Built by a foundation guy, not a software company

BasementCheck exists because of a problem every foundation company knows: most site visits shouldn't have happened yet. A homeowner sends two blurry photos, someone drives forty minutes, and the answer turns out to be “monitor it” — or the opposite, a real problem sat in an inbox for three weeks because nobody could tell it was urgent from the photos. Estimator hours are the most expensive thing in the building, and they're spent on triage a structured first-pass could have done.

So I built the first pass.

What it does

A structured first read, in minutes

Upload photos of a crack, settlement, crawlspace, or slab issue, plus the address and a short description. BasementCheck returns a structured triage read in minutes: likely cause, severity, probable repair direction, and what an estimator should know before anyone rolls a truck.

It's built on real repair casework — the assessment logic encodes how an experienced crew actually triages: what stair-step cracking in brick veneer means on expansive clay, when subfloor moisture is the story and when it's a symptom, which jobs need an engineer and which need a drainage fix. The software side is built and tested with the same discipline we put into lifting a hundred-year-old villa: verify before you trust it with weight.

What it isn't

Screening and triage — not an engineering report

It is not an engineering report, and it doesn't replace inspection by a foundation contractor or licensed structural engineer. It's screening and triage — it tells you what's likely going on and how fast someone qualified should look at it. We're precise about that limit because overclaiming is how tools like this lose the trust of people who do this work for a living.

You'll also notice we don't show dollar estimates in the US yet. That's deliberate. Cost guidance is withheld until it's calibrated on regional partner repair data — we'd rather show nothing than show wrong numbers.

Where it's at

Live now, calibrating with founding partners

The New Zealand version (BaseCheck) is live and being tested with property managers on real maintenance issues. The US version is running now — American foundation taxonomy, terminology, and report flow — and we're working with a small number of foundation companies as founding calibration partners: the system gets tuned on their service lines, terminology, and repair history, so it qualifies leads and preps estimators the way their operation actually works.

If you run a foundation repair company and want to see it on one of your own past jobs, that's the best demo there is.