Shim is a set of commissioned reports for real estate transactions. Clients commission a report. One operator produces it. The analysis and the editable companion document arrive inside the deadline that matters. There is no app to log into and no software to buy.
Real estate transactions are organized around deadlines that cannot be moved. The inspection period closes in days. The appraisal came in low and the lender needs a reconsideration by Friday. The HOA package landed at 320 pages and closing is two weeks away. Nobody else in the room is paid to read those documents for the client's side with no downstream incentive attached to whether the deal closes. Shim is the work product for those moments: commission a report, receive a defensible operator-produced analysis fast enough to act on. What changes hands is the report, not access to a tool.
Every Shim report is produced by a single trained operator with LLM-assisted extraction and judgment on top. No outsourced review, no sales team, no marketplace, no software seat.
Source documents live on the operator's machine for the duration of the engagement and never sync to a cloud database. When the report is delivered, the finished PDFs go to you and the working record stays contained.
States, counties, and municipalities differ on disclosure, closing procedure, statutory windows, and permit access. Each Shim report reflects those differences rather than pretending they do not exist.
Inspection Analysis is available for commission today. The eight reports listed alongside it are produced on the same operator spine, with purpose-built intake, prompts, and templates for each scenario. They are being brought online in sequence as operator capacity and reference data mature. Clients do not buy access to any of this; they commission a report and receive the delivered PDFs.
A buyer-leverage analysis of a home inspection report, with a separately editable repair-request letter tuned to the contract's contingency language.
Buyer memo on HOA or condo governance packages, with ranked red flags, rental and pet restriction analysis, reserve adequacy, and questions for the buyer's attorney.
A permit-to-feature map for a specific address, with flags on unpermitted work and a practical resolution path. Insurance, resale, and retroactive compliance implications called out.
A complete appeal package for a property tax assessment, built around a defensible comp-based valuation argument and the statutory filing window for the jurisdiction.
A structured reconsideration of value letter for a low appraisal, with competing comp analysis, adjustment rationale, and specific errors or omissions in the original report.
A structured punch list and warranty tracking package for buyers of new construction, with builder obligations cited by contract clause and statutory warranty, and templates for warranty invocation.
Interpretation of a wood destroying insect inspection report, with a recommended remediation scope and negotiating language for treatment or credit. VA and FHA eligibility implications called out.
A landlord response plan for an inspector's order or code complaint, with responsibility allocated by lease and statute, a statutory timeline, and correspondence templates for tenant and municipality.
A pre-offer audit of a seller's disclosure form against public records and prior listings, surfacing gaps, contradictions, and items the seller declined to address. Sharpest in caveat emptor states.
The flow below is the client's path from initial commission to delivered report. Everything between the first and last step happens on the operator's machine. The client interacts with the intake at the start and the deliverable at the end.
The client submits a short intake form specific to the report, along with the source documents. The operator confirms scope, price, and turnaround, or declines if the work does not fit. No account to create.
Documents are processed on the operator's machine through an LLM-assisted extraction and classification pipeline. The operator confirms every finding, merges duplicates, splits composites, and applies jurisdiction-specific analysis before anything ships.
The client receives two paired files: a structured analysis PDF that establishes the facts and an editable companion document (letter, form, memo) that the client and their counterparty can work from directly. Source documents are then purged from the working record.
Shim reports are produced by the founder of Field Assembly LLC. The same operator handles every intake, every extraction, every classification pass, every pattern review, and the final delivery. Capacity is finite. Scheduling is first-come, first-served once the commission is accepted. This is a commissioned-report service, not software you rent.
