In our last update, Cost to Cure and the AI Repair Estimator were listed as coming soon. Both are now live.
New this week
AI Repair Estimator
Hive can now create AI repair cost estimates based on the defects in your report. These are AI-generated estimates. They aren’t sent to your client by default, but you can share them if you want to. They’re mainly for buyer agents: they give the agent a starting cost for each repair when negotiating with the seller for your client. See Repair Estimator.
Cost to Cure with your own repair prices
You can now add your own repair price to each defect and show them in a Cost to Cure table in your report. This is especially useful for commercial inspections. See Cost to Cure.
Service prices in agreements
This was one of the most requested features from our inspectors. The agreement editor has a new $ Service Price button. Use it to insert the price of any service or add-on into your agreement, and Hive fills in the actual price from the order. It’s especially handy if you have a separate agreement for an ancillary service like radon, mold, or WDO. See Agreements.
Hive Calendar: team-wide and repeating events
Two new options in the Hive Calendar engine:
- Events for everyone: schedule team meetings, marketing events, or office days once, and they show up on everyone’s calendar. Click Add Event and choose Everyone as the assignee.
- Repeating events: set any event to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, and more.
More improvements this week
Smart Add unhides hidden sections
If Smart Add matched a comment inside a hidden section or subsection, the comment used to stay hidden in the report. Smart Add now tells you when a matched comment sits in a hidden section or subsection. When you check that comment, Hive unhides the section automatically so the comment appears in your report. See Smart Add.
Default annotation shape on the web
You can now set your default annotation shape (arrow, circle, box, and more) for the web report editor too. Before, this was only available in the mobile app. Set it under Business Tools → Report Customization. See Report Customization.
You can now add more than one email in a contact’s CC field. Separate them with commas. This is useful when a buyer’s agent wants their team or assistant copied on every email.
Inspection date on invoices
Invoices now show the inspection date, along with the invoice date and property address.
Coming soon
- API and MCP access for Hive: connect Hive with your other tools, and with AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, so you can ask questions about your own inspections, contacts, and agents.
Last modified on October 18, 2026
