Releve
Every application to the Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme needs a Building Condition Assessment. The visit takes a morning; writing it up can take two weeks. Releve's AI reads the homeowner's paperwork, your site photos and your voice notes, and drafts the report on site.
Petrolab's survey of 48 estates, presented to the Oireachtas in June 2026. It excludes social housing, businesses and duplexes. Councils have counted 9,500 so far.
6 in full, parts of 3Carlow, Clare, Donegal, Limerick, Mayo and Sligo, plus parts of Fingal, Meath and Wexford.
Petrolab projects 12,000 in Donegal, 4,500 in Clare, 2,500 in Limerick and 1,000 in Mayo. Two in five are elsewhere.
Petrolab analysis presented at Leinster House, June 2026 (RTÉ News) · CCMA to the Oireachtas Housing Committee, 2026 · Dept. of Housing scheme statistics to 30 June 2026
A registered engineer, architect or surveyor must inspect the house and sign a Building Condition Assessment before the homeowner can apply.
Every one of them needed a signed assessment before it could be made, and thousands of homes have yet to apply.
Dept. of Housing, to 30 June 2026Phone photos, voice memos, handwritten notes, planning files and old reports, retyped at a desk days later.
Architecture practice preparing BCAs, Sept 2026In one council's audit, 11 of the 19 slowest applications were incomplete.
Donegal County Council audit, Sept 2025Drag the pin through one visit.
Upload the planning file and old reports. The AI reads them and fills the blank fields, each showing the document it came from.
Paste documents into a chatbot and you still have to check every answer. Releve breaks each source into small facts, and every line of the report points to the fact it came from.
PrototypeThe AI here is a labelled stand-in; a live model is connected but not yet tested on real documents. Swap the model and the traceable structure stays.
We can't fix the whole scheme, so we picked one step and one user: the professional who writes the assessment. That work is already paid for; Releve gives back the write-up time.
Uploads what is missing through a one-time link. No account.
A subscription per assessor, so a busy week costs nothing extra.
Gets the same PDF it gets today. No new portal to learn.
Evidence in, a source for every value, a signature, a version that never changes. That engine fits any report a professional has to sign, so a new report type is a new template, not a new product.
The Building Condition Assessment every grant needs.
Works plans, payment claims and completion packs, plus the new social homes scheme.
Condition surveys, snagging, installation, building control and fire safety.
Any evidence-heavy report, compliance included, where every fact has to be checkable.
Each new report type still needs testing with real users. Success in DCB doesn't prove demand elsewhere.
