InspectMind AI (YC W24)

Welcome our new software engineer interns to InspectMind! Ethan Waldman recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a major in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and has quickly become a valuable member of our team with his impactful contributions to our codebase. Ameyaa Biwalkar is completing her Master’s in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz. Her strong background in academia and ML will greatly enhance our LLM pipeline development. We are thrilled to have you join us as we continue to innovate at the cutting edge of AI in construction. Welcome aboard Ethan and Ameyaa! 🌟🚀🏗️

Welcome our interns to InspectMind AI (YC W24)! Ayush R. joined as a Software Engineer Intern. As a high achieving EECS undergrad at UC Berkeley, Ayush's past experiences include ML research at UChicago and work at Spotify and Mercari. Quinn Gangadharan joined as a Sales Intern. As a talented recent graduate of NYU with a major in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Mathematics, Quinn even has hands-on experience writing inspection reports on-site in his prior internships. Welcome to the team, Quinn and Ayush! We're excited for the journey ahead and the impact you will make. Let's build the future of AI in construction together! 🏗️👷♂️🤖

Excited to announce our first founding engineer Manan Mehta is joining InspectMind AI (YC W24)! Welcome to the team, Manan! Your expertise in building AI applications from Adobe, Google, and Salesforce will be a game-changer for us. Excited for the innovations ahead!

InspectMind AI (YC W24) auto generating inspection spreadsheet over 80 balconies by classifying and summarizing a 400 pages report in 10 minutes ⚡⚡ used to take our user 1 week to do it manually! If you want to be part of this, we're hiring founding engineers as well as software engineer interns 👩💻👨💻 Email us founders@inspectmind.ai with: 1. Resume 2. Why you want to work with us 3. Your experience with react native, nodejs, AWS and LLM 4. When you can start

Is generating a custom inspection report in a few minutes feasible? One use case of artificial intelligence that I am keeping an eye on is inspection report generation. The premise of this type of technology is ingesting inspection data (photos, videos, voice memos, etc.), and having artificial intelligence analyze the data to convert it into a written report format. I wanted to highlight a specific application that makes use of this technology by the team at InspectMind AI (YC W24). Here is what I like about the software: -The editable nature of the file the software produces (MS Word) allows you to take full control over the end deliverable and not be subject to a boilerplate pdf (like most inspection software I have tested). -Customers of the application can customize report templates based on the specifics of their business and individual workflows. -The application is general in nature, and not limited to any one specific inspection use case. I'm including some snips from the application, based on a residential structural inspection, to give you an idea of how it works. Want more information on the product? Comment "Automate" and I'll get you connected to the team. #inspection #ai #reporting

With the YC W24 batch ended, reflecting on my first 4 months of startup journey with InspectMind AI (YC W24), despite all the difficulties, it has been extremely rewarding. I concluded the reasons as follows: 1. Helping customers and solving real pain points A customer told me in his words “I’m dying writing reports today in the office”. His usually few hundred pages report takes him 1 week to write and it’s boring and tedious, now with our app, it takes 15 minutes. I visited him on the jobsite and saw the real pains on his face whenever he even talks about writing reports. With InspectMind, he plans to double his income, and that money goes into supporting his family of 2 kids. We are now talking to a few big customers with $XXB revenues. But at the end of the day, we’re helping the individual person do their job easier, this is the fundamental reason why we even start this company. Hearing users saying “the app worked very well” “this is so much better than how I do it today” is the most satisfying and it reassures me the meaning of my work. And as a result of happy customers, we can build a good profitable business. 2. Doing something that has never been done before Building InspectMind app is a very creative process for me. We’re the first people to solve inspection report writing problems with this AI angle. I study a few hundred pages inspection reports, and connect dots together: inspection domain knowledge, what AI can do as a tool, conversations with users, design a smooth user experience, code and launch, get users’ feedback and iterate. It’s all in the details: UI, faster loading, offline mode... Building software is a craft that I think is very similar to building a physical item like a chair. And no matter what that chair should look like, as long as physics allows it, it’s doable! Design a path to break any problem down into small pieces, and solve each piece one by one. A few nights it got me too excited to sleep thinking of how we can put UX, AI, robots together to solve inspections or other physical problems alike. It’s fun to build this app. 3. Having an amazing cofounder to work with My cofounder Aakash Prasad might just be the most positive person I’ve met. He somehow managed to view every situation in a positive way, e.g. I got frustrated over rejections from potential customers, he told me hey it’s never a waste of time talking to customers at this stage, when they don’t buy, we learn a lesson. Don’t think of sales as win or loss, because then you get discouraged. Think of no as an opportunity to learn. We always learn something, and that helps us clarify which potential customers to not serve and move faster. Aakash always amazed me with his positive thinking, passion and focus, which I think comes from facing hard things and overcoming them, repeat that 1k times. And we’re fully on the same page in what matters is our customers and nothing else.

Today we InspectMind AI (YC W24) finished the YC batch and demo day. In the past I didn't know what to make of YC -- was it hype or was there more to it? After going through YC for the first time as a multi time founder, I am now a real believer! In the last not even three months in the batch, we launched our product, got early paying customers and MRR, raised our round in one week, and now have some of the biggest names in our industry including $XXB revenue AEC firms in our customer pipeline. And our plan is to turn profitable / cash flow positive this year itself. Normally when you are starting a company it can take as long as six months to put a round together. At InspectMind AI (YC W24) we had over 150+ (we stopped counting at some point) investors come to us inbound during the YC batch even before Demo Day and our round got done and oversubscribed in a week. We ended up accepting money from 50 investors and plan to meet the rest next time. I don't know if that happens outside of YC unless maybe if you are OpenAI. I wasn't sure if being in YC would help us with customer acquisition since we are selling to a traditional industry (construction) and not the typical YC focus area. But the exposure got us customer leads from all over the world, including a surprising density in Australia of all places. So here is my honest testimonial for YCombinator: YC makes the whole process of starting and building a company way more fun and a lot less lonely. I highly recommend it, 200%, even if you are a repeat / multi time founder.

InspectMind AI generating a 100+ page balcony inspection report. Used to take 1 week. Now 15 minutes⚡️⚡️

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