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Sewer camera reports for plumbers: written before you leave

CompanyCam files sewer camera photos and video by job and drafts the report from them, ready to share the same day. From $119£89€106A$172C$168 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costs$119–149£89–112€106–133A$172–215C$168–211 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$450£338€403A$650C$636 a month

  • Pays for itselfIn about two weeks

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Home buyers, real estate agents and homeowners want a sewer scope report they can read, not just a verbal 'there's a belly at 40 feet'. Writing it up at night takes time. If a plumber runs 25 camera inspections a month and each report takes 40 minutes, that's almost 17 hours a month; cutting it to 15 minutes saves about 10 hours, worth $450£338€403A$650C$636 if your time is worth $45£34€40A$65C$64 an hour.

What the AI does

CompanyCam stamps photos with time and location, files them by job and shares them through a link with a live feed. It can turn project photos, notes and job details into reports with reusable templates. Its AI Summary takes up to fifty photos and drafts a description, and its AI features can draft reports and captions from what you say as you take photos. Crew adds automatic job reports and 100 AI credits.

A worked example

A three-person plumbing company in Sacramento runs about 25 sewer camera inspections a month, many for home purchases at $250£188€224A$361C$353 each. Everyone moves onto CompanyCam Crew (3 users), saves screenshots from the camera at each finding and talks through what they see as they take them.

Before

40 minutes a night per report, written from memory and screenshots

After

Report drafted from the photos and notes on site, checked and sent in about 15 minutes

What it's worth

About $450£338€403A$650C$636 a month in time saved, against $119£89€106A$172C$168 to $149£112€133A$215C$211 for CompanyCam Crew. That's 25 minutes saved on each of 25 reports, about 10.4 hours, at an assumed $45£34€40A$65C$64 an hour, rounded down. Line repairs sold from clearer reports come on top.

How to set it up

  1. Choose CompanyCam Crew ($119£89€106A$172C$168 a month billed yearly, $149£112€133A$215C$211 monthly) for up to 3 users, with automatic job reports and 100 AI credits.
  2. Build a report template: address, access point, pipe material, distance markers, findings with photos, and what you recommend.
  3. At each finding, capture the image with the footage distance visible and say what it shows.
  4. Read every line of the AI draft before sending. A licensed plumber signs off the findings and any repair estimate.
  5. Share the report link with the client and the agent if the client asks you to.

What goes wrong

  • AI summaries can describe more than the image shows. Only report what the camera saw; say plainly what couldn't be seen.
  • Check how many AI credits each summary uses: 25 reports a month plus other jobs may need more than Crew's 100.
  • Long video files may be better kept in your camera system's own storage, with key frames in the report.
  • A repair estimate in the report is still an estimate; a person prices it, and for excavation, permits and right-of-way work you check local rules.

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Last updated October 18, 2026.