# InspectProHQ Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/inspectprohq/ · added 2026-11-05 · updated 2026-11-05 **In short.** InspectProHQ (Home inspection report software with AI drafting tools, USA): 50+ Google Play downloads and paid plans live, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 1 named founder, a working home inspector; headcount not published. Launched May 2026; still running. Home inspection report software with AI drafting tools · USA · AI-native · solo founder · still running · group: Real estate and architecture visuals - Outcome: 50+ Google Play downloads and paid plans live, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure) - Launch: May 2026; months from launch to the outcome: 6 - Team: 1 named founder, a working home inspector; headcount not published - Outside funding: None (self-funded, as the company states it) - Main factor: Domain knowledge - Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 1 - Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2B, Real estate Links: - Visit inspectprohq.com: https://inspectprohq.com/ - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6762198018 - Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amacinspections.inspectpro **The product.** Software for home inspectors: an inspector fills a template on a phone or tablet, takes photos and notes, and publishes a report to the client and the real estate agent. AI tools on the Pro plan draft defect comments, read appliance data plates, review roof and thermal photos, take dictation and look up flood and radon data. The company states that the inspector reviews every AI output before it goes into a report. It also handles booking, agreements, invoices and a client portal. **Why it worked.** The founder is a home inspector who, the company says, paid for six separate tools that did not share data. He built one app for the whole job and lists a lower price than the market leader, Spectora. The AI tools write the paragraphs that inspectors otherwise type again for every house. Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts. ## Summary InspectProHQ is home inspection software: the program in which an inspector records the condition of a house before a sale and produces the report for the buyer. Its Pro plan adds six AI tools that write a draft comment for a defect, read a photo of an appliance data plate (the metal label with the model and serial number), and review roof and thermal (infrared camera) photos. The company states that every AI result is a draft that the inspector must review. The company's site names Dan McClain, a Certified Master Inspector in the Cleveland area of Ohio, as its founder, and the App Store lists Daniel McClain as the developer. The iPhone app went live in May 2026, according to a sponsored review. Google Play showed more than 50 downloads in November 2026, and the App Store had too few ratings to show. No revenue figure was found. The pricing page lists a free plan with 2 inspections a month and a Pro plan at US$49.99 a month. This page is grade E: it shows a real, new product, not a proven business. ## Pricing InspectProHQ prices read on its home and pricing pages on 5 November 2026; the website add-on is from the sponsored review of 27 October 2026 (grade C) | Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit | |---|---|---|---| | Free | 0 | 0 | 2 inspections a month, then US$5 per extra inspection | | Pro | 41.67 | 49.99 | unlimited inspections, AI tools; US$500 a year | | Extra inspector seat | | 24.99 | each, on the owner's Pro plan | | Premium website | | 10 | five-page site; from the sponsored review | The Free plan has no time limit and needs no card, the company says. Pro is US$49.99 a month or US$500 a year; the yearly price works out to US$41.67 a month (calculated). Extra inspectors are added to the owner's Pro plan. The sponsored review also lists a Premium upgrade of the HomeOwner Hub at US$5 a month, paid by the homeowner, not the inspector. ## How much revenue does InspectProHQ make? The numbers, graded A new product from one named inspector, with prices published and no revenue figure | Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources | |---|---|---|---|---| | Google Play downloads, November 2026 | 50+ | C | Shown on the Google Play listing "InspectPro Home Inspection App" read on 5 November 2026; last updated 1 July 2026. The sponsored review saw the same 50+ on 27 October 2026. | [6, 7] | | App Store ratings, November 2026 | too few to show | C | The App Store page says the app "hasn't received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview". Seller: Daniel McClain. | [5] | | Launch of the iPhone app | May 2026 | C | Sponsored review: "The iPhone app went live in May 2026" and "InspectProHQ launched in 2026". The web app's own launch date is not published. | [7] | | Founder | Dan McClain, Certified Master Inspector | C | Company about page and its structured data (founder, Cleveland, OH). The sponsored review adds that he runs AMAC Home Inspections in Brunswick, Ohio; the Google Play package name is com.amacinspections.inspectpro. | [3, 1, 7] | | Funding | none stated; self-funded | C | Sponsored review, repeating the company's pricing page: "no venture capital or private equity" and "currently independent". | [7] | | Team | headcount not published | C | Only the founder is named. No source suggests more than a few people. | [3, 7] | | Pro price | US$49.99 a month or US$500 a year | C | Company pricing page, 5 November 2026. | [2] | | Free plan | 2 inspections a month, then US$5 each | C | Company pricing page and FAQ. | [2, 1] | | AI tools on Pro | comment writer, label scanner, roof scanner, thermal imaging, voice-to-text, environmental data lookup | C | Company home page FAQ: "The inspector reviews the results before using them." | [1] | | AI model provider | not published | C | None of the downloaded pages names a model or a model provider. | [1, 4, 7] | | Spectora price for one inspector | US$109 a month or US$1,090 a year | C | Spectora's pricing page, 5 November 2026. Additional inspectors US$99 a month. | [8] | | Yearly price difference for one inspector | US$590 | calc | Calculated: Spectora US$1,090 a year minus InspectProHQ Pro US$500 a year. | [2, 8] | | Search pages on the site | 157 pages in the sitemap, 49 of them city pages | calc | Calculated: counted in the sitemap on 5 November 2026. It also has comparison pages for Spectora, HomeGauge, Palm-Tech, Home Inspector Pro and others. | [9] | | Time from iPhone launch to the November 2026 listing | 6 months | calc | Calculated: May 2026 to November 2026. | [6, 7] | How to read this table: grade C values are statements by the company on its own pages or store listings, or by a sponsored review that repeats the company's statements. A "calc" value was computed on this page. No value is grade A or B, and no row is a revenue figure. ## When did InspectProHQ launch, and how did it grow? Timeline From an inspection company started on nights and weekends to a software product with store apps, as the company tells it. Each entry carries its grade. - **2019** (grade C [7]): McClain starts AMAC Home Inspections and runs it on nights and weekends while working in bank lending, according to the sponsored review. - **2022** (grade C [7]): He goes full-time as an inspector, the review says. Running the firm, he pays for six separate tools, which the company gives as the reason it built one platform. - **May 2026** (grade C [7, 5]): The iPhone app goes live, listed by developer Daniel McClain, according to the sponsored review. - **1 July 2026** (grade C [6]): Last update of the Google Play app "InspectPro Home Inspection App". - **27 October 2026** (grade C [7]): SaaSCity publishes a sponsored review comparing it with Spectora. - **5 November 2026** (grade C [2, 5, 6]): Free and Pro plans live; 50+ Google Play downloads; too few App Store ratings to show. ## Why did InspectProHQ work? ### Domain knowledge The founder does the job that the software serves. The company says he built it after paying for six tools that did not share data, and the product follows the work of one inspection from booking to payment. ### AI that drafts, inspector who signs The AI tools write a first version of the text that inspectors repeat for every house, such as the comment on a known defective electrical panel. Every company page says the inspector reviews and edits each output before it reaches a client. ### A lower list price than the market leader The company lists Pro at US$49.99 a month against US$109 on Spectora's own pricing page, and a free plan that does not expire, so a new inspector can start without a software bill. ### Pages written for search The sitemap lists 49 city pages and about 20 comparison and alternative pages for competing products. No source says how many customers came from them. ## How it was built These details come from the company's own pages and store listings and from a sponsored review that repeats them. They are grade C. - A Progressive Web App, a web app that installs like a phone app and works offline, with iPhone and Android apps that open the same platform. - Stripe for invoices and card payments, two-way Google Calendar sync for bookings, and a Mercury banking dashboard, as the sponsored review lists them. - Six AI tools on Pro. No downloaded page names the AI model or its provider. - Templates for residential, commercial, 4-point, wind mitigation, NPMA-33 and Texas TREC forms, and import of old templates from PDF, CSV or Excel. - Reports and portals in 30 languages, the review says. Sources: [1, 5, 6, 7] ## Who tried this before InspectProHQ, and why did they fail? Two companies in our database of failed startups built software or services for the home and real estate trades and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified. The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade. ### REPitchbook (2021 to 2022; funding None; cause: No Market Need) - Promise: Software that collects and analyzes listing data for real estate agents and investors. - Why it died: Built before asking real estate professionals what they needed, and never found buyers. - Record: ### Pro.com (2014 to 2020; funding US$60.8M; cause: Competition) - Promise: One platform for home improvement, from cost estimate to project management. - Why it died: Could not stand out against better-known rivals and sold its assets to Angi in 2020. - Record: ## What changed REPitchbook built real estate software without the users' input. InspectProHQ is built by one of its own users, which addresses that cause directly. Pro.com met established rivals with a costly, people-heavy model; InspectProHQ also meets established rivals, but with software only and no outside money to spend. AI lowers the cost of the part that inspectors dislike most, writing the same defect text again and again. Whether that is enough to move inspectors away from Spectora and HomeGauge is not yet shown by any source. ## Can one person copy InspectProHQ now? **Verdict: Yes, if you work in the trade.** The pattern is a working professional who builds the one tool that replaces the several tools of his own trade, and adds AI where the work is repeated writing. The hard parts are getting the first paying customers and competing with an established leader. 1. List every tool you pay for in your own trade and what data they fail to share. 2. Build one record per job that carries the data from booking to payment. 3. Use AI for drafts of repeated text, and keep the professional's review as a required step. 4. Publish a free plan and comparison pages against the market leader. **What is still open.** Other inspection and survey trades with standard report forms: pest, mold, radon, insurance, property management and contractor punch lists. ## What could go wrong for InspectProHQ? - **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. I looked for a payment-processor profile (TrustMRR), a founder interview or post with numbers, and any filing, and found none. Only the founder is named and the headcount is not published. The launch date comes from a sponsored review. A reader could look for a later founder interview, a TrustMRR profile or store ratings. - **The main independent-looking source is paid.** The longest source, the SaaSCity review of 27 October 2026, states "Disclosure: this is a sponsored review." Facts on this page from it are the company's own statements as the review repeats them. - **AI claims differ between pages.** The website calls the AI output drafts that the inspector "must review, edit, and verify". The App Store text is stronger: "Point your camera at any area of concern and let InspectPro's AI instantly identify common defects", and it lists "ISN, Spectora, and calendar integrations", which the website pages read here do not mention. The same listing says the app is "trusted by independent home inspectors, multi-inspector firms" without a number. - **Competition.** Spectora's pricing page lists US$109 a month for one inspector. The sponsored review says Spectora has "a much larger user base". InspectProHQ publishes comparison pages for HomeGauge, Home Inspector Pro, Palm-Tech, Tap Inspect, Horizon and others, and the App Store shows other AI inspection apps such as NspectAI and 1nspecT next to it. - **Dependence on model providers.** The roof, thermal, label and comment tools need an AI model, and no source names which one. A price change or a policy change by that provider would affect the Pro plan, and readers cannot judge that risk while the provider is not published. ## Sources 1. InspectProHQ home page, read 5 November 2026 — https://inspectprohq.com/ (grade C). Read in full, with its structured data (founder, location, prices, FAQ). Source for the AI tools and the review rule. 2. InspectProHQ pricing page, read 5 November 2026 — https://inspectprohq.com/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the Free and Pro prices. 3. About InspectProHQ, read 5 November 2026 — https://inspectprohq.com/about (grade C). Read in full. The page text served to a downloader is one sentence naming the founder; the rest loads by script. 4. AI tools for home inspectors, InspectProHQ, read 5 November 2026 — https://inspectprohq.com/ai-home-inspection-tools (grade C). Read in full. States that AI suggestions are drafts the inspector must verify. 5. InspectProHQ on the App Store, read 5 November 2026 — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6762198018 (grade C). Read in full. Developer, description, ratings status and similar apps. 6. InspectPro Home Inspection App on Google Play, read 5 November 2026 — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amacinspections.inspectpro (grade C). Read in full. Download count, update date and developer. 7. SaaSCity, 27 October 2026: InspectProHQ Review 2026 (sponsored) — https://saascity.io/blog/inspectprohq-review-2026 (grade C). Read in full. A sponsored review; used only for facts the company states, labelled as such. Source for the founder's background, the launch month and the Spectora comparison. 8. Spectora pricing page, read 5 November 2026 — https://www.spectora.com/pricing/ (grade C). Read the section on software prices. Source for the competitor's prices. 9. InspectProHQ sitemap, read 5 November 2026 — https://inspectprohq.com/sitemap.xml (grade C). Read in full. Pages counted for the search-pages row. 10. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors. Contact: aiolum@livyden.com. Run InspectProHQ? Send corrections or a verified figure to aiolum@livyden.com (subject: Correction: InspectProHQ).