Artificial intelligence driven inventory tool Bevelmade serves as solution for California wildfire victims to document belongings

PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Help for victims of the January fires has risen from the ashes of those very fires.

“This is my childhood home,” says Adam Freed as he stands in an empty lot. “When it burned to the ground, I came out here to help mom and dad and we quickly realized there was a lot of need.”

Adam’s parents, like many other fire victims, are still trying to create a complete list of the contents of their Palisades home of almost 50 years. That detailed list is needed for insurance claims, but compiling it is time consuming and likely never really complete. That’s why Adam and a friend created Bevelmade, a free website to help in a task that can seem overwhelming.

“It did seem unreasonable,” says Judith Freed, Adam’s mother. “So we started out writing things down. He wrote his list. I wrote my list, and we got very tired because even though I have photographs to look at, it’s exhausting.”

“It makes no sense that it’s this hard and it takes this long. So we think we can make it better for people like my family and probably better for the companies too, so that they don’t waste their time and money,” Adam said.

Bevelmade has evolved from a simple, efficient way to help fire survivors work through their memory of lost items and create a list. Now, digital photos and even videos can be uploaded to your page, and artificial intelligence creates a list of everything in a room and assigns an estimated value.

Whether that’s a ceramic vase in the background or some pillows on the couch – AI finds the items you might have forgotten and estimates that value, even items you might have placed in a drawer.

“It’s much easier and maybe I’m just healing,” asks Nancy Andriuzzo. “Using it as a tool to heal, because what I have in my mind now, I can see it in front of me, and it makes it real. And it’s become solution oriented, becoming more proactive to get this daunting task done because there is bittersweet at the very end.”

Nancy and Steven Andriuzzo lost everything in the Eaton fire, but through friends, they found Adam and Bevelmade. Creating a list of what they lost will never be easy, but the site is easy to use and knowing why it was created also helps in the healing.

“He did this purely by love for his parents and wanted to help others,” Steven said. “It’s just a good story out of all this frankly, you know, in terms of what we’ve gone through and certainly there’s, there’s really good in this world.”

Adam adds: “Something horrible happened here, and we just do one little thing to make everyone’s life going forward a little better so that our suffering wasn’t for nothing.”

Creating an account is free, and while it was initially intended to help fire victims, it is a tool that can be used by anyone who wants to be proactive and have a content list of their home now before a disaster strikes.