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Marc, You cannot remove the checkboxes but you can rename them if you create a customer report type. The checkboxes drive key features related to validation in our software. The first checkbox, regardless of what it is called provides indication that the item existed and was inspected. Prior to delivering your report, there is a function you run called Report Validation. The system reviews your report and identifies any inspection items you missed. Likewise, the last checkbox is used to indicate there was a problem with the item inspected. Again, in the report validation, it check to see that if you checked this box, your report includes a narrative that describes what the problem is or if you included a problem about an item you inspected, then you checked this box. The checkboxes carried over from the TREC requirements for Texas inspectors. I know a lot of states don't have the strict requirements enforced in Texas, but these features have benefited numerous inspetors outside Texas in in other countries. The output produces by Interspect is very clean and easy to read for your customers. Other key features: True Room by Room inspection mode - This feature allows you to inspect all of the items within a single room even though they cross system boundaries without having to bounce around in the report looking for the correct section to document your findings. You create rooms by name of certain types - like Kitchen, Bathroom, Garage, etc. Based on the room type, Interspect knows the inspection items that are typically found in that kind of room based on the Report Type being used. Of course you can add Additional items on the fly if necessary. The great thing about this feature is you can switch between System Mode or Room by Room mode within the same inspection. When you generate your report, the information collected at the room level is output in the correct System area of the report with a heading for the Room name. This eliminates the need to specify what room the issue was found in your narrative because Interspect already knows what room you are in. Since we released this feature, other products have attempted a Room mode, but they force you to create a definition of the rooms in your inspection templates. If you don't have a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath template you create a new one. Ours is completely dynamic from your existing inspection tempaltes. Rooms are created and named on the fly as needed. Unlimited Photos, Photo Editing and Annotation - Everything you need to work with photos is built into the software. Photos taken are loaded into the inspection library are stored with that inspection even if they are not included in the report. You can edit the photo (crop, adjust color, brightness, rotate, etc) and annotate the photes within the software. Annotations include the ability to add circles, rectangles, lines, arrows, text, highlighters, etc.) on your photos without changing the original photo. This means that annotations can be added, deleted or changed at any time. Adding photos is extrememly easy with Interspect's Auto Layout feature. Although you can add a photo and move it anywhere within a narrative or size it to any size you want, those are extra steps that take time. The Auto Layout features takes care of that for you. Just set some preferences on the default size, alignment and number of photos to place across the page and Interspect does the work for you. Simple drag a photo from the library to a location in your narrative and it is automatically sized and aligned. Have more than one photo for the same narrative? No problem, just drag a second photo and drop it on the first photo and Interspect will handled the alignment and stacking of photos in nice evenly distributed columns and rows. Photo Auto Insert - Another huge feature around photos is our Auto Insert capability. This was created primarily for hands free voice inspections but we added it for tablet users also. When you document a problem for an item you are inspecting and follow that up with a picture you want to include in the report, simply say "Add Issue Photo" or click the "Add Photo" button. This inserts a placeholder in the narrative where the photo goes. Now when you load the photos into the inspection library, Interspect will place an indicator on each photo it knows belongs in the report. To insert, you click the Auto Insert button and Interspect with iterate through the report and automatically insert each photo into the location you indicated when the photo was taken. Although manually dragging and dropping photos is extremely easy, it can be tedious and take 20-30 minutes to locate and drag 50 photos through the report. With Auto Insert these same 50 photos can be inserted in 15 seconds! Let me know if you have any other questions. Steve

Bruce has done a great job describing how the software works. If you have any other questions, please let me know or call and we can setup a one on one demo. Like every industry, the inspection industry (especially in Texas) took a big hit. We lost a lot of inspectors and new inspectors looking for software has declined almost 75% over the past couple of years. We are still here and supporting our existing and new customers. For now we no longer participate in the tradeshows and rely on word of mouth sales. We are still working on new features and have revived the iPhone/iPad handheld companion application for Interspect. We hope to have this completed and released 3rd or 4th quarter this year. Steve

Hello All. When I first saw this thread with a few replies, I did not want to get involved in the organization politics. But, since there have been so many replies that are inaccurate or based on a lot of speculation, I figured I would chime in. First, let me address the organization discounts and Onclarity's association with these organizations. We are actively involved in all of the organizations that have local representation. As we began to market Interspect Voice it certainly made sense to work with the various organizations to announce our product and offer discounts. TAREI and NACHI were the only associations that have worked with us directly to offer a discount to their members and send out press releases to their members. ASHI so far has only responded with information on how to purchase ads in their magazine. The article posted on Inspector Journal was based on the press release sent out by NACHI and therefore only reflected the discount for NACHI members. To set things straight, we will offer the same discount to members of other associations, but had hoped those associates would see the benefits and would work with us to make that announcement. Second, let me address the confusion about the voice technology in Interspect Voice. Voice is not mandatory but supplements an extremely intuitive interface for documenting inspection results, generating the report and tracking your business. As far as voice goes, this is not the same as using Dragon or other 3rd party products to capture spoken dictation in the note fields. In fact, dictation is usually not necessary with well defined notes and templates. Yes, the wireless headset connects to your laptop via a USB port. The voice commands are used to document your findings, set inspection status, create rooms, navigate between items, etc. Visual display is replaced with positive responses from the computer via the wireless headset - there is no way to get lost. In the event you need to document issues with dictation when pre-defined notes won't work, the system supports dictation with technology imbedded directly in the product. With any recognition system, dictation is only as good as the training provided. All training in Interspect Voice can be accomplished in 1-2 hours not years as indicated in one of the responses. Additionally, Interspect Voice constantly adapts and trains while you are actually using the dictation functionality. Properly trained profiles will achieve dictation accuracy in the high 90% and often 100% range. Because dictation could result in mistranslated text, the exact audio spoken is always available for review immediately or whenever you want to play it back. That way if you dictate something and don't check it onsite, you can always get back to exactly what was said even if the transcribed text from the dictation is wrong. I hope this clarifies some of the misunderstanding. I am happy to discuss any of this or answer any other questions you might have. Feel free to post here or call me directly. You can reach me at 800-975-3017 and choose the Sales option.