The Narrative Bank — summary
The Narrative Bank is the library that gathers all your reusable narratives: component descriptions, inspection methods, standard observations, well-crafted recommendations. This page recalls its role in your stack of personal libraries. For complete details (creation, editing, narrative types, search by category, import/export), see Chapter 8 — The Narrative Bank.
What the bank contains
Four narrative types:
- Information — descriptive observations without severity judgment (“The foundation is poured concrete.”).
- Limitation — what the inspection does not cover for this component.
- Deficiency — detected anomalies with associated recommendation.
- Method — how the inspector proceeded (visual, instrument, drone, etc.).
Each narrative is written once, can be categorized by building section, and reused across multiple inspections.
Role in writing
During inspection writing (Chapter 7), for each sub-section you can:
- Insert an existing narrative from the bank (search by text, by category, or AI suggestions per sub-section).
- Modify the inserted narrative in the current inspection without affecting the version stored in the bank.
- Save a new phrasing to the bank for future reuse.
Private or shared
Each narrative in your personal bank can be:
- Private — visible to you only.
- Shared with your team — accessible to inspector sub-accounts under your master account.
Lumos also provides a base bank (system narratives) accessible to all users; you complete it with your own entries.
For the full details
See Chapter 8 — The Narrative Bank, which covers:
- The bank’s operation and organization
- Creating and editing a narrative (4 types, severities, recommendations)
- Search, filtering, and categorization
- Use during report writing
- Import and export of narratives
- Best practices for managing a bank long-term