Protocol-linked job record
Each job opens with its approved protocol, so crews and reviewers work from the same steps.
SIZ Group would design a mold remediation manager app that tracks each containment, drying and clearance job from the first moisture reading to the final clearance letter. The general manager sees which crews are on which sites, which jobs wait on an independent test and which invoices depend on documents still missing.
A general manager in mold remediation is judged on paperwork as much as on the work. An approved protocol, moisture maps, containment photos, air sample results and a clearance letter all have to line up for the same address. When one is missing, the claim can stall and a crew can be paid for work nobody can defend.
The first question is whether the app keeps those documents attached to the right job. The second is whether it shows gaps early. A job with a containment photo but no post-remediation verification should be visible on the manager's screen the day it happens, not discovered during an insurance review.
We would prove both points in a short pilot on live jobs, comparing the app's record with the paper file each crew already keeps. Once the pilot shows where the gaps sit, the written scope and price follow from the free scoping call.
An insurer sends a water-damaged basement claim, and the intake coordinator opens a job with the address, the date of loss and the moisture readings the first technician logged on site. The manager sees the job arrive with an open protocol task attached.
The lead technician uploads containment photos, daily drying logs and the moisture map from each visit. If a room's readings have not moved across two visits, the app flags it so the manager can decide whether the drying plan needs to change before the crew returns.
When the independent industrial hygienist's clearance results arrive, the coordinator attaches them to the job. The manager confirms that the clearance letter matches the protocol and that the invoice draft cites the same documents, then releases the file to the adjuster.
Mold jobs follow water. A cold snap that bursts a pipe, a rainy spell that soaks a crawl space and a hurricane season that floods ground floors all bring calls in clusters. A crew that was booked solid one month can have an empty calendar the next, and the manager needs to see that pattern early.
Storm events create surges that a schedule cannot absorb alone. The app should show open job counts by region, support assigning subcontracted crews where your agreements allow, and hold lower-priority jobs for later without losing the paperwork trail.
Humid summers also bring slow, hidden growth in rental properties, which often arrives as a tenant complaint rather than an insurance claim. The intake form should take those calls into the same queue, with the same protocol checks, so they are never handled differently by accident.
Each job opens with its approved protocol, so crews and reviewers work from the same steps.
A room whose readings stop dropping gets flagged for review before the next visit.
Before a file goes to an adjuster, the app confirms that photos, drying logs and the clearance letter are attached.
Managers see open jobs and crew locations by region, so surge work can be routed without guesswork.
Independent test results attach to the job, and the app holds the release until the clearance letter matches the protocol.
Adjusters and property managers view approved documents through a link that expires when the file closes.
Cost depends on the number of job types, the documents the app stores and any connection to estimating software. Teams that use Xactimate for estimates and Encircle for photo documentation may want the app to read or attach those files rather than rebuild them. We price each connection separately, and the mobile build itself begins at $4,500.
Timeline follows the same logic, plus one factor that is easy to underestimate: how quickly the protocols are approved. We would write the protocol templates once, get your sign-off, and only then build the forms that depend on them. Rewriting a protocol mid-build is the most common reason a project runs late.
Keeping scope tight means naming the first release in plain terms, such as intake, protocol tracking and clearance documents, and parking insurer reporting, billing analytics and equipment integrations for a later phase.
Crews work in containment with gloves and respirators, and they have little patience for forms. The field screen has to take a photo, a reading and a note in a few taps, and it should keep working when a basement has no signal. Train on a real site rather than in a classroom.
Adjusters and property managers need their own view. A read-only link to the approved documents, with the clearance letter and the photo log, answers most status calls without involving the office. Those links should expire once the file closes, so the documents are not left open after the claim is settled.
Retire the paper job folder on a fixed date. Crews who keep both systems running end up trusting neither. Post-launch support can help the office adjust the queue once the first real surge tests it.
Track the turnaround from intake to clearance letter, the share of files accepted on the first submission, and the number of jobs stalled while waiting on a missing document. These measures show whether the app is removing the bottlenecks it was built to remove.
Watch the cost of resubmissions as well. Each rejected invoice or incomplete file costs staff time and delays payment, so count them before and after launch. Also track how often a drying plan changes mid-job, since that signals whether the protocol templates need tightening.
Review the figures with the general manager and the operations lead in one monthly meeting, with the app's queue as the agenda. The aim is fewer surprises on Friday afternoons, when files are due.
Often yes, because two crews working from paper can still lose a clearance letter. A focused version with the job record, the document check and clearance tracking delivers most of the benefit. Storm dispatch and subcontractor routing can wait until the team needs them.
It can, once we have them in writing. We would convert approved protocols into job steps so a crew cannot skip a required reading, and every protocol change would be versioned so older jobs keep the wording they were approved under.
Access is by role. Crews see only the jobs they are assigned, and outside parties see only their read-only links. We would also agree how long documents stay available after a claim closes, and confirm those retention needs with your legal and insurance contacts.
Work of this kind starts at $4,500. The total depends on the number of job types, the documents stored and any link to estimating software. We confirm the price in writing once the free scoping call has defined the work.
The free scoping call is a working session. Bring a sample file and a protocol, and we will walk through how the app would handle them.