The dispute is about evidence, not opinion

Every contested roofing claim comes down to the same argument: the adjuster saw normal wear, you saw storm damage. You're both looking at the same roof. What decides it is whose documentation is more specific.

"Hail damage to the north slope" is an opinion. Fourteen photographs, each carrying a finding that names the damage type, the severity, the material, and the location — with the server's own record of when each file arrived and what device produced it — is a file.

What Estimatics does with your photos

Photograph the roof from the app, assigning shots to elevations and slopes. Then run the analysis. Each finding comes back with:

Damage type — hail, wind, impact, water, and nine others
Severity — low, moderate, high, or critical
Material affected and location on the structure
An evidence note that tells you what weakens the finding as well as what supports it
A photo score, 0–100, on the photograph's own evidentiary quality

That last one matters on a roof more than anywhere else. A low score while you're still on the roof is a prompt to reshoot. A low score discovered in a denial letter is a second trip.

You confirm what's right, correct what's off, and delete what isn't damage. Nothing goes out that you didn't stand behind.

Interior damage from a roof failure

Water that came through the roof shows up inside. LiDAR scanning turns each affected room into a floor plan with real dimensions — floor area, perimeter, wall area, ceiling height, openings — and those numbers drive the quantities in your estimate. On every plan, including FIELD.

Scope and pricing

Flag findings with +Scope and Estimatics builds the line-item estimate. Regional pricing looks up a reference unit price for the property's ZIP code and shows the sources it used — decision support you can explain, not a black box.

Every line traces back to the finding that produced it, which traces back to a photograph. When a line is questioned, that's the answer.

Getting it into Xactimate

ESX export, available today, on every plan. Estimatics assembles the sketch, the line items, and the photos organized by room, and packages them as an ESX that imports into Xactimate. $10 per export.

Two limits worth knowing: 6 MB per photo after re-encoding, and a 100 MB budget for the whole package. Photos beyond that are skipped, and the export tells you how many — so curate before you run it on a job with three hundred photos.

Xactimate is a trademark of its respective owner. Estimatics is an independent product and is not affiliated with, sponsored, or endorsed by it.

Which plan

	FIELD	SCOPE
Photo, video, and LiDAR capture	Yes	Yes
AI damage findings	Yes	Yes
AI scope generation and regional pricing	Yes	Yes
Damage, Findings, Geometry, and Custom reports	Yes	Yes
ESX export	$10	$10
AI damage narrative	—	Yes
Branded reports, and the Estimate report type	—	Yes
Video length	5 min / 2 GB	10 min / 4 GB

FIELD for a solo roofer whose deliverable is a scope and a clean photo record. SCOPE when the report itself is what you hand the carrier — written, branded, and carrying the estimate.

Getting started

Install the iOS app
Create a job at your next storm inspection
Photograph the roof by elevation, and scan any interior water damage
Run the analysis, confirm the findings, build the scope
Deliver the report, or export ESX

Request a demo to run it on your next roof.

The Roofing Contractor's Guide to Estimatics