Company Cam Alternative for Contractors Who Also Need a CRM

You're a roofer. Or a painter. Or a GC. You've used Company Cam on the last six jobs because tagging photos to a project, time-stamping the damage, and pulling them up later when the adjuster asks "where exactly was the soft deck?" is genuinely useful. Photos are evidence. Photos are paid invoices. Photos are 5-star reviews.

Here's the problem. Company Cam is a great photo app. It's not your CRM. And the workflow for most contractors looks like this:

• Walk the job. Take photos in Company Cam.
• Drive back to the truck. Type a note into your CRM. Or text yourself. Or tell your office manager what needs to happen next.
• Realize three days later you forgot to create the follow-up task for the customer who wanted the gutter quote.
• Realize a week later you never sent the inspection summary email you promised on-site.

You're paying for Company Cam. You're paying for a CRM. And the gap between them is where jobs leak.

What Company Cam Does Well

Let's be honest about what Company Cam is good at. If you need a daily log of every photo on a multi-month project, organized by job, GPS-tagged, time-stamped, with crew comments and a timeline view that the homeowner or insurance carrier can scroll through, Company Cam is built for that. The project-centric photo gallery is best-in-class. The Procore and JobNimbus integrations are useful if you live in those ecosystems.

If your whole job is photo documentation across a long project, Company Cam at $24 to $44 per user per month makes sense. We're not telling you to drop it.

What Company Cam Doesn't Solve

The part Company Cam isn't trying to solve: everything that happens after you put your phone away.

Who's the customer? When did you visit? What did the homeowner say about the second-floor leak? Did you promise to email the estimate by Friday? What's the follow-up reminder for the gutter add-on? Where does any of that live? In your head. In a notebook. In your CRM, if you remember to type it in. Probably not anywhere.

That's the gap. And it's not Company Cam's job to fix it. They're a photo app.

What Walk & Talk Does

RadiusOS ships with a feature called Walk & Talk. Open a contact on your phone. Tap Start a Walk & Talk. Photograph the space as you walk through it. Voice rides along the whole time, so the moments you talk through (dimensions, damage, what the customer asked for) get captured without you stopping to type. Tap Done.

What happens next is the part that's not Company Cam's job:

• The audio gets transcribed by OpenAI Whisper
• Claude reads the transcript and looks at the photos
• You get back a clean recap with a title, a summary, and suggested follow-up tasks ("Send estimate for gutter replacement"), reminders ("Inspection scheduled for Tuesday at 9am"), and tags ("hail damage," "second-floor leak")
• You tap Approve and it all lands on the customer's contact record as a Note, real Tasks, real Reminders, and real Tags
• The photos persist on the walkthrough page, viewable on the contact later

No typing into a CRM in your truck. No "remind me later" sticky notes. No "I'll do it tonight" that turns into "I'll do it tomorrow" that turns into "we lost the job."

Built For The Real World Of Bad Recordings

You're a contractor. You record at a job site, not in a recording studio. Compressors run. Dogs bark. Wind hits the mic. Customers cut you off mid-sentence. The AI is going to get things wrong sometimes. Two retry paths are built into the review screen so a bad recording is a 10-second fix, not a redo.

• Waveform preview. Before you read a single word of the AI summary, the review screen shows a visual waveform of your recording. Flat line = something went wrong with the mic and the AI never had a chance. Tall bars across the whole thing = real audio captured. You can tell in two seconds whether to keep going or re-record, without waiting through the AI pipeline.
• Edit the transcript and regenerate. If Whisper got the words right but Claude misread the meaning (the wrong word for "soft deck," the wrong room number, the wrong dollar amount), open the transcript section, fix the text inline, and tap Regenerate. Claude reruns the summary against your corrected words. No re-record, no fresh audio upload. Costs about a tenth of a penny per regenerate.
• Re-record the audio entirely. If the whole recording was garbled (kid screaming, truck idling, mic in your pocket), the Mic button on the review screen clears the audio and lets you record again. Photos stay. Capped at 3 retries per walkthrough so a noisy room can't accidentally eat your monthly quota.

Three escape hatches for three different failure modes. The point is you don't lose the work when the recording isn't perfect.

See the full how-it-works at the help article.

When To Use What

Use Company Cam if your business model is photo-documentation-first and you need deep project timelines (heavy commercial, restoration, multi-month builds). Use RadiusOS Walk & Talk if your business model is customer-relationships-first and photos are evidence on a contact record, not the whole product (roofing, painting, plumbing, HVAC, landscaping, general contracting on single-family residential).

Use both if you want. Walk & Talk is part of RadiusOS, which is also a full CRM with pipeline stages, automated follow-up sequences, quotes, invoices, calendar sync, and Gmail integration. Company Cam is a $24+/user/mo photo app. They don't conflict.

But if you're tired of paying two subscriptions and still typing notes into a CRM at the end of the day, one of them is going to consolidate. Walk & Talk does the photos AND the voice AND the recap AND the customer record AND the follow-up tasks. One app. The free tier includes 1 Walk & Talk preview per month so you can record an actual walkthrough and see the AI recap before paying a dollar; Pro at $19/mo unlocks 30/month plus the save-to-customer-record step. No copy-paste between tools.

Bonus: when you photograph an adjuster's estimate or a manufacturer's data plate during the walkthrough, RadiusOS Snap to Quote reads the text and turns it into a draft quote on the customer's record. Re-quote an insurance estimate in 60 seconds for the deep dive.

The Templates That Pair With Walk & Talk

RadiusOS ships pipeline templates built for the same trades that use Company Cam today:

• Roofing Company - lead, inspection, insurance, scheduled, installed, paid. Walk & Talk during the inspection drops the storm-damage notes, photos, and follow-up tasks straight onto the homeowner's record.
• Painting Business - estimate, color consult, scheduled, in-progress, walkthrough, paid. The pre-job walkthrough and the final-walkthrough both get voice + photo capture in one tap.
• General Contractor - estimate, contract, permits, scheduled, in-progress, punch list, paid. Punch list walkthroughs become real tasks on the customer record.
• HVAC Service - service call, on-site, repair scope, parts ordered, scheduled, completed, paid. Diagnostic visits get recorded as notes that include exactly what was said, exactly what was seen.

Get Started

The free tier of RadiusOS includes 1 Walk & Talk preview per month - record a real walkthrough, see the AI recap on screen, decide for yourself before you upgrade. Pro at $19/mo unlocks 30 walkthroughs per month and the save-to-customer-record step so the recap lands as notes, tasks, and tags on the contact. Business at $39/mo is unlimited. See pricing for the full plan breakdown.

Sign up free, install a trades template that matches your business, and the next time you walk a roof you'll have your hands free to do the work while the customer record updates itself.