Startup Idea: Roof Visualization Software for Construction Sales

Startup idea to develop a software that allows a customer in construction sales to visualize different roofing options on their actual home by superimposing options on a taken picture. This would help in customer decision-making and increase sales and satisfaction.

I work in construction sales. One of the biggest customer reasons for not making a decision is that they cannot envision the color.

In fact, according to Home Advisor, color is the most important decision when remodeling. There's currently software that lets you create a mock-up of siding options by taking a picture of the home and superimposing options on.

However, there is currently no such software for roofs. Instead, we're forced to hold up little pieces of shingles up to the roof line and hope that they're able to envision it. Not only would it increase sales, but it would also increase customer satisfaction and comfortability.

Since the siding software is compatible with many of the manufacturer's options, I don't see why the same couldn't be true for roofing manufacturers.

This would allow the software to be used by the most amount of people possible. We get all of our shingles from GAF, North America's largest single manufacturer. They had a remodeling app that said it could perform this task. However, after trying to use it several times without success,

I called our regional rep and he said the app hasn't worked for months and he's not sure when it will. This was 6 months ago and it's still not working. So currently there are no possible solutions, other than depending on our customer's imaginations.

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