BNQ Compliance — overview

The BNQ compliance gauge is a tool that analyzes your inspection report in real time and indicates its compliance status against the BNQ 3009-500 standard. It lives in the inspection editor’s header and increments as you fill in the report. This page situates the feature, its scope, and its alpha status.

Alpha status — use with caution

Experimental feature. The BNQ compliance gauge is under development. Lumos explicitly asks for your consent the first time you enable it because it does not constitute a guarantee of compliance, because the verifications are indicative and may contain errors or omissions, and because final responsibility for the report remains entirely yours, as the inspector.

Think of the gauge as an assistant that helps you avoid forgetting things, not as an automatic compliance certificate.

Two verification modes

The gauge offers two analysis levels, accessible from the same modal:

Mode 1 — Quick Check

Included in all plans. Verifies the completeness of your report: missing fields, absent photos, unvisited sections, forgotten justifications. It is a mechanical checklist aligned with BNQ 3009-500 articles.

See Quick Check.

Mode 2 — AI Review

Reserved for the Unlimited plan. Analyzes the written content of the narratives you wrote yourself: BNQ terminology, legal compliance, recommendation structure. Proposes concrete reformulations you can apply in one click.

See AI Review.

What the gauge looks at and what it doesn’t

	Quick Check	AI Review
Missing essential fields	✓	—
Missing photos on findings	✓	—
Unvisited template sections	✓	—
Justification of Not Inspected / Inaccessible sub-section	✓	—
Correct BNQ terminology	—	✓
Legal compliance (CCQ, qualified professional)	—	✓
Narrative structure (defect → consequence → recommendation)	—	✓
Writing quality (clear, factual, actionable)	—	✓

The two modes are complementary: a report can show 100% on the Quick Check and still have several pending AI suggestions. Conversely, AI can praise the writing quality of a report still incomplete on essential fields.

What the gauge never does

It does not judge the relevance of your field observations. Whether a finding is valid is your inspector’s work.
It does not touch narratives from the Bank (already compliant by construction).
It does not invent observations (dimensions, colors, orientations) you didn’t enter.
It does not replace your final review before sending to the client.

How to enable it

The gauge is disabled by default. See Enable the gauge for the activation procedure, the Alpha warning that appears, and where the gauge is shown in the inspection editor.