Get Roof Bids Done in Minutes with AI Roofing Estimating

If you’re a roofing contractor or estimator, you already know the real bottleneck in your workflow: manual roofing takeoffs. Whether it’s tracing roof slopes at midnight, juggling addenda, or hunting for missing roof details across architectural and structural sheets, roofing takeoffs can easily drain 10, 15, or even 25 hours per project.

That’s exactly why more roofing teams are moving toward roofing estimating software powered by AI-based takeoffs. And Beam AI is leading the way.

With Beam AI, you get ready-to-use, QA-reviewed roofing takeoffs that plug straight into your estimating software. The result? You can generate bids in just a few hours, instead of spending days reviewing quantities before pricing even begins.

Let’s break down why this shift is transforming roofing businesses across North America.

Why Roofing Takeoffs Are So Time-Consuming

Roofing contractors everywhere face the same challenges, just in different jobsite contexts. Whether you’re handling commercial roofs, residential shingles, or intricate architectural builds, these common problems appear again and again:

1. Complex Roof Geometry

Irregular roof shapes: think slopes, valleys, hips, dormers, and intersections — make manual calculations incredibly error-prone. Even a small miscalculation in pitch or overlap can throw quantities off by 10–15%, affecting both pricing and material ordering.

2. Inconsistent Drawing Details

Roofing details often sit across multiple sheets: architectural, structural, and elevations, each with different scales or annotations. Locating and verifying these dimensions takes hours, increasing the risk of missing or double-counting areas.

3. Waste & Overlaps Are Hard to Get Right

Waste calculations for roofing are never one-size-fits-all. Standard percentages don’t always work for specific slopes, tile layouts, panel sizes, or membrane overlaps, leading to overestimated bids or costly shortages.

4. Integrating Multiple Material Types

Modern roofing involves several layers: membranes, insulation boards, vapor barriers, fasteners, underlayments, edge metal, drains, skylights, and more. Manually cross-referencing all of these slows estimators down and increases the chances of data-entry errors.

These are the bottlenecks that hold roofing teams back: reducing bid volume, causing delays, and making it nearly impossible to scale.

Beam AI: Power Your Roofing Estimating Software with AI-Based Roofing Takeoffs

Instead of spending hours (or days) doing roofing takeoffs manually, Beam AI gives you ready-to-use quantity takeoffs for all roofing components, including roofing membranes, underlayment, roof sheathing, roof insulation, drains and scuppers, coping and edge metal, roof flashing, parapet wall flashing, sealants and waterproofing, expansion joints, skylights, vents, roof hatches, mechanical curbs and penetrations, and tie-ins with adjacent materials.

The Best Part? The Takeoffs Are Already QA-Reviewed

Most digital or semi-automated tools still require hours of review before an estimator feels confident pricing them. But Beam AI’s takeoffs come QA-reviewed, meaning:

• You spend hours reviewing instead of days
• The quantities are clean, organized, and ready to price
• You can confidently plug them straight into your roofing estimating software
• Once plugged in, you can build complete roofing bids within a few hours, not days.

This is why roofing teams like New View Roofing, Guardian Roofing, and Brady Roofing trust Beam AI to scale their operations.

Real Teams, Real Results

Here’s what leading roofing contractors have achieved with Beam AI:

• New View Roofing → Saved 2 hours per takeoff and tapped into 10x more bids
• Guardian Roofing → Reclaimed 25+ hours per project and increased bidding capacity to 800+ projects/year
• Brady Roofing → Eliminated missed opportunities and added $400K in new wins

These aren’t outliers, they’re the natural result of removing manual takeoff bottlenecks.

Why Beam AI + Roofing Estimating Software Is the Ultimate Workflow

By combining AI takeoffs with your roofing estimating software, you get a fully streamlined workflow:

1. More Bids, Less Stress: When takeoff reviews take hours instead of days, your team can double the number of bids you send out.

2. Better Accuracy: Consistent quantities with ±1% of your in-house accuracy reduce rework, improve pricing confidence, and increase your competitiveness.

3. Faster Turnaround: QA-reviewed takeoffs get delivered to you within 24-72 hours and plug directly into your estimating software. This helps you respond to GCs faster and win more jobs.

4. Scale Without Hiring: Adding AI lets your current team handle 5–10x more volume without growing headcount.

This is what makes Beam AI one of the most powerful partners you can pair with your roofing estimating software.

Final Thoughts: Ready to Bid Twice as Fast?

If you’re still tracing roof slopes at midnight or juggling addenda across multiple sheets, it’s time to switch to a smarter workflow. Beam AI helps you save 90% of your takeoff time, boost accuracy, bid more jobs, and win more work.