A friend from my old sales job, buying her first house, got back a forty-page home inspection report full of technical language and photos of things flagged in red, with no clear sense of what was a real concern versus routine wear that comes with any older house.
She fed the report into an AI chatbot and asked it to help her separate the findings into rough categories — things that were likely major and worth negotiating over, things that were minor and expected, and things she didn't understand well enough to know which category they belonged in.
It walked her through the technical terminology in plain English and helped her draft a specific list of questions to bring back to her actual inspector and real estate agent, instead of vaguely worrying about the whole report.
She was clear that any real negotiation over the findings, or a decision about walking away from the deal, was a conversation with her actual agent and inspector, not something to settle based on a chatbot's read of a PDF. But going into that conversation already understanding the report saved her from feeling completely out of her depth.
A home inspection report is written for inspectors, not first-time buyers, and that gap causes a lot of unnecessary panic over routine findings. Understanding what you're actually looking at is the first step to knowing what's really worth worrying about.
If you want the slow, no-jargon version of all this — the stuff I wish someone had handed me before I fumbled through it myself — that's exactly what I built On Ramp AI for. Check it out here.