📄➡️🎬 Your Paperwork Just Learned to Present Itself

What Dropped This Week + Why It Matters

Google's NotebookLM just launched "Video Overviews" on Monday. In plain English: upload your boring job files, get back a professional presentation video that actually explains what you did.

Why You Should Care

The problem: You finish a complex water job, have 47 photos and 12 pages of moisture readings, but when it's time to explain it to the adjuster or client, you're back to flipping through printouts like it's 1995.

What changed this week: AI learned to turn your documentation into narrated slideshow presentations. No PowerPoint. No training. Just upload and wait 3 minutes.

The Demo That'll Blow Your Mind

We took a realistic 6-day water damage job (made up, but based on real restoration work) and fed the documentation to NotebookLM. Here's what it created:

This 6-minute video was generated automatically from just three text documents: daily progress reports, moisture readings, and photo logs. Zero human editing.

What you just watched:

• Professional narration explaining the entire job timeline

• Charts showing moisture levels dropping from 45% to 12% over 6 days

• Visual timeline from Tuesday emergency call to Monday completion

• Customer satisfaction story with actual business metrics

The kicker: This took 3 minutes to generate from documents you probably already create anyway.

Try It Yourself

Want to test this with the same job files we used?

[ Click to access the demo restoration job]

Upload your own job documentation and see what happens. Works with:

• Daily progress reports

• Moisture reading logs

• Equipment deployment notes

• Customer communication summaries

• Photo documentation lists
  

Real-World Impact

For Insurance Claims: Instead of emailing a PDF nobody reads, send a video that walks the adjuster through your entire process. They'll actually watch it.

For Client Education: Turn "here's what we found" into a professional explanation they can understand and share with family.

For Training New Hires: Your best job files become training videos. No more explaining the same process 15 times.

For Marketing: Case studies that actually tell the story instead of just showing before/after photos.

Try This Tuesday

1. Grab your last completed job file (whatever format you use)

2. Go to notebooklm.google.com (free with Google account)

3. Upload your documentation (copy/paste works fine)

4. Click "Generate Video Overview" in the Studio panel

5. Wait 3 minutes, get presentation-ready video

Time investment: 5 minutes
What you get: Professional explanation of your work that you can send to anyone

Dave's Going Live With This

Dave will be demonstrating NotebookLM at the CORE Collective Restor-AI-tion contractor sessions in Austin next week. If you've been using NotebookLM and have questions, cool results to share, or want to see specific restoration use cases, reach out to Dave. He'd love to feature real contractor experiences in the presentation.

Already experimenting with this? Send Dave your best NotebookLM videos or weirdest results. The more real-world testing we can share, the better everyone gets at using this.

The Bottom Line

This feature launched Monday. By Friday, we had a 6-minute professional presentation from basic job docs.

The question isn't whether AI will change how we document restoration work.
The question is: will you be the contractor sending videos while everyone else is still sending PDFs?

Hit reply and tell us: what's the most complex job you've tried to explain to someone who doesn't understand restoration? This might be your new solution.