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Independent daily news about HUD, built only from government sources: rules, notices, deadlines, funding, contracts and OIG reports. The first paper in the Gazettes network; State and Defense are next.
OpenNspire App Co is a small product studio in Bethesda, Maryland. We build software, devices, robots and news sites for the home, youth sports, travel, entertainment and affordable housing, and we ship them one at a time. Some of it you can use today. Most of it you can get on a list for.
Independent daily news about HUD, built only from government sources: rules, notices, deadlines, funding, contracts and OIG reports. The first paper in the Gazettes network; State and Defense are next.
OpenInspection report PDFs in, one clean CSV out. Runs in the browser or on the desktop. No code required.
OpenNSPIRE shadow scores. Upload a REAC inspection report and see what it would score under the October 1, 2026 rules, with every citation shown.
OpenThe fifty NSPIRE deficiencies that matter most, as pictures, scored and ranked from inspection data.
Details and waitlistUnit inspections, self certifications and correction tracking, strictly for HOPWA under NSPIRE. For grantees, sponsors and inspectors.
Details and waitlistA searchable reference with pass and fail comparisons, severity guidance and inspector notes for every standard.
Details and waitlistScan a home with lidar, work out which breaker controls every outlet, light and switch, and print a circuit sheet to tape inside the panel door.
Details and waitlistKnow what you own, and exactly where it is. One camera catalogs the house; then ask in plain words, where is my passport, and get the floor, room, drawer and spot.
Details and waitlistAsk Cliff. A live avatar of a home inspector, in his own voice, answering a homeowner's maintenance questions. Working title.
Details and waitlistA vision pole that spots deer, and a 4WD rover that drives out and moves them along with motion, light and sound. Non-lethal, open hardware, built from off the shelf parts.
Details and waitlistEverything a sports parent tracks before, during and after a travel tournament. In beta with one team this fall.
Details and waitlistReviews of youth sports tournaments by the families who went. Fields, parking, schedule, refs, food, worth the drive or not. Working title.
Details and waitlistYour daughter plays lacrosse. Now you do too. The girls game explained for the dad who never played: the field, positions, every whistle, the 8 meter, and what to say on the sideline.
OpenThe same idea for field hockey. Rules, positions, calls and home practice for the dad who is new to the sport.
OpenGirls lacrosse in the DMV. Clubs, rec leagues, tryouts, school leagues, scores and rules for DC, Montgomery, Prince George's and Northern Virginia. Every fact shows when it was last checked.
OpenKnow whether your flight is at risk, and exactly why. A 0 to 100 disruption score for US domestic flights, with every point explained.
OpenSee what is in food. Interactive charts built from USDA FoodData Central: thousands of lab measured foods and hundreds of thousands of packaged products.
OpenRadar, explained like a neighbor would. Three verdicts, Calm, Keep an eye on it, Take action, with the next important time in plain words.
Details and waitlistA private family coordinator. It reads the school and team mail, turns it into events and tasks with an owner, and tells everyone what changed. Nothing lands without a parent’s yes.
Details and waitlistAn AI copilot for the Mac Mail app. Sorts what comes in, drafts replies, checks before you send, and files what is done. Working title.
Details and waitlistA virtual cat with opinions.
Details and waitlistThe dog version. A virtual dog with no opinions at all, just enthusiasm. Companion to Cattitude.
Details and waitlistThe stats desk for SEC football: efficiency per play, Elo ratings and season forecasts for all 16 teams, graded every week. The numbers half of The Conference Gazette.
OpenA collectors' site where photos of china become a shared pattern database. Identify a pattern, inventory a set, find a match. Working title.
Details and waitlistA national directory of local service companies not owned by private equity. Verified by owner attestation and a records check. Working title.
Details and waitlistWalk around an item with your phone and get a 3D model buyers can spin, zoom and place in their room. Built only from your photos, nothing filled in by AI. Invite-only beta.
Details and waitlistWalk a housing property once with a Pro iPhone and leave with the accessibility condition record a Section 504, FHEO or ADA reviewer expects to see. It never issues a verdict.
Details and waitlistWalks a trained inspector through HUD’s lead paint visual assessment, measures deteriorated paint with LiDAR and the camera, and records the de minimis decision as evidence. Never says whether paint contains lead. Working name.
Details and waitlistFor your own house. Scan it, map it, keep a record of what is in it, and ask someone who knows.
Open hardware robots for problems around the property. Documented, repairable, and built from parts you can buy.
Lacrosse first. Tools and communities for the parents, players and coaches of girls youth sports, built by a coach and a dad.
Apps for the rest of life. Whether your flight will leave on time, what is in what you eat, and whether that storm is coming for you.
Assistants that take a job off your plate: the family calendar, the inbox. They work in the apps you already use and report back in plain language.
Small, funny things for your phone. A cat with opinions, and a dog with a different set.
Independent news sites built only from government sources, and a reference database collectors build together.
Finding and listing the local companies that are still owned by the people who run them.
Tools for the people who own, operate, fund and inspect affordable housing, written from the standards themselves.
Nspire App Co is a founder owned product studio in Bethesda, Maryland. We build software, devices and robots for problems we run into ourselves: a flight that might not leave on time, a daughter's tournament weekend, a house that needs an inspection, a local company that is still owned by the people who run it. Each product does one job for one kind of person, and we ship them one at a time.
The studio is run by Cliff Kornegay, Managing Director for NSPIRE at Quadel Consulting and Training, a national affordable housing consulting firm. He has spent twenty years in property standards compliance across multiple industries. He was Director of the NSPIRE program at HUD, where he wrote the national inspection standard and the Federal Register notices that the housing tools here are built on, and he received a 2024 Secretary's Award. Before that he served in the U.S. Navy and ran a home inspection business and a property service company. He holds three bachelor's degrees with honors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in business and managerial economics, finance, and political science, and a master's in public policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He also coaches girls youth lacrosse, which explains that section.
Some of what is listed you can use today. Most of it is in build, and every entry has a waitlist. If you have a problem we should build for, the contact form is right there.