Imfuna

Residential Surveying

Building survey software for RICS surveyors

The survey takes a morning. The report shouldn't take the night.

Cut around three hours of write-up from every survey: dictate on site and the draft is waiting when you get back. Issue reports the same day, keep every job consistent with RICS Level 1, 2 and 3 templates or fully custom templates of your own, and protect your PII standing with an immutable seven-year audit trail.

RICS Tech Partner

How RICS surveyors and survey firms work with Imfuna

The same sequence, from arriving on site to the issued report - and what each step takes off your desk.

01Offline all day

Inspect on site

Open the RICS Level 1, 2 or 3 template on your phone or tablet and work room by room. The structure is already laid out; photos land on the item you are standing at, time and GPS stamped; condition ratings are sliders; observations are dictated, not typed.

  • Templates carry the report structure - nothing to set up on site
  • Photos file themselves against the right item, with time and location on every shot
  • Sync your templates before you set out, then a full day works with no signal - lofts, basements and rural plots included
The app on an iPad and iPhone: the iPad lists a building survey's inspection areas - chimney stacks, roof coverings, main walls - while the iPhone has the Main walls item open with its photos, notes and condition rating sliders.
02Write-up largely done

Review at the office

By the time you are back, dictation has come back as text against the item it describes. On the web platform you verify the photos, extend notes with your firm's pre-approved phrasing, and correct anything that needs it - without revisiting the property.

  • Dictation returns as report-ready text in seconds once synced, already in the report structure
  • Rapid Text phrase libraries keep the whole practice's wording consistent
  • Edit ratings, notes, costs and photos at the desk - no second visit
The Verify workspace on the web platform: the inspection's sections on the left, and every photo with its capture time, GPS coordinates, caption field and markup actions on the right.
03~3 hrs saved per survey

Issue the report the same day

The report renders as a branded PDF - your logo, cover, colours and layouts - with digital signatures built in, sent from the platform. Surveyors typically save around three hours per survey, and one practice reports client turnaround down from five working days to 24-48 hours.

  • Branded PDF in your report structure - RICS Levels or fully custom
  • Digitally signed, with named sign-off on the record
  • Sent the same day the survey was walked
Cover page of a RICS Home Survey Level 3 report produced with Imfuna.
04Originals kept 7 years

Stand behind every report

Reports freeze on generation: a re-render is byte-identical, with named sign-off, timestamps and the original photos preserved for seven years. Flagged defects roll up into the portfolio dashboard, so repeat instructions are tracked across years rather than folders.

  • Frozen on generation - what you signed is what stays on file
  • A full audit trail behind every finding, ready for PII questions
  • Every flagged defect in one grid, deep-linked to its photo evidence
The portfolio dashboard on a laptop: every flagged issue as a row with severity, cost and status, each deep-linked to its photo evidence.
05One diary, whole team

Scale the practice from one place

Growth is a scheduling problem before it is anything else. Work is booked with a time, a duration and an assigned surveyor against their published availability, invites are accepted or declined on the spot, and every job carries a visible status from booked to delivered. The diary, the evidence and the dashboards stay centralised however many surveyors you add.

  • One team calendar - bookings colour-coded per surveyor
  • Assign against each surveyor's availability - invites accepted or declined on the spot
  • Every job's status visible from booking to delivery
The bookings calendar on a laptop, week view: inspections colour-coded per inspector across the week, with the inspector list and show/hide toggles in the sidebar and a mini month calendar for navigation.

Templates & workflows

Every survey type you offer. Ready to open.

RICS Home Survey structures aligned to the standard, formats that support RPSA members in meeting the RPSA Survey Inspection & Reporting Standards, plus the specialist work that fills the rest of the diary. Open a template and start - the structure, ratings and wording are already there.

Every template is fully customisable - structure, wording, branding - and your reports carry your identity, not ours.

The tools for the job

Field capture
Field capturePhone & tablet · iOS & Android

Native iOS and Android capture on phone or tablet: photos with GPS and timestamps - as many as the job needs - voice dictation, floor-plan pins, costs and condition ratings. Sync templates before you set out, then capture all day with no signal.

Web platform

Web platform

Web platform

Everything behind the field work: bookings and the team's diary, dictation returned as text, review and edit of everything captured, photo markup in the browser, and branded reports issued from the platform - frozen on generation, with originals kept for seven years.

Portfolio dashboard

Portfolio dashboard

Web platform

Every flagged issue from every inspection in one grid: severity grades A–D, remediation costs, configurable statuses with a full activity history, charts by any dimension, Excel export with the audit trail, and a branded PDF portfolio report - each row deep-linked to its photo evidence.

Compliance dashboard

Compliance dashboard

Web platform

For the scheduled side of the workload: every property on one screen - which inspection is next due, who is assigned, how many days overdue, and which statutory checks are still in date. Assign from the dashboard and a real booking goes into the team's bookings calendar.

Your workflow, end to end

Imfuna sits in the middle of the tools you already run - bookings in, evidence captured, findings pushed on to the systems that act on them.

All integrations →
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Survey Booker

Surveyor CRM & job management

Book the appointment in Survey Booker and the job arrives in Imfuna pre-filled - you choose which job types flow. Post the completed report back, and Survey Booker delivers it to your client.

Excel export, for everything else

Output all inspection data to MS Excel for use in other software - so even tools we don’t talk to natively can work from Imfuna data.

I was initially a little reluctant to get started on this new way of working due to a habit and fear of new technology. However, once I started to use the system, I can only say that it has transformed my week… I no longer have to work nights and weekends, and all reports are completed for the client within 24-48 hours, rather than the usual 5 working days. I would thoroughly recommend the system to other Surveyors.
Andrew Chinn MRICS - Environ Property Consultants
~3 hrs
saved per survey, on average
24-48 hrs
client turnaround one practice reports - down from five working days
7 years
originals preserved, reports byte-identical on re-render
Offline
sync templates before you set out, then capture all day with no signal

The record they rely on

Independent surveyors, national agencies and institutional landlords run their inspections on Imfuna.

SavillsBritish LandLeviat - a CRH companyDaniel ThwaitesSt Austell BreweryPunch Pubs & CoCharnwood ConsultancyEnviron Property Consultants

Questions surveyors ask us

Does AI write the survey?
No. Dictation comes back as text, and the words stay yours. Condition ratings, conclusions and sign-off remain the surveyor's, with a record of who changed what. Which is the shape the RICS standard on AI expects: the member accountable, the tooling documented, the judgement human.
Why does it save so much time?
Because each part of the write-up is done where it is cheapest to do. The structure comes from the template, so nothing is laid out from scratch. Photos file themselves against the item, time and GPS stamped, so there is no evening of sorting. Dictation comes back as text where it belongs, so site notes are never re-typed. Your firm's standard phrases are two taps away instead of pasted from an old report. What is left at the desk is review and judgement - which is why surveyors typically save around three hours per survey.
How does it help with compliance?
The templates are aligned to the RICS Home Survey Standard at Levels 1, 2 and 3, with formats that support RPSA members in meeting the RPSA Survey Inspection & Reporting Standards - so following the standard is the default path through the inspection, not a checklist applied afterwards. Behind every report sits the evidence: named sign-off, timestamps, a record of who changed what, and originals kept for seven years.
How does this help if a claim ever arrives?
The record answers for you. Reports freeze on generation - a re-render is byte-identical - with named sign-off, timestamps and the original photos preserved for seven years. When you need to show what you inspected, what you found and what you advised, it's a lookup, not a reconstruction.
What happens when there's no signal in the loft?
Nothing, mid-survey. Start with a connection so your templates sync to the phone; from there photos, dictation and ratings all save locally, and everything uploads when you're back in coverage. A full day with zero signal is the design assumption, not an edge case.
Can I keep my own standard notes and phrasing?
Yes - and on site they come to you, rather than you fetching them. Rapid Text is a phrase library your practice controls: your pre-approved wording, organised by tags, managed on the web platform with Excel import and export and downloadable RICS Rapid Text templates to start from. In the app, the library shows the phrases related to the item in front of you, remembers what you used recently, and searches the rest - a common observation is two taps, not a paragraph of typing, and ten surveyors describe the same defect the same way. Standard notes pre-fill from your template, with the original wording preserved so a reviewer can see what was changed on site. The report reads like your practice wrote it, because it did.
I have my own report format. Can you build it as a template?
Yes, two ways. The template builder is part of the web platform on every plan, and adjusting our library templates is part of getting set up. Or have us do it: send the report you issue today and an Imfuna specialist rebuilds it end to end - the inspection template your team captures with, and the branded report layout your clients receive - with the first version typically within five working days and three versions included, as a one-off from £500. See the custom template build service.
What does it do to turnaround?
Surveyors typically save around three hours per survey, and one practice reports client turnaround down from five working days to 24–48 hours. The survey still takes a morning; the report stops taking the night.
How easy is it to get started?
Sign up and you are in a 30-day free trial with full access, no credit card required. The RICS Level 1, 2 and 3 structures are already in the library - open a template and start. And setup is not left to you: live online onboarding training for your whole team is included on every plan, with live chat inside the platform when a question comes up.
Is training included?
Yes, on every plan: live online onboarding training for your whole team, plus start-up videos, CPD-certified training and live chat inside the platform. And it is not a one-off - when someone joins the practice mid-subscription, they can request the same onboarding at any time, so new starters never learn the system second-hand. On Enterprise, on-site training at your offices can be scoped into your quote.
Can I try it before committing to anything?
Yes. Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial with full access and no credit card required - so there is nothing to cancel if it is not for you. Run a real survey during the trial and judge Imfuna on your own workflow, not a demo script. When you are ready, you choose a plan on your subscription page; and if the trial passed you by unused, support will look at an extension.

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