Every draw inspection company's website says the same three things: nationwide coverage, fast turnaround, and a portal. None of them tells you what happens after you click order.
Private lenders find out first. Every draw on a fix-and-flip, bridge, or ground-up loan means an inspection before the funds go out, and the team ordering them is usually small. Below are seven questions to ask before your next order, each with a copy button so you can send it to whoever inspects for you today.
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Why it matters
The draw request lands in your servicing system or your inbox. If the inspection has to be ordered in somebody else's portal, someone on your team re-keys it every draw and files the PDF by hand. The portal is not the workflow. It is where you go to find out you are waiting.
Ask this
“Can the order start where my draw request lands, or does it have to start in your portal?”
At RAZE
Wherever you work. Order in the RAZE Ordering Engine, from your own loan system through the RAZE API, or from the AI assistant your team already uses through the RAZE MCP. Same order, same workflow, same report back.
Three ways in. One workflow out.
RAZE Ordering Engine
Order on a RAZE screen, with nothing to integrate.
Your own system
Your servicing platform or draw tracker orders through the RAZE API.
Your AI assistant
Any MCP-compatible assistant orders through the RAZE MCP.
One workflow
The same operation, whichever door you use.
The report
Report, photos, and status, back where the loan lives.
Why it matters
Some inspection offers only come bundled inside a construction loan platform. That is fine if you are shopping for a platform. If you are shopping for inspections, it is a migration and a contract to fix one broken step.
Ask this
“If I keep my servicing system and my draw process exactly as they are, can I still order from you?”
At RAZE
Yes, exactly as they are. RAZE is the inspection layer: your loan stays where it lives, and RAZE runs order, dispatch, capture, and delivery around your CLA, LOS, and core without replacing any of them.
Presidium (by Codefi), a construction loan administration platform, runs its draw inspections on the RAZE Inspection Network the same way. Codefi also owns RAZE, so we have a stake in both.
Where your loan lives
Stays putServicing platform
Your loan record and your draw schedule.
Draw tracker or spreadsheet
The one that grew up in your shop.
CLA platform
If you run one, it stays too.
RAZE, the inspection layer
Order
From your screen, your system, or your AI assistant.
Dispatch
Your inspector, or one from the RAZE Inspection Network.
Capture
Guided mobile capture, with photos by line item.
Deliver
Report, photos, and history, back to you.
Why it matters
Your inspector in Tampa knows your builders and what you mean by "dried in." A network that only uses its own inspectors trades that for whoever is available. A vendor that only takes yours leaves you stuck in the county where you know nobody.
Ask this
“Can I route this order to my own inspector, and what happens in the market where I have nobody?”
At RAZE
Both, through one workflow. Direct Request sends the order to your own inspector or vendor, and you pay them directly. Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network where you have no one, and RAZE reviews the report before it reaches you. Same capture standard, same report, same history.
Two paths. One workflow.
Direct Request
Your staff inspector or a vendor you trust. You pay them directly.
Marketplace
A background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network.
Same capture standard
Whoever goes to the site captures against your template, in the same app.
Same report
Same format and same history, whichever path ran.
Why it matters
A coverage map is a shaded outline of states. It says nothing about whether someone can reach a lot in Bullhead City on Thursday, or whether the cabin at 3,000 feet has a signal. Coverage is one address on one date.
Ask this
“Before I order, can you show me who is near this address?”
At RAZE
Yes, before you order. Through the RAZE API or MCP you can list the inspectors near the site and assign one directly. Where you have no one, Marketplace covers any U.S. address, including Alaska and Hawaii, at the same rate. The RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing with no signal and syncs everything once the device reconnects. And here are five of the more interesting places we've inspected, because real addresses say more than a map.
Why it matters
Draw inspection pricing is usually a quote: by market, by travel, by rush, by "call us." A standard residential draw inspection typically runs $100 to $300 per site visit in the U.S., and rural or rush visits often cost more. A fee you can't see until the invoice is a fee you can't budget across a book, or pass on to the borrower cleanly.
Ask this
“Is your pricing published, and does it change by ZIP code?”
At RAZE
It's on the RAZE Rate Card. Through RAZE it is a flat $125 per single-family inspection at any U.S. address when RAZE sends the inspector, or $25 per request when your own inspector does the work and you pay them directly. No travel surcharge, no minimums, no platform fee.
Residential draw inspections
Marketplace
RAZE sends the inspector
$125
per inspection, single-family
Any U.S. address, including Alaska and Hawaii
| Single-family | $125 |
|---|---|
| Duplex | $160 |
| Triplex | $195 |
| Quadplex | $230 |
Direct Request
You send your inspector
$25per request, any residential property
Why it matters
"Detailed report with photos" can mean a PDF with forty unlabeled pictures. Your reviewer needs percent complete by line item, the photos behind each line, and a way to send it back. If you plan to put AI on draw review, this decides whether it works: AI draw review is only as good as the field capture feeding it.
Ask this
“Are photos tied to budget line items, and can I see who captured, changed, and accepted what, and when?”
At RAZE
Yes. Photos carry GPS location and date and time stamps, and link to the draw sheet line items they support. The report carries percent complete by line item and the inspector's questionnaire answers, in your template and your branding, and every inspection keeps a history of who changed what and when. Your reviewer accepts the inspection, or rejects it with a reason the inspector sees.
AI assists. Your reviewer approves. Nothing at RAZE approves a draw.
Sample report
Construction draw inspection report
Draw sheet
Tap a line to see its photos
Photos linked to Framing
Wall framing, east elevation
Wall framing, interior
Second-floor framing
History
Why it matters
Every website says fast. A turnaround number means little until you know where the clock starts and stops, and on which loans. What saves the most time is not a promise. It is knowing where the inspection is right now, without calling anyone.
Ask this
“What is your average time from request to submitted report on draws like mine, and can I see the status without calling you?”
At RAZE
On residential draw inspections, RAZE averages 1.1 days from request to submission, nationwide. That is an average, not a guarantee. You can see the status the whole way, in the Ordering Engine, your own system, or your AI assistant: Inspection Ordered, Lender Open, In Progress, Submitted, then Lender Approved or Lender Rejected.
Watch it move
Rejected inspections go back to In Progress with your reason
Your turn
Mark how your current draw inspection company answers each question. Anything that isn't a clear yes goes on the list to send them, and the copy button takes only those.
RAZE:Your screen, your system (API), or your AI assistant (MCP)
RAZE:No migration. RAZE layers around the systems you run.
RAZE:Direct Request and Marketplace in one workflow
RAZE:Nearby-inspector lookup, and any U.S. address
RAZE:$125 or $25, the same at any U.S. address
RAZE:Photos by line item, and a full who-did-what history
RAZE:1.1-day average on residential draws, and live status
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Mark each question to see what to send your vendor.
Or put one live project through RAZE and read the report next to your vendor's. There are no minimums, so one order is a real test.
Direct Request keeps them. Your inspector gets the assignment in the RAZE Inspector Portal and the Mobile App, and the report lands in the same format as every other inspection in your book.
Marketplace covers the county where you know nobody, at any U.S. address and the same rate, so a new market does not mean a new process.
Order from the platform you built, through the RAZE API or MCP. The Developer Portal has the guides and the API reference, and our team helps you integrate.
Bring your own AI to draw inspections
Order and review inspections from the AI assistant your team uses.
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The typical U.S. range, and every RAZE rate on one card.
Nationwide draw inspection coverage
One rate at any U.S. address, including Alaska and Hawaii.
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