About Finishline

The Problem
Traditionally, inspection professionals, architects and owners have juggled multiple copies of floor plans, clipboards, inspection forms and supplies, while working their way through their projects. All this under tight deadlines and pressure from all sides to get the project over the finish line.

Once the inspection was complete, the tedious work began. Compiling and delivering the information from the variety of lists and hand marked up plan diagrams to the various sub-contractors and job foreman. Tracking the progress of each item required any number of duplicate steps and endless copying and distributing of materials.

Finally, coordinating the various punch lists between the contractor, the architect and owners, meant hours and hours of meetings. Often meeting on multiple occasions, sometimes ending in miscommunication and unnecessary tensions between the parties.

Along came early punch list software on computers and PDAs but still they didn't provide a complete solution and only solved one tiny portion of the problem.

What if.... To Inspect .......

• The inspector could walk into the project with a single device that had an electronic copy of every unique floor plan for every area in the project?
• What if they could choose the floor plan of the unit or area they are working on, by pointing with a penlike stylus.
• Then they could touch the spot, right on the plan, where there is a problem.
• A small electronic form would pop onto the screen and they fill in the problem, location, trade and sub-contractor through logical pull down menus, hand write or type on a virtual keyboard any comments and when done they click OK.
• A sequentially numbered Dot would automatically appear on the floor plan where the problem is.
• Our customers experience is that Finishline's "Punch on the Plan" technology results in a 50% reduction in time to inspect.

What if.......To distribute the information to the Sub Contractors or Job Foremen.........

• The inspector or an assistant (or anyone on the planet with Internet access and the proper security codes) could pull up the FinishLine Software and email or print out reports for each sub-contractor in Floor-plan and list views with only their punch items for completion. All in seconds.
• Our customers experience is that Finishline results in a 98% reduction in time to distribute information.

What if......To Re-inspect......

• The inspector pulls up the area plan, in FinishLine, for re-inspection, clicks on a punch item, the same form comes up and if everything is complete he touches his pen to Complete the task and that’s it. The Dot is removed from the plan and they move on.
• Our customers experience is that Finishline results in a 65% reduction in time to re-inspect.

What if...... the General Contractor, Architect and Developer used the same tool? (stay with me for a second......)

• The General Contractor, Architect or Developer logs into the system as a different inspection party and so punches created, in FinishLine, by each party, are in a different colors or shapes. Different inspection groups cannot alter or delete each other’s items.
• Long lead items, not completed by the contractor, appear on the plan as open items so the others don’t need to duplicate the item.
• Punches created by other parties are cleared on re-inspection
• One Punch List – No more OAC meetings coordinating between multiple and disparate Punch Lists.  Everyone uses the same coding, terms, and everyone is on the same page. (literally)  Coordination between parties is cut by 75%.