Chris Schuld, one of ISN’s original co-founders, is rejoining as Director of Engineering, Inspection. He’ll be leading Engineering across ISN, Home Inspector Pro, Palmtech, America’s Call Center, Guardian Inspection Payments, and Inspector Services Group.
If you’ve been with ISN for a while, you may already know the name. Chris didn’t just help start ISN; he wrote much of the original software himself. He understands this product, and the inspectors who depend on it, at a level that can’t be taught.
Where he’s been
After leaving Porch in 2021, Chris didn’t slow down. He founded several technology startups, then went on to oversee U.S. engineering at Wix.com, one of the largest web platforms in the world, serving hundreds of millions of users. During his entrepreneurial years, he went deep on AI: not the buzzword version, but the practical kind. How to apply modern models to create genuinely better experiences for real businesses and real users.
That’s the experience he’s bringing back to ISN.
Why he came back
In Chris’s own words: “What drew me back are the people on this team and the almost unlimited opportunities we have to build incredible software for home inspectors.”
It’s an honest answer, and it says something important. Chris came back to ISN because he sees what’s possible here, and he wants to be the one to build it.
What this means for ISN users
The inspection industry is at an inflection point. For years, software like ISN has helped inspectors manage the logistics of running a business: scheduling, customer relationship management, payments, communications, and more. Those things matter, and ISN does them better than anyone.
But the next chapter is different. AI is no longer a feature to add to a product; it’s a foundation to build on. ISN already includes AI comment suggestions and image defect detection, tools that save real time for inspectors. But there’s considerably more runway ahead, and now we have the right person to lead us where we want to go.
The gap between what today’s technology makes possible and what inspection software currently does is significant, and that gap is the opportunity.
ISN already serves more inspectors than any other platform in the market. The data, the relationships, and the infrastructure are in place. What changes now is the pace and ambition of what gets built on top of them.
“Chris built the foundation of ISN, and now he’s coming back with the experience and vision to build what comes next for our inspection ecosystem,” says Adam Long, General Manager of Inspection. “His combination of deep inspection industry knowledge and modern AI expertise makes him exactly the right person to lead our engineering teams at this moment.”
The road ahead
We’re not announcing a product roadmap today. What we’re announcing is that the person best positioned to build the future of this software, the one who knows it from the inside out, who has spent years learning what modern technology can do, and who genuinely believes in the opportunity in front of us, is back.
For inspectors, that means the tools you rely on are in good hands. It also means the best version of ISN is still ahead.
More updates to come. We’re just getting started.
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