For Roofing Contractors

They read for a week.
Then they
call somebody.

A homeowner with storm damage researches the claims process for days before calling a roofer. That week is winnable, it costs nothing per lead, and almost nobody in your market is competing for it.

ChatGPT + Gemini, labelledPublishes to your WordPressLive in ~5 minutes

Free · no card · result in about 60 seconds

Live · 2 engines checked
scoutrival.com/scan · summitroofingco.com Live
Prompt tested
 
ChatGPT
Cited 6 sources — a national exterior brand and two insurance sites.
Web-grounded
Gemini
Recalled “Apex Exteriors” by name.
Memory probe
0
AI-visibility 30/100 (±8). Apex Exteriors is named for your top money keyword and published 11 times last month. You published twice.
Tomorrow’s brief · action #1

Publish “Will insurance cover my roof replacement? What an adjuster actually looks for.” It is the question homeowners ask a week before they call anyone.

See it in 84 seconds

The morning this replaces.

One brief, one action, one approved post — before your first appointment. No feature tour, just the loop.

1:24 runtime10 beats4K light themeVO included
01The problem

You are a great roofer paying to compete with yourself.

Lead marketplaces resell the same enquiry to three crews. Meanwhile the homeowner spends a week researching the claim — and nobody local is there.

$70–228
Per roofing lead, depending on channel.
Google Ads reaching $228 in competitive metros, and marketplace leads shared with three other contractors before you dial.
Home services CPL benchmarks 2026 · verify
~0,600
Roofing contractors in the US.
With no company holding meaningful share. Every market is a local fight, and the differentiator is who gets found during the research week.
IBISWorld 2026 · verify
$10–50
Effective cost of an SEO-sourced lead.
At 35–40% booking rates. The cheaper channel exists — it just requires content nobody in the trade is producing.
Roofing marketing benchmarks · verify
0%
Of people now ask AI to find a local business.
Up from 6% a year ago. They ask about coverage before they ask about contractors, and the cited source frames the whole conversation.
BrightLocal 2026 · verify
02A day in the life
Illustrative scenario

A Monday at Summit Roofing.

The week after the storm — and who the homeowner has already met.

1
Monday · Dave, owner-operator

Hail hit Friday night. By Monday he has spent $900 on marketplace leads that three other roofers are also calling. Two ghost him. One books with whoever answered fastest.

$900 spent1 booked from 6
2
The gap

He searches “storm damage roofer Dallas.” Apex is first. His wife asks ChatGPT the same thing and it names Apex too. Dave has no idea why, or what to do about it.

Rival named twiceNo visibility into why
3
Wednesday · ScoutRival, day one

The free scan scores him 30/100, shows Apex published 11 times last month, and finds the actual blocker — nothing on his site answers a claims question. Action #1 is drafted.

60 seconds$0
Before the next storm

Nine claims guides indexed and starting to be cited. When the next system rolls through, Dave is already visible — catching organic calls at $0 a lead instead of $200 shared four ways.

~3 min/day9 guides liveOrganic calls at ~$0
03How ScoutRival solves it

Four jobs a marketing hire would do — in one seat.

Pick the pain. See exactly what the product does about it.

BlogCraft claims content

BlogCraft writes the claims guides homeowners research for a week — what is covered, what an adjuster looks for, whether to use the insurer’s preferred contractor, how to spot hail damage — structured so AI engines quote them.

BlogCraft claims contentlive
“Will insurance cover my roof?” draft ready
Citation-probability score 90
Answer-first block + FAQ schema passed
A channel where the lead costs nothing once it is published.
Per article under 1 minYou approveDraft-safe

AI-Visibility check

We ask ChatGPT and Gemini your money keywords and the claims questions that precede them, and score how often you are named — with a confidence band, re-checkable any day.

AI-Visibility checklive
“storm damage roofer Dallas” rival named
“will insurance cover my roof” insurance site cited
“metal roof cost Dallas” named ✓
You see the research week you have been absent from.
Setup 2 minRe-check 60 sec

Competitor watch + Daily Brief

Track your local rivals across nine channels — site, blog, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more — and get a morning brief on new guides, new offers, new service areas, plus the one action worth taking.

Competitor watch + Daily Brieflive
Apex published a hail-claims guide today
New “free inspection” offer flagged
Your move: publish your claims guide drafted
You out-publish them instead of finding out months late.
Read time 2 min/dayNine channels

SEO audit + one-click publish

A 31-point audit grades the site and hands you the fixes with the code — most roofing sites share the same handful of problems, starting with duplicated service-area pages.

SEO audit + one-click publishlive
Service-area pages 9 near-duplicates
AI access 61
Citability 33
A truck photo and a form becomes a site engines can cite.
Fix cards includedPublish 1 click
04The impact

Less time. Less spend. More found.

What a normal month looks like before ScoutRival, and after. Same crew, same trucks, same hours.

Your time, per month
~0 hr
given back — mostly the marketing you meant to do
Checking what rivals published ~2 hr a month 0
Writing one social post ~30 min ~5 min
Writing one claims guide ~4 hr under 1 min
Reading the morning brief ~5 min a day
Your stack, per month
4 → 1
four subscriptions and four logins become one seat
AI-visibility tracker $25–83 included
AI writing tool $39–99 included
Design tool for graphics $15–30 included
Competitor / social listening $99+ included
What actually moves
0+
claims questions answered on your own site, before the next storm
Prompts where you’re named unknown measured
Claims questions answered 0 9+
Cost per organic lead n/a ~$0 after publish
Rival campaigns caught late most none

Figures are modelled from a typical single-market roofing contractor. The third card is what the product measures — content compounds over months and we won’t promise a call volume nobody can promise.

05Your free scan

In 60 seconds, see who owns the claims question.

No card, no call. Drop your site in — we’ll show you what AI says about roof insurance claims, which roofer it names, and what’s stopping it naming you.

Scanning…2 engines
ChatGPT · grounded
Cited 6 sources — a national exterior brand and two insurance sites.
not named
Competitor activity
Recalled “Apex Exteriors” by name.
tracked
30

The full report lists every prompt you’re missing and the top 3 actions to fix it.

Get my full report →

Free · no credit card · this is a sample — your real scan runs live

01 Enter your site
02 We test your money prompts
03 You get the report — no call
06vs. what you use today

Three ways to solve this. One fits a contractor.

An agency, a stack of tools, or one seat. The honest comparison — including the two things we don’t do.

Option A

Marketing agency

$1,500–5,000 / month
  • Rarely measures AI visibility
  • Competitor watch not in scope
  • Direction on a monthly call
  • Writes content — in 2–4 weeks
  • Manages reviews and posting
  • You own the content — check the contract
Real expertise, real cost. You wait on someone else’s calendar, and the knowledge leaves when they do.
Option B

Four separate tools

~$180–290 / month
  • Tracks AI visibility
  • Listening is enterprise-priced
  • You interpret all of the data
  • Generic content unless you prompt well
  • Four logins, none share context
  • You own everything you make
Cheaper than an agency — but you become the integration layer, and that’s the job you didn’t want.
Built for a business like yours Option C

ScoutRival

One seat · see pricing →
  • Two engines, labelled — re-check any day
  • Nine channels + founder-level tracking
  • A daily brief with one clear action
  • Content in your voice, drafted in ~90 seconds
  • Branded graphics + one-click WordPress
  • Yours forever — export anytime
  • Doesn’t manage your Google Business Profile or map-pack rank
  • Doesn’t buy or replace marketplace leads
The last two are deliberate. We’d rather you knew now than found out in month two — everything else is in one seat.
Run my free scan

A large share of roofing demand routes through the local pack, and we do not touch it. Contractors have been oversold by marketing vendors repeatedly — being the one that concedes this up front is what earns the rest of the conversation.

07What owners tell us

Built for the owner who is the marketing team.

The week after the storm — in the words of the roofers who own it now.

08The math

One roof covers a decade.

Drag to your reality: how many roofs a month do you think you lose to the contractor who got found first?

Roofs you’re losing / month3
151015
Cost of staying invisible / yr
At roughly $9,500 — conservative gross margin on a residential replacement.
vs
ScoutRival / yr
$1,068
Visibility, competitor intel, content and publishing — less than what you’re losing.

Job values vary by market and material — use your own. Full plan details on the See the pricing page →

09FAQ

Everything owners ask before they start.

What exactly do I get on day one?
A measured AI-visibility score across ChatGPT and Gemini for your money keywords and the claims questions homeowners ask first, a 31-point audit — which in roofing almost always finds duplicated service-area pages — and your first claims guide drafted and ready to approve. About five minutes to set up.
It’s my busy season. Should I wait?
Probably start in the shoulder — September to November is when most contractors have time to talk and are thinking about winter pipeline. The one thing worth knowing now: content takes 60–90 days to work, so what publishes in October is what fills January.
Which AI engines do you check, and how?
Two, and we label which is which. ChatGPT runs web-grounded, so it cites live sources and we show you those citations. Gemini runs as a memory probe — what the model already believes about your market, without citations. They’re deliberately different signals, and reading them together tells you more than a single number would.
Is the score something I can trust and act on?
Yes — because we show you the working. You get a weighted 0–100 score with a confidence band, share of voice against the competitors you actually have, and the receipts behind every answer. AI answers shift between runs, so we show the band rather than a false-precision ranking — and you can re-check any day to watch it move.
I already pay an agency. Does this replace them?
It can, and plenty of owners use it that way. But the sharper move is to ask your agency what your AI-visibility score is. If they have an answer, keep them — you have a good agency. If they don’t, you’ve found the gap, and one seat gives you an independent instrument to measure their work every month for a fraction of the retainer.
What does one seat actually include?
AI-visibility tracking across both engines, nine-channel competitor monitoring with founder-level LinkedIn, the daily brief, content generation in your voice, branded graphics from a 330-design library, long-form articles with one-click WordPress publishing, a 31-point site audit, and Google Search Console plus Bing traffic. On Pro and Agency you can connect your own AI key and generate at zero credit cost. [See the full comparison →](/pricing)
How soon will I show up in AI?
Honestly: it compounds, and nobody can promise a date. Publishing the content that answers your buyers’ questions is what earns citations over the following weeks. What you get on day one is the measurement — exactly which prompts you’re missing and the actions most likely to change it. Anyone promising an overnight “#1 in ChatGPT” is guessing.
What if it isn’t right for us?
Start free — no card, and the scan costs nothing. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, you can cancel anytime with no lock-in, and everything you generate exports as HTML, Markdown, PDF or plain text. What you create is yours whether you stay or not. Two things we deliberately don’t do: manage your Google Business Profile, and replace marketplace leads. If the map pack is your only channel, we’ll tell you a different tool is the better spend.
Two minutes, no card

Find out who AI names for your storm keywords.

Then decide. The scan is free, the report is yours, and nobody calls you.

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Partner programme

Your audience runs roofing companies. Send them something useful.

If you coach contractors, run a roofing community, or build sites for the trades, ScoutRival pays recurring commission on every company you refer — for as long as they stay.

  • Recurring commission, not one-off. You earn every month they stay, not just on the first payment.
  • Your rate is set on fit. Reviewed individually on your audience and authority — not a flat rate everyone gets.
  • A link that does the work. Send this page. The free scan gives them a specific finding in about a minute — no demo call to book.
  • Nothing you have to defend. Two engines, labelled. No invented rankings. We say what the product doesn’t do, so you’re never the one over-promising.
  • A 30-day attribution window and a partner dashboard showing clicks, signups and earnings.

How it works

1
Apply in about two minutes
Tell us who your audience is. No traffic minimum.
2
We review it by hand
Every application is read by a person. Rate set on audience fit, not a tier table.
3
You get a link and your rate
Share this page, the free scan, or your own write-up. Tracked for 30 days.
4
You earn every month they stay
Commission clears after a 45-day hold, $50 minimum payout, visible in your dashboard.
Recurring
not one-off
30 days
attribution window
Per-partner
rate set on fit