Lumos or Axiome³: two Quebec platforms, two philosophies

With Lumos, we agree on the principle and disagree on the conclusion. Yes, the inspector signs a legal document. That is exactly why nothing goes to the client without being read and approved. But between 'the inspector is responsible for every word' and 'no machine should ever propose a first draft', there is a gap nothing forces you to cross.

With Lumos, you choose how to work depending on the day. Classic: you inspect with your camera, batch-import your photos afterwards, and attach them to your findings. Voice: you dictate on site and Lumos Capture assembles photos, audio, and notes into a single capture, processed in the background while you keep going. Mixed: most inspectors. Lumos Capture is a native iOS and Android app built for rooftops, crawl spaces, attics, and winter: dark mode by default, touch targets sized for gloved fingers, and capture works without a network, stored locally and synced automatically when the signal returns. One nuance, and we name it: creating a new inspection and delivering the final report require a connection. Collection and review work fully offline.

With Lumos, the same base is provided, and you can build on top of it. The compliance gauge shows you in real time where the report has coverage gaps, before you close it; you can turn it on or off. The BNQ qualification of deficiencies, apparent defect, deficiency indicator, or safety risk, is carried by the finding itself, independently of its severity level: severity says how serious it is, qualification says what it is in the sense of the standard, and a normative decision cannot be overwritten by editing a label. And if you have developed your own method over fifteen years in the trade, the template editor lets you carry it, with version history.

With Lumos, the full cycle is covered as well: public intake form, quote signed online, AIBQ, APCHQ, and BNQ agreements with custom templates, calendar sync with Google, Apple, and Outlook, invoicing with GST and QST calculation, email templates with variables, team management with roles and permissions, an optimized daily route between visits, and full project export as a .zip.

With Lumos, your client opens a portal with no account either: one secure link per client, where they read and sign the quote, the agreement and the BNQ prerequisites — up to two signatories when the agreement calls for it, with a sealed copy and a signature certificate — upload the documents you asked for, and open their interactive web report: navigation by section, severity filters, full-screen photos and videos. The professional PDF remains available for download, customizable to your brand: density, colors, fonts. Two things speak to client acquisition rather than productivity: view tracking, so you know when your client opened their report, and the widgets for your own site, an embeddable service request form and a Google review request triggered after delivery.