The Field Team's Guide to Working Without Internet

The reality of field inspections

The best properties to inspect are often the hardest to reach. Rural structures. Basements and concrete walls. Properties inside storm damage perimeters. Mountain cabins. Commercial buildings with dead zones.

These are exactly the places where you need documentation the most — and exactly where cell signal disappears.

Estimatics was designed for this reality. The app captures everything offline and syncs automatically when you reconnect. Your documentation workflow doesn't stop at the edge of the network.

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What you can do without internet

A fully prepared Estimatics session gives you complete inspection capability without signal:

• Unlimited photos — captured, organized, and tagged to your job automatically
• Inspection video — recorded locally, uploaded on reconnect
• 3D LiDAR scanning — full room geometry generated on device
• Field notes — timestamped, organized by area
• Job details — address, contacts, prior documentation all available offline

Everything saves to your iPhone the moment you capture it. When you reach signal — even just briefly — the app uploads everything in the background automatically.

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The 3-minute preparation

Field reliability requires one habit: prepare before you leave.

With internet, before driving to the property:

1. Open the app — refreshes your session and plan access
2. Navigate to the job — caches the job list
3. Open the Job Detail — caches all job data
4. Tap "Start Inspection" — unlocks the capture button and moves the job to active status

That's it. Four taps. Three minutes. After that, you have full capture capability at the property regardless of signal.

The capture button — photos, video, LiDAR — only appears when the job is "Inspection in Progress." The preparation ensures you arrive ready.

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Offline-first for every trade

Roofing contractors — On a roof without signal? Standard. Capture every surface, every damaged shingle, every measurement. LiDAR generates your roof geometry on device. Everything uploads when you're back on the ground with signal.

Restoration contractors — Water damage in a basement, fire damage in a structure, mold in a crawl space — all documented offline. Notes, moisture readings, photos by room. The drying log continues regardless of connectivity.

Public adjusters — Rural properties, remote structures, properties inside disaster perimeters — document everything on site. Your certified evidence chain continues offline. Files sync with full metadata preserved on reconnect.

Home inspectors — Inspect anywhere. Commercial buildings with signal dead zones, older residential properties, rural estates. Your inspection report captures every finding offline and generates on reconnect.

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Automatic sync — nothing to manage

When your device detects internet, Estimatics handles everything automatically:

• Status changes sync first
• Photos and videos upload — lighter files first
• Notes and metadata follow
• The pending indicator disappears when sync completes

No manual uploads. No "send" button. No export step. The documentation is in the cloud before you write your report.

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Designed for disaster response

When a storm, flood, or fire affects a region, cell towers go down with everything else. Adjusters and contractors arrive at properties where there is no signal at all.

Estimatics captures the documentation that insurance carriers need — even when the infrastructure around the property is gone. The evidence is preserved on device, with full timestamp and GPS metadata, and syncs when the team returns to connectivity.

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Plan access and session reliability

Your plan access and app login are designed for extended field work:

• 7 days — plan entitlements cached. Open the app once a week with internet and you never encounter a session block.
• 30 days — login session active. Monthly field assignments work without re-authentication.
• 5 retry attempts — automatic upload retry with increasing wait times. Files are never deleted from the device regardless of upload outcome.

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