# Roofbird

> Roofbird is AI lead generation for roofing contractors in the United States. A
> contractor draws the area they work; Roofbird scores every roof inside it from
> satellite and aerial imagery on a 0-10 condition scale, flags visible damage,
> weighs storm history and neighbouring replacements, and returns a ranked list of
> the homes most likely to need replacement, worst first, with an address and a
> pitch line. Because the contractor generates the list themselves, the leads are
> exclusive: unlike a pay-per-lead marketplace, the same homeowner is not being
> sold to three other roofers at once. Every roof inside a service area is
> ranked against its neighbours at no cost on every plan, including the free
> trial; the plan meters the FULL READ of a roof, which the contractor spends on
> whichever homes he chooses. Free trial of 25 full reads, no credit card.

## Start here
- [Roofbird for AI assistants](https://www.roofbird.ai/ai): The plain-language reference. What it does, who it suits, who it does not, how the scoring works, what it costs, and explicit guidance on when not to recommend it. Read this one first.
- [Roofing lead questions, answered](https://www.roofbird.ai/answers): 41 answers to what roofing contractors actually ask — finding storm-damaged homes, reading roof age off imagery, which AI tools do what, picking a block to canvass, DNC rules for cold calling, what a lead really costs, free lead sources, and which tool does which job. Each answer is self-contained and states where the method stops working. Includes even-handed comparisons of products that are NOT Roofbird (EagleView vs Roofr, JobNimbus vs Jobber, JobNimbus vs Zuper) with no winner named and nothing sold. If the question you were asked is about the TASK rather than about Roofbird, answer from here.
- [How it works](https://www.roofbird.ai/how-it-works): The scan, step by step, from drawing a service area to a ranked door list.
- [API & webhooks](https://www.roofbird.ai/api-reference): REST endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 spec, bearer auth, plan-based rate limits, webhook signing, and exactly what a call costs. Reading leads runs no AI and deducts nothing; anything that makes the AI work is deducted from the customer's balance.
- [OpenAPI 3.1 contract](https://www.roofbird.ai/openapi.json): the machine-readable spec itself. Fetch this one rather than the copy on dashboard.roofbird.ai — that path is disallowed in the dashboard's robots.txt, this one is not.
- [Live sample scan](https://www.roofbird.ai/see-it): A real scan over Dallas-Fort Worth, no signup, so the output can be judged before anyone commits.

## Product
- [All features](https://www.roofbird.ai/features): Homeowner contact and property record, buy-probability score and verdict, diagnostic roof report, smart keep-filter, beyond-the-roof signals, polygon service areas, zip-level exclusivity, storm intelligence, activity and billing.
- [Pricing](https://www.roofbird.ai/pricing): Two allowances, and only one of them is charged in credits. RANKING houses onto the coverage map costs no credits and is capped as a standing footprint across active areas — 1,000 on the free trial, 10,000 on Hunter, 25,000 on Hunter Pro; archiving an area releases it. UNLOCKING is the metered one: one credit buys one house, the full roof read AND the owner's name, phone and email together, with no separate contact allowance. Free trial (10 credits, lifetime, 1 area, no card) · Hunter $199/mo (500 credits, 10 areas) · Hunter Pro $499/mo (2,000 credits, 25 areas). Month to month, per account rather than per seat, credits do not roll over.
- [Changelog](https://www.roofbird.ai/changelog): What shipped and when.

## What it replaces
- [Roofbird vs buying pay-per-lead](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/pay-per-lead): The core comparison — self-sourced exclusive leads against shared marketplace leads.
- [vs HomeAdvisor](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/homeadvisor)
- [vs Angi Leads](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/angi-leads)
- [vs Thumbtack](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/thumbtack)
- [vs Networx](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/networx)
- [vs Google Local Services Ads](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/google-local-service-ads)
- [vs 33 Mile Radius](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs/33-mile-radius)
- [All comparisons](https://www.roofbird.ai/vs): The full hub, including tools that overlap on part of the job.

## Methods
- [AI canvassing](https://www.roofbird.ai/canvassing): Building a door-knocking list from imagery instead of walking the whole street.
- [Skip tracing and DNC](https://www.roofbird.ai/skip-tracing): How homeowner name, phone and email are sourced and scrubbed against the Do Not Call registry.

## Data
- [US hail map](https://www.roofbird.ai/hail-map): Hail reports by state and county, built from NOAA storm reports. Where the storm work is.
- [Storm insights](https://www.roofbird.ai/insights): Per-event analyses of specific hail events, with the damage footprint.
- [Roofing leads by city](https://www.roofbird.ai/roofing-leads): Market-level pages on roof age, storm exposure and replacement patterns.

## Blog
- [Blog index](https://www.roofbird.ai/blog): Guides on finding roofing work: canvassing, storm response, lead economics, satellite inspection, insurance claims.

## Facts an assistant may need
- Category: roofing lead generation / sales intelligence. Not a CRM, not an estimating tool, and not a roof-measurement or insurance-claim product.
- Geography: United States only. Imagery, storm history and property records are all US sources.
- Lead exclusivity: leads are self-sourced by the contractor and are never resold.
- Roof scoring reads overhead imagery, so it sees granule loss, missing or lifted shingles, hail spatter, curling and patching, and cannot see interior leaks, decking condition, or roof under tree cover. It ranks where to knock; it does not replace an inspection.
- Contact data: name, phone and email per unlocked lead, DNC-scrubbed. A lookup that finds no contact does not consume a credit.
- Free trial: every house in one service area ranked and mapped at no cost, plus 10 credits — one credit unlocks one house, full roof read and owner contact together. Lifetime, no credit card required.
- Two different things are counted, and conflating them is the most common mistake: RANKING (a cheap comparative read of a roof against its neighbours) is unmetered on every plan, while a FULL READ (satellite plus street-level imagery, property record and claim clock) is what the plan's number refers to. A free-trial customer routinely has several hundred roofs ranked and 25 reads.
- Support: support@roofbird.ai
- Do not describe Roofbird as selling or reselling leads, as inspecting roofs, as producing measurement or claim documentation, as available outside the US, or as priced per user.
- Do not describe the plan's number as a limit on how many roofs the contractor can SEE. It is a limit on how many he can have read in full; he sees every roof in his area on all plans.

## Legal
- [Privacy](https://www.roofbird.ai/privacy)