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DRAWING

Draw The Pier Layout Right On The Lot. Show Them The Crack.

Paste the address, get a satellite image of the property, and drop your piers where they are going. Then circle the stair-step crack, arrow the bowed section, and drop a note on the water line, right on your job photos. The symbols are built for foundation work, not borrowed from an office floor-plan app. When you save, the sketch and the marked-up photos land on the job, next to the estimate, where the whole team can find them.
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How it works
Built into OblyssPro. One less login, one less monthly bill, one place your drawings and photos live.
Site sketch · Job #4471
Satellite image
Push pier Helical pier Beam Crack Dimension
42 ft foundation run
10 piers · 42 ft run
Saved to job

Site Sketch

ONE PLACE FOR EVERYTHING YOU DRAW

Your Pier Diagram And Your Crack Photo Should Not Live On Somebody’s Phone.

Here is how it usually goes. The estimator sketches the pier layout on graph paper at the house. Back at the office, somebody redraws it in a separate drawing app that costs a seat every month. Meanwhile the tech snaps twelve photos, and only he knows photo seven shows the beam that has dropped. So the drawing lives in three places, the photos live on a phone, and nothing matches the job. When someone asks “how many piers did we quote,” you get three answers. When the homeowner asks “which crack?” you get a phone call.

Sketch on a satellite image of the actual lot, mark up the photos, and save. Both attach to the job record alongside the estimate, the contract, and the field photos. No export, no separate login, no wondering which version is current. The one on the job is the one that is real.

Job #4471 · Record

Where the drawing lives today

Paper at the house Separate app Screenshot in a folder

One Drawing, On The Job

Sketch on a satellite image of the actual lot, drop foundation symbols, measure the runs, and save. The sketch attaches to the job record alongside the estimate, the contract, and the field photos. No export, no separate login, no wondering which version is current. The one on the job is the one that is real.

Estimate Contract Photos Sketch
HOW IT WORKS

From Address To Marked-Up, Saved Job, In Four Steps.

No blank canvas, no manual tracing, no separate app to download. It lives inside OblyssPro, right on the job.
1

Paste The Address

Type the property address and pull in a satellite image of the lot as your background, so you are drawing on the real footprint, not a guess.

2

Place Symbols & Measure

Drag piers, beams, cracks, and drainage onto the plan. Use the distance, angle, and freehand tools to lay out spacing and mark the runs.

3

Mark Up The Photos

Open any job or inspection photo, choose Annotate, then circle the crack, arrow the pier, and drop a note where a number matters.

4

Save To The Job

Everything saves to the job’s gallery. Download a PNG for a proposal, a permit packet, or the crew’s work order.

Symbols Made For Piers, Not For Cubicles.

A hand sketch on graph paper never quite matches the property. Start from a satellite image of the actual address and you place piers relative to the real foundation, the real trees, the real access points a crew has to work around. The homeowner recognizes their own house, the crew sees where to stage, and the office is not deciphering a rectangle with arrows.
More than thirty symbols purpose-built for foundation repair, plus freehand drawing for anything the palette does not cover. Pair a sketch with the pier installation log and the plan you drew becomes the record you installed against.
  • Address to image in one paste, pulled from a satellite map.
  • Measurement tools for distance, angle, and freehand marking.
  • Starter templates for slab, pier-and-beam, and basement.

Sketch gallery · Job #4471

3 sketches

Satellite import

Imported site reference

Imported

Pier layout · front elevation

Structural drawing

Saved to job

Drainage plan · rear

PNG file

Exported

Crawlspace access notes

Job documentation

On the record

Photo Annotator

SHOW THEM THE CRACK

A Bare Photo Of A Wall Proves Nothing.

Hand a homeowner a plain picture of their foundation and they see a gray wall. A red circle around the crack and an arrow to the pier turns a confusing image into a clear one. The homeowner understands the repair and trusts the recommendation. The estimator scopes it right. The adjuster sees documented damage. Same photo, but now it carries the tech’s expertise with it instead of leaving it in the crawlspace.

Tap any photo in the job or inspection gallery, then choose Annotate. It is built on the same drawing engine as the sketch tool, so it feels familiar and it works with a fingertip. When you save, the marked-up image is stored as a separate annotated copy, and the original stays exactly as the camera took it, so nobody can argue you drew on the evidence.

  • Circle, arrow, draw, and label cracks, pier locations, and water intrusion points.
  • Original preserved, with an Annotated label on every marked-up copy.
  • No separate markup app and no exporting to the camera roll and back.

What A Marked-Up Photo Does

A red circle around the crack and an arrow to the pier turns a confusing image into a clear one. The homeowner understands the repair and trusts the recommendation. The estimator scopes it right. The adjuster sees documented damage. Same photo, but now it carries the tech’s expertise with it instead of leaving it in the crawlspace.

Before

Original photo
UNMARKED PHOTO

Stair-step crack

Approx. 3/8 in wide

After

Annotated
CRACK / PIER MARKED UP

Crack identified

Repair location clearly indicated

Document the recommendation. A marked-up photo helps homeowners, estimators, and adjusters understand the finding and the proposed repair location.

PART OF ONE CONNECTED RECORD

The Same Drawing Sells The Job, Then Defends It Years Later.

Sketches and annotated photos do not live in a silo. They sit on the job next to the estimate, the contract and the inspection report, so anyone who needs them can pull them without hunting through a phone. Filter the gallery to show only the marked-up shots when you are building a report or walking a homeowner through the findings.

Six months later an insurance adjuster looks at the same shot and can tell what was wrong and what got fixed. That is the whole idea behind OblyssPro: the field and the office working off the same record.

Photo lightbox

View and mark up job photos

Saved to job
SVG Photo annotation preview
WALL CRACK
Markup saved

Saved to job

IN THE FIELD, ON THE TECH’S PHONE

Marked Up The Moment The Photo Is Taken, Not That Night At The Office.

Sketching and annotation run on the technician mobile app, the same one your crews already use to see their jobs and check off work orders. It installs from the browser with Add to Home Screen, so there is no app store download and no separate login. A tech takes the photo, circles the problem while he is still standing in front of it, and the marked-up copy is on the job before he climbs back out of the crawlspace. When marking up a photo takes ten seconds on the phone in your hand, techs actually do it. When it means screenshotting into another app back at the shop, they do not, and the detail is lost by then anyway. When photos are synced to CompanyCam, your field images keep flowing to the tools your crew already relies on.

Work order #218

Today

Synced
INSPECTION FINDING Documented

Stair-step crack

Approx. 3/8 in wide

STAIR-STEP CRACK
Circle Arrow Note
Marked-up copy saved to the job

Synced to CompanyCam

Saved

Technicians

Circle the crack and arrow the pier on site, right after the shot, straight from the field app.

Inspectors

Mark up inspection photos so the report shows findings, not just a folder of raw images.

The Office

Pull annotated photos for a homeowner walkthrough, a proposal, or an insurance claim package.

The questions techs and owners ask

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a separate drawing app if I use OblyssPro?
For everyday pier and drainage layouts, no. The Site Sketch Tool is built into the platform, so you sketch, measure, and save without another login or another monthly seat. If your firm also produces stamped, engineered construction drawings, you would keep a specialty tool for that, and OblyssPro connects to ArcSite so those drawings and line items still land on the job.
No. The original photo is preserved exactly as it was taken, and the marked-up version is saved as a separate annotated copy alongside it. If a dispute or a claim ever comes up, you have both: the untouched original and the annotated version, so nobody can say you drew on the evidence.
You paste the property address and the tool pulls in a satellite image of that lot to use as your drawing background. You are placing piers and symbols on the real footprint of the house, which makes the layout more accurate and easier for the homeowner and the crew to read than a freehand rectangle.
Yes. One-click starter templates for slab, pier-and-beam, and basement foundations give you a common shape to build on, so you adjust an existing layout to the house in front of you rather than drawing every plan from a blank canvas.
The things a foundation job calls for: circle a stair-step crack, arrow a pier location, draw the path water is taking through a crawlspace, and add a text note where a measurement or a callout matters. It runs on the same drawing engine as the site sketch tool, so it is quick to learn and works with a fingertip.
The sketch tool is part of the same connected platform your crew uses in the field, so a layout drawn on site saves to the same job the office is looking at. Bring your exact field workflow to a demo and we will show you how it fits the way your estimators and techs work.
Into the sketch gallery on the job, right alongside the estimate, contract, and field photos. You can create and manage multiple sketches per job from the job detail page, and anyone on the team with access to the job can pull them up. You can also export any sketch as a PNG for a proposal or a permit packet.
Every annotated copy carries an Annotated label, and the photo gallery has a filter to show only annotated photos. When you are building a report, assembling a proposal, or pulling together an insurance claim package, you can jump straight to the marked-up shots instead of scrolling through every raw image on the job.
Field photos sync to CompanyCam when that integration is connected, so your crew keeps using the photo tools they already rely on while the job record in OblyssPro stays complete. Bring your current photo workflow to a demo and we will walk through how annotation fits alongside it.
No, and we say so plainly. It is a fast drawing surface for laying out repairs, not a substitute for stamped, engineered construction documents. For the layout work most repair jobs actually need, it keeps the drawing in the same place as the job. For engineered drawings, keep your specialty tool and connect it.

Stop Paying For A Drawing App That Does Not Know The Job.

Book a 30-minute demo and watch a pier layout go from a pasted address to a saved sketch on the job, and a raw crawlspace photo become a circled, labeled piece of evidence that sells the job and documents it for good, without leaving the platform.
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