EagleView measures the roof from the air.
Forge runs the work on the ground.
EagleView is the category leader in aerial-imagery measurement. Decades of flown and satellite imagery, a deep property-data archive, and measurement reports estimators have trusted for years. Forge isn't a measurement vendor. It's the operator OS the commercial installation contractor runs the whole job on, with Hyperion capturing ground-truth geometry in the field instead of buying a report.
Side by side. Honest about both.
Not Forge's archive. Forge reads an aerial-imagery report for sites Hyperion can't safely access; the in-field scan is the primary capture, the report is the fallback.
Industry-leading. A deep archive of flown and satellite imagery with property intelligence across most of the U.S. — coverage no in-field tool can match for properties you can't reach.
Yes. Hyperion — iPad/iPhone LiDAR. Walk the structure, get a line-item estimate from the geometry the roof actually has today. Methodology + sample plan published at /proof/hyperion-accuracy (graduates to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification).
Not in scope. Measurement is from aerial and satellite imagery, not an in-field capture device.
Operator OS. Estimating, scheduling, CRM, documents, Treasury (coming soon), embedded comms, field ops, and Hyperion in one chest.
Measurement and property-data reports. EagleView produces the report; the estimate, schedule, payroll, and project record live in your other tools.
Treasury (coming soon). Davis-Bacon rates per project, prevailing wage per worker per task, WH-347 designed to be ready to file.
Out of scope. EagleView is a measurement provider, not a payroll or compliance system.
Field-initiated. Scan delta → change-order → customer signs from the truck → Treasury (coming soon) will write the financial impact. PM sees the signed change-order in the project log.
Out of scope. A measurement report is a one-time input, not a workflow that tracks change-orders across the job.
Documents native. Submittal packages, as-builts, commissioning records version-controlled and attached to the project.
Out of scope. EagleView delivers a measurement report; downstream documentation lives elsewhere.
One architecture. Estimating, dispatch, change-orders, payroll, documents, and Hyperion share state because they share an architecture, not because of a nightly integration.
A measurement input. EagleView reports integrate into many contractor tools by design — federation across the full job is not what it sets out to do.
Public list: Forge Core $599/mo flat (unlimited users, no per-seat) plus a la carte modules, packaged as Starter $349, the Working Stack about $900, and Full Platform about $1,999. Founding Charter is the founder program by application: roughly half off the modular stack you need, from $299/mo (MSRP $599), locked for the life of the subscription, ten seats (one claimed).
Per-report and subscription pricing for measurement products. A different cost model — you pay per measurement, not for an operating system.
Where EagleView is the right call.
- 01.Operators who need measurement on a property nobody can safely walk — steep, tall, hazardous, or remote roofs where aerial imagery is genuinely the better source.
- 02.High-volume residential estimating where a fast, repeatable aerial report per address beats sending a person to every site.
- 03.Insurance, restoration, and roofing workflows already built around EagleView reports and the integrations that consume them.
- 04.Teams that want a measurement vendor feeding their existing stack, not a platform to replace it — EagleView's coverage archive is deeper than any in-field tool's reach.
- 05.Anyone whose only unmet need is a measurement number. Forge is a whole operating system; if you just want the report, that's a heavier buy than you need.
The honest line.
If the only need is an accurate measurement of a roof — especially one nobody can safely walk — EagleView is the right tool, and a per-report measurement vendor is a far lighter buy than an operating system. Forge is built for the commercial installation contractor who wants the measurement, the estimate, the payroll, the change-orders, and the project record on one chest — with Hyperion capturing ground-truth in the field rather than buying it from the air.
A measurement is one input. The work is everything after it. Pick the chest built for the work.