Inspektr is built by Tew & Taylor

Tew & Taylor, since 2008

Tew & Taylor is a Florida-licensed private provider firm operating under Florida Statute 553.791. The firm performs building code plan review, inspections, and permitting, and it provides outsourced building official services to municipalities across the state.

That municipal side of the business matters for understanding what Inspektr is. Tew & Taylor does not only work opposite building departments as a private provider. In many jurisdictions the firm is the building department function, supplying building official coverage, plan review capacity, and inspection staff under contract. The same firm sits on both sides of the counter, which is an unusual vantage point in this industry and a demanding one. Work performed as a private provider has to hold up to the same scrutiny the firm applies when it is the authority having jurisdiction.

That shows up in who does the work. Almost all of our plans examiners, inspectors, and permit technicians have experience working inside a building department. They have sat on the other side of the counter, reviewed the submittals, and answered to the same code officials our contractors deal with. It means the reports we issue are built the way a building department expects to receive them, and it means our people understand what a jurisdiction needs before it has to ask.

Why Inspektr exists

In 2025, Tew & Taylor built Inspektr as software to support its single-trade inspection business.

The problem it solves came out of the field rather than out of a product plan. Single-trade contractors, the HVAC company doing fifteen changeouts a week, the pool builder running ten concurrent projects, the roofer with a crew standing on a finished dry-in, all share the same structural problem: the work is finished in hours and the inspection takes days. The inspection itself is often a short, visually verifiable check. The wait around it is what costs the money.

Florida law already permitted a different answer. Section 553.791 authorizes private providers to perform inspections, and HB 401 in 2021 added explicit authority to perform them virtually. What did not exist was the operational layer: trade-specific checklists, guided capture so a technician records the right things in the right order, structured review against published pass criteria, and a documented record that survives an audit. Inspektr is that layer, built on top of an inspection practice that already existed.

What this means in practice

Inspektr is not a marketplace or a broker. Inspections submitted through the platform are reviewed by Florida-licensed inspectors working under Tew & Taylor's private provider authority. The checklists are drawn from Florida Building Code requirements and carry the pass criteria the reviewing inspector applies, which is why the same standard applies whether the inspection is virtual or in person.

Under 553.791, every Florida municipality is required to accept a properly executed private provider inspection. Commercial permit fees are also reduced by statute when a private provider is used. Those are obligations that sit with the building department, not with the contractor.

What comes with an inspection

Every closed permit ships with a record: timestamped video of the work, the completed checklist with the pass criteria the inspector applied, and a signed certificate of compliance delivered to the building department. That record is the point. It is what makes a virtual inspection defensible years later, when a question comes up about what was behind a wall or under a roof and the crew that built it has moved on.

Records are retained for five years and are exportable. If a jurisdiction audits an inspection, the evidence is already assembled.

Coverage

Inspektr operates as a licensed private provider in every Florida county and municipality, from the Panhandle to the Keys. One relationship covers a contractor's entire Florida operation rather than a separate arrangement in each jurisdiction.