About
To examine, not to judge.
Exetto is named for exetasis, a Greek word for close examination. Its root reaches back to eteos — true. To examine, in that older sense, was to sift a thing until you found out what was actually there.
The Greeks used it for close scrutiny, for the muster a commander takes of what he actually has before committing to anything, and for the examined life — it is the same word Socrates used when he said the unexamined life is not worth living.
An inspection report is that muster. It is typically a condition to closing on an offer to purchase a home you have already made. Many buyers read it once, and come away with an impression rather than a list.
Exetto reads those documents and returns findings — plain observations, each tied to the page it came from. It examines. It does not judge. Every finding cites its source, because a finding you cannot trace is not an examination; it is an opinion.
Your advisors can use it too. A broker, an inspector, a notary, an appraiser — whoever you invite reads the same findings with the same page citations, answers your questions beside the finding they concern, and can set down a professional view of their own. The same examination, shared.
What we hold to
- Findings, never verdicts. Exetto does not tell you to buy or not to buy, and never estimates the cost of anything.
- Every finding cites its page. If you cannot trace it back to the document, it should not be on the screen.
- What is said stays said. A question, an answer, a professional's disagreement — the record belongs to both people who made it, and neither can quietly rewrite it later.