We got tired of cross-referencing 200-page SOP manuals for every single report. So we built the tool we needed.
Built by an inspection professional who was tired of cross-referencing 200-page SOP manuals for every single report.
SOP Reports started at CarisWest Inspections in Washington state. Our founder, Taylor, was running a busy inspection business and kept hitting the same wall: every report required manually looking up the correct standard section, checking state regulatory codes for overrides, and double-checking citations. Twenty minutes per report, minimum. Twenty reports a month. That's six and a half hours — nearly a full workday — spent on citation compliance alone.
Existing software didn't help. The major platforms have AI features, but they're generic — ChatGPT bolted onto an inspection form. None of them actually understand Standards of Practice. None of them auto-cite the correct section based on the finding. None of them let you upload your own SOP document.
"I built this because I needed it. Every inspection professional does. We spend too much time on paperwork and not enough time inspecting."
Founder of CarisWest Inspections. Built SOP Reports to solve the citation compliance problem he faced every day in the field. The platform is dogfooded daily across every inspection at CarisWest.
Based in Washington State
Most inspection software charges per month regardless of volume. SOP Reports charges per inspection — $10/tech base + $3 per published report, capped at $79/tech. Solo inspector doing 15 jobs a month? That's $55 ($10 base + $45 in reports). Compare that to $89–109/month for subscription-based platforms whether you do 5 inspections or 50.
But pricing isn't the main differentiator. The SOP engine is. Upload your Standards of Practice document — whether it's residential (InterNACHI, ASHI, state codes), commercial (ASTM E2018), industrial (ISO, API), fire/life safety (NFPA), food safety (HACCP, FDA), environmental (ASTM E1527), oil & gas (API 510/570), aviation (FAA), construction (IBC, OSHA), telecom (TIA), energy (NERC), maritime (IMO), or your own custom SOP — and our AI parses it into a citation database. Then every finding you write gets automatically matched to the correct section. You review. You approve. The compliance work is done.
We use SOP Reports every day at CarisWest Inspections. If it doesn't work for us, it doesn't ship.
Every citation must be correct. Your reputation — and your license — depends on it. We take that seriously.
Residential, commercial, industrial, food safety, aviation — if it has an SOP, we support it.
Every feature comes from real field feedback. We talk to inspectors daily and build what they tell us they need.
Make SOP compliance automatic and affordable. Every inspection professional should be able to produce reports that are technically correct, properly cited, and legally defensible — without spending hours on manual cross-referencing.
"SOP Reports" is exactly what we do: we take your Standards of Practice and we put them in your reports. No marketing fluff. No "disrupting the inspection vertical." Just solving the real problem inspection professionals face every day — across every industry.
We're headquartered in Western Washington, serving inspectors nationwide across every industry. If you're in the Pacific Northwest, you might even know us — we run CarisWest Inspections, the first tenant on the platform. We dogfood our own product every day.
Questions? Ideas? Want to try it out? Get in touch or email us directly at hello@sopreports.com.