More roofing work. The jobs you want.

Where does roofing work come from in each lane?

A roofing company that waits on the phone sees one slice of the market. The rest of the roofing work in your territory moves through four lanes, and each one is a prize on its own. Bidli works whichever lane, or mix of lanes, you want more of.

Commercial roofs

Flat and low-slope roofs on warehouses, retail centers, office buildings, churches, and medical offices: single-ply tear-offs, recovers, metal retrofits, and coating systems. On an existing building, the property manager, facility manager, or owner's rep decides who replaces the roof. On a new commercial building, the general contractor's estimator and project manager pick the roofing sub. More on the commercial lane.

New-build roofs

Every house in a new community needs a roof, and the builder buys those roofs in volume. A production builder's purchasing manager or construction manager sets the roofing trade partner for the community, usually when the community is priced, long before the first shingle goes on. Win that conversation and you roof the whole phase, house after house. Multifamily roofs run through the general contractor the same way. More on new construction.

Government roofing contracts

School districts, cities, counties, housing authorities, and fire districts all own roofs, and they replace them on a schedule. A procurement officer runs the bid, a facilities director usually shapes the scope, and school re-roofs tend to land in the summer when the buildings are empty. On a larger public project, the prime contractor picks the roofing sub. More on government work.

Residential re-roofs

The 22-year-old shingle roof on a well-kept house. The homeowner knows it is getting close, has not called anyone yet, and will hire whoever earns their trust first. Re-roofs, full replacements, and upgrades to metal or architectural shingles are high-margin work, and the homeowner awards every one of them. More on high-margin residential.

Who awards a roofing job, and when do they decide?

Why do roofing companies hear about the best jobs last?

Because roofing decisions get made quietly, long before anyone posts a bid or picks up the phone. A property manager puts a roof in next year's budget in September. A builder chooses a roofer for a new community at the pricing stage. A homeowner starts noticing granules in the gutters and asks the neighbors who did their roof. By the time that work is visible to everyone, three other roofers are already in the conversation.

Most roofing companies are built to respond: storm seasons, referrals, inbound calls. That keeps crews busy, but it leaves the company waiting on work instead of going to get it. The roofer who reaches the decision maker first, with a real reason to talk, gets the walk, the measurements, and the shot at the bid.

What does Bidli do for a roofing company?

1. It learns your roofing business. Your systems, your crews, your territory, the size of job you want, and the work you want more of, whether that is commercial tear-offs, builder roofs, or residential replacements.
2. It finds the roofs before they are on anyone's list. Bidli predicts which roofs in your territory are coming due, and it tracks the known-coming work: new communities breaking ground and commercial roofing bids opening. It runs on construction intelligence, so it is on those jobs before anyone else.
3. It finds the person who awards the roof. The property manager, the builder's purchasing manager, the procurement officer, the homeowner. Not a general inbox. The person who says yes.
4. It opens the conversation in your name. Written from your facts, in your voice, about that specific building or community.
5. It follows up for as long as it takes. A facility manager says the roof is in next year's budget. Next year, Bidli is back in touch, right on time.
6. It hands you the job, ready to bid. Scope, details, and who awards it, the minute it is ready. You price it. You win it.

The system behind Bidli has added multiple six figures to subcontractors' bottom lines.

Is Bidli a roofing lead service?

No. Bidli does not sell shared leads, and it is not a bid board or a plan room. A lead service sells the same homeowner to several roofers and lets them race each other on price. Bidli is built around one roofing company at a time and does that company's outreach, in its name only. It goes and gets the work, and every conversation it opens belongs to you. The full breakdown is in Bidli vs buying leads.