I built my first house at 18, and construction has been part of my life ever since — through a structural engineering degree, a 30-year contracting career, 54 construction projects and 100+ real estate investments. CorvoCam started as my own tool: I wanted a reliable way to watch and document weeks-long job sites without paying four figures for camera hardware or renting my own footage back through a subscription.
Along the way I became a full-stack, AI-fluent developer. CorvoCam is the combination: job-site experience deciding what a remote camera must survive, and software ownership — the app, the cloud, the whole pipeline — keeping it honest. No rented features, no hostage footage.
Credentials
30-year licensed general contractor
B.S. Structural Engineering (Honors), Oregon State University
54 construction projects completed
100+ real estate investments
Full-stack developer (React, React Native, Node.js, Supabase, AI-integrated systems)
Why CorvoCam exists
Long-duration site cameras came in two flavors: expensive dedicated hardware — often with a monthly fee stacked on top — or phone apps built for short clips that die the first night. Neither respects the person paying. A dedicated spare phone running serious software beats both, and that is the product I wanted on my own sites.
The same principle runs through the whole platform: you own the camera, you own the footage. Local capture never needs a subscription, cloud backup is optional and honestly priced, and every new mode — motion detection today, more to come — lands on hardware you already own.
What this means for you
Every feature exists because someone stood on a real site and needed it — not because a template suggested it.
For builders and contractors
Client-ready progress records from a phone left on site. I know what a contractor wants to hand a client at the end of a job, because I have been that contractor.
For owners and remote monitors
Vacation homes, boats, land, renovations: a camera you check from anywhere, with alerts when battery or storage need attention — and no monthly ransom.
For watchers and makers
Wildlife at a feeder, a garden through a season, a workshop build: motion detection and scheduled capture on a phone that would otherwise sit in a drawer.
About the company
CorvoCam is operated by NestCalc.ai LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company founded in 2026. The company also builds HomeFastCalc.com and CasaWise.ai — free and professional real estate analysis tools.
All three products share the same philosophy: professional-grade results, plainly presented, honestly priced — built and owned by the same hands that use them.
Frequently asked questions
Who built CorvoCam?
CorvoCam was built by Daron R. Hays, a 30-year licensed general contractor and structural engineer (B.S. with Honors, Oregon State University) turned full-stack developer, with 54 construction projects and 100+ real estate investments behind him.
Is CorvoCam independent?
Yes. CorvoCam is operated by NestCalc.ai LLC, a Wyoming company founded in 2026 that also runs HomeFastCalc.com and CasaWise.ai. No ads, no data brokers — the business model is the honest one on the pricing page.
What makes CorvoCam different from other camera apps?
It is built around a dedicated device and a reliability layer — foreground capture, crash recovery, offline-first sync — by someone who needed weeks-long footage on real job sites, not another short-clip toy. And it never holds your footage hostage: local use is subscription-free, always.