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. Push, helical, slab, beams, cracks, drainage: the symbols are built for foundation work, not borrowed from an office floor-plan app. When you save, the sketch lands on the job, next to the estimate and the photos, where the whole team can find it.
Hand a homeowner a plain picture of their foundation and they see a gray wall. Circle the stair-step crack, arrow the bowed section, drop a note on the water line, and now they see exactly what you see. Photo Annotator lets your techs mark up job and inspection photos right in the app, so the evidence does the talking before you ever quote a price.
Site Sketch
Your Pier Diagram Should Not Need Its Own Subscription.
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. Then the diagram gets exported, emailed, and dropped into a folder that has nothing to do with the job it belongs to.
So now the drawing lives in three places and matches the job in none of them. The crew shows up with the paper version. The office has the app version. The customer file has a screenshot from two revisions ago. When someone asks “how many piers did we quote,” you get three answers.
You do not need a full engineering CAD suite to sketch where the piers go. You need a fast, foundation-specific drawing surface that saves straight to the job. That is what this is.
Where the drawing lives today
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.
Symbols Made For Piers, Not For Cubicles.
Address To Saved Sketch, In Four Steps.
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.
Start From A Template
Drop in a slab, pier-and-beam, or basement starter template so the common shape is already there, then adjust it to the house in front of you.
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.
Save Or Export
Save the sketch to the job’s gallery or download it as a PNG for a proposal, a permit packet, or the crew’s work order.
Draw on the real lot, not a blank rectangle.
A hand sketch on graph paper never quite matches the property. The driveway is on the wrong side, the setback is a guess, the addition nobody mentioned is missing. Start from a satellite image of the actual address and those problems go away. You place piers relative to the real foundation, the real trees, the real access points a crew has to work around.
It makes the drawing more useful to everyone downstream: the homeowner recognizes their own house, the crew sees where to stage, and the office is not deciphering a rectangle with arrows.
- 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.
Not a full engineering CAD suite. On purpose.
Photo Annotator
Your Tech Knows What The Photo Shows. The Homeowner, The Office, And The Adjuster Do Not.
A technician crawls under a house, sees the problem in an instant, and snaps twelve photos. To him, photo seven clearly shows the beam that has dropped and the pier that needs to go in. To everyone who was not down there, photo seven is a dim shot of some wood and some dirt.
So the knowledge lives in the tech’s head, and it leaks out one phone call at a time. The homeowner squints at the picture and asks “which crack?” The estimator guesses at scope from a photo he cannot interpret. Six months later an insurance adjuster looks at the same shot and cannot tell what was wrong or what got fixed.
Teams patch this the clumsy way. They screenshot into a separate markup app, save it to their camera roll, then try to remember which job it belonged to and text it back in. Photos drift out of the system, the annotated version and the original get mixed up, and the one marked-up shot that would have sold the job is sitting on somebody’s personal phone.
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 photoStair-step crack
Approx. 3/8 in wide
After
AnnotatedCrack 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.
Open The Photo, Mark It Up, Save It To The Job. That Is The Whole Thing.
Open photo in gallery
Right From The Photo You Are Already Looking At
- Opens from the photo lightbox, so you mark up the shot you are already viewing.
- Circle, arrow, draw, and label cracks, pier locations, and water intrusion points.
- No separate markup app and no exporting to the camera roll and back.
Photo lightbox
View and mark up job photos
This annotated preview is ready to review. In the live app, the editor would let the technician add circles, arrows, and notes to the original job photo.
The Original Is Never Touched
- Original preserved, an annotated version saved alongside it.
- Annotated label on every marked-up copy so the two are never confused.
- Filter the gallery to show only annotated photos when you build a report.
Original kept
Stair-step crack
approx. 3/8 in wide
Stair-step crack
approx. 3/8 in wide
Marked Up The Moment The Photo Is Taken, Not That Night At The Office.
Annotation runs 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.
That is the difference between documentation that happens and documentation that is supposed to happen. 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
Stair-step crack
Approx. 3/8 in wide
Synced to CompanyCam
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.