Holdpoint is the coordination layer for every inspection on your project: your QC team, testing labs, owner QA, the engineer of record, and the city - scheduled, dispatched, and documented in one system.
From the Statement of Special Inspections to the Final Report that clears your certificate of occupancy.
The schedule never waits on a missing signature.
See it on your inspection types →A founder runs every demo. Bring one week of your real inspection load.
It's 6 AM and someone on your team is already on the phone, lining up 5 to 10 inspecting parties - each with their own email, notice rules, and report formats. The spreadsheet broke twice this week. Nobody can tell you what got inspected yesterday, or what passed. You don't have a quality problem. You have a coordination problem - and it's eating your schedule.
The pour waits on the rebar inspection. Panel erection waits on the weld check. A missed inspection is idle crews and lost days.
PDFs by email, photos on phones, paper in the trailer. Come a dispute or an audit, the record is reassembled, not pulled.
By the time a pattern of fails shows up, it's already rework. Nothing in a spreadsheet flags it early.
Including the building official.
You own every inspection on the job and you cannot see any of them. One exceptions-first view of what is missing, not what is fine. You pick the inspection you need from a list instead of chasing someone down for it.
Request an inspection in about the time it takes to send a text. Get a receipt so you know it was accepted and scheduled, not sitting in someone's inbox. Resubmit after a fail without starting over.
You are a licensed party reporting to the building official, not the GC's vendor, and your record has to stand on its own. Take the request, do the work, file the report once, and have it land in the right place on their side without learning their software. Holdpoint runs the project work you do with GCs. It doesn't touch your business, your systems, or your client relationships.
Email your report back the way you already do. It files itself against the right inspection, and if a required field is missing you find out the same day instead of at closeout. It only touches project coordination. Your LIMS keeps doing everything else.
See whether the quality plan you are paying for is actually being executed, without logging into the contractor's system or waiting for a monthly report.
It's your sign-off. See what is coming before it is urgent, and keep your responsible-charge record intact.
And the building official, who will never log into anything. They get a context-rich email, a one-click confirm, and a reply that files itself against the right inspection. Most tools treat this as a rare exception. Here, it's most of the job.
Holdpoint came out of a special inspections and materials testing practice that has run inspections on:
Every one is IBC Chapter 17 work. Several add a regime on top: HCAI for California hospitals, DSA for California schools.
Quality modules work for your own team. Checklist apps assume everyone logs in. The coordination in between - the chasing, confirming, escalating - lives in a coordinator's inbox, and you already pay for it in salary. Same holdpoint, two ways to run it:
| Vendor | Dispatch to outside parties | No-account participation | Notice rules enforced | Escalates silence | Re-inspection tracking | Closeout builds itself |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheet + Outlook + phone | Manual | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Procore Quality & Safety | - | Partial | - | - | Partial | - |
| Point inspection apps (FTQ360, SafetyCulture) | - | - | - | - | Partial | - |
| Holdpoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Procore or Autodesk stays your system of record. Holdpoint runs the coordination half and pushes completed inspections back in. Coexist, don't rip out.
One exceptions-first view: what's missing, not what's fine - before it costs you a crew day.
Notice rules enforced, silence escalated, every inspection tied to the work it gates. The thing you're measured on, handled.
QC, labs, owner QA, the EOR, the AHJ - and anyone else on your project. Requesting is selecting, not chasing.
Fails roll up by trade, sub, and type as they happen - from the office or the slab. Catch the pattern while it's one bad week.
No weeks of chasing PDFs and tagging assets. The handover package builds itself as the job runs - pulled, not reconstructed.
Ready → routed → inspected → released. And when it fails - the part every other tool drops - the re-inspection routes itself back. Tracked, not lost in an inbox.
Every inspection tool assumes every inspector is a trained, licensed user. Then the first lab or city inspector who won't create an account breaks the system - and their half of the record lives in email anyway.
Holdpoint treats outside parties as real participants, no account required. A context-rich email, one-click confirm, and their PDF report emails straight back - filed against the right inspection.
Three ways in. No party is a dead end.
And because it sees every outside party, it builds what no checklist tool can: first-pass rate, response time, and completeness by lab, inspector, and trade. By the next bid, you know who to book and who to chase.
Watch a lab confirm without logging in →A Statement of Special Inspections is filed with your permit. A Final Report of Special Inspections gates your certificate of occupancy. Between them sit every inspection, every party, and every signature. Most software helps with the middle and leaves you to reconstruct both ends from email. Holdpoint treats them as one record.
elas. was founded by a professional engineer with 30 years in the field. Holdpoint grew out of the platform's work for inspection and testing firms - not generic construction software adapted after the fact. It speaks your language: holdpoints, witness points, ITPs, NCRs, sign-offs - from day one.
We build our own AI agents on ELAS and own our data - cut tech costs from $15K/mo to under $2K. Over $150K saved a year.
ELAS aligned our roles, dashboards, and department goals on one platform. When you work as a team, you win.
Ran Holdpoint in the field on a live pilot. Here for the part vendors can't tell you.
Keep them. Procore stays your system of record - Holdpoint runs the coordination half, the part that lives in the spreadsheet and your coordinator's inbox, and pushes completed inspections back in. You're not replacing a system. You're replacing the duct tape between systems.
They see three things: request, resubmit, calendar. They join by secure link - no account, no password, no training week. If they can text, they can use it.
They don't have to. They confirm from an email with one click and send their PDF report straight back by reply. It files itself against the right inspection. That's the whole point of the product.
No. Under IBC Chapter 17 the Statement of Special Inspections is prepared by the registered design professional in responsible charge, and the Final Report is signed by the special inspector or agency. Software cannot stamp either one. Holdpoint coordinates the work and assembles the record. Nobody's license changes hands.
Both, for the work you do together. Holdpoint runs the project coordination between you and the GCs you serve: requests in, reports out, one record both sides trust. Everything else about how you run your business stays the same.
SOC 2 Type I attested (report under NDA), US-based AWS, full data export any time, permanent deletion at project end, and per-user secure links - no shared passwords. Security review is a lane, not a wall.
No. Issues and punch lists stay where they live today. Holdpoint coordinates the inspection lifecycle - request, dispatch, confirm, escalate, release - and hands the completed record back to your systems.
Bring one week of your real inspection load to a 30-minute demo. You'll watch a request route itself, an outside lab confirm without logging in, and the closeout record build - before the call ends.
30 minutes. Your inspection types, your parties, not a canned demo. You'll watch a request route itself, an outside lab confirm without logging in, and the closeout record build as it happens.
Book my 30-minute demo →A founder runs every demo. You'll see our face, not a sales deck.