Short answer: Zach Rattner says the report lists packing materials and shows color-coded, numbered film strips of items; a mover in London once assumed someone spent hours building one by hand.
Watch this answer from Episode 49 (starts at 4:17) · Episode 49 notes and transcript
From Episode 49: A Ten Minute Phone Video Replaces Hours of Home Inspections. We Demo the AI Doing It., starting at 4:17.
Zach Rattner [4:17]: So let me go ahead and share my screen, and I'll show you what the output looks like. So we call this the visual inventory. This is the report that our AI generates. We give you a summary of all the different packing materials that the AI automatically calculated from looking at all the items in the room, the items that are moving, not moving, and the part that is, like, the main piece the AI generates is these film strips of images. So you could see here it's not just saying, hey. There's a bed and a lamp in the bedroom. You can actually see color coded and numbered all the different items that need to be moved. What's moving? What are the packing materials? And when something's marked as not moving, it's date and time stamped in here too. So when we first launched this, we had a customer that, was moving from Washington DC to London. And when you do international moves, it could be very complicated. There's companies on both sides of the equation that get involved, and there was a mover at the destination that was picking up the shipment from the port, and their job was to unpack it and bring it into the client's new home. And they saw this visual inventory by Yembo saying we got this funny email that just said, I got one of your reports and who on earth has the time? And the funny part was this is, like, 2020 or so, like, before AI is as it is today, and they thought that somebody actually went through and took pictures and got the colored numbers on it and spent probably, I don't know, five, six, seven, eight hours, putting this report together by hand.
Zach Rattner [5:43]: And then we told them that that actually happens on every single move. We use this new technology. It's called computer vision. AI did it. It wasn't a human.
