Measure from the address with EaveDrop, and the estimator fills itself in

EaveDrop measures the house from the address in about a minute, with no ladder. Tap EaveDrop on the customer's card and you get every roof edge, which ones carry gutter, the story of each run, corners and downspouts. Your walk-around photos and video sharpen it: they confirm the stories and the gutter size, a run you mark on a photo lands on the 3D model, and if the model doesn't look like the house it tells you which side. Pick only the runs the customer wants and the price and the card follow, as a partial job. The gutter linear feet flow straight into the estimator and onto the real Exhibit A and B. EaveDrop is free for every rep.

No photos and no 3D roof model yet? Gutters only go on eaves — the level edges — and a rake climbs to the peak. The public lidar reads the roof along each edge of the house and says which is which, and the map's own roof shape adds a vote, so a gable end is not counted as gutter before anyone visits. In the photo view, things of known size — a garage door, the front door, a story height — are boxed, and each gutter line shows the length they imply next to EaveDrop's: a built-in check that the line over the gutter is right. After the install, the work order's actual lines show on the card and become the truth every measurement and sheet is graded against.

The 3D model is the house itself: the roof, the siding, the gutters and the downspouts in the colors the walk-around photos show, with the shingles and siding laps drawn in. Beside it is a list of every feature, the way the big measurement apps lay it out: roof squares, pitch, facets, ridges, hips and valleys; wall area; gutter feet, runs, corners and end caps; rakes and trim; and every downspout on the house now, placed where the photos show it, with its size, its kick-out and where the water lands. Hover or tap a feature to light it up on the model, and the eye hides it. The same roof squares, pitch and wall area are where a roofing or siding estimate starts (every product line).

Your phone's compass and level do the rest. Turn the compass on once and every walk-around photo is stamped with the way the camera was pointing and how it was tilted. The app knows which wall it is — front, right, back or left — and which way that wall really faces (north, south-east and so on), so photos land on the right side of the house without guessing from shadows. A slim strip at the bottom of the camera window shows the direction and a level ✓, so the shots come out straight. A side you picked yourself is never changed; if the compass disagrees, the app just leaves a note.

Check the eave height with the phone. Stand back a few paces, sight the gutter line along the top edge of the phone and tap Lock: the tilt and your distance give the height of the eave, the story it means, and how it compares with EaveDrop's number for that side. A second check on the stories before the price is set.

• 1Measured from the address
• 2An aerial measurement of the house
• 3Accuracy and delivery time, up front
• 4Get a sample report

AR measurements: hold the measurement up against the real house. Tap AR / 3D in EaveDrop or in the Job Photos window and the EaveDrop house, the same model the report is built from, stands in the driveway at real size (or at 1:50 on the kitchen table), roof, siding and gutters in the colors the photos show, with each side's footage on it. Turn it so the front faces you or line it up with true north, and walk around it with the customer. The same page has a full-screen 3D walk-around with the sun where it really is at any hour, and a VR view on a headset.

The AR measurements and the 3D model price the quote. Nothing on the model is decoration: the gutter feet by story, the corners, the downspouts, the roof squares, the pitch and the wall area are the quantities the estimator opens with, and the runs you tape with the phone or fix on site change the same numbers. Pick only the runs the customer wants and the price follows as a partial job. The 3D model also ships as a file the phone's own AR viewer opens (iPhone, iPad, Android), so the customer sees their house with its feet on it before they sign. A virtual inspection and demo is used only for leads a rep finds online themselves (Praxis Seek), never for company-issued leads.

VR reports: the job in 3D, for management, the install department and the customer. The EaveDrop report is an interactive 3D virtual report: the model, each side's feet and story, eave heights, corners, downspouts and the photos of each side. Walk around it in any browser; on a VR headset whose browser supports it, the AR / 3D page shows Open in VR headset. Management reviews the grade and checks before a quote is approved, and after the install the crew's actual footage is read back from Salesforce and graded against it. The install department preps the crew from the feet by side, heights, downspouts and photos, with Exhibit A and B drawn from the same numbers. The customer sees their own house and what is going on it in Customer view, which hides cost and internal checks. Today the report opens in the rep's account; view-only report links for management, install and the customer are being added. The leadership portals are in preview with sample data: operations manager, regional, install.

As many data sources as we can get, fused by trust. Every source votes on what it knows — the outline, the eave height, the pitch, a run's length — weighted by how much it can be trusted and how sure it is, and the report says per side how many sources agreed and which one disagrees. A source with nothing for an address is skipped and the report says so.