From manual reports to PE-stamped consistency.
How a Fort Lauderdale forensic engineering firm reclaimed engineering hours and standardized output across every inspector.
Fortis BuildSafe Solutions
A forensic engineering firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Their engineers inspect buildings, document findings, and produce technical reports that property managers, boards, and attorneys rely on.
Their most expensive asset — a licensed engineer — was spending more time assembling reports than engineering. Photos were pulled manually, findings were typed one by one, and formatting varied between engineers. When a board asked why one building's report looked different from another's, there was no single answer.
At a Glance
- IndustryForensic Engineering
- LocationFort Lauderdale, FL
- Service rungAudit → Build
- Time to value6 weeks
2–3 hrs
Before: time to write one report
< 20 min
After: first-draft report generated
$250/hr
Engineering time reclaimed
6 weeks
From first call to PE-stamped output
Engineers were becoming report assemblers.
- Each report took two to three hours of manual writing and formatting.
- Field photos and notes lived in separate places and had to be matched by hand.
- Report formatting varied by engineer, creating inconsistency clients noticed.
- High-cost engineering talent was tied up in assembly work instead of analysis.
A field-to-report workflow built around how they already work.
- Engineers capture photos and voice notes in the field with a wearable camera and mic.
- AI pairs visual evidence with field notes and drafts a standardized report.
- Output follows one consistent format, so every report looks the same regardless of engineer.
- The engineer reviews, adjusts, and stamps — the AI does the assembly, the human owns the judgment.
“Before Brain Recon, our inspection reports took two to three hours each to write — photos pulled manually, findings typed one by one, nothing standardized between engineers. They built us a workflow that pairs field photos with our own field notes and produces a first-draft report in under twenty minutes, formatted the same way every time. That consistency matters more to us than the time saved — when a board asks why one building's report looks different from another's, we now have one answer instead of three. Six weeks from first call to something we trusted enough to put a PE stamp on.”
Gabor I. Nagy, PE
Founder, Fortis BuildSafe Solutions — Fort Lauderdale, FL
Field Workflow
- 01
Capture
Wearable camera + mic records the walkthrough
- 02
Pair
AI matches photos to spoken field notes
- 03
Draft
Standardized first-draft report in <20 min
- 04
PE Review
Engineer reviews, edits, and stamps
Reclaiming 20–100 engineering hours per week.
At approximately $250 per hour of reclaimed engineering time, the workflow pays for itself quickly. But the bigger win is consistency: every report now leaves the office formatted the same way, backed by the same evidence structure, and ready for a PE review.
The firm now has a single answer when clients or boards compare reports — and their engineers spend more time thinking through buildings instead of wrestling with documents.
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