AI is making its way into home inspections, and inspectors are split – some see it as a time-saving tool, while others worry about overreliance. In this episode of The Ride Along, Beau Brown of C&H Inspections joins Brad Lowery and special guest co-host Matt Brading to break down the role AI plays in home inspections today.
They tackle big questions like:
- Can AI help new inspectors get up to speed faster, or does it encourage shortcuts?
- What inspection tasks can AI actually handle?
- Where is AI heading in the industry?
Some inspectors are already using AI to speed up reporting and simplify admin work, while others fear it could weaken the hands-on skills that define the profession. One thing is clear – AI is here, and the industry has to figure out how to use it wisely.
Transcript
Brad Lowery
All right, everybody back here on the ride along. Welcome back into the show. We’re excited to have you here. And man back with with Matt Brading as well. And dude, we had a heck of a three days out in Florida here. So you’re back in Texas. I’m still in Florida because I live here but InterNACHI 2025 the redo from what it was supposed to be because of the hurricanes. But how you feeling? How’s it going back home?
Matt Brading
Right.
Matt Brading
It was great. You know, I’m very muh glad to be home. I went to Disney for a few days prior to getting to InterNACHI. And so I’ve been gone for almost a week. And although the weather was pretty crappy whenever I came home, it was down in the 30s today and I had to get back to work. I wasn’t looking forward to getting back to work, but I was tired of being on vacation. So I am glad to be back with the comforts of home, sleep in my own bed. I the best sleep I’ve had in days. And so, yeah, very much glad to be back here in Texas.
Brad Lowery
Now I love it man, but you’re not stopping here because you got another trip on the books.
Matt Brading
That is correct. Yeah. So I’m here only for a short period of time. And then on Monday, I’m headed out to Las Vegas.
Brad Lowery
you Vegas is always a good time now I you know what happens in inner not she stays in inner not she but you know is this we got to tell the we got to tell the listeners what you’re doing in Vegas at least with this so what happens in Vegas we want on the show in this case. Yeah.
Matt Brading
Right, right. Yeah. So yeah, at least let’s talk about this part of it, right? So I’m going to Vegas for the International Builder Show. I’ve been out there. This is going to be the third year running that a company that I do some work for, Sashgo, that makes premium sealants and caulking. They have sent me out there. You know, home inspection and construction are very much intertwined, but I think sometimes when we…
when we think about what we do and there’s so much friction between home inspectors and the construction world sometimes that we can kind of forget how intertwined we actually are. And you know, I go to InterNACHI and it’s great that the classes are great, the people are great, the networking is great. But at a builders conference, and there are people here, these aren’t just the tradesmen that are just hacking houses together out there.
These are people that are actually, care about what they’re doing. There’s a lot of people that are involved in the high performance building world, as well as all the way down to did not so high performance, but either way, whether you’re high performance or not, these are people that actually care about the products that they are putting out and there are, products out there, new products, innovations, all kinds of things to learn and see. And as a home inspector.
I come out of this thing a lot more knowledgeable about building products than you’d ever really think. And so it was great. so, and then this year I have a friend of mine that’s going to join me and he’s actually joining us here today. And that is my friend, Beau Brown from C and H inspections over in Salt Lake city, Utah. Beau say hi to everybody.
Beau Brown
Hey everybody!
Brad Lowery
What’s going on, Beau Dude, I’m glad you’re on the show because we’re talking about something that’s really, really fascinating today because this is something that especially at porch, you know, I helped help them kind of beta test the report writer that ISN has now and there’s a very interesting feature in that that a lot of report writers are starting to integrate, which is artificial intelligence. And this is actually something that you’re working on as well. And it’s what we want to talk about here today. So.
I mean, integrating AI into the home inspection field is something that’s a little bit of a hot button topic, not just because we’re all having to learn to adapt to it and use it, but there’s a big debate over its use case in the field. And that’s kind of like, and y’all have a little bit of a different take on this, Matt and Beau both. So I’m excited, like I want y’all to convince me of your side when it comes to how we should be looking to integrate and use AI in the field. But Beau, tell everybody again, a little bit about yourself, your background and what you’re doing with AI.
Beau Brown
Okay, so my name is Beau Brown. I run a home inspection business here in Salt Lake City, Utah, and I am the marketing manager for an app that’s being developed right now by another home inspector. The app is called Code Pro. It’s gonna be out to the public here in probably the next month or so. And the whole point of the app is to use AI to help people learn and understand code or find and reference code.
So as an inspector, if you’ve ever thought, know, gosh, I wish I knew whether or not there was actually a code for this. I know that you can’t put a sewer pipe in there like that. I know that you can’t do that, but I don’t know exactly what the code is or why the code says that, or even why you shouldn’t do that. I’ve just been taught that you shouldn’t do that. Those answers, those questions can be answered now. We’ve got an AI program and you can answer, you know, you can ask it stupid questions. You can ask it smart questions and it will infer and understand. And then beyond just finding the code and telling you what code it is, it tells you why that’s code. then it gives you all sorts of detailed information you can ask it. So we’re really looking forward to having that thing out to the public here soon.
Brad Lowery
That’s a fascinating tool, Especially because it’s like, and know, Matt, you were touching on this with the Builders Convention, learning about, you know, new products that are coming out into the construction industry. You touched on a little bit of the tension between builders and home inspectors. And in fact, we were sitting around a pub bar talking about some certain inspectors that we all know online who have made their whole social media presence around bashing builders and why you’re not really in favor of that. So there’s some benefit to understanding one, why builders operate the way they do what they’re using and then why code is code.
Matt Brading
Right, right. Well, I do definitely think that we need a higher level of knowledge of the code, right? Even though in most of the states, especially I know in Texas, we are not code inspectors, right? We are not code enforcement. But there’s a reason why to get licensed. We have to know a ton of code. There’s a reason for that. And that’s because we do need to know that stuff. We need to know how things are supposed to be done. The codes do exist for a reason. And I get that there’s some friction there about some people think that codes are there just as a money grab and stuff like that. I don’t think that that’s always the case. I also don’t necessarily agree with code always being a bare minimum, although in some cases it sort of is. But there are a whole lot of options when it comes to code and it more tells you what those options are if you know how to navigate it. But the thing is, is it can be daunting because you know the massive code book, right? Here, let me give you an example because today I actually used the app that Beau’s talked about. I’ve been lucky enough to beta test this thing for a little while now. And I had a builder ask me a question. I was pretty sure there wasn’t a code for this, but the buyer saw a hose bib sticking out of the wall and he thought maybe it was a little bit too long because goes, you know, this can be a little bit hard to cover and insulate during the winter if they’re too long. And the builder was like, yeah, that’s pretty standard link. And he turned right to me he goes, you know, is there a code for how long these are supposed to be? said, you know what?
I don’t think there is, but, but I said, you know, give me a second. so within literally a second, I asked Code Pro is there a required length for a host on an exterior wall? And of course it’s going to give me codes that are specific to Texas. But it also touched on the fact that there is not a local code for it. There isn’t an IRC code for it. And there isn’t a UPC code for it. There was, it touched on different code books and said, why it didn’t exist. also said, you know, if it’s too short, it it just, it basically said it needs to be a link that is usable, right? And able to insulate. was too short. It’s hard to use, hard to insulate. It’s too long. It’s hard to insulate. So anyway, there, there was some like, well, you need to need to be smarter than what you’re working with going on with that. But I was able to answer the guy’s questions, whether or not that code existed even, uh, within a fraction of a second. was pretty, pretty awesome. So I’ve used it. It works really well for that. I do look,
Matt Brading
I know that we’re, are on here to kind of battle it out over AI because we do have some differences of opinions, but I do actually like AI for some things. You were showing me the report writer software and how it had an ability to kind of do the same thing where you can ask AI a dumb question and it gives you a smart response. you can, in, in your program, you were talking about, you can kind of give it kind of a
Brad Lowery
Yeah.
Matt Brading
a dumb inspector thing like you can just say it kind of dumb like
Brad Lowery
Well, it’s not even dumb. It’s that you can give it a simple prompt. You can give it a very simple prompt. yeah, this is, yeah, that’s exactly it.
Matt Brading
You can say that over there. Right. True. Yeah.
Beau Brown
Just talk to it like it’s a person. Yeah.
Matt Brading
Yeah, and it gives you a very inspectory answer. You know, that’s what I’m trying to say. Like instead of saying, you know, the hose spigot on the north side of the house is missing. You know, it gives you like, you know, inspector observed on the north side of the exterior of the, you know, it gives you a real like detailed and “inspectory”.
Brad Lowery
That’s exactly right. Yeah.
Brad Lowery
That’s it.
Brad Lowery
Yeah, yeah. Now I actually previewed this before. What’s that, Beau?
Beau Brown
You can’t do that off the cuff, You can’t do that off the cuff? Inspector noticed exterior spigot was extended beyond standard length. Recommend further evaluation by plumber. You can’t just spit that off the cuff, Matt?
Brad Lowery
Well, here’s the thing, you can do that. You can type it in. You can type it in with these two thumbs on your phone or on your keyboard. But the thing is, this was designed because there’s a lot of inspectors that don’t have, especially for new guys, they don’t have a full comment library. And it takes so long to type some of these that it’s faster to give this thing a prompt of, for example, I was, Matt, showed you, like say you’re inspecting a window, right? And it’s like,
Matt Brading
I mean, yeah, I can do it, but…
Brad Lowery
window leaking bad flashing. And I just typed that into the description and hit generate. And it comes out with an entire proper comment. You can either go shorter or longer, you know, include a recommendation for repair, but it sounds extremely professional and it’s extremely accurate. So for new guys, that’s super helpful. But,
Beau Brown
Yeah.
Matt Brading
100 % agree, but Beau just took the gloves off though, because he went at he went at me and he said I didn’t know how to make it so gloves are off. Okay, so we have it. We have bones to pick here. You know, this is how it starts.
Brad Lowery
Alright, this is where we go.
Beau Brown
Yeah, this is it. This is how it starts.
Brad Lowery
All right, let’s actually start it this way. So Matt, what role do you think AI should have in the field?
Matt Brading
want to start it another way. I’m going to tell you, I’m going to give you, I’ll give you a story. I’ll give you a story. So Beau, okay, not Beau, a guy sent me a message on Instagram a couple of weeks ago and it was about some type of app that had been developed. This is not Beau’s app. Some type of app that he was developing or something where you could take a picture of something.
Beau Brown
Okay, what’s your argument Matt? What’s your argument?
Brad Lowery
You started another way. Okay, go ahead, go ahead. Put the ball back on the tee. Here we go.
Matt Brading
And then it would like basically describe what’s going on in the picture as a home inspector, basically. I don’t know if I’m telling the story right, but it really irritated the crap out of me, right? Like this guy sent this to me, like he wanted me to be involved with it. I was just, yeah, I’m sure you are, right? Because Beau sent it to me. The guy said, sent it to me. And I told the guy, said, okay, so you’re trying to say that you want me to be involved in something that you’re…
Beau Brown
I’m talking to this guy still, just so we’re clear. Yeah, I am, I am.
Matt Brading
basically is an AI replacement for a home inspector. See, because what I don’t believe is that, now I love AI for what we were just talking about. Okay, I love CodePro. I love using it. I love that feature that you were showing me in the ISN report writer. That’s really cool to me. What I don’t love is the homeowner thinking that they can remove the human element of this and that what we bring in terms of that human element in our experience is not valuable. And I feel like this type of AI technology devalues what we do. That’s me. That’s how I.
Brad Lowery
Why, no, your take.
Beau Brown
Okay, so my take is that I can totally get your fear and your understanding here that somebody being able to walk into a house with a cell phone and scan the house and go, I’m an inspector now because AI is going to identify all of these things that I don’t know. It be like, it’s going to replace us. My first statement on that is, is AI is so far beyond being capable of doing that right now.
you know, it’s kind of, kind of on its way to getting there. But I feel like a lot of the hype around AI is just because people don’t actually understand what it’s currently capable of. It’s really, really cool. And it’s like amazing and revolutionizing and an incredible tool that I think absolutely should get on. Like my opinion is, is that any tool or device or electronic thing that comes tumbling along and looks like it’s going to change the world, you immediately need to jump on board with that. If you’re going to stay relevant, especially if you’re a business owner.
And so as an inspector, yeah, exactly, right? If you’re an inspector and you’re scared that AI is going to replace us and you’re not going to jump on this boat and figure out how to utilize this in every possible way, it’ll slow you down. You’ll have to play catch up later after the rest of us figure out how to use it and show you that it’s actually something good. And I’m not trying to replace you, but I’m trying to help you. What if instead…
Brad Lowery
you’ll get left behind in a hurry. Yeah.
Matt Brading
I’m not, see, I think it’s.
Beau Brown
So you’re concerned. Let me hypothesize another different way for you real quick, Matt. What if instead you walked into a house and you had a camera on your chest? And as you’re walking through the house, you say stuff like, I noticed that there’s a crack on the window on the northeast side and that it looks like the sealant around the window is going bad. And the carpet on the floor smells terrible in this room. Smells like dog urine.
And
You’re going to notice when you walk in, it’s kind of musty feeling when you’re in there. You’re going to notice a lot of these real world human things just simply can’t be replaced and AI is never going to replace it. A homeowner could absolutely walk into a house with AI and try and replace us at some point in time. That’s on the horizon. But the homeowner doesn’t have the experience that we have of going in literally hundreds of homes. You can’t train AI to tell the homeowner, does the floor not feel level right here?
Is the backyard graded the wrong way? Is that a visual illusion? Do you need to go stand over here to make sure the water is actually going to transport the way it should? All of the things that you don’t learn at InterNACHI the real world stuff that you learn by being inside of a house, AI can’t replace that because it can’t learn on the internet all of those things. You’ve got to be there physically. That’s one of the reasons why I said you got to do an apprenticeship to be an inspector because AI just can’t replace that. That information can’t be replaced.
Matt Brading
Well, you don’t have to have to apprentice this in Texas, by the way, but I’m tracking. I mean, I’m tracking. It’s not required. It’s not required. It’s not required. But I’m tracking.
Beau Brown
You need to! You need to! You’re what? Well, okay, okay, okay.
Brad Lowery
It’s not required in Florida either. Now, if I could jump in on that one, I think that there’s a case where maybe it should be required if you want people to actually learn. yeah, okay, so both things. That’s a whole other conversation then. Yeah, yeah.
Beau Brown (15:46.198)
I think it should be required. I think it should be required. That’s another argument.
Matt Brading
I it is, it is. And I don’t necessarily disagree with that either. yeah, I mean, I’m tracking with what you’re saying, but I think I got to go back and say, it’s not a fear of being replaced. What I fear is the homeowners not understanding what they’re doing. Okay. And I also fear. So it’s fear for the homeowners. And in that same topic of conversation, I fear inspectors would use this technology to put themselves out there as some knowledgeable inspector, but yet they actually are not. And the homeowners don’t really know any better because the homeowners just don’t. And so you might get some really inexperienced inspector out there that really probably shouldn’t be doing it using an app to create his reports. But he doesn’t actually have the experience and the knowledge to be able to find the problems that exist for these homeowners. And they might get you know, kind of failed and duped by their inspector. I worry that because there’s an awful lot of people that would buy into this technology. You say it’s far off and I agree. I don’t think that it’s right around the corner, although I think it is somewhere on the horizon. But I mean, like, you know, whenever it is, whether it’s soon or later, I just I do fear that people will just take it into their own hands and say, well, I can just do that, especially with idiots like us on the Internet showing them how to do everything.
But
Brad Lowery
Well, let me ask you about that, Matt. So what is the difference between using something that operates a little bit faster and maybe a little bit like it like just searches automatically on its own, right? Less clicks. But what’s the difference between that and a brand new inspector that has imprinted that has apprenticed that has done some ride alongs just recently got his license and he’s turned loose in the field because every one of us has been here where we still have questions and we have had to Google something while we’re right there. Or for example, you’ve got, Gosh, what is it the building intelligence center? We have to go on there sometimes to run serial numbers. So if you have a program where you can just scan it and look it up automatically, how much time is that saving you? And how much of this is a workaround that we’re not already doing sometimes?
Beau Brown
.
Matt Brading
I mean, like, you know, we’re assuming that everybody is honest and that they and they all, you know, want to do the right thing. I mean, I didn’t know everything. I still don’t know everything. Like whenever I got into home inspection, I knew a lot less than I know now. But I had the diligence to make sure that I tried to figure it out or whatever, you know, whether it was either calling somebody or looking something up or whatever. I was I would use whatever I had at my fingertips and that could be AI, right? I mean, don’t get me wrong, but I mean, it certainly is now with apps like CodePro. But I mean, like that knowledge of knowing what I don’t know, I think is, I use this a lot because I feel like that’s so important. And I fear that people will not, you know, people get ahead of themselves and not realize what they don’t know, inspectors and homeowners.
Brad Lowery
Beau what’s your thought on that?
Beau Brown
Okay, so I feel like Brad, you made my argument for me a little bit here, but just didn’t take it the next step that I was going to take it, right? So the first thing that I was going to say is, know, what’s stopping this from happening currently without AI? There’s plenty of guys out there that take a quick two hour. Like my state requires there’s no licensing requirement for home inspectors in Utah. So you can literally print out a business card that says home inspector LLC. Congratulations, you are a qualified home inspector in the state of Utah, no training required. Right? So, like what’s, what’s stopping homeowners from doing their own inspections or any, any of this stuff from happening. And the reality of it is, that, you know, to, to, if you’re worried that this is going to happen with AI, that this is what they’re going to do with AI, it’s the same thing that happens now. People are going to self-police and part of the responsibility I feel like to, you know, go a step further with this is us as industry professionals to try and let people out in the industry or other homeowners and other people know that like, hey, AI exists. It’s an option. You could try and use it. It’s definitely not as good as me. And here’s why. And I guarantee that in the next five to 10 years, I’m not going be making social media videos on that. Like here’s why a home inspector is better than using AI. Then list all the crap I just listed to you guys. A home inspector has a sense of kinetics. You know, I can walk through the house and feel that the floor is not level. And, know, I have I can feel the drafty wind coming through the window and all of these things I can feel and identify way faster than you as a general homeowner who doesn’t understand could figure out. I’m using AI too. I’m using the same AI app you guys are using except for I bring my brains along with and that’s why I’m valuable.
Matt Brading
Yeah, actual intelligence, not just artificial intelligence.
Beau Brown
Yeah, right? Right? It’s not artificial. have like actual, like, you know, spatial intelligence.
Brad Lowery
So it sounds to me, it sounds to me like, Beau, your take is that this should be used as an augmenting tool. And Matt, you’re concerned that this could be abused by people in the industry and outside the industry in a way that could cost genuinely good inspectors their jobs. So my question to you, Matt, is how would you counteract that?
Matt Brading
I get-
Matt Brading
Well, again, I got to back up for one second, but I got to say that a lot of the things that you’re saying, Beau, I can, I don’t necessarily disagree with, but what I definitely do disagree with is somebody sending me and wanting me wanting me to somehow be involved in the creation of this AI replacement of a home inspector. Like you can get out of here with that. Like you, you and him can talk all you want. I don’t want anything to do with it. Okay. That dude can go create his app with you. You guys can do whatever y’all want. Y’all can go ahead.
Beau Brown
You want me to argue that one with you? Hold on.
Thanks.
Matt Brading
beers together. Y’all can go. I don’t know what you do in. So you go skiing. I don’t know. You do what y’all do over in Salt Lake or whatever, you know, but I don’t want any part of that. Um, but, but to answer your question, Brad, like what would I do? I mean, I agree with Beau in making, uh, videos to counteract it. Right. Um, because I mean, like it’s the same thing as dads aren’t homeless vectors, you know? Um, it’s, it’s the same that this is the same argument we’ve been having.
Beau Brown
Hang on.
Matt Brading
and so I think, I think we overcome it, by doing the same things that we’re doing. I don’t think we need to change any of that really, although it might nuances change because, you know, technology changes, but, but not, I don’t think anything really needs to change. I just don’t want to be a part of the creation of it.
Beau Brown
Mm-hmm.
Beau Brown
Okay, wait, hold on. Hold on, yeah, exactly, right? That’s it, right there, So let’s say somebody comes out with a tool that is genuinely going to replace me. Why am I not going to be part of the creation of this tool? I hope they replace me. I am here to replace you, man. Someday will have more followers than you. You are on my crosshairs. The big crosshair in the sky is you, bro. I will pass you someday.
Brad Lowery
I mean, if you get to monetize that for yourself.
Matt Brading
God, I hope they do.
Beau Brown
But for reals though.
Matt Brading
We are going to actually fight in Las Vegas. There is going to be an actual throwdown. I hope somebody’s got a camera.
Beau Brown
Brad Lowery
Follow the show if you would like to see Matt and Beau fight Las Vegas.
Matt Brading
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. me tell you, Brown ain’t leaving Vegas. Okay, he’s going down.
Beau Brown
Yeah.
Brad Lowery
Hey, somebody posted a video of me riding a bull at or InterNACHI so so I want to see somebody post a video of y’all fighting in Vegas. Okay. I feel like it’s only fair, Matt. You didn’t stop Sean Mizell from recording that.
Beau Brown
Bring it.
Matt Brading
You
Beau Brown
We’ll go get some singlets and some headgear.
Matt Brading
Okay, okay, I think we got off topic.
Brad Lowery
So I think what Matt, kind of what you’re getting at, and this is honestly, you know, kind of what I’ve been specialized in the last three years, is really the need for proper marketing around how the tool is supposed to work or how it can be implemented. Because if you market it properly for its proper use case, then you control the message and you control your own job security at that point too.
Beau Brown
Well, and one of the other things too is like, know, something for home inspectors that are listening to this to think about or anybody that’s listening to this to think about AI is just a tool. It’s a really, really neat, shiny tool. But at this point, that’s all it is. It’s not the replacement for human intelligence that social media is making out to be. It is simply a fancy tool that can… It’s a really, really good calculator.
And we can teach calculators to do really, really crazy things nowadays, and it’s going to make your life easier. It’s going to make it easier to write discrepancies. It’s going to make it easier to be an inspector. It’s going to make it easier to send out inspection reports and do follow-ups and CRM and all sorts of stuff. AI is going to make everything easier that is tedious, but replace your sense of smell or any of those other things that I’ve been highlighting so far. It just, can’t…
It’s so far away from being able to do that, that you don’t like in our career field, it’s not replacing us anytime soon. Not at least any way that at a level that we can perform at, it won’t do as good as we can.
Brad Lowery
Well, not just that, but you know, the easiest and I guess the most logical way that I can make sense of why this won’t be doing that is one big word that we all hate, which is lawsuits. I mean, you wait until there’s a buyer and a realtor that it’s a seller’s market and they’re waving inspections and they’re like, but there’s this app, we could use this for the inspection instead. And they go scanning through as soon as they find something wrong or they miss something that was wrong, who are they not going to be calling for the callback?
Beau Brown
Ha!
Brad Lowery
not the home inspector, they’re going to be calling the developer of that app. And suing in their asses for misinformation or for, well, this was wrong in my house and it should have caught it. All the things that inspectors get callbacks for. Now the developers of these apps and the insurance companies aren’t going to be able to stand for that either. You know, when it comes to, especially like down in Florida, wind mitigations, four points, they want things to be as accurate as possible. So hey, even if people try it for a little bit, I’m like you you follow the money the lawsuits I don’t think are going to allow any of that so
Beau Brown
Well, and I mean, from somebody who’s actually spent some time around an app that is being developed and kind of helping look at CodePro as it’s coming along its way here, one of the things that anybody that’s going to do that develops an app like that is you just put an agreement in there, just like we do as inspectors saying, you know what? You use this app, you’re responsible for whatever gets missed because it’s your eyeballs in the app, right?
Matt Brading
I can’t argue with that.
Matt Brading
Right
Beau Brown
That’s what anybody, that’s what any app will do. you’re right, there’ll be a couple of lawsuits, but the end of the lawsuit, the app won’t have to pay anything out. It’ll just hang the poor home buyer out to dry. The person who thought that this was a good option, that’s what it’s going to do. It’s going to hurt those people in the end. And it’s, you know, it’s up to us. Like I’m saying here, this is what I personally feel like. It’s up to us to kind of help the people understand that like, wouldn’t be a good idea, guys. It really wouldn’t be a great idea. It’s better to have a real person that actually understands and looks at a lot of houses or has been trained.
Matt Brading
All right.
Beau Brown
to look at a lot of houses, come take a look at this and physically, physically be there. And AI can’t replace that physical person part.
Brad Lowery
Definitely. All right, so let’s have some closing arguments on the case for and against AI in the field. Matt, go ahead.
Matt Brading
I think that there is a place for it. use it whenever I am, especially I use it on social media. I use it to create captions a lot. I like the feature in ISN. I do love the AI and the part of CodePro and its ability to give me exactly what I’m looking for in an instant. I literally just have this problem with the potential replacement. It’s not that I’m scared.
Beau Brown
yeah.
Matt Brading
I am scared for people and I didn’t like this guy coming at me and trying to say, you want to be a part of it? Cause it’s like, I absolutely don’t.
Beau Brown
Hahaha
Beau Brown
for me.
Brad Lowery
I hear that. All right, Beau, closing arguments.
Beau Brown
I get where you’re coming from Matt. don’t blame you. It’s tough to feel like somebody’s coming in and saying, I’ve got a piece of technology that’s going to make you obsolete.
And the last thing you want to do is, you know, just generally in people, it’s really easy to understand looking at that and going, I don’t, I don’t know if I want to contribute to something that will eventually make me obsolete. What am I going to do afterwards? And then all the people that might get hurt by the mistakes that this thing could make, because it’s obviously not ready. So I get that. But at the same time too, I try to stay forward thinking and future thinking. That’s why this, you know, in this Code Pro thing came along. I jumped on 100 % full force. I see the benefit behind it. And then
And that’s one of the reasons why I’m going to Vegas. I want to get around the new technology, the new builder stuff, all the stuff that they’re doing out there. I want to be part of the cutting edge stuff and see where it’s going so that as the industry changes, I’ve got my feet on the right path, going the right direction. And so for my partying thing, for any inspector or any homeowner out there that’s thinking about playing with AI, do it. Just understand that it’s a tool with limitations. And if you guys want to try out Code Pro, find me at the Builder Expo, I’m going to be giving out links to anybody that finds me there, so you can beta test it. And we will be going public here soon. Maybe by the time this is released out on…
Matt Brading
I that we should really touch on the fact that it’s not necessarily an inspection or inspector tool. Like, I mean, that’s the reason why I think you’re going to IBS. It’s a builder show, right? But why are you going there? Builders can very much use really good access to code. You go and talk to home inspectors about, you know, what isn’t up to code. Literally the builder asked me today. Okay. He asked me what the code was. Builders, a lot of them don’t know it.
Beau Brown
No, it’s not.
Beau Brown
Yeah.
Beau Brown
Mm-hmm.
Matt Brading
A lot of the trades don’t know it. So, I mean, like it’s, it’s less neat than we’re talking about. What’s that?
Beau Brown
So that was one of the desires behind putting this together. That was really one of the desires behind putting this together. Like when Carl started developing, this is Carl, it’s his thing. I’m just here to kind of market it because I’m 100 % in support. But when we started talking about it, it was out of a desire of like how many times has a builder or somebody looked at me and gone, is that code? Do you know? And I’m standing there going, I’m supposed to be the smartest one in the room about this and I don’t actually know.
You know, like I wanted to have a tool or something in my pocket and that the worst thing is is like I would tell myself I’ll just go home. I’ll go home. I’ll figure this out. I’ll look it up I’ll get the answer and the next time I get asked I will be the most knowledgeable man in the room because that’s supposed to be my job and it was an absolute pain to find the answers and
Matt Brading
Yeah.
Beau Brown
Anybody not just an inspector anybody that desires to understand the code or has spent any time trying to figure it out whether you’re a builder a plumber an electrician an engineer Anything like that you you’ve spent some time trying to figure out the code you understand Just how difficult it is to find your answers this like you ask it a question it finds the code It tells you the code it gives you the reference if there’s even a website that takes you directly to the code documents like it’s Bulletproof guys it makes code so easy now, so we took care of that one with AI. We solved that problem.
Matt Brading
Yeah, I mean, it is pretty cool. It is definitely a really cool, really cool thing. So I guess, yeah, at the end of this thing, like I love and hate AI and Beau loves AI.
Brad Lowery
That’s phenomenal. That’s phenomenal.
Beau Brown
I love it. It’s the best.
Brad Lowery
That makes sense. Well, and that’s an easy plug because look, I want this to be a conversation that extends beyond just the three of us here. So for all of you watching and listening sound off in the comments about what your thoughts are, your concerns, your excitement level around AI, we want to hear it. If you agree with Beau, you agree with Matt, let’s duke it out in the comments. That’d be awesome. But guys,
Matt Brading
Yeah, gotta change my mind. I’m gonna write that down here. Yeah, I gotta just change my mind with a cup of coffee. That’s what I am now.
Brad Lowery
Yeah.
as a
There you go, man. There you go. All right. But to round it or to close it out, guys, give me a couple of things that you’re both excited to be learning about at the Builder Show.
Beau Brown
There you go.
Matt Brading
well, honestly, I’m a networking guy, so I’m really excited about seeing some of my friends from, all over the country and beyond the country. It mean both actually never met. We’ve known each other for a few years. We’ve actually never met in person. Really excited about that. That’s, mean, don’t get me wrong. I am there to learn. I’m there to see all these products. I don’t know what I’m going to see. It’s actually overwhelming. The thing is massive. There’s just so much stuff everywhere. I’m gonna make as much videos I can, to show people, know, some of the cool things that I find. I always, I try to make it my mission to go out there and find some at least somewhat affordable things that I think that production building should consider introducing as on a regular basis, try to make our buildings last longer. And so that’s what I’m looking forward to.
Brad Lowery
Beau, how about you,
Beau Brown
For me, I’m really eager to see, I think it’s going to give me a good idea of where the building industry is trying to go. These guys are all supposed to be cutting edge, top of the market, best of the best. This is where the industry is going. And so for as a whole, I’m excited to kind of stand back and look at it as like big picture. Where are things going? Where are they moving? Again, this is part of my desire to stay future forward thinking and try and stay on top of the market.
I’m in the building industry, whether or not I’m building them. I’m in the residential building industry and the commercial building industry as well. And I want to know how they’re going to start making this stuff in the future and what that’s going to look like. And I think I’m going to get a good idea of that. I’m going to start probably going every year.
Brad Lowery
I love it. I love it. That’s awesome. Hey, so if any of the other inspectors are gonna be at the show go look these two guys up I’m excited to hear about it from both of you guys. So but Beau thanks for so much for joining the show I’m looking I want to try to beta test this app too, man. I’m excited to hear about that Yeah
Beau Brown
Absolutely, absolutely. I’ll get you a link. We’ll get you a beta test of them. I’ll get you on it.
Matt Brading
I’m good
Brad Lowery
All right, sounds good. for joining the show. Matt, tell me how the show goes, man. Once you get back, have a safe trip. I’m excited for you,
Matt Brading
Enjoy.
Matt Brading
For sure, and hey, Beau, real quick, tell everybody where they can find you.
Beau Brown
You can find me on Instagram, homeinspector.saltlake. I’m on TikTok that way as well. Facebook, all that stuff. I’m not joking, I’m trying to beat Matt someday, so please follow me. But yeah, that’s where can find me. No way, dude. You got to lead.
Matt Brading
What happened? What happened?
Brad Lowery
Very cool.
And my job gets easy after this because I then get to use this software and the AI tools in there to generate all of the clips and stuff that I get to post afterwards to repurpose it. So that makes me and Matt’s job pretty easy here too. Love it. Thank you guys again. Thanks both for joining. Thank you everybody so much for watching. This has been awesome. If there’s anything that you want us to debate about sound off in the comments with that too, because we’re always looking for good ideas of what to talk about next. So thank you for watching and we’ll see all of y’all right here next time on The Ride Along.
Matt Brading
You
Beau Brown
Exactly.
Beau Brown
Thank you.
