BuyerWise
Custom web application
A home inspection report is forty pages of findings with no priority order. BuyerWise turns one into a plain-English plan a buyer can act on.
The problem
Home buyers, in the few days between inspection and the repair-request deadline.
A residential inspection report runs to forty pages. It is thorough, it is written for accuracy rather than for decisions, and it arrives at the single worst moment — the buyer typically has days to decide what to ask the seller for, and no way to tell which of two hundred findings actually matter.
So the report gets skimmed. Buyers ask for everything and look unreasonable, or ask for nothing and inherit a problem they were told about on page thirty-one. The information was all there. It just wasn't in a shape anyone could act on.
What I built
BuyerWise reads the report and produces the thing the buyer actually needs: a ranked list of what matters, what it is likely to cost, and what to say to the seller about it.
The ranking is the product. Anything can extract text from a PDF; the work is in deciding that a failed roof drainage detail outranks a missing outlet cover, and in explaining that ordering to someone who has never bought a house before.
- Report ingestion and parsing
- Severity ranking across findings
- Repair cost estimation
- Drafted seller negotiation language
- Plain-English rewriting of technical findings
Why not a template
There is no page to design here. The deliverable is a transformation — document in, decision out — which is a different kind of problem than laying out a page. This is the clearest example of the distinction the rest of this site is about: a website presents information a business already has, while a product creates information the business did not have before.
What it demonstrates
- 01Document parsing and data extraction
- 02Domain logic — the ranking rules are the hard part
- 03Turning specialist information into lay-readable output
- 04Product design from a real workflow, not a feature list
- 05Shipping and operating a real application
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