Wegner Roofing and Construction is a family-owned roofing and insurance repair contractor built on the core values of integrity, honesty, and trust. Their goal on every job is to educate clients, advocate for their interests, and deliver workmanship that holds up. They work primarily on older homes, which means every job tends to surface conditions that need to be photographed, explained, and documented before any work gets covered up.
Riley Wegner manages projects for the company and has been using CompanyCam since early 2020. In that time, Wegner Roofing has created over 1,200 projects in the app, accumulated 72,000+ photos, and expanded their documented footprint across 35 zip codes.
The platform went from a photo organization tool to something woven into every part of how the business operates, from the first sales visit to the final insurance supplement. For a contractor competing in a market where poor documentation costs contractors hundreds of dollars per job, Riley knew that getting this right wasn’t optional.
The Problem: A CRM That Couldn’t Keep Up With the Photos
Before CompanyCam, Wegner Roofing was running their documentation through a CRM. The problem was that the CRM’s photo handling was inadequate for the volume and detail the business required. Photos were supposed to flow from the field into the right project folders, but in practice they ended up in the wrong places, got lost in email threads, or never made it out of the field at all.
The gaps in that process had real consequences:
- City inspectors requesting photos couldn’t get them quickly
- Insurance carriers needed documentation that took hours to assemble manually
- Subcontractors doing window and other specialty work had questions that required Riley to drive to the site
- Sales consultants needed to tag specific conditions in photos for follow-up work
- The media team couldn’t pull before-and-after content without manually sourcing photos from multiple locations
Every one of those problems traced back to the same root cause: photos that weren’t organized, accessible, or useful at the moment someone needed them.
72,000 Photos and the System That Keeps Them Organized
Since moving to CompanyCam, Wegner Roofing’s approach to documentation has flipped completely. Riley encourages his crew to take as many photos as possible on every job because CompanyCam provides unlimited storage and organizes everything automatically. The result is a library of over 72,000 photos across 1,200+ projects in 35 zip codes that anyone on the team can search, filter, and access in seconds.
The tag system is what makes that library actually useful at scale. Using tags and labels to stay organized means Riley’s crew can mark photos by condition type, work stage, or follow-up requirement the moment they’re taken. When a sales consultant needs to pull photos of a specific issue from a job that closed six months ago, the search takes seconds. When an insurance carrier asks for supplemental documentation, the photos are already tagged and ready to send. The organizational overhead that used to consume hours now happens automatically in the background.
Answering Subcontractor Questions Without Leaving the Office
One of the most direct time savings CompanyCam created for Riley is the elimination of unnecessary site visits. Wegner Roofing uses subcontractors for window work and other specialty installations. Before CompanyCam, when a subcontractor had a question on site, Riley often had to drive out to answer it in person.
Now the subcontractor takes a photo in CompanyCam, adds a note, and Riley looks at it from wherever he is. He can see exactly what they’re looking at, answer the question with a comment, and the sub is back to work without anyone losing time to a round trip.
“If they have a question that they can take a picture of, I can now answer it in the office without having to leave,” Riley said. “That alone pays for CoCam that month.” For a roofing operation trying to track construction job progress without driving to every site, that single use case covers the cost of the platform on its own.
How CompanyCam Runs Wegner Roofing’s Insurance Process
Insurance repair is documentation-intensive work. Carriers need annotated photos that clearly show damage, identify specific conditions, and support the scope of work being supplemented. Before CompanyCam, building that documentation was a manual process that required pulling photos from multiple sources, annotating them in separate tools, and assembling reports by hand.
Now the entire process lives in one place. Riley’s team uses photo annotation tools to mark up photos directly in CompanyCam, adding arrows, text, and circles that call out specific conditions for the carrier. Tags organize photos by damage type. Reports get generated and sent without anyone rebuilding the same document from scratch.
“It’s been extremely useful for supplementing with insurance carriers on behalf of our clients,” Riley said. The same documentation that protects against false damage claims on concrete driveways and cracked steps also accelerates the supplement process by giving carriers exactly what they need the first time they ask.
The Case for CompanyCam
Riley Wegner started using CompanyCam in early 2020. Four years later, the company has 1,200+ projects, 72,000+ photos, and a documented footprint that covers 35 zip codes. The platform runs the sales process, the production process, the insurance supplement process, and the company’s marketing content. “We started implementing CompanyCam into our sales process,” Riley said, “and now it’s basically integrated into all of our processes from sale to inspections, to project management and then our content manager.”
His recommendation for anyone still on the fence is as direct as it gets: “I’d recommend CompanyCam to everybody. In fact, I’d recommend CompanyCam to a wall.”
