Otto v2: the auto-mode RICS report writer, levelled up

Writing up a survey is the part of the job that eats the evenings. Otto was built to give those evenings back, and Otto v2 is its biggest upgrade yet. It still does one thing: you dictate, upload your photos and notes, and Otto builds the report. It now just does it better, on bigger jobs, and in your own voice.

No more limits on the detail

The most common request we heard was simple: "let it handle my longest inspections." Otto v2 does. It now reads your fullest dictations and largest document sets in one go, so even a detailed Level 3 building survey turns into a complete first draft rather than a half-finished one you have to stitch together.

Trained on you, not on generic AI

A report should read like the surveyor who wrote it. Otto v2 learns your writing style and your typical report length from your own sample reports, so the first draft already sounds like your work. That means less rewriting and fewer "this doesn't sound like me" edits before sign-off. We go into more detail on how that training works in why your Otto reports sound like you.

Sharper structure, every section

Under the bonnet, a rebuilt engine routes every observation to the correct RICS section, with cleaner and more consistent formatting throughout. The result is a draft that's already in the right shape, condition ratings, sections and notes where a reviewer expects them.

Dictate everything in one pass

Pair it with Dictate All: run Intelligent Dictation across every text note in the report with a single click. No more working section by section, Otto transcribes, analyses and routes the lot in one batch. It's available on both RICS Level 2 and Level 3 reports. Not sure which one a job needs? See Level 2 vs Level 3: which survey do you need.

How to try it

Otto lives in your Home surveyor dashboard. Open a Level 2 HomeBuyer report or a Level 3 Building Survey, dictate your findings, drop in your photos, and let Otto build the draft. More on the tool itself on the Otto page, and on the reasoning behind it in why we built an AI report writer for chartered surveyors.

If you've been writing reports by hand, the first draft is on us.

Otto is part of Home for Surveyors. Drafts are produced by you and reviewed by you; Otto speeds up the writing, it doesn't replace your professional judgement.

Further reading: RICS on home surveys.