A cairn is a trail marker: stones stacked one at a time by the people who walked the path before you, left standing to guide whoever comes next. That's what an inspection archive really is: a decade of markers saying this is what I found, and this is how I said it. We built the platform that treats it that way.

🧱

Built on real work

Cairn isn't a software company guessing at inspection. It's built and used daily by a working Texas inspection company, on a decade of real reports, dogfooded on every house before it ships to yours.

🔒

Your words, not a bot's

Every suggestion CORE makes is retrieved from language a real inspector actually wrote. Nothing is generated and slipped into your report. Your name is on the cover; the words stay yours.

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Compounding by design

Software you leave loses you nothing. That's why it treats you the way it does. Cairn is the opposite bet: the longer you stay, the taller your cairn, the better your tool. We win by being worth keeping.

05 · The stance

AI that finds. Never writes.

Your report is a legal document: the exhibit in the complaint, the attachment a lawyer reads line by line three years later. So ask the only question that matters about AI report writers: would you defend a sentence you didn't write? Cairn's answer is built into the architecture, not buried in a settings toggle.

⚖️

Your language is your risk posture

A decade of findings is language sanded against real consequences, phrasing that survived angry sellers, recommendation wording lawyers have already read and let stand. A generator swaps it for the industry median: confident, generic, and untested by a single one of your transactions.

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Retrieval is the faster writer

The fastest writer available is the you from five years ago. You already wrote this finding, standing in front of the real thing. Three keystrokes drop your proven language in, blanks ready to fill. Review time: zero. You already trust the author.

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The librarian, never the author

Cairn is AI-heavy everywhere that doesn't sign the report: it ranks, finds, matches, and suggests, with receipts. It never composes. Anything machine-drafted arrives labeled and dies unless you choose it. The words under your signature are yours, all the way down.

06 · Pricing

Simple, and it starts free.

Your archive should never be hostage to a subscription, so custody costs nothing, forever. Pay when Cairn writes with you.

Custody
Free
FOREVER

Your archive, stored, viewable, and exportable for the length of your career, plus your Cairn Profile. Your stones stay yours, literally.

Pay as you go
$10 / report
CAPPED AT $100 A MONTH

The full platform (FORGE writing and CORE intelligence), one report at a time. A slow month costs almost nothing, and a busy one never passes $100.

Founding inspector
$50 / mo cap
FIRST 100 · FOR LIFE

The first 100 inspectors claim founding slots: the same $10 a report, but your month never passes $50, locked for as long as your account stays open. Private-beta inspectors get first claim.

Starting out? Your first 25 reports are on us: full writer, starter library, archive and Profile from report one. 70 professional macros included · the full defect library is a $249 one-time add-on. Three or more inspectors in a company? Everyone's rate drops 30%: $7 a report, capped at $70 a month each. Keeping your current writer? An archive-only tier ships at launch: your reports flow in by email, CORE does the rest.
07 · Founding slots

Start stacking.

Launching Q1 2027. The first 100 claim founding slots: $10 a report with your month capped at $50, locked for life, and first access when the beta opens.

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Prefer email? Write us at hello@cairninspections.com