Where Should You Knock in Montgomery?
Roofbird starts by telling you which Montgomery neighborhoods are worth scanning, before you draw a single polygon. Search a ZIP code, a suburb like Pike Road or Prattville, or a specific street, and Roofbird analyzes the area block by block. It reports the housing era, what share of roofs read as weathered, how many homes are actually there (counted from building footprints, not estimated from area), whether hail has hit in the last 12 months, and how walkable the block is. A neighborhood with scattered acreage and long driveways is flagged as poor canvassing, even if the roofs are old, because your morning is measured in doors per hour.
Roofbird only suggests blocks that clear the bar. If nothing in view is worth the trip, it says so plainly. That's the honest answer to 'where should I knock today'—something a national lead marketplace can't do, because it doesn't know your territory and just sells you whoever filled in a form.
Every Roof Read from Two Angles
Roofbird combines a top-down satellite tile with a ground-level Street View of the façade into one assessment. The Street View 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 from a wider view. If the houses on either side have been re-roofed and this one hasn't, that's flagged, because a street where the neighbors have already gone new is the strongest social proof in the trade.
Each lead includes the roof material, condition, an estimated roof age (read off the shingles, not the building's year built), specific wear signs, both images, an estimated squares and job-value range, and a ready-to-say door pitch. The AI assigns a 0-100 priority score with a plain-English verdict and the reasons that raised or lowered it.
Two Scores: Needs a Roof vs. Will Decide Now
Every lead carries two numbers. NEED reflects how badly the roof needs replacement—condition and roof age only. NOW reflects 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 recent purchase, patching already attempted, or neighbors who have re-roofed. A one-line 'why now' explains the trigger in plain words.
Neighborhood hail does NOT raise the NOW score, because every home in the scan shares it and it can't separate one door from the next. That's the opposite of storm-chasing lists, which inflate urgency. If a hail event is on record in Montgomery County, Roofbird shows roughly how long the homeowner has left to file an insurance claim, based on the typical state deadline—a countdown, not a guarantee. Always verify with the carrier.
The Homeowner, Not Just the House
Open a house for 1 credit and the full property record comes with it: owner name, whether they live there or it's an absentee/rental owner, estimated market value and confidence, year built, last sale date and price, beds/baths, living 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. When the deed record can't support an estimate, it says so instead of guessing.
The same credit brings the phones and email. Every number is DNC-scrubbed and labeled: 'clear' means it was checked against the federal Do Not Call registry and is safe for a manual sales call; 'DNC' means don't call it; 'verify' means the scrub couldn't confirm either way. Manual dialing only, no texts or auto-dialer. A failed lookup is refunded, though a nobody-listed answer is charged.
Work the List Like a CRM, Not a PDF
Roofbird lets you view leads as cards or a side-by-side table with sticky headers, frozen actions, zoomable imagery, and one-click open. Filter on everything Roofbird knows: owner-occupied vs. absentee, has a live trigger, active damage visible, insurance claim window still open, property record present, minimum need score, minimum roof age, minimum owner equity, and contact state, including 'callable,' meaning at least one number confirmed off the DNC registry. Add your own tags, export, or print door-hanger PDFs for the route, on every credit pack.
Low-quality roofs are dropped before they reach your list and never use your credits. A building anyone has already assessed is never re-assessed from scratch, so re-scanning an area surfaces genuinely new homes instead of the same roofs again.
What Roofbird Doesn't Do
Roofbird is not a roof-measurement tool. It doesn't replace EagleView or Hover for measuring. It's a lead-generation tool that reads imagery and public records to score roofs and surface homeowner contacts. It doesn't predict who will buy, guarantee a claim will be approved, or know anything about a homeowner's intent beyond what's stated. It's self-serve: sign up, get told where to scan, get scored leads in minutes.
Roofbird replaces pay-per-lead marketplaces like Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack, which sell the same shared lead to multiple contractors. Roofbird does not sell leads one by one or resell them through a marketplace: it ranks every roof and you choose which ones to act on.