public-domain · cited inline · refreshed daily
Annual replacement at parity if you bought the equivalent tools and services separately. Custom-building this one feature alone would land in our Strategic build band ($200k–$500k). Source ladder + per-line citations on methodology .
Concretely, what you get
- NOAA SPC storm events archive (daily backfill, hourly recent).
- NOAA SPC mesoanalysis + radar (real-time stream).
- weather.gov forecast API (hourly).
- OEDI on AWS Open Data — solar / energy / building data (weekly snapshot).
- BLS NAICS 238160 employment + wages (monthly).
- Census Bureau industry profiles (annual).
- HUD program data (quarterly).
- Data.gov roofing-relevant datasets.
- County property records (per-county connectors).
- Manufacturer published pricing (GAF, Owens Corning, Malarkey, IKO, CertainTeed).
- Every row carries a source_id, source_url, ingested_at, methodology_note — for citation.
The shelf-of-tools this one offering removes
Categories, not brand names — pricing benchmarks observed from public pricing pages, agency proposals, and freelance rates current to the year. Every range is backed by a line-by-line worksheet you can audit once your trial is live.
| What you'd otherwise buy | Type | Typical price |
|---|---|---|
| A data-engineering team or BI license | Specialist | $30k–$100k/yr in seats + engineer time |
| A custom data pipeline build | Build | $200k–$500k |
What you'd pay elsewhere vs. what this costs you here
Vendor ranges observed from public pricing pages and agency proposals, current to the year. Full source worksheet shared with you once your trial is live.
What it adds to your business in dollars
The roofer never sees this as a line item, but it’s why the Content Engine is authoritative, the Pricing Engine is credible, and the Authority Hub becomes the dominant local source. Without it, every claim on your site is unfounded.
Three or four moves. Then you walk away.
You: Nothing.
System: The engine runs whether you touch it or not — and feeds every other module that needs it.
The outcomes this feature feeds into
Before you ask
Why does this matter to me?
Because every claim on your site that says "in this neighborhood, X happened Y times" is grounded in data anyone can verify. Google rewards that. Homeowners trust it. Competitors can’t fake it.
What if a data source changes its format?
New raw landing table version, old version stays queryable for reproducibility. The transform layer flexes; the curated tables maintain a stable schema for everything downstream.
How current is the data?
NOAA: hourly. weather.gov: hourly. BLS: monthly. Census: annual. Manufacturer pricing: monthly. County records: per-county cadence (most monthly, some weekly).
Can I cite this data in my own marketing outside the platform?
Yes — all sources are public-domain or open-license. The citation pattern (source organization + dataset name + version + range + URL) is part of every Content Hub output you can reuse.
Do you sell or share this aggregated data?
No. The data engine is for serving your business, not generating side-revenue. We don’t sell aggregations to industry-research firms or anyone else.
Tour ten public data sources cited automatically on every page.
Then sound like the authority in every conversation.
No credit card. No strings. We stand the whole platform up on a subdomain alongside your existing site so you can compare the numbers directly — leads, bookings, ticket size. The Standard guarantee covers cancellation between day 90 and day 180 at full refund.