Leap has signed an agreement with Verisk, the company behind Xactimate®, the estimating platform insurance carriers use to price property damage claims, including hail and wind damage to residential roofs. The integration between Leap and Xactimate is in active development and is scheduled to ship in winter 2026.
If you run insurance roofing work, this closes the gap between the scope a carrier sends you and the contract your customer signs at the kitchen table.
What This Means for Contractors
Leap is building a direct Xactimate integration into the Leap platform, so contractors can move estimate data between Leap and Xactimate instead of rebuilding the same job twice.
Development for the integration is underway, with a target release of winter 2026, and contractors on Leap won’t need to change how they work in the meantime.
“Contractors have been asking us for Xactimate for a long time,” said Patrick Fingles, CEO of Leap. “We signed with Verisk because the market is pulling roofers into insurance work whether they planned for it or not, and they need one place to build the estimate, the scope, and the contract. We are building the version of this integration our customers actually described to us.”
Three Moments This Integration Fixes
1. When a Retail Estimate Turns Into a Claim
A roofer inspects a roof for a homeowner who never filed a claim. The contractor measures the roof, orders the aerial report, builds a $27,000 retail estimate, and then realizes the damage would likely qualify for insurance.
Today that means keying the job in twice, once in Leap and again for Xactimate. With the integration, the contractor creates the Xactimate assignment straight from the job in Leap, can send photos and documents along with it, and gets the finished estimate back in the same place.
2. When the Carrier Sends the Scope First
A homeowner in a hail market calls the carrier first and has a scope in hand before they call a roofer. The scope is usually reasonable, and the contractor wants to run with it and get the roof replaced.
The problem is that a scope cannot be signed. It is not a contract. It carries no deposit terms, no color selections, no company branding. So the contractor rebuilds the whole thing by hand to produce an estimate and a work order.
With the integration, the contractor pulls the Xactimate estimate into Leap and builds a signable contract off it. The carrier’s priced line items come straight across, plus the deposit, the selections, and the branding.
3. When a Supplement Has to Hold Up
Supplements come down to whether the contractor can show the carrier itemized pricing that holds up. Leap already carries line item pricing data on the estimating side. Building the supplement on that data, and sending the supporting documents straight to the Xactimate assignment, gives contractors a documented position when they counter a scope.
The Line Between Retail and Insurance Roofing Is Gone
Storm severity is up, and storm patterns are less predictable. An area can get hit hard one year and stay quiet the next.
That’s changed how roofing companies operate. Many insurance-focused companies have started to focus on retail between events, since roofs still need replacing whether or not a storm just hit. Retail companies are running into storm damage on jobs they priced as cash sales, so they’re learning claims. The clean line between insurance roofing and retail roofing is gone, and a roofer who can only run one side of the business is limited by weather.
Leap is built to run both sides in one platform. Retail estimating, financing at the kitchen table, and contracts, alongside the insurance claim work this integration supports.
See What’s Coming
Contractors who want the integration on day one can tell us now, and we will reach out when it goes live. Book the demo.
Common Questions
Leap has teamed up with Verisk, the owner of Xactimate, and the integration is in development with a target release of winter 2026.
Leap supports both insurance and retail residential roofing. Contractors use Leap to estimate, contract, finance, and manage jobs on either side of the business, and the Xactimate integration extends the insurance side.
Yes. Xactimate remains a Verisk product with its own licensing. The integration connects Leap to the Xactimate account you already hold.
It will connect Leap and Xactimate in both directions. Contractors can create Xactimate assignments from a Leap job with photos and documents attached, bring finished estimates back into Leap with priced line items, and use that data to build signable contracts and supplements.
Yes. Contractors run claim work in Leap today, building estimates, supplements, and contracts. The integration removes the manual step of re-entering data between systems.
Verisk is a data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry and the developer of Xactimate, the property claims estimating software Leap will integrate with.
Xactimate is a registered trademark of Xactware Solutions, Inc
