Praxis EaveDrop
Praxis EaveDrop, a Praxion product, does two things. AR measurements: the job is measured on site with a phone — walk-around photos and video tagged to the side they show, a camera tape and a height check — and the 3D model can be viewed in AR on the phone, on site. VR reports: the result is an interactive 3D virtual report of the job, with measurements and photos by side, made for management, the install department and the customer to walk through. The live quote is priced from the same numbers, from your approved sheet in Praxion builds. Built for roofing, siding, soffit & fascia and trim, with windows and doors photographed on the same walk-around for the estimator. Available on its own, and included in full-service Praxion builds.
The measuring is done before the appointment starts
Praxis EaveDrop measures the job from the address — roof edges, soffit, fascia and trim runs, wall height and stories — breaks it down by side and story, and hands it to the estimator. Roof planes, pitch and squares are in every report where the address has 3D roof coverage; wall area by side is gross until windows and doors are counted. The rep walks in prepared, and the quote, drawing and paperwork all start from the same numbers.
- Roof edges, soffit, fascia and trim runs measured and broken down per side
- Feeds the estimator automatically
- Draws the job diagram from the same measurement
- AR measurements with the phone: photos tagged by side, tape a run with the camera, check the wall height with the tilt sensor, see the house in AR at real size
- A VR report of the job: the 3D model with each side’s measurements and photos, made for management, install and the customer
- Designed to be checked against completed installs when a company connects its own records
Measure on site with the phone, hold it up against the house, then price the quote
The 3D model is built from the same measurement the report is built from, so the house in AR, the numbers on it and the price all agree.
The house in AR, at real size
Tap AR / 3D and the measured house stands in the driveway next to the real one, in the colors the walk-around photos show, with each side’s measurements on it. Opens in the AR viewer already on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Measure with the phone
Walk-around photos and video are stamped with the phone’s compass, tilt and location, so each lands on the side it shows. Tape a run with the camera, corner by corner (Android), and check the wall height with the tilt sensor from a few paces back. Each sits next to Praxis EaveDrop’s number for that side.
Measured from the model
Each run, corner, roof plane and wall face comes off the model as a quantity, ready for the estimator and the job drawings in a Praxion build. Pick only the parts the customer wants and the quote follows.
A virtual report management, install and the customer can walk through
The VR report is the job in 3D: the model, every side’s lengths and story, wall heights, roof pitch, the photos of each side and the checks behind each number. Walk around it in any browser; on a VR headset whose browser supports it, an Open in VR headset button puts you inside the model.
- Management: review and approve the measured job with its accuracy grade and checks
- Install department: crew prep from lengths per side, heights, roof pitch and the photos of each side
- Customers: their own home’s measurements and what is being installed, in a Customer view that hides costs and internal checks
In Praxion builds the report opens in the rep’s account and the customer gets a private link with the quote and the drawing. View-only report links for management, install departments and customers are being added.
As many sources as we can get, fused by trust
Every source votes on what it knows — outline, wall height, pitch, a run’s length — weighted by how much it can be trusted. The report says, per side, how many sources agreed and which one disagrees.
Live today in every report: a high-resolution aerial 3D surface model, open map building footprints, point elevation and an address-pin check, with public lidar flown on a different date as an optional second opinion. In Pro and Praxion builds: an independent roof model, street-level imagery from three angles, the walk-around photos and video, the phone’s compass, tilt and AR tape, and the 3D model held up in AR.
Ready to connect: public lidar point clouds, public building-footprint datasets, parcel and assessor data, county open data, licensed aerial and listing imagery, phone LiDAR depth scans and walk-around photogrammetry — switched on per customer, once configured.
Built to connect to the CRM you already run
Praxis EaveDrop is built to live inside the customer’s card, not in another tab.
Your existing CRM Praxion builds
Once configured, the measurement can fill the estimator, the quote lines and the job drawings.
Any CRM, by API In development
Address in; measurements by side and story, the report and its accuracy grade out, written into the CRM’s own fields.
No API? Still connectable In development
A browser connector is being built to work with the CRM’s own pages the way a rep would, so a CRM without an API still gets the measurement on the record. What gets written is agreed up front.
One measurement for every exterior scope
Roofing, soffit & fascia, trim, stories and wall height are measured from the same 3D model today where the address has 3D roof coverage, with the report set up for the scope each company quotes.
- Soffit & fascia
- Trim & corners
- Stories & wall height
- Roofing: squares, pitch, facets
- Siding wall area (gross)
- Net of windows & doors
- Windows & doors
- Custom scopes
Put AR measurements and VR reports at the start of every job
Praxis EaveDrop is available on its own, included in full-service Praxion builds, and can be tailored to and connected with any CRM.