San Francisco, CA
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in San Francisco Move Fast — Your Bid Process Should Too San Francisco's housing stock is dense, older, and architecturally unforgiving. You're quoting Victorian flats with low-slope built-up roofs in the Sunset one day and steep-pitch tile on a Mission District Edwardian the next. Each job carries its own material spec, its own permit exposure, and its own access problem — think zero setback lots, shared party walls, and no staging area. Estimate.Pro is built around a single workflow: walk the job, capture it, price it, send it. Median time from first measurement to a sendable bid is 8 minutes. --- ## What Makes Roofing Estimating Different in San Francisco **Permit overhead is real.** San Francisco Department of Building Inspection requires a permit for most roof replacements, not just repairs. The permit application asks for project valuation, and your bid is the primary document. A bid that looks unfinished or internally inconsistent slows the permit counter down and puts the job at risk before a nail is driven. **Material costs are high.** Bay Area supply chain markup on roofing materials runs above national averages. Class A fire-rated assemblies are effectively mandatory under California Building Code — standard organic felt is not an option here. Your cost workspace in Estimate.Pro stores your actual supplier pricing, not generic national averages, so the margin math reflects your market. **CoolRoof requirements matter.** California's Title 24 Part 6 energy code applies to re-roofing projects that exceed 50% of the roof area. Qualifying products must meet CRRC (Cool Roof Rating Council) minimum SRI values. When you're scoping a full reroof versus a patch job, that threshold changes the material spec and the cost — Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work builder flags that decision point. **Measurements are complicated.** Steep Victorian pitches, dormers, and shed-roof additions don't cooperate with satellite tools. Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement on supported devices. If you're working from photos or a less capable device, measurements are clearly marked as estimates — no false precision baked into your bid. --- ## The Estimate.Pro Workflow for San Francisco Roofers 1. **Walkthrough** — Use live AR or photo capture on the job site. Measure roof sections, note pitch, flag penetrations and existing conditions. 2. **AI scope-of-work** — The app generates a line-item scope from your walkthrough: tear-off, underlayment, decking repairs, field material, flashing, ridge, and disposal. You edit, add, or remove — it's your scope. 3. **Price it** — Your saved material cost workspace applies your real supplier rates. Labor rates are yours to set. No algorithm guessing at your margin. 4. **Send it** — Client-facing proposal goes out from the app. Pro+ tier processes payments through Stripe Connect at 0% platform fee. --- ## Pricing That Matches How Roofing Crews Are Structured - **Free tier** — No credit card. Enough to run quotes and test the workflow. - **Pro — $39/seat/month** — Full estimating, saved cost workspaces, AR measurement. - **Elite — $79/seat/month** — Adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports for your accountant. - **Crew — $399/month flat** — One price for your whole crew, no per-seat counting. Stripe Connect platform fee is 3% on Free, 0% on Pro and above. --- ## Built for the Trades, Not the Office Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. The roofing workflow knows the difference between a low-slope BUR, a torch-down modified bitumen cap sheet, and a Class A asphalt shingle assembly. When you're pricing a Sunset District flat with a gravel-ballasted membrane and the neighbor's parapet is your only reference point, you need a tool that speaks the trade — not one that asks you to adapt a generic line-item template. If you're quoting three roofs a week in San Francisco, the 8-minute bid target is achievable on a straightforward reroof. On a complicated Victorian with dormers and multiple penetrations, expect longer — but the walkthrough-to-scope workflow still cuts the back-office time significantly versus building estimates in a spreadsheet. Start on the free tier. No credit card. See the workflow on your next San Francisco job.