You've been burned, or you know someone who has. Skepticism is the correct starting position — here are the straight answers.
Because you love your cousin, and this job ruins that. In half the stories we hear, the person managing the money was family — not because they were bad people, but because nobody can be both family and auditor. We're independent: no stake in the project, evidence-grade capture (GPS, hashes, video), and price benchmarking your cousin can't do. Keep your cousin for Sunday coffee. Let a stranger hold the camera.
No. Never. Not a birr, not a dollar. We are witnesses, not a bank — you pay us for inspections and reports, and your construction money moves however it moves today. Verification without custody is the whole design: we can tell you the truth precisely because we never touch the money.
You sign an access letter at onboarding, so our inspector arrives expected and authorized. If the gate is refused anyway, that refusal becomes an access-denied report — time, place, who said no, on the record. Owners tell us it's often the most valuable signal they ever get: honest sites don't hide.
Yes. Property observation and reporting on behalf of the owner — with your signed authorization — is a straightforward professional service, and an Ethiopian service export at that: inspectors employed in Addis Ababa, paid by the diaspora, building a paper trail Ethiopian courts and families can both read.
Visits happen regardless — inspectors work offline. Photos and video are hashed on the device at capture, queue locally, and upload the moment the connection returns. Our policy: your report is never more than 72 hours behind the visit, blackout or not.
Trained inspectors we employ and rotate between properties, so no inspector and site contact get too comfortable with each other. Every capture is GPS-stamped and hash-verified — an inspector couldn't fake a visit if they wanted to. On the Guard plan, a licensed engineer joins quarterly to assess structure, not just progress.