Chicago, IL
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Chicago Move Fast — Your Bid Process Should Too Chicago's roofing season is compressed. You're chasing storm work after spring hail, racing the October freeze, and competing against a dense market of contractors on the North Side, South Side, and every suburb in between. A bid that takes two days to build loses to one that lands in two hours. Estimate.Pro gets you from jobsite walkthrough to a sendable, priced bid in 8 minutes. That's not a rounding number — it's the median time our roofers hit after their first few jobs. --- ## What Makes Roofing Estimating Different in Chicago **Wind and ice load requirements.** Chicago sits in ASCE 7 wind zone territory, and Illinois requires compliance with the 2021 International Building Code as adopted with state amendments. Flat and low-slope roofs common on Chicago two-flats and commercial brick buildings carry specific drainage and ponding requirements. Your scope-of-work output from Estimate.Pro names these considerations directly — no generic boilerplate. **Material cost volatility.** Asphalt shingle prices and TPO membrane costs fluctuate with oil prices. Chicago roofers using Estimate.Pro save material costs directly to a personal workspace. When shingle costs jump, you update one number and every future bid reflects it — no rebuilding spreadsheets. **Permit pull logistics.** The City of Chicago requires a building permit for most roofing work beyond like-for-like shingle replacement. That means square footage documentation and often a licensed contractor of record. Estimate.Pro's AI scope-of-work output includes measurement data you can hand directly to your permit expediter or include in your permit application package. **Flat roof volume.** Chicago's housing stock skews heavily toward flat and low-slope roofs — Chicago bungalows, greystones, and commercial three-flats. That means EPDM, TPO, and modified bitumen make up a larger share of your book of work than in most U.S. cities. Estimate.Pro supports material line items and waste calculations specific to membrane roofing, not just sloped shingle work. --- ## How the App Works for Roofers **AR measurement on the roof.** On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture roof planes, ridges, hips, and valleys during your physical walkthrough. Measurements taken from photos are clearly marked as estimates — you always know what's verified and what needs confirmation. **AI scope-of-work generation.** Walk the job, capture measurements, and let the AI draft your scope. It covers underlayment, decking condition notes, flashing, drip edge, ventilation, and material specs. You edit what doesn't fit. You don't write from scratch. **Priced estimate output.** Line items pull from your saved material cost workspace. Labor rates are yours to set. The output is a clean, client-ready document you can send from the app. **No platform fee on Pro+.** Estimate.Pro uses Stripe Connect for payment collection. The Free tier carries a 3% platform fee. Pro and above pay 0%. On a $14,000 tear-off and re-roof, that difference is $420 back in your pocket per job. --- ## Pricing - **Free** — No credit card. No expiration. 3% platform fee on collected payments. - **Pro** — $39/seat/month. 0% platform fee. - **Elite** — $79/seat/month. Stripe Connect, invoice exports, advanced workflows. - **Crew** — $399/month flat for multi-seat operations. If you're running a solo operation or a small crew doing Chicago residential work, the Pro tier pays for itself in recovered platform fees by your second collected invoice. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Tuned for Roofing Estimate.Pro covers 25 trades. Roofing is not an afterthought — the scope templates, material categories, and measurement tools are built around how roofers actually write bids. Chicago-specific cost data, wind zone language, and flat-roof line items are part of the system, not add-ons. If you're still building bids in Excel or calling in square footage by hand, your competitor with a tablet and Estimate.Pro is landing bids while you're still typing. Start free. No credit card.