Responsible AI

AI that drafts. You decide.

Every other tool promises to write your report for you. That is precisely the part a surveyor cannot hand over — so here is exactly where it does and does not get involved.

  1. 1You

    Capture it on site

    Voice notes, photographs, sketches and defect tags, recorded as you walk.

  2. 2The AI

    It drafts, and suggests

    It suggests the section a note belongs to, rewords it to your house style and picks an approved standard phrase.

  3. 3You

    Accept it line by line

    Every suggestion waits for you. The note you actually recorded sits beside it.

  4. 4You

    Sign it off by name

    Nothing AI-assisted can be issued until a named surveyor signs for its reliability.

The AI only ever suggests. It never writes to the report — every value lands there because you put it there.

Never authors a finding

It neither analyses your images nor writes a finding of its own. Everything traces back to a note you took.

Off by default, on your terms

Enabled per practice, with per-job client consent and a per-job opt-out. Nothing is sent without it.

It works with no AI at all

Turn it off and a deterministic engine makes the same kind of suggestions from your own phrases.

Built to the RICS standard on the responsible use of AI in surveying practice.

Where AI is used

Two systems, each with one job

Both run in your firm's chosen Azure region in the UK or EU, under a single Microsoft data processing agreement. Neither is a general-purpose assistant let loose on your job.

Drafting

Turns your notes into a draft

Suggests which section a note belongs to, rewords it to your house style and picks a standard phrase your practice has already approved. It is a translator, not an author.

Anthropic Claude, via Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

Transcription

Turns your dictation into words

Takes the audio of your own voice notes and produces the transcript the rest of the workflow reads. Server-side only, and it sees nothing but the recording you made.

Whisper, Azure-hosted

And what neither of them does

  • It never analyses your photographs.
  • It never authors a finding of its own.
  • It never writes to the report — every value enters because a surveyor accepted it.
  • Your original note is kept, so you can always check what you actually recorded.

Your controls

Nothing happens that you did not switch on

Off by default

A new workspace has AI switched off. Nothing is sent anywhere until someone at your practice deliberately turns it on.

Enabled by your practice

Enablement is a practice-level decision, not a per-surveyor one, so a firm can adopt it on its own timetable.

Consented job by job

Each job carries its own client consent, with an opt-out that applies to that job alone.

Still works with it off

A deterministic engine — keyword routing plus your own standard phrases — makes the same kind of suggestions with no AI involved. It is the only engine used when AI is off or a client has opted out.

What is still yours to do

Software cannot make a practice compliant

The RICS standard is principles-based, and several of its duties belong to the regulated firm rather than to any tool — training your people, keeping the registers, exercising professional judgement, setting your client terms. What we can do is make the compliant path the default one and generate the records the standard asks for.

Adoptable templates for the firm-side duties ship with the product, so you are not drafting a policy from a blank page.

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