Storm Response Engine, by Ninth Degree
What the engine does, what it costs, and what you own.
Every hail season it is the same race. Out-of-state crews flood the neighborhood, homeowners google "hail damage repair near me," and the jobs go to whoever shows up first. You already pay for hail maps. You already knock doors. What you do not have is marketing that reacts to the storm as fast as you do. That is what we build, on your website, under your brand, with your phone number. Every lead it produces is yours.
The plan
Three steps
- 1Book a walkthrough.
- 2We build it on your website, your brand and number, and you approve the template and the voice.
- 3The next storm hits: your post is live within 24 hours and your crew gets the text.
What the engine does
- A post on your website within 24 hours of every storm in your service area, written for what your neighbors are searching that week: the date, the location, the verified hail size, what a homeowner should do next, and your number. This is the one it built for August 26, 2026 in Castle Pines. Every storm gets its own post, and they all live in one running record.
- At least four posts a month, every month, storm or no storm. One is your area's storm recap, built from the engine's own data. The rest are seasonal guides and checklists for your trade: hail-season prep, claim windows, "does insurance cover this," what to do in the first 24 hours. Real local depth, not a town name swapped into a template.
- A text to your crew the moment the pages go live. What hit, where, how big. Your canvassers roll out with the marketing already working.
- Your Google Business Profile and Facebook, posted for you, every event.
- Call tracking on everything, so you can see which jobs the engine produced. Proof, not promises.
What the alert looks like
Colorado Storms: hail 1.25 in verified near Castle Pines, Aug 26, 2026. Your post is live: coloradostorms.com/storm-reports/2026-08-26-hail-castle-pines.html. Go knock. Reply STOP to opt out.
The text your crew gets, built from the real August 26, 2026 report. On your engine it carries your name and your domain.
Who says go
Within 24 hours of the storm, the page is written, checked by a person, and ready. You choose how it goes live: on its own, with a text to you the moment it is up, or held until you reply GO. Either way, nothing goes on your site in a format you have not seen. You approve the template and the voice during setup, and if you ever want a page changed or taken down, say so and it happens.
See it with your name on it
The sample post is a real Castle Pines storm, written the way it reads on a contractor's site, under a made-up company name. Yours carries your name, your number, and your ZIP codes.
Nothing you type is stored or sent. It only changes what you see on the sample.
Or read the sample post as it is
Who owns what
Your domain, your content, your customer list. That is true from day one, and it stays true if we ever part ways. We do not sell your leads, we do not share them with anyone, and we do not hold your site hostage. This is not a lease.
Only one of you gets this
We run one engine per trade per territory. If we build this for you, your competitor in the same trade does not get one there. That is the whole point.
Why speed matters
78% of homeowners hire the first contractor who responds.
Thumbtack Pro figures, as reported in the WebFX and Phonexa lead-generation guides (undated, read August 31, 2026).
Storm leads are worth the most in the first 5 to 10 days after the event, before homeowners sign with whoever reached them first.
PipelineOn, storm response marketing for contractors (undated, read August 31, 2026).
An exclusive roofing lead runs $150 to $300. Water damage, $150 to $400 and up.
33 Mile Radius published pricing, 2026.
19 verified storm reports across 10 communities, published by this site's own engine as of October 5, 2026.
This site's own record. See every report
Trades and territories
We run this for roofing, water damage restoration, gutters and siding, tree service, fence and deck, auto hail repair, and emergency plumbing and waterproofing. One contractor per trade per territory.
The engine reads every severe report the Storm Prediction Center logs for Colorado, all 64 counties. The demo writes posts for ten south Denver metro communities: Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock, Parker, Lone Tree, Castle Pines, The Pinery, Roxborough and Sterling Ranch, south Douglas County, Littleton, and Centennial. Your engine writes them for the communities you name, anywhere in Colorado. As of October 5, 2026, no south Denver metro territory has a contractor signed in any trade. The first to sign in each takes it.
There are eight territories. South Metro is the one this site runs on, so every post it has written is here to read. The other seven are built when the first contractor in a trade signs, and their communities are confirmed with that contractor. For anywhere else in Colorado, ask us.
| Territory | Status | Communities |
|---|---|---|
| South Metro | Live on this site | Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, The Pinery & Franktown, Roxborough & Sterling Ranch, South Douglas County, Littleton, Centennial |
| Denver | Open | The City and County of Denver |
| East Metro | Open | Aurora, Greenwood Village, Englewood, Cherry Hills Village |
| West Metro | Open | Lakewood, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Golden, Ken Caryl |
| North Metro | Open | Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Commerce City, Brighton, Broomfield |
| Boulder County | Open | Boulder, Longmont, Louisville, Lafayette, Superior |
| Northern Colorado | Open | Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor |
| Pikes Peak | Open | Colorado Springs, Monument, Fountain |
Each territory takes one contractor per trade. Open means no contractor in that trade has signed there.
| Territory | Roofing | Water damage restoration | Gutters and siding | Tree service | Fence and deck | Auto hail repair | Emergency plumbing and waterproofing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Metro | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Denver | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| East Metro | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| West Metro | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| North Metro | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Boulder County | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Northern Colorado | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Pikes Peak | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open | Open |
Investment
- One-time build: $3,000
- Operation: $1,000 a month, flat. Cancel-anytime terms are in the agreement.
- Founding client: one contractor per trade in the south Denver metro gets founding pricing in exchange for a case study. That slot goes to whoever moves first.
More than one trade: $300 a month per additional trade, plus a one-time $1,000 build for that trade's pages. More than one territory: $1,000 a month per additional territory. A territory is an exclusive slot, so a second one costs what the first does.
Compare it to what you already spend per lead. We will not tell you how many leads to expect; nobody honest can. The call tracking tells you, month by month.
Questions contractors ask
I already buy leads from 33 Mile Radius or Angi.
That makes sense; plenty of contractors run both. The difference is what happens after the lead. With a lead vendor you pay per lead or per call, and if you stop paying, the pipeline stops too. This builds an asset on your own domain. The pages, the traffic, and every lead stay yours whether we are still working together or not. It runs alongside what you already do and keeps paying off in the months between purchases.
I already have HailTrace.
Good. HailTrace is a solid way to know where and how big a storm hit, and this does not replace it. What HailTrace does not do is turn that data into a public page, a Google Business Profile post, and a homeowner-facing case for calling you instead of the next roofer. HailTrace tells you where the storm was. This tells the neighborhood you already know and you are already there.
I get my work from adjusters and referrals. I do not need marketing.
That is a real, durable channel, and we are not suggesting you drop it. This is for the calls that come in outside that relationship: the homeowner who googles "water damage near me" at 11 pm before they have called their insurance company. If your adjuster pipeline is full, this may not be worth $1,000 a month to you right now, and that is a fair place to land.
SEO takes months to work. Why pay for this now?
You are right that ranking a page for a crowded search like "roofer near me" usually takes months, and we will not tell you otherwise. A storm post is a different kind of page, and here is why it does not have to wait. Google says it weighs two things heavily for a search about something that just happened: how fresh the page is, and how closely it matches the words typed. The night hail hits Castle Pines, people search for that town, that date, and that storm. Almost nothing on the internet answers them yet, because the storm is hours old. A post on your website that names the town, the date, and the verified hail size, published the next day, is about as fresh and as close a match as a page can be. That is what Google is looking for, and it does not need years of history to see it. We cannot promise where any page lands, and nobody honestly can. What we can tell you is that these posts are built for exactly the kind of search where a new page has a fair shot. The four posts a month play the long game. The storm posts are useful immediately, to homeowners searching that week and to your own crew deciding where to knock.
Can you guarantee leads?
No, and we would not want to work with anyone who tells you they can. What we can promise is the system: pages live within a day of a real storm, an alert to your phone, and call tracking on everything so you can see for yourself what it is producing. The proof comes from the tracking data, not from a number we make up in advance.
Why not just run Google ads?
Ads work, and plenty of contractors run them alongside something like this. The difference is what is left when you stop paying. Turn off ad spend and the traffic stops the same day. These pages stay live after they are published, on your own domain rather than a rented ad slot. A fair complement to ads, not a substitute for either one on its own.
What happens if I cancel?
Everything stays yours. The domain, the pages already published, your leads and your customer list. You are not locked into a contract that holds your site hostage; cancel-anytime terms are in the agreement. The one thing that stops is the ongoing work: new storm posts stop publishing once we are not running the engine for you.
Who is behind it
Ninth Degree builds marketing systems run by automation and watched by a human, so your engine reacts to a 10 pm hailstorm without waiting for an agency to open at 9 am. Based in Denver. We watch the same skies you do.
Gabe Anderson, Ninth Degree
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Thirty minutes on a screen share, and most take fifteen: the engine running live, and the page it built for the last storm that hit your ZIP codes.