Defect checkers
The first record of who actually catches things.
If you are good at this, there is currently no way to prove it and no way for a homeowner to tell. We are building the record that fixes that — and the capture tool you would want anyway.
The problem
No licence, no register, no record.
Defect inspection in Singapore is unregulated. There is no licence, no accreditation scheme and no register.
Every firm in the trade describes itself as the most thorough. None of them can be wrong in public, because there is nothing to be wrong against. A homeowner picking a checker is choosing between identical claims.
That is bad for homeowners. It is worse for you: it means the careful three-hour inspection and the forty-minute walkthrough sell at the same price, to the same customer, on the same promise.
How you’ll be measured
All four, and we’ll show them together.
Published in the open, the same way the designer grade is. No checker is measured yet — there is no record to compute from until checkers are using this. Here is exactly what will be counted when there is.
Coverage
Defects you raise per unit, against the median for the same property type and size. Not a raw count — a 4-room flat and a landed house are never compared.
Acceptance rate
How many of your findings the developer or contractor accepted as real. A long list nobody accepts is not the same as a thorough one.
Miss rate
Defects the homeowner found themselves in the 30 days after your report. It is the hardest of the four to face, and the one that shows the depth of an inspection.
Re-appointment
How often homeowners who used you at key collection appoint you again for their renovation check.
Coverage and acceptance are always shown together, and neither is ever shown alone. A long list nobody accepts is not the same as a thorough one, and shown next to acceptance it reads that way. That pairing is the whole reason the measure is worth trusting.
One honest limitation, stated up front: acceptance rate needs the developer or main contractor to be in the app, and most are not yet. Until they are, the measure leans on miss rate and re-appointment — which need nobody but the homeowner.
The tool
Built for a walk-through, not a desk.
Two hours on site, one hand holding a torch. That is the design constraint.
Appointed in the app by the homeowner
No account-sharing, no forwarding a login. They appoint you to their unit, with an end date, and you appear on their project as yourself.
Capture on site, one hand
Photo, room, one line. A weak signal in a lift lobby is retried rather than lost. Capture that works with no signal at all is being built and is not here yet.
The homeowner sends the list — you don’t
You log; they send. It keeps you out of the middle of a dispute you were never party to, and it is why your findings carry weight.
What you logged is the record
The homeowner sees your findings as you entered them, with the photos attached. No retyping the same forty items into a document that evening.
You cannot delete a defect, accept a fix, or sign off — those stay with the homeowner, always. That limit is not a missing feature. It is the thing that makes your record mean something to the person reading it.
Pricing
Per inspection. Roughly one percent of what you charge.
Priced so it never changes what you quote a homeowner.
HDB inspection
From launchS$12
per inspection
Private or EC inspection
From launchS$20
per inspection
Published inspection rates in Singapore run from around S$110–1,150 per unit, depending on size and property type. At S$12 we are a line item you will not think about, which is deliberate: a tool priced high enough to argue about is a tool that gets skipped on the small jobs, and the record only works if it covers all of them.
Marked from launch because checker billing is not open yet. Get listed now and use it free until it is. See pricing →
Independence
What we refuse to sell.
- We never sell leads. A homeowner’s enquiry is not a thing we auction.
- We never sell placement or a “featured checker” slot. There is no top to buy.
- We never let a checker edit or delete a defect once it is logged — not even their own mistake, only their own wording, and only before the list is sent.
- We never take a cut of your inspection fee.
Questions
Straight answers.
How would you measure a defect checker?
What can a defect checker do in the app?
Can we pay to improve our grade or appear higher?
What happens if we stop paying?
Who can see a homeowner’s address?
Do you sell our data?
Do homeowners pay anything?
How do we pay?
Be on the record from the start.
The first checkers listed are the ones with a record when homeowners start looking for one.