The record is the product.
HousingSurvey Pro's deliverable is the record, not a report. Branded PDF renderings — survey evidence reports, works-completed packs, resident letters — are generated on demand from the sealed, hash-chained record whenever you need one; the record itself is what flows into your housing management system (HMS) or case-management system by API, webhook, EDI or SFTP. A PDF is a rendering of that evidence, never a replacement for it.
Tamper-evident contemporaneous records
- Server-authoritative finalize
- The completion timestamp is set by our servers, never a device clock — no backdating, accidental or otherwise.
- Lock-on-Complete
- No product role can edit or delete a finalized record. Corrections create superseding versions, preserving the original in the normal application workflow; the deeper cloud-owner trust boundary is documented in our security handbook.
- Hash-chained per property
- Every finalized record embeds the SHA-256 fingerprint of the previous record for the same UPRN, building a verifiable evidence timeline per home. A nightly verifier recomputes every chain and records its results.
- Append-only audit log
- Every create, edit, finalize, export and API read is logged in a hash-chained, client-unwritable audit trail.
Built for the field
- Offline-first capture
- Basements, voids, tower-block cores — the app works with no signal and syncs when connectivity returns.
- Geo-stamped
- A GPS fix (with accuracy radius) is captured on site and sealed inside the hashed record.
- Photo provenance
- Every photo is fingerprinted (SHA-256) at the moment of capture; the fingerprint travels inside the record and names the stored file.
- Survey science built in
- Dew point derived live from temperature and RH; condensation-risk warnings at capture time — the same engine trusted by DampApp Pro surveyors.
- Built as a hazard framework
- Damp & mould is the flagship hazard. HousingSurvey Pro captures 13 hazard types in total today, sharing one evidence engine and, where relevant, HHSRS scoring — asbestos, indoor air quality, radon, and every hazard category Awaab's Law Phase 2 will add from 30 November 2026 (excess cold, excess heat, falls, structural collapse, fire and explosions, electrical hazards, and domestic and personal hygiene). See the Phase 2 hazards page for what each one captures.
See the Awaab's Law Phase 2 hazards page →
Watch a survey in the field app
Each job shows its Awaab's Law clock, and every stage is dated. Notes, photos and readings go in room by room. Dew point is worked out and condensation risk is assessed to ISO 13788. Findings, photos and costed works are then sealed as tamper-evident evidence.
Built for organisations
- Landlords and contractors
- Contractor organisations work under scoped grants. Their surveyors capture against your stock; the evidence chain belongs to you.
- Work orders
- Cases flow from your CMS (or the portal) to a surveyor's inbox with the Awaab's Law clock attached, and evidence flows back automatically on completion.
- Entra ID single sign-on
- OIDC or SAML per organisation — joiners and leavers follow your own identity provider.
- UK data residency
- Everything lives in the London cloud region — enforced in code, not policy.
- Signed evidence bundles
- One click exports a ZIP: the record, its canonical form, the chain proof (verified at export), original photos named by fingerprint, and a manifest of every file's hash. Built for ombudsman and legal use.
- SFTP delivery & import
- Send EDI drops, reports, letters, invoices and your tenancy register — and pull property/UPRN, SOR and tenancy data back in — over SFTP to a server you control. Per-server keys, fail-closed host-key pinning.
- Resident letters, every case stage
- Generate a branded PDF letter at survey-scheduled, works-scheduled, works-completed, case-closed and other case moments — always freely editable, with an optional AI-drafted starting point where it's genuinely useful. Email, print or view; the "From" sign-off defaults to whoever's sending it.
- On-brand PDF theming
- Your logo and brand colour are on every generated PDF by default; Team plan and above additionally unlocks a dedicated theme colour, font choice and cover layout. Works-completed packs group after-photos by room and show the completion visit's own GPS fix and timestamp.
- Tenancy register
- Who lives where, alongside your property stock: tenant contacts and occupancy status, CSV import/export, and (Platform plan) delivery over the same SFTP connection as everything else.
- Scope of works & costs
- Surveyors build the works schedule on site from your own priced rate catalogue — item, quantity, a note, never typing a price; whether they can see prices at all is a management-only setting, off by default. Sealed alongside the surveyor's and resident's sign-off, and versioned like every other correction.
- Scott schedules for letters of claim
- Answer a housing disrepair letter of claim item by item: the defect alleged, what was found, admitted or denied with reasons, the works with their dates, and the costs on each side. Started on site or in the office, with dates from your works orders and costs from your rates, printed as a landscape table in the report PDF. Team plan and above.
Questions a buyer actually asks
Does HousingSurvey Pro generate PDF reports?
Yes — branded, org-themable PDF renderings (survey evidence reports, works-completed packs, resident letters at every case stage) are generated on demand from the sealed record. The hash-chained record itself remains the authoritative deliverable, flowing into your case-management system by API, webhook, EDI or SFTP; a PDF is a rendering of that evidence, never a replacement for it.
Does the app work without signal in the field?
Yes. Capture is offline-first: basements, voids and tower-block cores with no signal still let a surveyor complete a full record, which syncs automatically the moment connectivity returns.
Can contractors use the same system as the landlord?
Yes. Contractor organisations work under scoped grants issued by the landlord: their surveyors capture evidence against the landlord's properties, and the finalized records belong to the landlord's own evidence chain, not a separate contractor silo.
What identity provider does HousingSurvey Pro support?
Microsoft Entra ID via OIDC or SAML, configured per organisation, with SCIM for automatic joiner/leaver provisioning — your directory stays the source of truth for who has access.