Willow

Capture the evidence once. Bind it to where it was found.

Willow brings photographs, close-up video, thermal and pole-camera views into one tablet workflow. Every item is bound to a location and to the surveyor's own words, so the record leaves site structured for review, reporting and machine learning.

Willow does not author professional judgement. It structures the surveyor's judgement, checks it against the evidence and highlights unresolved capture risks before sign-off.

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How it works

  1. Capture

    Work through the property one location at a time. Photograph, film, scan and speak on one tablet, with the pole camera for anything above head height.

  2. Bind

    Each item is tied to the location it came from and to the surveyor's spoken note. Nothing is left floating in a camera roll.

  3. Structure

    Evidence is organised against the survey's element structure. The AI suggests and flags gaps; it never sets a condition rating or writes a conclusion.

  4. Hand off

    A clean, structured evidence record, designed to hand off to a report writer. The report, the wording and the judgement stay with the surveyor.

Every item carries its provenance: who captured it, where, when, and what the AI was and was not allowed to say.

What it captures

  • A chimney on a pitched roof

    Pole camera: elevated views from the ground

    A camera on a pole of up to about 10 metres streams a live view to the tablet. Roofs, chimneys, valleys, gutters and upper elevations are captured without ladders or a drone. Each still or clip lands in the record against the location the surveyor is working at, so any limitation of the inspection is recorded from evidence rather than reconstructed at the desk.

  • Close view of cracked white render with brickwork showing through

    Close-capture video

    Short tablet clips hold detail a photograph cannot: a crack running through render, movement at a joint, damp tracking along a skirting. The clip sits under the same observation as the stills and the spoken note.

  • A tablet showing a thermal image

    Thermal

    A mobile thermal camera works inside the same tablet workflow. Each thermal image sits beside the visible photograph of the same spot, as supporting evidence for the surveyor and never as a verdict on its own.

    Works with FLIR ONE Edge.

  • A professional using a tablet outdoors

    Voice first

    The surveyor's own words are the primary evidence. Each observation is spoken as it is captured and transcribed afterwards, and a typed note can be added. The surveyor's words always outrank anything the AI suggests.

Supervision during capture, not just review afterwards

A trainee or field surveyor captures on site while a supervising surveyor follows the same record from anywhere. The supervisor can ask for more before the surveyor moves on: another image from the north side, or a thermal clip of that ceiling. Every request and response sits in the same evidence trail, so oversight is visible rather than assumed.

Working in the current build. Designed for training, and for showing competent oversight of the evidence behind a report.

  1. Surveyor, on siteCaptures the north elevation, with a spoken note.
  2. Supervisor, remoteAnother image from the north side, please.
  3. Surveyor, on siteAdds the image to the same observation, then moves on.
Illustration. Each request and response is stored with the evidence it relates to.

Built for the standard surveyors now work under

Since 9 March 2026, the RICS professional standard Responsible use of artificial intelligence in surveying practice has applied to every RICS member and regulated firm. It keeps the surveyor accountable for AI-assisted work, and clients must be told in writing, in advance, when and why AI is used. Willow is designed along the same lines:

  • The surveyor's judgement leads. AI outputs are suggestions and gap flags, never ratings or conclusions.
  • Every item carries provenance, so any output can be traced to its evidence and its author.
  • When the evidence is not good enough, the AI says so and asks for another capture instead of guessing.
  • Supervision and review are recorded, not assumed.

Daisy Studio has mapped Willow's architecture against the requirements of this standard. The mapping is our own; it is not an RICS assessment, approval or endorsement.

Beneath reporting, not instead of it

Willow is designed as the evidence layer underneath existing reporting systems, not a replacement for them. Its output is a structured evidence record, designed to hand off to a report writer: every photograph, clip, thermal image and note, already tied to its location and element.

In the UK build, the report stays in the surveyor's wording and the firm's template, and Willow's job ends where the write-up of professional judgement begins.

The Florida build goes one step further for US home inspection: once the inspector has reviewed the record, the client report and insurer forms are rendered from it. The inspector's findings still lead, and recommendations appear only where the inspector states them.

Where the time goes

The work moves to capture. Evidence is linked as it is taken, so the desk is left for review and sign-off.

Conventional4 h

Desk time goes on sorting, renaming and matching media before the writing starts.

With Willow2.5 h

On site: capture, linked as it is taken. At the desk: review and sign-off only.

37.5%less time per inspection
0media edits at the desk

Early field use on building inspections, against a typical two hours on site and two at the desk. Not a controlled study.

Where Willow is now

Willow has been developed alongside working surveyors in the UK and home inspectors in Florida. The pole camera, tablet, thermal camera and mobile connection now run as one field rig, tested end to end outdoors. The same capture engine underpins EdgeRaptor, for the external inspection of industrial storage tanks. How the engine is built.

Independent development and field testing ran from 2024 to September 2026. Further deployment depends on an industrial partner.

  • UK surveying

    Built first against the RICS Level 1, 2 and 3 survey structures, around traceability, supervision and professional judgement.

    Explore UK surveying

  • US home inspection

    Then carried over to Florida home-inspection forms, showing that the inspection structure can be swapped without rebuilding the capture engine.

    Explore US inspection
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One platform, localised for different professional standards.

UK Surveyors

RICS-aware evidence-to-report workflows for residential surveying, built around traceability, review, and professional judgement.

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US Inspectors

Inspection intelligence for defensible field capture, live supervision, thermal/video evidence, and standards-aware reporting.