A hail photo is evidence. Evidence is worth what’s attached to it.
CompanyCam stores the picture beautifully and knows nothing about the storm that caused it. HailMate takes the same photo — annotated, checklisted, in a branded report — onto a job that already carries the storm date, the estimated stone size and the swath, from $79/mo with the whole CRM included.
One state, one user, everything included · $79/mo, cancel anytime
The strongest thing in a hail file isn’t the photo. It’s the photo plus the radar.
A close-up of a bruised shingle is a photograph of a bruised shingle. What turns it into a claim is everything around it: the date, the estimated stone size, the swath that crossed that street, and a ground report from someone who measured a stone two miles away. An adjuster looking at a photo with none of that attached is being asked to take your word for it.
CompanyCam cannot supply any of that, and does not claim to — it is a photo product, and a very good one. But it means the documentation lives in one system and the storm evidence lives in another, usually a hail map subscription running alongside, and the two are joined by whatever somebody typed into a date field.
HailMate starts at the storm. Three years of Evidence Grade™ hail and damaging-wind swaths across your territory, street by street. The canvasser knocks from that map, the pin becomes a job carrying the storm date and estimated stone size, and every photo taken afterwards lands on that job — annotated on the spot, captured against a carrier checklist, and ready to go out as a branded report with the radar already beside it.
Photos land on a job that knows the storm
Storm date, estimated stone size and nearby ground reports are on the record before the first photo is taken, so the documentation arrives with its context attached.
The same photo workflow you are used to
In-app capture, arrows and circles on the damage, before-and-after sets, unlimited storage organised by job, and one-tap branded PDF reports for the homeowner or the adjuster.
Carrier photo checklists
Insufficient documentation is the most common reason a good hail claim pays badly. Checklists customised per carrier mean the crew on the roof captures the shots that carrier asks for.
And the canvassing that found the roof
GPS knock tracking and rep territories on the hail map itself — the step before the photo, which no photo app has.
How HailMate compares to CompanyCam
CompanyCam’s video capture, LiDAR room measurement and integration marketplace are all genuinely better. If those are must-haves, it is a fine photo tool and this comparison is not for you.
Why crews leave CompanyCam
These aren't our opinions — they're the complaints CompanyCam users repeat in public reviews, and how HailMate was built to answer them.
The photo that proves the hail isn’t attached to the hail
CompanyCam has no storm data. The documentation is in one product, the swath and the storm date are in a hail map subscription next to it, and the claim is in a CRM behind both — joined by a hand-typed date and an integration.
In HailMate the storm comes first. The job carries the storm date, the estimated stone size and the swath before the photo is taken, so the report that reaches the adjuster carries its own evidence.
CRM money for a photo app — and you still need the CRM
CompanyCam runs $63/mo for one user, $129/mo (Crew) and $199/mo (Scale) for three, billed annually, then $29 per additional user. That is real CRM money for documentation alone, and every job still has to live in AccuLynx, JobNimbus or a spreadsheet beside it.
HailMate starts at $79/mo flat for one user and one state — and that is the whole platform: hail maps, canvassing, photos, estimates, e-sign, claims and invoicing. Three users and three states is $149/mo, still less than CompanyCam charges for photos alone.
Per-user fees punish you for staffing up
Past the included seats every canvasser, sub or office hire adds $29/mo. A ten-person crew on Crew is about $332/mo for photos. Hire five more knockers for storm season and the photo bill alone jumps another $145.
HailMate Team is $299/mo flat for up to ten users with everything included, and Company is $499 for twenty. The ladder climbs on territory, not headcount.
Photos live in a silo, the claim lives somewhere else
CompanyCam’s photos reach your CRM through an integration — one more sync to configure and one more place for a job’s documentation to go missing when it hiccups.
In HailMate there is no sync. The annotated hail photo, the carrier checklist, the extracted scope, the supplement and the invoice are all on one job record.
Five things to work out before you add a fourth subscription
Most crews buying a photo app already own three products. This is about whether you need a fourth or a different one.
Check what your current platform already does with photos
Most modern roofing platforms now include checklist capture, annotation, stamps and branded reports. Photo apps were essential when CRMs handled photos badly, and several no longer do. Before adding a bill, open the one you have and try to build a branded inspection report from a job’s photos.
Ask what the photo is attached to
For a retail job, not much rides on this. For a hail claim it decides how much work the file does on its own: a photo on a job that carries the storm date, the estimated stone size and the swath argues for itself; a photo in a gallery needs a person to argue for it.
Price it at your storm-season headcount
Per-user photo pricing compounds with exactly the hiring a storm forces. Work it out at the headcount you will have three weeks after a storm, not the one you have today, and remember the CRM is a separate bill on that side.
Find out whose checklist you are shooting against
Generic checklists you build yourself are better than nothing and worse than one written for the carrier who is actually going to review the file. Ask which carriers are covered and what happens when one changes what it wants.
Test the capture with no signal, on a roof
Photo apps are the thing most likely to be used in the worst connectivity you have. Take twenty photos in airplane mode, annotate three, then reconnect and check that all twenty arrive with their annotations intact.
What each one actually charges
Every figure below is one the vendor publishes on its own site, read in September 2026. Where a vendor publishes nothing we say “quote only” rather than guessing — prices move, so check the source link before you sign anything.
HailMate
$79–$499/moFlat per company. $79/mo one state and one user, $149/mo three states and up to three users, $299/mo nationwide and up to ten, $499/mo nationwide with twenty included and $20/user/mo beyond that. Photos, hail maps, canvassing and the full CRM on every rung — the photo workflow is not a tier.
Source: hailmate.ai/pricingCompanyCam
$63–$199/moCore $63/mo for one user, Crew $129/mo for three, Scale $199/mo for three, all billed annually, with extra users at +$29/user/mo. Monthly billing is roughly 20% higher. A ten-person crew on Crew is about $332/mo — for photo documentation alone, next to whatever runs the jobs.
Source: companycam.com/pricingAccuLynx
$250/mo and upThe kind of CRM a CompanyCam crew still pays for alongside it. Essential is vendor-confirmed at $250/mo. Pro and Elite are quote-only and priced per seat. E-signature, the homeowner portal, text messaging and the canvassing connector are separately priced add-ons with no published rates. The terms auto-renew annually despite "cancel anytime" marketing. Verisk agreed to acquire AccuLynx in 2025 and terminated the deal on 29 December 2025; AccuLynx has publicly disputed the termination.
Source: acculynx.com/pricingHail Recon (Interactive Hail Maps)
$999–$1,999/yrAnd the hail map, because neither a photo app nor a traditional CRM carries one. $999/yr for a single state, $1,499/yr for three states and $1,999/yr nationwide, payable up front or split into instalments. Bulk homeowner contact data is a separate $799/yr per state. Regions are defined as a 125-mile radius around named cities. Billing is annual only.
Source: interactivehailmaps.com/pricing-pageWhere HailMate pulls ahead
The storm the photo is about
Three years of NOAA radar hail and damaging wind at street level. The job carries the storm date and estimated stone size before anybody climbs a ladder, so the documentation arrives with its context.
Photos that fight the claim
CompanyCam stores your documentation; here it is used. Carrier-specific photo checklists keep claims from stalling on missing shots, and one tap turns a job’s photos into a branded report.
One bill instead of three
CompanyCam plus a roofing CRM plus a hail map runs past $400–$600/mo for a small crew across three contracts. HailMate replaces all three at one published flat price.
And the CRM the photos were always going to need
CompanyCam is a photo product and does not pretend otherwise, so every crew using it is also paying for a CRM — and, if they work storms, a hail map on top of that. Three contracts and two sync boundaries for one job.
HailMate’s photo workflow sits inside a full roofing CRM, on every plan, never sold separately. Starter, Crew, Team and Company carry this same list; territory, seats and price are the only differences.
Run the job
- Jobs and pipeline stages built for a claim, not a generic sales funnel
- Contacts, tasks and appointments
- Photos and files on the job, with capture, stamps and branded reports
- An activity trail on every record
- Works offline — knocks, notes and photos queue and sync when signal returns
Get paid
- Estimates and proposals
- Invoices and card or ACH payments through Stripe
- Job costing and commissions
- Material orders with ABC Supply live pricing
- QuickBooks sync
Work the claim
- Carrier scope extraction — the adjuster’s PDF read and its line items pulled out
- Supplement tracking with dollar amounts and ages, so the quiet ones surface
- Insurance and mortgage check tracking through to deposit
- Roof measurements — EagleView and Hover ordering, plus instant satellite
- E-signature on the contingency agreement and every document after it
Talk to people
- A real phone number per rep — calls, texts and voicemail
- Per-rep email threads on the job record
- A homeowner portal that shows the job’s progress without a phone call
- Storm alerts and a daily morning hail digest for your territory
- Notifications that follow the job, not the inbox
Every plan gets this same list. Starter, Crew, Team and Company differ on territory, seats and price — nothing else. There is no tier where the maps arrive without the CRM, or the CRM without the maps, because the whole argument is that they are one product.
What you actually pay
HailMate
One user, one state — the whole platform with photos in it. $149 for three users and three states, $299 for ten users nationwide, $499 for twenty.
See all four plansCompanyCam
Core, Crew and Scale, billed annually, plus $29/mo per extra user. Photos only — the CRM is a second bill, and the hail map is a third.
The short version
- Storm restoration, paying for photos and a CRM and a map? HailMate. The documentation, the claim and the radar that justifies it are one record at one published price.
- Your CRM handles photos badly and you like it otherwise? CompanyCam is very good at the one thing it does, and adding it is a reasonable answer. Price it at your storm-season headcount first.
- Need video capture or LiDAR room measurement? CompanyCam. We do not offer either, and its integration marketplace is broader too.
- Just want branded inspection reports? Check what you already own before buying anything — most modern roofing platforms, ours included, build them from a job’s photos in one tap.
CompanyCam, answered
It depends what you are replacing. If you only want cheaper photo documentation, there are lighter photo apps. But most roofing crews using CompanyCam are paying for two or three products — the photo app, a CRM, and for storm crews a hail map subscription. HailMate replaces all of them: unlimited photo and document storage organised by job, annotation, before-and-after sets, carrier-specific photo checklists and one-tap branded reports, inside a CRM that runs the claim from the door-knock to the deposited check, on a map with three years of hail already on it.
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Territories on top of live hail swaths, no seat minimum and a published price — instead of a quote-only field-sales tool that hands the deal to a CRM.
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