I started my career actually. Mechanical engineering. I worked for a big construction mining company, Caterpillar for a handful of years. Um, and I think that initial experience drew me towards working for a startup. I wanted to work in more of a fast paced environment on obviously bigger companies. A bit more bureaucratic, if you will. And slower moving. Um, and I decided to go to grad school A zit Means means thio pivot into the text space and get into startups. Um, and essentially, after grad school, I worked for a handful of early stage venture backed companies on the West Coast and, uh, decided to start my own company last year on. But really, the background and why I'm in the space and then is actually something started even before my time. A cat. I've been in real estate for the better part of 12 years buying and selling homes and, you know, have have a fair amount of experience both from a consumer perspective as well as professionally have worked for a couple of prop tech companies. Um, s O I think the kind of initial experience a cat this to summarizes is what drew me towards startups. But, um, my exposure in the prop text base, both because as a consumer fine and selling homes as well as working at companies like Fly Homes, is what maybe jump in tow, working, inspect if I so.

Yes. Inspect if I is a managed market place for home inspection. So we help home buyers and sellers quickly find, book and complete their home inspections, but also received much more insight from the inspection itself. Eso instead of getting a static pdf, we provide repair estimates, and I'll actually allow them to take action on the results versus just giving the report. Um, you know how they're solving it today? A lot of consumers, buyers and sellers air, you know, either using their real estate agent Thio get a referral to Inspector um, or they're going to Google or Yelp. What have you to find, Inspector? Eso were the only marketplace that exists for the home inspection space. Um, and in terms of actually create a platform that leverages the data around the point of inspection. Um, you know, that's that's where we start to create tremendous value for our customers, right? So if you imagine going through the home buying process, you do an inspection and there might be 20 to 30 things that need to be, um, repaired before you move in. We actually have that That data around those repairs at basically machine readable fashion and we can actually automate doing those repairs through a seamless tech platform. S. O R. Vision on this is is more than just inspections. It's all about simplifying the home buying process and ultimately, the homeownership process.

Yes. I started full time in August of 2019. Um, we actually started out by building software for home inspectors. So instead of building a marketplace that consumers could go to book inspections, I actually wrote and build software that inspectors would use to write the reports with a similar idea in the sense that once I had the data, the inspector report, um, in a programmatic fashion, I could automate and create a lot more value for consumers. Um, but over the coming weeks and months, I quickly learned that well, it was pretty easy to get inspectors to use my platform and be able to acquire customers. My relationship with that customer was very weak in the sense that I was just going to introduce them after they do an inspection on. They really had no idea who are company was. We were just a software their inspectors were using. Eso We decided Thio pivots slightly and take a step earlier in the process of the home buying experience, um, and actually control the booking as well as the coordination of the inspection, and actually be the service provider for the inspection. Um, predominantly, because one you know, we actually have more control over the supply. So the inspectors if we control demand, but but to and more importantly, we have a much stronger relationship with that in customer on Grable, Thio help them in a lot of different ways than just acquiring them as a lead from a report writing software.