Chandler man pioneering new way to inspect buildings | Business

The days of fearing artificial intelligence will launch nuclear missiles or become human’s new overlord might be diminishing, as AI shows it has many practical solutions to help in modern life.

Chandler resident Mark Garcia has started a new business called Binsr Inspect. It uses AI to help home inspectors streamline their business. The reception from home inspectors has been overwhelming.

“We had over 700 companies sign up for the wait list in the first month,” Garcia said. 

“Most of the time spent for inspectors is writing the reports and trying to get the information from their head into their reports,” Garcia said. “We do that with voice, and then we do that with video as well. My co-founder, Aryash Dubey — he’s an amazing AI engineer — and he built a really cool version … where you can take a video of a room and say, ‘There’s a broken window here, there’s a missing screen, there’s also a leaky faucet.’

“As you’re taking the video, [the AI will] just takes images from the video naturally and add them to the comments.”

He said that it will help cut down the time it takes to put together the report to customers. AI can bring in the relevant information and the photos and then the inspector can look them over and make any needed adjustments.

Garcia and Dubey both attended Arizona State University. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Chandler from Chicago in 2020. He said his wife was born and raised here.

So far in beta testing, Garcia said some inspectors are experiencing an improvement of five to ten times in reporting speed. 

Garcia said the idea for his company came from real estate professionals, who thought there was room for improvement in this industry.

He said agents approached him asking for help in being able to analyze lengthy home inspection reports. 

“That’s how we originally got pulled into it,” he said. “Then we realized we could really help the inspectors themselves, so it kind of morphed … from serving real estate agents to serving inspectors and real estate agents to serving inspectors, real estate agents and homeowners.”

One area that Garcia said that they are looking at for the future is adding in local requirements, so an inspector would know what the City of Chandler requires in setback limits, or how high a fence can be vs. another municipality.

There is a side benefit to using AI to collect and report the data.

“If you think about it, the inspection itself is just a treasure trove of data about the home, and if the homeowner ends up purchasing that home, now they have all this data,” Garcia said.

For example, say a homeowner needs a new part for the refrigerator or HVAC unit about 12 years after purchasing the home. They could try to pull the refrigerator out to look for the model number on a plate in back, or climb up on the roof and look for a plate up there.

Or, Garcia said, they would be able to look at their home inspection report that would have a photo of the plate showing model number, how old the unit is and other relevant information.

“Homeowners should be able to use it to help manage and kind of run their home and know what needs to be fixed by the next time I sell my home,” he said. “We want to help homeowners kind of navigate that, all based on the amazing data that the inspectors pull during their inspections.”