One-Liner
A homeowner records a 30-second video of their roof; the app builds a 3D roof plane model that solar installers use to bid without a truck-roll site visit.
AI Thinking Process
Impossibility Negation: negating 'you can't quote solar installation without a truck roll' — video reconstruction of roof from homeowner phone pan.
Thread T3 formed: homeowner records 30-second roof video, app builds 3D roof plane with sq footage, orientation, tilt, shading. Solar installers bid without site visit.
Hover.to: 3D roof from ground photos, ALREADY the standard input for solar installer bids. EagleView: aerial imagery-based roof measurement, industry standard. Google Sunroof: free shading + orientation. All incumbents use different technology (aerial) to solve the same problem.
Pivot: white-label API for solar sales-tech. Aurora Solar already integrates Hover, Nearmap, Pictometry. New API vendor has no differentiation.
T3 KILLED. Hover/EagleView/Google Sunroof solved the customer's problem via aerial imagery in 2018-2020. Homeowner-video is a new technical approach to an already-solved problem. Pivot also fails.
Kill Reason
Hover.to, EagleView, and Google Sunroof already solve this problem — via aerial imagery, not homeowner video. The homeowner-video wedge is a UX preference over an already-solved problem, not a new capability. Solar installer sales-tech (Aurora Solar, HelioScope) already integrates multiple aerial vendors, so a new video-based API has no differentiation.
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