Standardizing photo docs in the field

Quick question to the group about tools: has anyone built a reusable photo workflow in their mobile app (e.g., Xactimate Mobile or Encircle) with a fixed 12-shot baseline and auto-tagged room names for new adjusters? We piloted it on 42 water losses in Q4 with a 5-minute exit checklist during ride-alongs and saw reinspection requests drop 18%, but I’m curious what you’re using to balance speed with audit-ready files.

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Add mandatory ‘doorway overview’ and ‘ceiling corner’ shots; ours cut reinspects 22%. Mapping to line items?

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Encircle + QR room placards: photos auto-tag/sort; add ‘5‑min exit whiteboard’ with meter readings.

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Quick win: in Encircle we built a conditional per-room flow with a required “scale shot” (tape/laser visible) and a 30‑sec voice note; reinspects dipped about 20% — bowling bumpers for photos. We also prefix captions with room‑abbrev + scope code (e.g., KITCH‑NW WTR‑DRY‑BSBRD) so a simple Xactimate macro lands the right line items; want the label list I give new adjusters?

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