Move-in walkthrough
Take stock of a home you just took possession of — appliances, their manuals, and the utility accounts, room by room.
What it is — a guided pass through a home you’ve just taken possession of, capturing what’s actually in it: the appliances, their manuals, and the utility accounts. At /app/homes/<home>/walkthrough, or by asking your AI assistant to run it.
It exists because possession day is the only moment when all of this is in front of you at once — the model number is still on the fridge, the possession package is still in your hand, and the utility letters haven’t been filed somewhere you’ll never find them. A week later it’s scattered.
What you get out of it later
The walkthrough is five minutes of typing that answers questions you’ll actually ask:
- “What model is my furnace?” — you’re on the phone with a repair company and they want the model before they’ll book. It’s in
list_appliances, or on the home’s page. - “The dishwasher is flashing E24.” — the manual is already in your documents vault, attached to that exact appliance. No hunting the manufacturer’s site for a model you can’t remember.
- “Is this still under warranty?” — brand, model, serial and warranty date are on the appliance record. So is the data-plate photo, if you took one.
- “Who’s my internet provider and what’s the account number?” — you’re setting up a transfer, or disputing a bill, and the account number is what they ask for first.
- “What appliances come with the unit?” — you’re writing a listing, or handing over to a tenant, and the inventory already exists.
- After a flood or fire — an insurer wants a list of what was in the house, with makes and models. That list is very hard to write from memory and very easy to produce if you captured it on day one.
Running it with your AI assistant
This is the intended way, because you’ll be standing in a room holding a phone.
Connect the MCP server first, then pick the move_in_walkthrough prompt from your client’s prompt menu (in Claude, the / menu) and give it the home. Or just ask: “run the move-in walkthrough on my Calgary house.”
The assistant goes room by room and asks one thing at a time. When you find an appliance, point your camera at the data plate — the sticker or metal panel on the back, inside the door, or underneath — and it reads the brand and model off it. You don’t type a fourteen-character model number, and you don’t spell it out loud.
Once it has a brand and model it offers to find the manual: it searches the web for the manufacturer’s PDF and files it against that appliance. If it can’t find one in a couple of tries, it says so and moves on.
An empty room is a real answer. Say “nothing in here” and it marks the room done, so it doesn’t look unvisited forever.
It never asks for a password.
Running it in the app
Go to a home and open Move-in walkthrough. One card per screen, one room at a time, big buttons — it’s built for a phone. Add the appliances in each room, then move on; Nothing here — next room is a single tap.
The last step is utility accounts.
You can stop whenever
There’s nothing to save and nothing to resume. Progress is worked out from what you’ve actually recorded, so closing the tab mid-room loses nothing — come back and it picks up where you left off. The app and your AI assistant read the same progress, so you can start on the phone with your assistant and finish at a desk, or the reverse.
Utility accounts: numbers only
Provider, service, account number, portal link, support phone.
RenovAI will not store a password, a PIN, or a security answer — there’s no field for one, and there won’t be. That’s a password manager’s job. Anything in RenovAI is reachable by whichever AI assistant you’ve connected, and a stored secret would be a secret that could be read back out. If your assistant ever asks you for a utility password, it’s freelancing — don’t give it one.
Appliances belong to the home, not the room
An appliance sits on the home, with the room as an optional detail. Two consequences worth knowing:
- HVAC and water heaters don’t need to be in a room at all.
- Deleting a room doesn’t delete its appliances — the fridge outlives the Kitchen record. They just stop being assigned to a room.
They also outlive projects, the same way rooms do.
What it doesn’t do
- It won’t tell you a warranty is expiring. The date is recorded; nothing chases you about it yet.
- It won’t read a model number from a photo you upload later — the camera read happens live, in the conversation.
- It won’t find a manual that isn’t published as a PDF.