Policy
AI Disclaimer
What the automated output is, what it categorically is not, and the one prohibition that matters more than all the others on this site.
- Effective
- 2026-08-20
- Operator
- JOHN CHARLES CONTRACTORS LTD
- Service
- Workproof, johncharlescontractors.com
Can I use this as an inspection, a certificate, or proof that the work is compliant?
No. Never, in any form, for any purpose. This is the most important thing on this site and it is not a formality.
This is a record of work as photographed. It is not an inspection, a certificate, or a statement of compliance with any standard.
That line is fixed to the bottom of every export Workproof produces. It cannot be edited, moved or removed, on any plan.
Output from Workproof must not be used in place of, or in support of, any statutory inspection, any building or utility sign-off, any test certificate, any safety certification, any warranty claim, or any regulatory submission. It must not be given to anybody as evidence that work is safe, compliant, complete, or built to a standard.
Workproof makes no assessment of the work in your photographs. It does not examine them for defects, hazards, standards compliance or completeness, and it will not tell you or anybody else whether a job is correct. It has no view about the work, and it is not built to form one. It groups your photographs, lays them out in the order you set, and prints the words you typed.
Where a job requires an inspection, a sign-off, a test or a certificate, that has to be produced by a person or body qualified and authorised to issue it, who puts their own name to it. Nothing here substitutes for that, and using it as though it did may be unlawful as well as dangerous.
How reliable is the automated part?
Not reliable enough to send anywhere unread. Automated systems produce output that can be wrong in ways that look entirely plausible.
- Camera-position pairing is a best guess from the pictures. It can put two different places in the same group, or split one place into two.
- Stage ordering is inferred from what you wrote. It can put things in the wrong order.
- Captions are generated from your words and can end up saying something you did not mean.
- Film generation interpolates between the frames you signed off. Movement between stages is an artefact of that process, not a record of anything that happened.
Everything that has to be correct — stage names, dates, dimensions, the hidden-work notes — is typed by you and stays editable through to export. No model is asked to render text on an image anywhere in this product, precisely because a model cannot be trusted with a number.
Whose responsibility is the output?
Yours, once it leaves your screen.
- Read every output in full before you send it to a client, post it, or put it in a portfolio.
- Check that each stage is the stage you meant, and that each photograph is of the place you think it is.
- Check every date and every dimension. They are your words and nobody else is checking them.
- Make sure what you send complies with the law and with any contract you are working under.
Is any of this professional advice?
No. Nothing produced by Workproof, and nothing written on this site, is legal, financial, medical, engineering, surveying, building-control or safety advice. It is not a professional opinion and must not be treated as one.
What am I forbidden from doing with it?
These uses are prohibited outright, and doing any of them will end your account:
- Substituting output for a statutory inspection, sign-off or safety certification — the prohibition set out at the top of this page.
- Presenting output as evidence that work is safe, compliant, or built to a standard.
- Presenting work that is not finished as though it were finished.
- Presenting somebody else's work as your own.
- Supporting a claim to qualifications, accreditations, memberships or a track record you do not hold.
- Medical diagnosis or treatment; legal or financial decisions taken without professional review.
- Any safety-critical or life-critical system.
- Automated decisions about a person's employment, credit, insurance, housing, education or treatment in the justice system.
The full list of prohibited conduct is in the Acceptable Use Policy.
Does the tool make the finished work look better than it is?
No, and the design makes it awkward to try.
- The original photograph is behind a View original control on every comparison, one press away, on every plan.
- Before and after frames are put through identical colour handling. Where an after frame was shot noticeably brighter or warmer than its before frame, the workspace flags the gap and requires you to confirm it rather than matching them up quietly.
- There is no function anywhere in the product for removing debris, filling in unfinished work, altering a material's colour or texture, cleaning up surrounding damage, or adding equipment that was not there. These functions do not exist, so there is nothing to switch off.
Film generation interpolates between your frames and will introduce movement and small differences that were not in the photographs. That is inherent to the format. It is why the stills remain the record and the film is a way of showing the order they happened in.
Can the automated part be biased or just odd?
Yes. Models reflect patterns in the data they were trained on and can behave inconsistently across different kinds of site, material, light and framing. If you see output that is skewed, offensive or plainly strange, send it to support@johncharlescontractors.com. We would rather know.
What are you promising about it?
As far as the law allows, the automated features are provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness, availability or fitness for a particular purpose. Liability is limited as set out in the Terms of Service, and nothing there or here removes rights that cannot lawfully be removed.
Contact: support@johncharlescontractors.com · +44 7768808346
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