It started with us, as builders, checking properties for family and friends.

Back in 2012, as classmates from secondary school, we would occasionally help family and friends take a look at a flat or house they wanted to buy. No form, no invoice, just "come on, I'll have a look." After we had done it a few times, we saw two things. People with no background in construction were making decisions about million-crown investments without a rational picture of what they were buying. And we always heard the same question: "do you know someone who does this regularly?"

In the Czech Republic, this service practically did not exist at the time. In the United States it had been common when buying a property for decades. We agreed to try doing it systematically for everyone, not just for people we knew. We adopted the methodology from established American inspector associations and adapted it for Czech conditions. We modelled the look of the property inspection report on the outputs of financial due diligence. We wanted a document a layperson could read, not just an engineer.

We started as a team of four. Today we run Nemoinspekt as a pair with Tomáš, and we have more than thirty contracted inspectors across the whole country. Every inspection is carried out by an authorized structural engineer or architect holding authorization from the Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers and Technicians (ČKAIT) and certification from the Association of Property Inspectors (AIN). Every report is reviewed by a lead inspector before it is sent. We call it the four-eyes check.