Walk the property, price the job your way - "28 squares at $350/sq, tear-off, architectural shingles, new drip edge" - and AI formats a branded, line-itemed estimate in 60 seconds. You set every price. We make it look professional and get it signed. Text it before you leave the driveway. Built for solopreneur roofers and small crews who don't have an office staff to type up quotes.
After a storm, every roofer in town is knocking the same doors. The contractor who sends a professional, itemized estimate first wins the job 78% of the time. If you're driving back to the office to type it up, you've already lost.
FastEstimateMaker puts the estimate in the homeowner's hands before you pull out of their driveway.
No laptop. No office. Just your phone and your voice.
Walk the property, note the damage, count the squares. Take photos if you want - but they're optional.
"28 squares at $350/sq, two-layer tear-off $1,200, architectural shingles, new drip edge $480, 6 pipe boots $60 each." You set the prices - AI formats the line items.
Review and tap send. The homeowner gets a branded client portal link via text - instant.
The homeowner reviews and accepts digitally. You get a notification instantly. Schedule the crew. Or share your booking link and let them pick a time - the appointment lands on your Google Calendar automatically.
Describe the job in plain English - "28 squares at $350/sq, tear-off existing shingles $1,200, install GAF Timberline HDZ, replace 12 linear feet of flashing at $18/ft, 3 pipe boots $60 each" - you dictate the scope and the price. AI formats it into a clean, branded estimate in under 60 seconds. No templates to fill. No line items to look up. Your pricing, your margins - we just make it look professional.
Not sure what a bundle runs this week? Turn on live material pricing and the draft comes back with current local prices for the job's ZIP code, your markup already applied. Shingles, underlayment, drip edge, and boots get priced at today's numbers instead of last season's, so a mid-storm cost jump comes out of the homeowner's total and not your margin - and anything you have already set in your Price Book still wins.
When hail hits, speed wins. Price the job on-site and send a professional estimate during the inspection - the homeowner has your quote in hand before the next contractor even knocks. You decide every dollar amount. Include ice & water shield, ventilation, drip edge - every line item the insurance adjuster needs, at your prices.
Most homeowners don't say yes on the first visit. FastEstimateMaker generates pre-written, job-specific follow-up texts ready to send - "Hi Mark, just checking in on the roof estimate. Any questions?" You review it, tap send, and the lead stays warm while you're on the next job site. Need a different angle? Generate a new follow-up on demand right from your dashboard.
After a storm, the whole block needs a roof. Plan your route, log every door - interested, scheduled, not home - and set follow-up reminders. Stop losing track of who said "call me next week" three streets ago. Text them your booking link right from the canvass popup - they pick a time, and the appointment is in your pipeline. Every door you log lands in the same roofing CRM as your estimates, signed jobs, and invoices.
Toggle the NOAA weather overlay and your canvass map lights up with NOAA storm reports from the last 8 days. Tornado, hail, and high-wind reports appear as color-coded dots - red for tornado, cyan for hail, amber for wind. Pick one day or several, zoom into the hardest-hit neighborhoods, and start knocking the streets that got hit. The hail tracker layers NOAA's radar hail estimate on the same map, updated hourly - an estimate of where hail fell, not proof of damage.
Storm chasers love this: When a hail cell moves through at 2 AM, you can see the NOAA reports and the radar hail estimate on your map by 6 AM - and be knocking doors by 8 while everyone else is still refreshing the news. Draw a territory around the neighborhoods you work and you do not even have to check: storm-territory alerts email you the same day NOAA logs hail inside your boundary, with a count of the doors in there you still have not knocked. Checking one house? The free hail report lookup lists every NOAA hail report near any address since 2006, and inside FastEstimateMaker it prints with your logo and saves to the customer.
A $12,000 reroof should not start on a handshake. Attach your own contract template to the estimate and the homeowner signs it on their phone - the signature is stored with the signer's name, timestamp, IP address, and a signing certificate, and both of you get a copy by email. That is the paperwork you want on file when an adjuster or a neighbor's attorney starts asking questions six months later.
Set the deposit as a term of the estimate - a flat amount or a percentage - and it prints on the quote the homeowner reads before agreeing to anything. The moment they sign, they are prompted to pay it through your own Stripe, PayPal, Square, or Venmo, so the money is in your account before the shingles are on the truck. Split the balance into progress and final payments on the same schedule. Contracts, e-signature, and deposits are all part of the $29.99 Solo plan.
Before the tear-off, run the pre-job walkaround: the roofing checklist takes you through the ceilings, gutters, driveway, and landscaping, and the homeowner signs off on the before photos. Find rotten decking once the old roof is off? Send a change order - numbered with the estimate, e-signed on the homeowner's phone, and added to the open invoice.
"I landed a $14,000 reroof because the homeowner said I was the only contractor who sent a professional estimate while still on-site. The other guys all said they'd 'email it tonight.' I texted mine before lunch."
- Jason K., Summit Roofing, Fort Worth TXYes. Just speak the layers - "two-layer tear-off, 28 squares" - and the AI builds separate line items for each layer with your stored pricing. You can adjust quantities or prices before sending.
Absolutely. Roofers use it to generate quick estimates on-site after storm inspections. You can include line items for ice & water shield, drip edge, flashing, and ventilation - everything the adjuster needs to see.
Yes. When you text the estimate link, the homeowner opens it, reviews the scope, and taps Accept. On a full reroof you can attach your own contract template so what they agree to is a real signed agreement, not just a tap - the signature is stored with the signer's name, timestamp, IP address, and a signing certificate, and both of you get a copy by email. Set a deposit as a term of that estimate and they are prompted to pay it the moment they sign. Contracts, e-signature, and deposits are all part of the $29.99 Solo plan. No printing, no scanning.
You can save multiple price lists - architectural shingles, 3-tab, metal standing seam, TPO - and switch between them. Or just speak the material and price and the AI fills in the rest.
Yes, two ways. Toggle the weather overlay on your canvass map and the last 8 days of NOAA storm reports appear as color-coded dots - tornado, hail, and high-wind reports - and you can show one day or several to focus your knocking on the neighborhoods that actually got hit. On top of that, storm-territory alerts watch the boundaries you drew: NOAA hail, wind, and tornado reports are checked hourly, the same day the storm happens, and you get an email and an in-app alert naming the territory that was hit, how many doors you have mapped inside it, and how many of those are still marked Not contacted. Storm alerts and territories are part of the Canvass plan at $59.99 per month, plus $19.99 per month for each sales rep.
Yes. Add your Google review link and FastEstimateMaker texts the customer a Google review request once the invoice is paid in full - only with their texting consent, and inside texting quiet hours - or you can send one yourself in a tap from their record. On a storm street where every roofer is knocking the same doors, a run of fresh reviews is what gets the next one opened. Review requests are part of the $29.99 Solo plan.
Yes - your first 3 estimates are free, no credit card required. You can create and send estimates immediately. After your 3rd estimate, unlimited estimates are $29.99/month on the Solo plan. Canvassing is free for 14 days from the first time you open the canvass map.
Not sure what to charge? See our 2026 roofing pricing guide for current rates, job benchmarks, and a free pricing calculator, or print the free roofing price list PDF and keep it in the truck.
Every hour the homeowner waits, they call another contractor. Try FastEstimateMaker free and see what happens when you quote from the driveway instead of the office.
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