“When I started out, I had sales reps that couldn’t even work a tape measure, let alone measure a roof,” said Scott. “I was wasting tons of money on materials that were over-ordered.”
His temporary solution? In mountainous Denver, Scott hired a bunch of rock climbers and paid them to climb and measure roofs for him. Though he began saving quickly, it was clearly not a viable long-term solution if he wanted to scale the business.
Right around that time, a representative from EagleView pitched Scott on the value of letting aerial imagery coupled with computer vision and machine learning do the work for him. Even though Scott laughed at first, he decided to give it a try.