Questions, answered.

Nothing — that's the point. Every inspection you perform is stamped as yours the moment it enters Cairn. Your entire body of work — every report, every photo, every finding — stays visible to you across every company you ever work for.

No. A company sees the work performed under its banner — nothing more. Your back catalog never transfers to a new company, so there's nothing to negotiate on your way in and nothing to fight about on your way out.

Everything performed under its banner, including work by inspectors who've since moved on — a company's history is part of its operation and it keeps it. What a company never sees is work you did somewhere else.

Bring it. 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.

And even reports alone go further than you'd think: the photos embedded in your report PDFs arrive at full resolution, already labeled by the captions you wrote next to them. An archive you thought was dead can be rebuilt from the reports themselves.

You own your work. The two gates aren't a policy document or a settings toggle — they're how the platform is built. Your library is always yours to see, and nobody else's company absorbs it.

It stays inside the inspection record, behind the same two gates as everything else — visible to you as the inspector who performed the work, and to the company it was performed under. Cairn doesn't sell data, share contact information, or generate leads from your inspections. We're a working inspection company ourselves; we know exactly how fast that would burn the relationships this industry runs on.

And when CORE turns your archive into suggestions, what surfaces is inspection knowledge — the defect, the photo, the way you wrote it up — never your client's identity.

No. Joining Cairn doesn't require switching writers. Your archive can keep growing from whatever you write in today — finished reports flow in by email ingest, and every one adds a stone. Move your writing to FORGE when (and if) it wins you over.

FORGE writes the report — a field-first writer with macro keys, offline support, live client preview, and a defensibility spine built in as you work. CORE is your archive, awake — it reads everything you've ever written and turns it into answers in the field.

They're one flywheel: 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.

Today: the Texas TREC form (REI 7-6), the T-5, wind mitigation, and free-narrative reports. More forms are on the roadmap — tell us what your state needs when you join the waitlist.

Yes. FORGE is offline-first, because crawlspaces have no bars. Work the whole house without a signal; everything syncs when you're back on one.

No — and this is architecture, not a toggle. Your report is a legal document, so Cairn's AI is the librarian, never the author: it ranks, finds, matches, and suggests, with receipts. Anything machine-drafted arrives clearly labeled and dies unless you choose it. Nothing enters your report without your tap, and the words under your signature are yours all the way down.

Your own archive. Every suggestion CORE makes is retrieved from language a real inspector actually wrote — phrasing that has already survived real transactions. The fastest writer available is the you from five years ago, and CORE's job is to hand that inspector the pen.

A working Texas inspection company. Cairn is built and used daily on a decade of real reports — every feature is dogfooded on real houses before it ships to yours.

Seats belong to individual inspectors — like your NACHI membership, yours no matter where you work — with a company layer on top for offices and teams.

The ladder is simple: custody is free, forever — your archive stored, viewable, and exportable, plus your Cairn Profile. When Cairn writes with you, it's $10 per report with no subscription, and the first 50 inspectors on the waitlist claim founding slots: unlimited reports at $100/mo, locked for life. 70 professional macros are included; the full defect library is a $249 one-time add-on. An archive-only tier for inspectors keeping their current writer ships at launch.

The first 50 inspectors on the waitlist. A founding slot locks unlimited reports at $100/mo for life — the price never moves as long as you keep it — and comes with first access when the beta opens Q1 2027.

Especially for you — a cairn has to start with a first stone. Your first 25 reports are free: the full writer, the 70-key starter library, and your archive and Cairn Profile growing from report one. Ten years from now, your whole career will be standing there.

Cairn launches Q1 2027, and it's in daily production use today by the company that builds it. Founding-slot holders get first access when the beta opens; everyone on the waitlist hears every step first. If you want in early, the waitlist is the line to stand in.