Before You Scan, Roofbird Tells You Which Abilene Blocks to Work
Instead of guessing which neighborhood to knock, enter an Abilene ZIP code or street—like 79601, 79602, or around the South 14th Street corridor—and Roofbird reads the area from above. It ranks each block by housing era, roof wear percentage, actual home count (from building footprints, not estimates), recent hail events, and walkability. A block of scattered acreage on long driveways near Dyess Air Force Base gets flagged as poor canvassing, even if roofs are weathered, because your time is measured in doors per hour.
When nothing in view clears the bar, Roofbird says so. It won't suggest three mediocre neighborhoods just to fill a list. This is the honest version of 'where should I knock today', and no lead marketplace can do it, because they don't know your territory.
- Housing era: identifies neighborhoods built in the 1960s-1980s where roofs are nearing end of life.
- Roof wear: reads weathered shingles from satellite imagery.
- Hail history: highlights blocks hit by Taylor County hail events in 2025 and 2026.
- Walkability: flags dense, walkable streets vs. spread-out rural routes.
Every Roof Read From Two Angles at Once
Roofbird combines a top-down satellite view with a ground-level Street View of the façade for each home. The street-level read catches side-visible wear that a top-down tile can't: granule loss, algae streaking, curling shingles, patched sections, rusted flashing. It also compares the roof against its immediate neighbors—if the houses on either side have been re-roofed and this one hasn't, that's flagged as social proof.
Each lead includes a 0-100 priority score, a plain-English verdict in a roofer's words, and the specific reasons that raised or lowered the number. You also see roof material, condition, estimated roof age (read off the shingles, not the building's year built), wear signs, both images, an estimated squares and job-value range, and a ready-to-say door pitch.
- Street View detects granule loss, algae, curling, patching, and rust.
- Neighbor comparison highlights streets where re-roofing is already happening.
- Estimated roof age from shingle condition, not building year.
Two Scores: 'Needs a Roof' vs. 'Will Decide Now'
Every lead carries two numbers. NEED scores how badly the roof needs replacement—condition and roof age only. NOW scores whether something is forcing a decision on this specific house: visible active damage (a tarp, missing shingles, exposed decking), hail damage on this roof, a purchase in the last 18 months, patching already attempted, or neighbors who have re-roofed.
Neighborhood hail does NOT raise the NOW score—every home in the scan shares it, so it can't separate one door from the next. That's the opposite of storm-chasing lists. For Abilene, Roofbird also shows how long homeowners have left to file an insurance claim after a hail event, based on Texas's typical notice deadline. Always verify with the carrier, but the countdown helps you prioritize.
- NEED: roof condition and age only.
- NOW: active damage, recent sale, patching, neighbor re-roofs.
- Hail claim window estimate for Texas (typically 1-2 years from event date).
The Homeowner, Not Just the House
Opening a house completely costs 1 credit and brings the owner's name, whether they live there or it's a rental, estimated market value and confidence, year built, last sale date and price, beds/baths, square footage, lot size, stories, garage, annual property tax, and mortgage lender. Roofbird also estimates the owner's equity (how much of the home they actually own), because equity is what decides whether someone can say yes.
The same open brings the phones and email. Every number is DNC-scrubbed and labeled: 'clear' for safe manual calls, 'DNC' for don't call, 'verify' for unknown. No texts or auto-dialer. A failed lookup is refunded; a nobody-listed answer is charged.
- Owner name, occupancy status, equity estimate.
- DNC-scrubbed phone numbers—safe for manual dialing.
- Open only the houses you want, at 1 credit each.
Work the List Like a CRM, Not a PDF
View leads as cards or a side-by-side table with sticky headers, frozen actions, zoomable imagery, and one-click open-a-house. Filter on owner-occupied vs. absentee, live trigger, active damage, insurance claim window open, minimum need score, roof age, owner equity, and contact state (e.g., 'callable' means at least one number off the DNC registry). Add your own tags, export, or print door-hanger PDFs for your route.
Low-quality roofs are dropped before they reach your list, so you never spend a credit opening them. Re-scanning an area surfaces genuinely new homes instead of the same roofs again.
- Filter by dozens of criteria including DNC status and equity.
- Export leads or print door-hanger PDFs.
- Spend credits only on roofs worth working: low-quality roofs are filtered out.
Pricing and Getting Started
The free trial is 10 credits with no credit card, the credits never expire, and it ranks up to 1,000 houses. After that, Roofbird sells one-off credit packs from $49: Starter $49 for 49 credits, Crew $99 for 125, Hunter $199 for 300 and Pro $399 for 800. There is no subscription, nothing renews, and bought credits never expire. Every pack gets the whole product; bigger packs only cost less per credit. Opening a house completely costs 1 credit (roof read, street address, owner name, phones with Do-Not-Call flagged, email and property record). Reading roofs in bulk is 1 credit per 8 roofs and getting owners in bulk is 1 credit per 2 roofs. Drawing areas and ranking every roof in them is free, at any size, as many areas as you like. A typical list (read about 80 roofs, get owners for the best 30) uses about 20 to 25 credits.
Roofbird has already scanned homes in Texas, including Parker and Randall counties. See real scan reports at roofbird.ai/insights. Sign up, tell it where you work in Abilene, and get scored leads in minutes: no sales call, no lead marketplace.
- Free trial: 10 credits, no card, and it ranks up to 1,000 houses.
- Credit packs from $49: Starter $49 for 49 credits, Crew $99 for 125, Hunter $199 for 300, Pro $399 for 800.
- Draw and rank as many areas as you like, free, on every pack.