We’re not going to publish a table where every column but ours has a red X in it — you’ve seen those, and you don’t believe them either. Here are the questions that actually separate survey vendors, and exactly where we stand on each one. Ask us and ask whoever else you’re talking to.
Per-site quoting sounds flexible until you’re waiting on a number before you can schedule. It also means the complicated roofs — the ones you most want surveyed properly — are the ones that cost you most.
“Typically 3–5 days” is not a turnaround, it’s a range with the bad weeks quietly removed. Ask what happens when they miss it.
This is the question that decides whether you get a second truck roll. Plenty of vendors capture roof geometry beautifully and leave your crew to go back for the service panel, the meter, and the interconnection point.
Several products in this category are tools your own people fly, capture with, and process. That can be the right answer — if you have the headcount. It’s a very different purchase from someone showing up and handing you a finished set.
Batch intake is the difference between surveys being an operational rhythm and being a task somebody has to remember to do twenty times a month.
This category has filled up with companies founded in the last two or three years. That isn’t disqualifying — but volume history tells you whether they’ve already met the edge case that’s about to cost you an install date.
If your volume, geography, or project type isn’t a match, the honest answer saves you a quarter. Notice whether the first call is a qualification conversation or a closing one.
No deck, no discovery process. Tell us your volume and your region and we’ll give you straight answers — including “we’re not a fit” if that’s the truth.
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