The library ·Trade & Site · Edition 03
Roofing Contractor GHL Snapshot Edition
Storm work, insurance work and the long quiet quarter.
A roofing contractor's year is set by weather nobody can schedule. This edition is written for the fortnight after a hail event, for the adjuster who wants the supplement in writing, and for the long dry quarter in between.
After a hailstorm the roof goes to whoever answered at two in the morning, not to whoever is best.
The case
What is going wrong now
Four things, specific to a roofing contractor. If none of them is true of your week, this edition is not worth $1,485 to you and we would rather you knew that here than after paying.
01
The first forty-eight hours
A storm passes at midnight and by morning there are out-of-town crews leaving door hangers on every street. The homeowners ringing you are ringing four other roofers in the same hour, and the first inspection booked is usually the roof that gets replaced.
02
Claims that go quiet
A homeowner files, the adjuster is scheduled three weeks out, and in the gap nobody hears from you. By the time the scope comes back the homeowner has forgotten which roofer they were meant to be working with.
03
The dry quarter
Between events the phone stops, but a business built on catastrophe work has payroll that is not seasonal. Nothing goes out to the inspections you did last year that never turned into jobs.
04
Tarps and deductibles
Emergency tarping calls arrive at night in the rain, and the conversation that follows is about a deductible the homeowner never budgeted for. Neither of those goes well on voicemail.
The change
What is different by the second month
- The Answering Desk
First inspection booked
The desk answers at any hour, takes the address, and asks whether water is coming into the house before it decides anything else. A homeowner with an appointment already in the diary stops working down the list of numbers on the door hangers.
- The Diary Guard
The adjuster meeting held
Adjuster appointments are confirmed, reminded and diarised against the estimator who will attend, separately from your own inspections. That meeting cannot be rebooked on your terms, so missing it costs the scope and usually the job with it.
- The Cold File
The dry quarter worked
Inspections that found damage and never converted are revisited when the market is quiet and the out-of-town crews have left. The message leads with the roof age recorded at the time, because a roof that was marginal two seasons ago is not marginal now.
- The Review Press
Proof on the street
Reviews are asked for after the clean-up rather than after the shingles, and held through an open claim until the final payment releases. What comes back is set on the storm pages for the towns where the next event will send everybody searching.
The specimen sheet · Roofing Contractor
The nine, cut for a roofing contractor
The same nine components every edition carries, written for what actually happens in a roofing contractor. Cover the title and you should still know whose page this is.
The Answering Desk
AI receptionist, on the phone around the clock
It picks up at two in the morning after hail has come through, takes the address, and asks whether water is coming into the house right now. That answer decides everything: an active leak is a tarping dispatch tonight, and a stripped ridge is an inspection in daylight. The homeowner who gets that sorted on the phone stops ringing the roofers whose signs went up on the corner this evening.
- Asks whether water is entering the house
- Separates tarping tonight from daylight inspection
- Books before the next roofer calls back
The Message Desk
AI chat across the site, text, email and social
Storm chat arrives as photographs of shingles in the garden and a question about whether it is worth claiming. The message desk answers on the site, by text and on social, explains how an inspection and a claim actually run, and books the inspection without promising an outcome no adjuster has agreed to. On retail work it handles the small repair enquiry that does not deserve an estimator afternoon.
- Reads photographs of missing or lifted shingles
- Explains inspection and claim without promising approval
- Splits repair enquiries from replacement enquiries
The Standing Page
the website, written and built to be found
The standing page is written for what a homeowner searches the morning after: hail damage roof inspection, with the town attached and the words storm damage in the query. Inspection, insurance restoration, repair, replacement and emergency tarping each get their own page, and the storm pages are built to be found in the fortnight they matter rather than tuned for a quiet month.
- Storm and hail pages by town
- Insurance restoration explained without giving advice
- Emergency tarping page with the night line
The Diary Guard
confirmations, reminders and no-show recovery
Roofing has two appointments that behave nothing alike: the inspection, which is yours, and the adjuster meeting, which is not. Both are confirmed and reminded, but the adjuster meeting gets its own sequence, because missing it costs the homeowner the scope and costs you the build. Reminders carry gate codes and ladder access, since an inspection is wasted if the estimator cannot reach the back elevation.
- Adjuster meetings reminded separately from inspections
- Reminders carry gate codes and access
- Weather delays rescheduled rather than cancelled
The Callback Round
AI outbound calling on misses and cold leads
The callback round exists for the week when the volume beats the office. It rings the storm calls nobody reached, the inspections that were done and never quoted, and the homeowners who went quiet after the first scope came back short. It rings in the evening, once the letter from the insurer has been read and there are questions about it.
- Rings storm-week misses the same evening
- Follows up scopes that came back short
- Reopens inspections that never got quoted
The Ask
the review request, fired at the right moment
The ask fires on the day the crew leaves and the drive has been swept with the magnet, because a homeowner judges a roofer on the clean-up as much as on the roof. On insurance work it holds until the final payment releases, since nobody praises a contractor while money is still outstanding. Either moment beats asking on the day the shingles went on, when the garden was still full of nails.
- Fires after the clean-up, not the install
- Holds until final claim payment releases
- Separate wording for repairs and replacements
The Review Press
the ongoing review engine and its cadence
A homeowner buys a roof once or twice in a lifetime, so the press treats each job as a single chance and never asks the same address twice. Anything below a strong rating goes to the owner as a warranty visit, because a roofing complaint is usually a nail in a tyre, a bent gutter or a leak at a pipe boot, and all three are a morning of work. The engine aims at 5 to 10 reviews a month and sets what comes back on the town storm pages, where the next event will land.
- One ask per address, ever
- Complaints routed as warranty visits
- Reviews placed on town storm pages
The Cold File
database reactivation of dormant contacts
Every roofing contractor sits on a file of inspections that found damage and never became jobs, plus homeowners whose claim was denied and who then did nothing. The cold file works that list in the dry quarter, when the estimators have time and the out-of-town trucks have left the market. It leads with the roof age recorded at the inspection rather than with a discount, because another two seasons of weather have made the argument already.
- Works unconverted inspections in the dry quarter
- Leads with the recorded roof age
- Revisits denied claims after the season
Standing Type
lifetime nurture, seasons, referrals
Standing type keeps a roofer present through the years when nothing happens. A past customer gets a note before storm season on what to photograph if hail comes, a gutter and flashing check-in each autumn, and a warranty reminder that quietly restates who put the roof on. Referral asks go out once the final payment releases, because a street where you have done one roof well is the cheapest street you will ever work.
- Pre-season note on documenting hail damage
- Autumn gutter and flashing check-in
- Referral ask along the same street
The run · Roofing Contractor
The run, in a roofing contractor
Five formes, from the first enquiry to the homeowner you still have in three years.
A forme is the page of type locked up and put on the press. Five of them make an edition: setting, proofing, imposition, impression, and the type left standing for next time.
Setting
lead capture and first contact
The night a storm passes, every route in has to be live at once, because the homeowner who cannot reach you will reach a truck with an out-of-state plate.
1.1The call
The answering desk takes the two in the morning call, records the address and asks whether water is coming in. An active leak becomes a tarping dispatch; everything else becomes the earliest daylight inspection, booked before the homeowner works any further down the list.
1.2The message
Text and site chat carry the photographs, which after hail is how most homeowners open the conversation. The reply explains what an inspection looks at and what the insurer will want to see, and it books rather than promising a result nobody is in a position to promise.
1.3The form
The storm inspection form and the retail repair form ask different things. One wants the date of the event, the carrier and whether a claim has been filed; the other wants the age of the roof and what is leaking.
Proofing
the ten-day nurture
A homeowner who had the inspection and then went quiet is nearly always stuck on the deductible or waiting on an adjuster.
2.1Days one to three, by email
The first days are email and they explain the process rather than sell the roof: what the adjuster does, what a supplement is, and why a first scope is often not the final one. A homeowner who understands the sequence stops treating the delay as your fault.
2.2Days four to seven, by text
From day four it is text, asking whether the carrier has been in touch and whether a date has been set. It is a short question with a real purpose, because the day the adjuster is scheduled is the day you need an estimator on that roof.
2.3Days eight to ten, by voice
The last days bring a call in the evening, when the letter from the insurer is on the kitchen table. The conversation is about the deductible and the financing on any upgrade, and that is not a conversation email has ever won.
Imposition
booking and no-show prevention
Roofing loses money on two missed appointments: the inspection nobody was home for, and the adjuster meeting your estimator did not attend.
3.1The confirmation
The confirmation goes out at booking with the arrival window and the access the estimator needs, including gates, dogs and whether a ladder can reach the back elevation. Adjuster meetings are confirmed to the homeowner and diarised against the estimator who will be there.
3.2The reminders
Reminders step down to the day and name the estimator. For an adjuster meeting the reminder goes out early enough that a clash can still be moved, because that appointment does not get rescheduled at your convenience.
3.3The recovery call
A missed inspection is chased inside the hour, while the estimator is still in that neighbourhood and can double back. In a storm week the slot is immediately worth something to somebody else.
Impression
reviews and social proof
A roof is judged from the pavement, and the review that matters is written by somebody whose garden has just been swept clean.
4.1The ask
The ask fires after the clean-up, not after the shingles. On insurance work it waits for the final payment to release, since nobody praises a contractor while a cheque is still outstanding.
4.2The reply
Every review is answered, and anything short of strong reaches the owner as a warranty visit first. Roofing complaints are usually a nail in a tyre or a leak at a pipe boot, and both are cheaper to fix than to argue with in public.
4.3The display
What comes back is set on the town storm pages and the insurance restoration page. When the next hail event puts a whole neighbourhood on the same search, the proof is already sitting where they land.
Standing Type
retention and reactivation
The quarter after a storm decides whether next year is a business or another scramble.
5.1The season
Before storm season the past customers get a note on what to photograph and when to ring, and the pre-season roof check goes to the addresses whose roof age you already know. That fills the dry weeks with retail work at retail margins.
5.2The support line
Past customers reach a line that recognises them as warranty customers, so a leak at a flashing is handled as a warranty visit rather than queued behind storm enquiries. That distinction protects the reviews you spent a season earning.
5.3The revisit
Inspections that found damage and never converted are revisited while the market is quiet, led by the roof age on the file. A claim denied two years ago is a different conversation after another two seasons of weather.
The delivery list · Roofing Contractor
What actually lands in the account
Thirteen things arrive with every edition. Below each one is the problem it is there to solve for a roofing contractor, what changes when it runs, and how it pays for itself. No quantities are quoted, because a counted promise is a promise, and we would rather make the ones we can keep.
- 01
1 AI Receptionist
- The problem
- Hail comes through at midnight and the calls start before daylight, at the exact hour your office is closed and out-of-town crews are already knocking.
- What changes
- The line is answered at any hour, sorts an active leak from storm damage, and books the inspection before the homeowner works down the list.
- How it pays back
- If one storm night produces calls you would otherwise have lost and a single one becomes a replacement, the edition is paid for by the first event of the year.
- 02
1 AI Chatbot
- The problem
- Homeowners send photographs of their roof and want to know whether it is worth claiming, usually at night and usually to several roofers at once.
- What changes
- The message desk answers on the site, by text and on social, explains inspection and claim honestly, and books without promising an insurer decision.
- How it pays back
- Inspections booked out of night-time chat cost nothing to acquire and arrive already expecting a claim process.
- 03
Pipelines
- The problem
- Storm restoration and retail replacement do not share a sales process, and a claim has stages no ordinary pipeline understands.
- What changes
- Separate pipelines track inspection, claim filed, adjuster scheduled, scope received, supplement submitted, build scheduled and final payment released.
- How it pays back
- A supplement rescued from the gap between the scope and the build is money you have already earned and simply never asked for.
- 04
Workflows
- The problem
- In storm season the office does whatever is loudest, and the claim that went quiet three weeks ago is never the loudest thing in the room.
- What changes
- Follow-up on scopes, supplement chasing, build scheduling and post-clean-up checks all run on their own triggers.
- How it pays back
- Rescuing one stalled claim a month from the gap between the adjuster and the build is a roof a year nobody had to sell.
- 05
Appointment reminders, confirmations and no-show recovery
- The problem
- An adjuster meeting your estimator misses cannot be rebooked on your terms, and an inspection nobody was home for is a wasted hour in the week you have none.
- What changes
- Confirmations, stepped reminders and access details protect both appointment types, and a missed inspection is chased inside the hour. The system targets 70% no-show recovery.
- How it pays back
- Attending the adjuster meetings you would otherwise have missed is the highest-value line on this whole list.
- 06
Funnels
- The problem
- A homeowner two days after a hailstorm and a homeowner with a twenty-year-old roof want different pages, and one general enquiry form loses both.
- What changes
- Dedicated pages for storm inspection, insurance restoration, repair and financed replacement each ask what that job needs.
- How it pays back
- A storm inspection page that ranks during an event books work while competitors are still printing door hangers.
- 07
AI Studio website
- The problem
- Storm searches spike for a fortnight and then vanish, and a site with no storm pages is invisible for exactly that fortnight.
- What changes
- The standing page carries storm and hail pages by town, insurance restoration written without giving advice, repair and replacement pages, and the night line for tarping.
- How it pays back
- Being found for one hail term in one town during one event can fill a build schedule for a season.
- 08
Nurture campaign
- The problem
- You may not hear from a roofing customer again for fifteen years, and by then they will not remember your name.
- What changes
- Lifetime nurture keeps you present with pre-season notes, autumn gutter and flashing check-ins and warranty reminders that restate who installed the roof.
- How it pays back
- One referral a quarter from a past customer is a job with no marketing cost attached to it at all.
- 09
Review automation
- The problem
- After a storm every homeowner checks reviews before letting a stranger onto the roof, and the contractor with recent ones wins the appointment.
- What changes
- The engine asks after the clean-up, holds through an open claim, replies to everything and turns a complaint into a warranty visit.
- How it pays back
- Recent reviews are what a homeowner checks before choosing a roofer, and in the month after an event that check happens on every street.
- 10
Seasonal automation
- The problem
- The dry quarter arrives every year and every year it is a surprise, because nothing is scheduled to fill it.
- What changes
- Seasonal automation runs the pre-storm-season note, the autumn gutter and flashing check and the retail replacement push through the quiet months.
- How it pays back
- Retail work booked in the quiet quarter is sold at your own margin rather than written to an insurer scope.
- 11
Custom values
- The problem
- Your licence number, warranty terms, the carriers you work with and your financing terms appear in every message, and updating them by hand is how old information reaches a homeowner.
- What changes
- Custom values hold the details that move: warranty length, financing partner, service area, the emergency tarping line and your supplement policy.
- How it pays back
- When the financing terms change you change them once, and no estimate letter quotes terms your lender has withdrawn.
- 12
Custom fields
- The problem
- A contact record with a name and an address tells you nothing about whether that roof is asphalt or metal, how old it is, or which carrier holds the policy.
- What changes
- Custom fields carry roof age and material, storm date, carrier, claim number, adjuster name, deductible and supplement status.
- How it pays back
- Knowing the roof age on every past inspection turns a dead list into the replacement campaign that pays for the dry quarter.
- 13
Forms and surveys
- The problem
- Asking a homeowner under a leaking ceiling to complete an estimate questionnaire loses the call, and taking nothing but a phone number from a storm enquiry loses the detail.
- What changes
- An emergency tarping form that takes the address and the leak, and inspection forms that take the storm date, the carrier and whether a claim has been filed.
- How it pays back
- An estimator who arrives already knowing the carrier and the claim status can talk about scope on the first visit.
The hours
Eight to twelve hours a week in storm season
Take the week after a hail event. If a hundred calls arrive and thirty of them land while your estimators are on ladders, ringing those thirty back and booking the ones still available is more than a day of somebody who has no day to give. Add the claim status updates homeowners ask for and the supplement chasing that follows, and the manual version of a storm week costs you an estimator you cannot spare. Scale the hundred to whatever your last event actually produced.
When it pays back
Suppose an average full replacement leaves six thousand dollars of gross profit and one booked inspection in three becomes a job. If the answering desk holds nine storm calls that would otherwise have gone to voicemail, three of them become inspections and one becomes a roof. That single job pays for this edition many times over, and the dry-quarter work it does afterwards is what stops the following spring being lean. Put your own margin and close rate into the same shape.
The scenario assumed
- Average replacement gross profit around six thousand dollars
- One booked inspection in three becomes a job
- Nine storm calls held that would have gone to voicemail
An illustration with its assumptions printed beside it, not a measured result. Change any assumption and the answer changes.
The arithmetic desk
Do the sum with your own numbers
Nothing below is a result anybody has measured. It is your four numbers multiplied together, printed with the assumptions showing, so you can see what the answer depends on and change any of it. If the sum does not work at your numbers, it does not work.
The only performance figures we quote anywhere are the system’s targets: a seventy per cent no-show recovery and five to ten reviews a month. Neither is used in this sum.
Installation
Free. 11 hours, inside 9 days.
Installation is free: eleven hours of dedicated installation time, to be booked and used within nine days of purchase.
That is eleven hours of work, not nine days of standing by. When the hours are used or the nine days are up, further work is quoted.
Delivery
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Refunds
All sales are final. Once the order is created and the snapshot link has been sent, the edition is non-refundable — the link is the goods, and it cannot be returned once it has been handed over.
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The hours cover
- Loading the edition into your GoHighLevel account
- Rebranding the website — your name, your colours, your copy corrections
- A2P / 10DLC registration and setup
- Email service setup, including your own domain email inside GoHighLevel
- A few extra automations where your process needs them
Never included, on any package
- Third-party integrations
- Third-party software
- Custom software development
Those three are quoted separately, or run by a GoHighLevel VA on a retainer. They are not withheld — they are simply a different job with a different price, and pretending otherwise is how installation windows overrun.
Queries · Roofing Contractor
What a roofing contractor asks before buying
01Can it book the inspection before the out-of-town crews get down the street?
That is the job it is built for. The desk answers at any hour, takes the address, asks whether water is coming into the house, and books the earliest daylight inspection while the homeowner is still on the phone. A homeowner with an appointment in the diary stops working down the list of numbers on the door hangers.
02We do insurance restoration. Will it say something about a claim that gets us in trouble?
It explains the process and never promises an outcome. It can describe what an inspection looks at, what an adjuster does and what a supplement is, but it will not tell a homeowner their claim will be approved, will not name a settlement figure and will not advise on a policy. Anything drifting towards advice is handed to your estimator.
03What does this actually do in the quarter when there is no storm?
The dry quarter is where the cold file and the seasonal automation earn their keep. Inspections that found damage and never converted are worked again, led by the roof age recorded at the time, and claims denied in previous seasons are revisited after another year of weather. The autumn gutter and flashing check-in and the retail replacement push fill the weeks with work sold at your own margin rather than to an insurer scope.
04Does it track the adjuster meeting and the supplement, or only the sale?
The claim has its own stages, running from inspection through claim filed, adjuster scheduled, scope received, supplement submitted, build scheduled and final payment released. Adjuster meetings are reminded separately from your own inspections, because that appointment cannot be moved to suit your week. Custom fields hold the carrier, the claim number, the adjuster name, the deductible and the supplement status.
05How quickly does it land, and what is installation going to cost?
It is delivered inside one working day, which is twenty-four business hours between nine and five Central, Monday to Friday, with no weekend deliveries. Installation is free and includes eleven hours of installation time, to be used within nine days of purchase, which is enough to wire in your calendar, your storm pages, your carriers and your financing terms. All sales are final from the moment the snapshot link is sent, so raise any questions before then.
Letters
Sample setting
The review wall, in proof
These are sample entries, written by us to show how this section reads. They are not customers, not testimonials and not results. Real reviews replace them the moment we have them, and the structured data stays switched off until they do.
The writing is the difference. It knows the difference between a storm call and a maintenance call, and it asks the questions in the order I would ask them. I have bought snapshots that clearly did not know what a supplement was.
Sample entry — a roofing contractorOwner
The shelf
Other editions on the shelf
Same system, different trade, different writing.
The last word
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- Delivery
- Your edition is set and sent inside one working day — twenty-four business hours, counted 9am to 5pm Central, Monday to Friday. Nothing goes out at the weekend.
- Installation
- Installation is free: eleven hours of dedicated installation time, to be booked and used within nine days of purchase. That is eleven hours of work, not nine days of standing by. When the hours are used or the nine days are up, further work is quoted.
- Refunds
- All sales are final. Once the order is created and the snapshot link has been sent, the edition is non-refundable — the link is the goods, and it cannot be returned once it has been handed over.
- Rates
- 17 editions, $885 to $2,485. No edition is ever discounted below $850.