Camera, thermal, moisture, laser measurement and sketch in one handheld that builds the claim file in carrier-reading order while you walk. On a CAT deployment, the 24-hour close starts with what you capture in the first hour — not with two hours of renaming photos in the truck.
You're already juggling a ladder, a tape and a carrier app. The viewfinder is always on; the device reads context from hardware state and files every capture the right way — it never asks you to pick a mode.
Live reading, material and wet/dry band land in the overlay — and burn into the JPEG. The value stays in the photo, where the file reviewer finds it without hunting through a spreadsheet.
CLM-1407 · KITCHEN · 09:42 · DRYWALL — WET vs dry refPut the visible red dot on the wall — the same phase-shift ranging as the meter on your belt, ±1 mm at up to 40 m — and the capture becomes a dimension photo. No second trip with a tape, no dimension you can't tie to a wall.
CLM-1407 · KITCHEN · 09:43 · 3.42 mA clean capture — still stamped with claim, room and timestamp, still filed into the package in reading order. Logged, not loose.
CLM-1407 · KITCHEN · 09:44Files come back on missing justification — photos without notes, depreciation nobody explained, narratives that don't follow the format. Adjuster Edition closes those gaps at capture time, on site.
Every photo and every room carries a justification-note slot — typed, or spoken as a voice memo while your hands are full. The validator counts missing F9s before export; a photo without its note is a flag on the spot, not a kickback three weeks later.
The pre-export check carries the depreciation and carrier-guideline checklist — age and condition noted where depreciation applies, line justification present, guideline items accounted for. Checklist items, not lectures.
Notes assemble into the narrative structure file review actually reads — cause of loss, scope, justification — instead of a wall of free text. Voice memos transcribe on-device into draft notes you approve.
Before anything leaves the site: missing F9s, rooms without dimensions, missing risk and elevation shots, readings without linked photos. Every flag deep-links to the fix. Meets spec, or it tells you why not.
A 256×192 radiometric thermal frame of the cold evaporative footprint, filed next to the contact reading that confirms it. Cause, extent and location in one visual — the kind a file reviewer accepts without a site revisit.
Evaporative cooling shows the cold footprint of hidden moisture behind paint and finished drywall — thermal points, the probe confirms on contact. Two independent physics agreeing, both burned into the file.
Wicking patterns and migration paths readable at report scale — a wet call backed by a radiometric frame doesn't come back for re-justification. The thermal frame files next to the moisture photo and the F9 note it supports.
The laser is the same phase-shift module class inside the Bosch and Leica meters you already carry — same visible red dot, same number, now burned into the dimension photo instead of penciled on a pad.
Risk overview, exterior, elevations front-to-left, then interior room by room — the full carrier-reading order, enforced by the capture flow. Nobody renames a file. Nobody re-sorts 200 photos at 11 PM.
The device prompts the next section as you complete the last — risk shot first, four elevations in order, then interior. Skip when you must; the gap is logged and the validator remembers.
Call the room name — voice or one click — and every capture files under it. The package reads like the inspection happened, because it's ordered the way the inspection happened.
The complete capture protocol — every section, every prompt, every rule — is documented as an interactive map. See exactly what the instrument enforces before you ever pick one up.
Nobody's asking you to leave your estimate platform — your macros, your price lists, your muscle memory stay where they are. Adjuster Edition feeds them: the export is shaped for how those systems take files in.
Named and ordered per Xactimate and Symbility import conventions — drag in, photos fall into place, captions carried.
Room dimensions formatted for fast Sketch entry — walls, openings, ceiling heights in the order you'd draw them.
Rooms, readings, equipment and timestamps in one table — the skeleton of the estimate before you type a line item.
Justification notes exported as clean text in narrative format — into the file, not retyped from a notepad.
The package assembles before you leave the driveway — microSD, cable or companion-app handoff. No signal required.
Device and companion app build the same claim package. Start on either, finish on either — the file doesn't care which screen you used.