Live in production · api.snagvault.app · v0.0.3 · 2026·06

The paper
snag report,
automated.

SnagVault turns photos of paper handover defect reports into structured Excel data and a searchable image archive, in under five seconds. Built for Dubai property developers during the one-year Defects Liability Period.

"We don't have them. The contractor has them. We just retype into Excel."

Handover department response
to a resident request

Tested ten times on a real Dubai handover snag photo.
Ten times right.

Pays itself back on a single property in under two weeks. Median round-trip from photograph to Excel row: five seconds.

10/10
unit-number accuracy
OPALZ, Dubai · field test
Section 01 · the field observation

A workflow stuck in the last century.

A workflow built around paper, signatures, and a single coordinator typing every line into Excel, for thirty years running.

Dubai handover desks, 2026

A resident at OPALZ requested a copy of the signed snag report covering his unit as the Defects Liability Period approached its close. The handover department couldn't produce it. The originals had gone to the contractor. No digital archive, no scanned copy, no audit trail at the developer.

That resident is now the founder of SnagVault.

Today

Manual, lossy, brittle

  • Resident fills paper snag form. Handed to security.
  • Handyman repairs. Resident signs. Paper returned to handover desk.
  • 10–20 signed reports arrive per day, per property, each typed line-by-line into Excel.
  • Original report goes to contractor. No archive at developer.
  • Owner asks for their report 6 months later, nobody can find it.
  • ~50 hours/month per coordinator on transcription, on a single active property.

With SnagVault

Photo in. Excel out.

  • Handyman photographs the signed report. WhatsApp inbound, or Pro-tier mobile app with on-device sharpness check.
  • GPT-5.4-mini reads unit, items, signature, date, three to four seconds.
  • Row appended to your Excel. Image archived to your network drive. SQLite logs every event for audit.
  • Coordinator opens a review queue: ~5% flagged, one-click approve.
  • Owner asks 6 months later, searchable, signed, served in seconds.
  • Coordinator time on snag reports: 15–45 minutes per month.
Section 02 · the pipeline

Four steps. Five seconds.

Existing infrastructure on both ends. The handyman's phone. The coordinator's screen. Nothing new to learn.

01 · Capture

Signed report,
photographed

Handyman sends the photo via WhatsApp to a number you already own, or via the Pro-tier mobile app with on-device sharpness check.

02 · Extract

Vision model
reads the page

The most accurate model on the market today reads unit number, tower, every item, signature, date. Three to four seconds.

03 · Archive

Excel row,
image stored

Row appended to your network-drive Excel. Original photo + compressed thumbnail archived. Every event logged for audit.

04 · Review

Coordinator
confirms

Dashboard sorts low-confidence reports to the top. One click to approve, ten seconds to correct. Inbox empties in minutes.

Section 03 · what you get back

Per active DLP property, every month.

Based on 15 reports per day × 22 working days at 7 minutes of coordinator handling each. Conservative.

Manual workflow today
~50 hrs
With SnagVault, auto-extracted (~95%)
0 hrs
+ Human review of flagged reports (~5%)
12 hrs
Coordinator time recovered
~48 hrs
Net monthly benefit, per property
AED 1,500+

Pays itself back in

under
2 weeks

A single active property covers the Mini tier with AED 1,500+ in net recoverable labour every month. Run five properties? That's a full-time role you don't have to hire.

Section 04 · four tiers, value-aligned

Priced against the labour you reclaim, not the volume.

Annual prepay equals two months free. Or start with a 30-day pilot on one active property, no card.

Mini
Single active property
AED699/ mo
  • 1 project · up to 2 towers
  • 2 dashboard users
  • WhatsApp inbound
  • Local Tauri install
  • Excel + image archive
  • Email support
Request pilot
Pro
Enterprise-scale operations
AED3,999/ mo
  • 20 projects · 50 towers
  • Unlimited users
  • Mobile app, iOS+Android
  • MDM-deployable
  • On-device quality checks
  • Priority support
Book demo
Enterprise
Damac · Emaar · Sobha scale
AEDQuote
  • Unlimited volume
  • On-prem option
  • SSO / Active Directory
  • PMS / CRM API integration
  • White-label option
  • Dedicated success manager
Talk to sales

All prices excl. VAT · Cancel anytime · Data export on demand

Section 05 · frequently asked

Questions you'll ask anyway.

How accurate is the extraction, really?

We tested 13 vision-LLMs across 30+ runs on a real Dubai handover snag photo. GPT-5.4-mini hit 10/10 on unit-number accuracy. Claude Opus 4.7 also scored 10/10, we use it as a fallback for any low-confidence call. Confidently-wrong models (GPT-4o, GPT-5 base, GPT-4.1 full) are disqualified.

What happens to my data? Is this PDPL compliant?

Snag images are sent to our cloud proxy (Hetzner, EU-Nuremberg), processed in-memory by the LLM provider, and immediately deleted from our infrastructure. Extracted Excel + image archive lives on YOUR network drive, we never persist customer images. DPA available on request. UAE-region hosting available for Enterprise tier.

Do my handymen need to install anything?

Mini and Standard tier: no. They use WhatsApp, already on every Dubai handyman's phone. Pro tier: native iOS/Android app deployable via MDM (Intune/Jamf) on company devices, with on-device sharpness check and per-user audit trail.

How long is onboarding?

45 minutes. We install on your office PC (or NAS), pair the WhatsApp number, configure your Excel template once, train your first coordinator. Live the same afternoon.

What if the AI gets a unit number wrong?

The dashboard sorts low-confidence reports to the top. Your coordinator sees the photo + extracted unit side-by-side, clicks "approve" or types the correction. Takes ~10 seconds per flagged report. Historically ~5% need review.

What about Arabic snag reports?

Supported. The extraction prompt detects language and OCRs mixed English/Arabic content. Item descriptions preserve the source language in the Excel.

Can we integrate with our existing PMS / Yardi / Buildium?

Enterprise tier includes API access. Excel output is the lowest-friction integration; for direct API integration into your existing handover module, we'll scope it on a discovery call.

How is this different from PlanRadar?

PlanRadar is a generic construction collaboration tool charging AED 129–657 per user per month. We charge per volume, your 5-person handover team uses one Standard tier instead of 5 separate seats. We're also specifically tuned for Dubai handover paper formats, not generic site inspection.

Section 06 · book a demo

20 minutes. Bring a snag photo.
We'll extract it live.

No deck, no salespeople. The founder runs the demo. If we can't extract your actual handover paper on the call, we're not the right tool.

Or start with a 30-day pilot. One active property, no card. If we don't save your handover coordinator 40+ hours in month one, you owe nothing. If we do, you stay on Standard tier the next month.

Direct contact
hello@snagvault.app

API status
api.snagvault.app/health

Based in
Dubai, UAE

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~24 hour response

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Pilot us. One property.
30 days. Free.

If we don't save your coordinator 40+ hours in month one, you owe nothing. If we do, you stay on Standard tier the next month. No setup fee. No long-term commitment.

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