WDO report automation · California · Branch 3
The inspection takes two hours.
The report eats the rest of the week.
Anvil turns an inspector's spoken walkthrough into structured, review-ready 43M-41 findings. The inspection ends when the inspector leaves the property. The report shouldn't run for days after.
This is for shops doing real WDO volume
Enough volume that finished inspections queue up as office work. You know the shape of it already: findings retyped from paper worksheets, dates and addresses checked against the calendar, the 43M-41 assembled and filed days after the inspector left the property.
If you run a handful of WDOs a month, you probably don't need this. It earns its keep on volume.
The report is the bottleneck
At one California termite operator we work with, the office spends an estimated 15–25 hours a week turning finished inspections into filed reports. None of that time is inspecting or selling. It's moving information from paper worksheets into the state form.
That's the work Anvil takes.
From walkthrough to review-ready packet
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Capture
The inspector speaks the walkthrough and marks the diagram on a tablet, during the inspection. It works offline. Nothing is lost between the crawlspace and the truck.
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Extract
Anvil turns the recording into structured findings in the 43M-41's own terms: section, finding and chalk codes, treatment, location. The pipeline can't emit a code that isn't in the regulation. When it isn't sure, it flags the finding instead of guessing.
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Review
A person confirms every finding before it goes anywhere. Nothing files itself.
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Hand off
Reviewed findings come back as a report-ready packet that drops into your existing filing step. The re-keying is what disappears.
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Improve
Correct a finding once, and that correction becomes a permanent test case the system has to pass from then on. It gets better on your reports. It can't quietly regress.
A 43M-41 is a legal document
We build to that standard. Every finding traces back to the recording it came from and the exact system version that produced it. The codes come straight from the regulation, enforced in the pipeline itself. No finding depends on a model's judgment. If a report is ever questioned, you can show where each line came from.
A 90-day pilot, kept deliberately small
One inspector. One report type: the 43M-41. It runs alongside your current process, on real inspections, until it proves itself.
- What we set up: field capture on your inspector's tablet, the extraction pipeline tuned to how your inspectors actually talk, and the review workflow for your office.
- What it asks of you: one inspector willing to talk while they work, and a few hours a week from whoever owns reports today.
- What you have at the end: real numbers from your own operation — report turnaround, office hours recaptured, correction rate — and a decision. No commitment beyond the pilot.