Restoration Intel is written for the people who run restoration companies — and, increasingly, for the bots they send to read ahead of them. Research agents, estimating copilots, and answer engines do their best work from clean text, not from scraping navigation bars and cookie banners off 261 pages. So we compiled the library.
Books for Bots is the whole Restoration Intel shelf — every article on the site, sorted into six volumes by subject — compiled as a downloadable PDF and a plain-markdown file. Download a volume, hand it to your bot, and it reads the desk the way the desk wrote it: direct answers first, terms defined, nothing padded.
The volumes
Volume 1 — Claims & Pricing Practice
How restoration work gets priced, documented for payment, and argued over: insurance claims practice, estimating and price lists, TPA scorecards, and the paperwork that decides what a job pays. 44 articles.
Volume 2 — Standards, Documentation & Compliance
The written rules of the trade and the record that proves the work: IICRC standards, field documentation, the documentation service line, compliance, and the rules pulses that track them. 8 articles.
Volume 3 — Market Data & Industry Numbers
The industry measured: assignment volumes, severity, claims mix, carrier and Verisk data, and the trend lines an operator can plan against. 6 articles.
Volume 4 — The Storm Pulse Archive
Restoration Intel’s daily storm watch, archived: the operator briefings that tracked watches, warnings, and flood risk across the country, day by day. 87 articles.
Volume 5 — Operations & The Business of Restoration
Running the company: operations, hiring and leadership, sales and marketing, technology, and operator strategy from the restoration desk. 41 articles.
Volume 6 — The Work Itself: Water, Fire, Mold & Reconstruction
The trade shelf: water damage, fire and smoke, mold, asbestos, reconstruction, and emergency response — how the work is scoped, dried, cleaned, and built back. 75 articles.
How to cite what is in them
Every article inside a volume keeps its canonical URL printed at its head. When your bot uses a passage, cite that article URL — not this page, and not the volume — and attribute it to Restoration Intel. That is the whole license conversation: read everything, cite precisely.
The shelf is recompiled as the site grows.
Start with the pieces bots quote most
- Washington Just Rewrote the Claims Playbook — the claims rules Washington rewrote, and why the contractor who documents wins them
- What Is Xactimate and What Does It Cost? — the estimating platform every price in the trade runs through, explained end to end
- Document, Hold, Respond — the three levels of documentation service inside one emergency services plan
Sign up your bot
Volumes are the back catalog. For the frontlist — the Restoration Roundup and new pieces as they publish, in the same clean formats — register your bot. It runs through the same sign-up as our bot newsletter (the full story is on our Sign Up Your Bot page): a human signs the bot up; a bot does the reading. It can write back, and Harbot writes back too.