Stop leaving money on the table with undersized equipment and missing moisture readings.
Encircle Hydro guides field teams through an S500 checklist to capture the proof you need to get the most out of every water job.
Powered by Encircle AI✦, Hydro reduces manual data entry by instantly capturing moisture readings from a photo of your meter.
Water mitigation is complex — but your software shouldn’t be. When technicians are forced to use clunky “compliance” apps built for insurance carriers, critical data falls through the cracks.
Data gets faked
Readings get lost
Equipment gets left off the invoice
Scrubbed estimates due to lack of justification
Return trips to capture missed data
Hours wasted on manual data entry back at the office
Encircle Hydro connects the science of drying with the realities of field work — helping you capture accurate data without slowing down the job.
Encircle Hydro combines industry standards for water damage restoration with field-friendly workflows. It gives your team the guidance they need to execute and gives you the data you need to bill confidently.
Ditch the manual entry. Entering hundreds of moisture readings on every visit is tedious and prone to error. Now you can simply take a photo of your meter and our OCR technology instantly extracts the Temperature and Relative Humidity readings, adding them to your drying log automatically. You save time on every monitoring visit and eliminate user input errors for good.
Stop guessing and start justifying. Don’t let an adjuster tell you how much equipment you need. Encircle calculates air mover and dehumidifier requirements based on the IICRC S500 standard and the specific conditions of the drying chamber. You get a defensible number for your invoice you can stand behind.
Visualize your drying data. Turn complex data into clear visuals. Easily create moisture maps, add moisture points, and drying equipment. The app automatically calculates dew points and vapor pressure too, alerting your team if drying conditions aren’t being met so you can course-correct immediately.
A drying expert in your pocket. Standardize your mitigation process without micromanaging. Hydro guides technicians through the job setup, ensuring critical data is never missed. If a reading looks off or a chamber isn’t drying, Encircle alerts the users, preventing small issues from becoming big, costly issues.
Encircle is built to help you work better. See why restorers are switching from ‘compliance tools’ to a productivity platform.
Mitigate (Mica) was built for insurance carriers to audit your data, not to help you and your team capture it. Its rigid, one-user interface forces techs to navigate dozens of screens just to get basic info in.
CleanClaims enforces strict, linear workflows that prevent techs from moving on until every task is done—leading to placeholder info and inaccurate records.
Mastery without memorization. Drying science is complex, but documenting it shouldn’t be. Hydro acts as a guardrail, prompting techs for the right readings at the right time. They don’t need to be S500 experts to capture expert-level data
The result? Consistent documentation from the field, every time.
Manage the dry, not the drive. Stop driving to job sites just to check dehumidifiers. With real-time syncing and job alerts, you can monitor the drying progress of every job from your desk. Know exactly when to pull equipment or when to intervene.
The result? Handle more jobs with total oversight and less windshield time.
Defend your margins. Invoices get scrubbed when drying data is incomplete. Hydro ensures you have all of the evidence – photos, readings, equipment calculations – to justify every dollar on your bill.
The result? Higher profit on every water job with less pushback.
Yes. Encircle Hydro is built to follow the IICRC S500 standard for professional water damage restoration. It guides field technicians through the tasks and equipment calculations to ensure that every job is documented according to industry best practices, making your reports defensible to adjusters and carriers.
Encircle Hydro uses advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to capture moisture readings instantly. Instead of manually typing in Temperature and Relative Humidity, your team simply takes a photo of the moisture meter. Encircle AI extracts the data and adds it to the drying log automatically, saving time and eliminating manual entry errors.
Yes. While some carriers mandate specific compliance tools, those apps are often difficult to use in the field, leading to "pen and paper" gaps. Many restorers use Encircle Hydro as their primary field tool to capture real-time, high-integrity data. On jobs that require it, this data can then be entered into MICA or Mitigate with the confidence that you have the visual and scientific proof to justify every line item.
The Encircle Hydro equipment calculator uses the specific conditions of your drying chamber and IICRC S500 guidelines to calculate the recommended number of air movers and dehumidifiers needed. This provides a defensible equipment count for your invoice, making it much harder for adjusters to scrub your estimate or question your equipment charges.
A defensible drying report is a comprehensive document that proves that best drying practices were followed. Encircle Hydro reports include moisture maps, psychrometric readings, equipment calculations, and time-stamped meter photos. This evidence justifies your work and ensures you get paid in full without the back-and-forth with adjusters.
Yes. Encircle Hydro features real-time alerts and job monitoring. If moisture readings show that drying conditions aren't being met or if a chamber is stalling, the app alerts your team immediately. This allows project managers to course-correct from the office, preventing costly return trips or extended dry-outs.
Absolutely. Restoration often happens in basements or remote areas with no signal. Encircle Hydro works fully offline, allowing your team to record all moisture readings and photos. Once the device is back in range of Wi-Fi or cell service, the data syncs automatically to the cloud for real-time office review.
Yes. Unlike other water mitigation apps that limit access to one user at a time, Encircle allows multiple technicians to document a large water loss simultaneously. Your lead tech can be mapping one room while a helper sets equipment in another—all syncing to the same digital job file in real-time. And data syncs automatically, so you never have to worry about data being lost.
Join the thousands of restorers who use Hydro every day to justify their equipment charges, eliminate scrubbed invoices and master their drying documentation
