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Front Range hail intel · For contractors only

Tomorrow's hail forecast,
in your inbox by 5am.

Colorado is the hail capital of the United States — over $5B in damage every year. HailHerald is a one-paragraph email that tells you which of your job sites are at risk today. No app. No dashboard. Just the email.

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  • NWS-grade data — Storm Prediction Center, in plain English
  • Built for crews — go/no-go per zip, no meteorology degree required
  • Anti-SaaS — no logins, no dashboard, just the morning brief

Built for the people who actually work outside on the Front Range:

Front Range hail is a five-figure problem disguised as a weather problem.

$14k

"Lost it last May tarping a job that didn't get hit while we missed a storm two zip codes over."

— r/Roofing
$80/mo

"Paying for a radar app nobody on the crew actually opens."

— Front Range Contractors Facebook group
11am

"By the time I see the SPC map, my crew has already started the wrong job."

— r/Denver hail-season megathread
3 counties

"After every storm I'm driving three counties looking for damaged neighborhoods to canvass."

— r/Roofing

How HailHerald reads the sky for you.

  1. 1

    Pull the SPC outlook

    The same Day-1 convective outlook your local meteorologist watches — refreshed every few hours by NOAA.

  2. 2

    Map it to your zips

    We check the convective probability polygon over each of the up-to-five zip codes you work in.

  3. 3

    Translate to plain English

    Gemini turns "MRGL Slight Risk · 15% hail" into "tarps ready for South Boulder by lunch, Castle Rock crew is fine."

  4. 4

    Send the email at 5am

    One short brief in your inbox before the crew leaves the yard. No app, no login, no friction.

Free instant outlook

Type a Colorado zip. Get today's brief in 5 seconds.

Same data, same plain-English style as the paid email — yours to try, no email required.

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Try Boulder (80303), Castle Rock (80104), Fort Collins (80525), or Colorado Springs (80906).

$ hailherald 80104

CASTLE ROCK · TODAY
Risk: HIGH (Enhanced)
Hail prob: 30%   Wind: 15%   Tornado: 2%

SPC has placed Castle Rock in an Enhanced
Risk for severe weather this afternoon. Hail
probability stands out — peak window 3–7pm
as supercells fire off the Palmer Divide.

DECISION: Pull roofing crews by 1pm. Stage
tarps and ground crew for canvass. Move
trucks under cover at the shop.

Priced like a tool, not like a SaaS dashboard.

Free during the off-season. The paid tiers exist because hail season is a four-month sprint where being right two days out of five pays for itself.

Free Watch

$0/mo

  • 1 zip code
  • Weekly outlook email
  • Free instant tool access
Sign up free

Pro

$12/mo

Most popular
  • 5 zip codes
  • Daily 5am email (Apr–Aug)
  • Plain-English go/no-go per site
  • Intra-day SMS upgrade alerts
  • 30-day hail history
Start Pro

Crew

$39/mo

  • Unlimited zips / job sites
  • Everything in Pro
  • After-storm canvass map within 30min
  • Hail-swath polygons (street level)
  • 3 crew members on the email
  • CSV export for insurance claims
Start Crew

Questions a Front Range contractor would actually ask.

Why an email instead of a dashboard or app?

Because the foreman already opens his email at 5am. The product everyone uses beats the product with more features. We'll never make you log into a dashboard to find out if it's hailing today.

What's the data source?

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center Day-1 categorical and probabilistic outlooks. Same data your local TV meteorologist uses — we just translate it into plain English for outdoor crews and map it to your zip codes.

How accurate is the after-storm canvass map?

The Crew tier uses NWS Local Storm Reports plus radar-derived MESH (Maximum Estimated Size of Hail) polygons. Within 30 minutes of impact you get a street-level map of which neighborhoods got hit. Roofers tell us this single feature pays for the year.

What if you're wrong?

We frame every brief as decision support, not a prediction. If we get it badly wrong on a Crew-tier day during hail season, we'll credit you a month — write to hello@majorsolutions.studio and we'll handle it.

Can I add my whole crew?

Pro is a single email. Crew adds two more crew members on the email distribution. Unlimited seats are coming in V2.

Is this only Colorado?

Yes — the Front Range right now (Pueblo to Cheyenne). The model works everywhere, and Texas / Oklahoma / Nebraska are the obvious next zones, but we want to be excellent on the Front Range first.