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We screen every commercial building in the territory you name for membrane type, ponding, rooftop unit count, last permitted reroof and storm history. The first 3 are free.
Free preview: 3 properties, delivered 3 business days after we confirm your territory. No card, no call.
Sec. 01 — The decision
Contractors chase storms and buy the same hail list everyone else bought that week, while a 2004 TPO deck with ponding around a blocked drain sits unremarked. We look at all of them.
See how the research worksSec. 02 — Evidence
These observations decide whether a building enters the pipeline, which trade it belongs to, and roughly how big the scope is.
| Indicator | Where it comes from | What it settles — and what it does not |
|---|---|---|
| Roof system type | Imagery, oblique views where flown, assessor roof-cover and construction fields | Separates white single-ply, black EPDM, gravel BUR, modified bitumen and standing-seam metal, which decides which crew the building belongs to. Insulation type, thickness and R-value are not visible. |
| Ponding and drainage failure | Post-rainfall imagery showing standing-water rings, visible drain and scupper placement | Identifies decks with slope failure or blocked drainage, the highest-yield roofing observation available remotely. It does not establish deck saturation or wet insulation; that is an infrared scan and a core cut. |
| Last permitted roof work | Municipal and county permit indexes for reroof, recover and repair scopes, with valuation | Gives the date and rough size of the last recorded roof event, the strongest age signal against a 15–25 year single-ply life. Unpermitted work and coatings leave no trace. |
| Rooftop unit count and footprint | Imagery footprints of packaged units and condensers, mechanical permit records | Counts units and estimates tonnage from curb footprint, which sizes a replacement or maintenance-agreement conversation. Model, refrigerant, actual age and condition are on the data plate. |
| Severe-weather exposure | NOAA severe weather reports and gridded hail swaths, with dates and estimated stone size | Establishes that this parcel recorded a 1.0 in or larger hail day, or a damaging wind event, on a specific date. It does not prove damage, an open claim, or coverage. |
| Pavement and exterior condition | Imagery of the parking field and drive aisles | Shows alligator cracking, patch outlines, rutting at loading areas and faded striping well enough to size a paving or sealcoat scope. Subgrade and base thickness are not visible. |
| Building age and use | Assessor year built, use code, gross building area, number of stories | Places the building in its service cycle and flags use types with known maintenance profiles — cold storage, food service, big-box retail. Renovations that reset the cycle may not be recorded. |
| Ownership and management path | Assessor owner of record, mailing address, entity name patterns, business listings on site | Distinguishes an owner-occupied building with the decision-maker on site from an institutionally held asset managed at a distance. The approver's name is not in the public record. |
Permit indexing is the least consistent source here — some counties publish twenty years, some publish nothing. Where the trail is missing, the report says so on that property rather than inferring.
Sec. 03 — The engagement
Every ranked building carries the observation that put it there, so canvasser and estimator work from the same evidence.
Every qualifying property, ordered, with address, parcel identifier and the observation driving the rank.
Apparent membrane or metal system, roof geometry, drain and scupper placement, and any visible ponding.
Rooftop unit count with approximate curb footprints, plus any mechanical permits located for that address.
Year built, gross area, use code, and the reroof, recover and mechanical permits found, with dates.
Dated severe-weather events at that location, with estimated hail size or wind speed, in the window you set.
Parking field condition, striping state, loading-area rutting, and any visible curb or vegetation scope.
Sec. 04 — Limits
Everything below the line needs someone on the roof, a data plate, or a document.
Sec. 05 — Questions
No. It establishes roof system, visible ponding, permit age, unit count and storm history; whether work is needed is decided by a roof walk, a core cut, an infrared scan or a data plate.
Commercial roofing, building envelope, HVAC, paving, exterior maintenance and multi-trade facility contractors. Indicator weighting follows the trade — roofing ranks ponding and permit age first, HVAC ranks unit count and use type.
No — storm history is one of eight indicators and the weakest one alone, because every contractor has the same swath data. The value is a dated hail event on a parcel that also shows an old membrane and ponding.
Yes. Territory Monitor keeps up to 500 properties under watch and puts 100 through analyst review each month, from From $1,500 on an initial 2-month term.
Further reading
The method behind this report, written out in full.
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Name the service lines, the minimum building size and the geography. We return 3 ranked buildings with roof, mechanical, permit and storm evidence in 3 business days, free.
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