Mark Garcia, left, and Aryash Dubey are the founders of Binsr Inspect. The app is meant to make home inspection reports easier to generate, with artificial intelligence assistance.
Mark Garcia said the potentials for artificial intelligence have barely been tapped into.
Garcia, a Chandler resident, and a local business partner have started a company that helps provide a specific service using an AI-based app.
“Innovation spawns more innovation, and overall, it creates more than it destroys,” Garcia said about AI. “Technology will end up being used in ways we can’t even imagine yet. It will come out in amazing ways.”
Garcia, a San Francisco Bay-area native, and Aryash Dubey have started Binsr Inspect. “BINSR” is the acronym for an Arizona inspection form, the “Buyer’s Inspection Notice and Seller’s Response.”
The service is a text-focused AI-based software program that helps home inspectors write reports and other wordy documents more quickly.
“Some inspectors can end up performing about three inspections in a day, leading to three or four hours of typing to do that night,” Garcia said. “Our app helps turn voice and video into reports, 5,000 or 10,000 rows of data at a time.”
Garcia first came to the state to attend Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelor’s in business and communications. He then worked for the cloud-based software company Salesforce, saying he eventually wanted to be involved with startup companies.
Garcia said he was the eighth employee of the commercial real estate startup marketing and data platform Buildout, eventually working as chief revenue officer for three different startups.
Most recently, he was chief revenue officer for Zendoor, a commercial real estate marketplace backed by Craft Ventures, working on both supply and demand growth and marketing until the company was sold.
Two years ago, he started his own company.
“There are so many barriers to home ownership, and we wanted to help find some solutions,” Garcia said. “We’ve found a way to solve one — waiting on reports that could be 150 pages or longer, and other documents to be created.”
Garcia describes how the app saves time be creating whole sentences or paragraphs — all of which can be proofed by the author but don’t need to be initially hand-typed or copied and pasted from a form.
He said some reports are not fill-in-the-box, but are pages of text narrative.
“There is real skill in building those reports,” Garcia says, “and the AI can be taught that level of skill.”
Garcia and Dubey, who lives in Tempe, only have three employees now, but are looking to hire more, especially engineers.
“There’s just so much to build,” Garcia said.
Dubey’s posting on LinkedIn about taking applications for engineers is worded in a casual way that shows how he and Garcia might be able to reach multiple generations of potential engineers.
Garcia said the number of tasks in building an app and a business can be overwhelming — especially since everything implemented has to function properly.
“I can’t believe what we’ve built in a year, but there’s still so, so much to do,” he said. “Having the latest technology to help us build it, that helps, but it’s a lot.”
Garcia said everyone with Binsr Inspect works from home, as would any upcoming engineer hires. He eventually sees some kind of hybrid space-sharing arrangement, such as one in which Binsr uses an office one or two days per week.
In the meantime, Garcia said, it’s back to using tech to help create tech.
“There are water and electricity challenges to overcome, no doubt, though I’m a big fan of some new ways to generate and move more power,” Garcia said. “Once we see the ways that AI can be both expanded and sustainable, we’ll see that we are really are only in the early innings of seeing what AI can do.”
Jason W. Brooks News Editor | Chandler Independent
Jason W. Brooks joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in July 2021 as an associate editor. After a year covering Buckeye, he has covered Chandler since the fall of 2022, in addition to assisting the Daily Independent throughout his time at INI.
Education: University of New Mexico, bachelor of arts in journalism and mass communication, print emphasis, English minor.
Random Fact: He and his siblings witnessed a Space Shuttle launch and landing in the same year in person, on opposite coasts.
Hobbies: Karaoke, bicycling and American Sign Language.
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