Engine · Closeout · LIVE

Walk the floor. Speak the punch.

Voice + photo capture during the walkthrough. Trueleveler transcribes, clusters items by room, tags trade and severity, attaches the photo with location metadata, and auto-routes each item to the responsible subcontractor with a deadline. The punch list writes itself between the walk and the next coffee break.

~30 min
walk-to-list, 200-unit floor
Voice + photo
from one walk
Auto
trade + severity tagging
→ Tasks
routed + deadlined
01 · How it works

Walk · talk · photo.

Three steps on the mobile app. Total field time on a 200-unit residential floor: ~30 minutes. The desk work that used to take a full afternoon — transcribing notes, organizing by room, assigning to subs, sending the punch list email — happens automatically while you walk to the parking lot.

Step 1 · Capture

Photo + voice tag

Take a photo. Hold the mic. "Unit 4B kitchen — cabinet door misaligned upper left corner, also baseboard caulk gap at the dishwasher." Geotag + EXIF lock the location. Two items captured in 6 seconds.

Step 2 · Cluster

Auto-group by room

The engine clusters captures by inferred location (voice cue + GPS + previously-walked rooms). One walk produces 80–200 individual items, grouped into 30–50 room-level cards for review.

Step 3 · Route

Trade · severity · assignee

Each item gets tagged with trade (cabinetry, paint, drywall, HVAC), severity (cosmetic / functional / blocking), and the assigned sub based on the project's vendor directory. Routed to Tasks with a deadline (default: 7 days for cosmetic, 3 days for functional, 24 hours for blocking).

02 · What the list looks like

From a 30-minute walk. To a routed punch list.

One captured walk produces a structured punch list per floor, sorted by location, with photo evidence and trade-routing already done.

4BKITCHENCabinet door misaligned · Upper left corner. Cabinetry. Cosmetic · ABC Cabinet · due 5/22
4BKITCHENBaseboard caulk gap at dishwasher · Drywall + paint. Cosmetic · Mainline Drywall · due 5/22
4BBATHToilet supply line missing escutcheon · Plumbing. Functional · Crown Plumbing · due 5/18
4BBATHBathroom fan vents into ceiling cavity · Code · HVAC. Blocking · HVAC Pros · due 5/16
4BLROutlet plate cracked · north wall · Electrical. Cosmetic · ProElectric · due 5/22
5AKITCHENGarbage disposal hum · not running · Plumbing + electrical. Functional · Crown Plumbing · due 5/18
ΣTOTALFloor 4 + 5 walked: 47 minutes · 92 items captured · 38 cosmetic / 38 functional / 16 blocking · routed to 11 subs. Email queued
Output

A punch list grouped by sub, by floor, by severity — with photo evidence and deadline per item. The sub gets the email automatically (or PDF, their preference). The PM gets a project-wide dashboard showing punch density by floor, by trade, and by sub-completion-rate.

03 · Why voice + photo wins

The walk used to be step one of three.

Before this engine, the punch-list workflow was three jobs that one person had to do:

Job 1 · The walk

~3-4 hours / floor

Walk every unit, every common area. Scribble on a clipboard or type into a tablet. Phone photos in the camera roll, hopefully captioned. Mental note: which trade owns each item.

Job 2 · The reconcile

~4-6 hours at the desk

Transcribe handwritten notes. Match photos to items. Type into a spreadsheet. Group by sub. Set deadlines. Forget half of what you saw because you didn't write it down clearly.

Job 3 · The routing

~1-2 hours

Email each sub their list. Copy the PM. Set follow-ups. Track completion in a separate system. Send reminders before the walk-back.

With this engine

30 minutes · the walk itself

Jobs 2 and 3 disappear. The engine clusters, routes, sets deadlines, and emails the subs while you finish walking. The PM reviews the list when they get back to the trailer — not the next afternoon.

Times above are typical for a residential mid-rise (200-300 units). Smaller jobs scale down proportionally; healthcare and lab work scales up because of code-driven items per room.

04 · Sub-side completion tracking

The list closes itself.

Punch items live as Tasks in the project's tracker. Each sub gets a per-sub view (their items only). Each item gets:

★ · Pairs with

It works alone. It's better in a chain.

Punch List is a closeout-phase engine. Its output feeds two downstream chains: the closeout package and the sub-vendor scorecard.

05 · FAQ

Things everyone asks first.

What about offline / spotty cell in the building?

Capture works fully offline. Photos and voice notes save locally; sync happens when connectivity returns. Most walkthroughs in concrete/steel structures lose cell deep inside — this is the expected case, not the edge case.

How accurate is the auto-trade tagging?

~85% on first-day deployment, ~93% after the engine learns your project's specific vendor mix and naming conventions. The PM can override trade assignment with one tap on any item. Wrong assignments don't email the wrong sub — the engine flags items it's unsure about for PM review before routing.

Can owner-rep walk it too, or just GC?

Both. Same engine, different routing rules. The owner-rep mode tags items but routes to the GC PM rather than directly to subs. The GC reviews and dispatches. Useful for owner-side reps who want their walk to be authoritative without bypassing the GC's command structure.

Does it integrate with Procore / Autodesk?

Export-only for v1. Routes punch lists as PDF + structured CSV that you can drop into Procore's Inspections module or Autodesk Build's Issues. Direct API integration with both is on the v4.2 roadmap.

Walk a floor with us. The list closes itself.

Bring an actual walkthrough to a 15-minute call. We'll capture it live on screen and generate the routed punch list. You keep the output and the routing data.

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