The client ran a growing inspection business, sending teams across the United States to inspect energy facilities — power infrastructure, utilities, and related sites. After every inspection, their team had to deliver a detailed, professional report to the end customer. The problem was everything that happened in between.
They were relying on a generic third-party reporting tool that was never built for field inspection work. Notes were collected separately. Photos lived in camera rolls and messaging apps. Reports were assembled by hand, reformatted every time, and looked different depending on who put them together. Every manual step was a point of failure — and the team had no real ownership over any of it.
Building the right tool from scratch
I designed and built a custom full-stack web application in Next.js — a single, unified platform that covered the entire inspection workflow from the moment an inspector arrives on site to the moment the report reaches the customer. The backend runs on PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM, images are stored securely on AWS S3, and the whole thing is deployed on DigitalOcean.
The application was built mobile-first, because inspectors don't sit at desks. It had to work on a phone in a loud, outdoor environment just as well as on a desktop in the office — and it does.
The most impactful feature was integrated camera capture. Rather than photographing things separately and uploading later, inspectors capture images directly inside the app — attached instantly to the right section of the report, labelled, and stored. The photo and the finding are created together, in the same moment. No gaps, no lost context, no post-processing.
When an inspection is marked complete, the platform automatically compiles every entry, note, and image into a clean, consistently formatted report — ready to share with the customer immediately. No copy-pasting, no formatting, no chasing missing sections. The same output, every single time.
Still running. Still saving them hours every day.
The platform is actively used by the client's internal team across their US energy facility operations. What previously required a patchwork of external tools and hours of manual effort now runs through one system — faster, more consistent, and fully under the client's control. Field inspectors use it on mobile. Office staff use it on desktop. The same platform, serving both, without compromise.
Let the inspectors focus on the inspection — and let the software handle everything else.