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Features/Context Layer

Show clients how common each defect is

Context Layer adds a labelled box to each defect: how common the issue is nationally and in the state, and how involved the repair usually is. You type nothing extra.

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An inspection report defect about gaps in soffits, with a Hive Context box marked AI Market Insight showing roughly 30 percent of homes in the United States and 27 percent in California have the issue, plus an ease of repair note
Every defect
gets its own Hive Context box
Every plan
including the 10-report pack
On or off
by template, or for a single report

Put each finding in proportion

Clients see what is routine

A missing smoke detector can frighten a first-time buyer. With the context beside it, your report does not read as alarmist.

Expectations set before the contractor

The ease of repair line gives clients a sense of the work involved before they start calling around for quotes.

Kept apart from your findings

The box is labelled Hive Context and marked AI Market Insight, so clients can see it comes from Hive, not from your inspection.

How the Context Layer works

Choose the templates once. After that it runs on its own. Setup steps in the Hive docs

  1. Step 1

    Choose your templates

    Pick the templates that use it by default. Turn it on or off for any single report.

  2. Step 2

    Inspect the way you do now

    Nothing changes on site. You do not write the context or tag anything for it.

  3. Step 3

    It is added when you publish

    Hive generates it when you publish the report, or when you generate a PDF beforehand.

Yari Rincon of Home InCheck walks her buyers through the Hive Context box in one of her reports.

What Yari Rincon tells her buyers

“… what I like most is that it briefly explains how easy or complicated it might be to fix this issue.”
Yari Rincon · Home InCheck

Context Layer questions

What is the Context Layer?

The Context Layer is a feature in Hive, the AI home inspection software, that adds market context to each defect in an inspection report. Next to the finding, the client sees roughly what share of homes have the same issue nationally and in that state, plus a short read on how involved the repair usually is. It appears in a separate box labelled Hive Context and marked AI Market Insight, so it is clearly Hive analysis rather than the inspector's own observation.

Where do the numbers come from?

From a proprietary AI model Hive developed in house, which we are constantly improving.

Does it create any liability for me?

The context sits in its own box, labelled Hive Context and marked AI Market Insight, so it reads as Hive analysis and not as part of your inspection findings. We still recommend reading it on your own reports and satisfying yourself before turning it on for your templates.

Can I remove it from a report?

Yes. Open the report in the web report editor, use the three dot menu to switch Context Layer off, and publish again. The client gets the report without it.

How the AI fits together is on the AI home inspection software page. Anything else: email support@hiveinspect.com.

Other AI tools in Hive

  • AI Comment AssistWrite a full inspection comment from a few words
  • AI Comment MergeCombine related findings into one clean comment
  • Smart AddDescribe a finding, get the matching comment

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