RHS Center Becoming the institutional standard for roof condition in property insurance
For Insurers

Price the variable you have been guessing at.

Property insurance has standardized nearly every input to risk — credit, valuation, building code — except the one that drives the most claim severity. The RH Score gives underwriting, renewal, and claims an independent, address-anchored roof condition signal.

The Gap

Roof age was never a condition signal.

Age is a proxy, and a weak one. Two roofs of identical age can differ by years of remaining life depending on climate exposure, material, and wear. Underwriting on age alone systematically misprices both ends of the book.

#1
Driver of homeowners insurance claim severity in most North American markets.
Property insurance industry data
~1/3
Of underwriting decisions misclassified when roof age is the dominant variable.
Industry modeling estimates
Age ≠ life
Identical roof ages routinely carry materially different remaining life once exposure is accounted for.
RHS Center methodology
The Policy Lifecycle

One signal, pulled across the whole policy.

The RH Score is designed to live inside the systems you already operate — pulled at the points where roof condition actually changes a decision.

01 — QUOTE & UNDERWRITING

Price on condition, not age

Pull an RH Score at quote and underwrite roof risk on an independent condition signal. Decline, surcharge, or credit on evidence rather than a date on a roof.

02 — BIND

Document a baseline

Anchor the policy to a recorded baseline condition the file can reference at renewal or at a future claim — not a memory or a missing inspection.

03 — RENEWAL & PORTFOLIO

Re-score and scan the book

Re-score at renewal and scan whole portfolios. Target non-renewals and loss-prevention outreach where the roofs actually warrant it, not across the board.

04 — CLAIMS

Anchor the ACV conversation

Bring a pre-loss condition baseline to repair-vs-replace and actual-cash-value discussions, so depreciation is grounded in an independent signal instead of dispute.

What You Get

Accuracy, loss prevention, and a defensible answer.

Underwriting

Replace a broken age proxy with a condition score

A continuous 0–100 signal, decomposed by peril, that prices the roofs that are actually good and flags the ones that are not — regardless of age.

Loss Prevention

Fund intervention where the math favors it

Identify roofs where treatment beats replacement, and gate discounts or loss-prevention subsidies on a credible eligibility signal rather than guesswork.

Regulatory

An input you can defend in a rate filing

A methodology-published, address-anchored signal designed for the risk-based pricing review processes OSFI, AMF, and US departments of insurance already run.

Claims

Shorten repair-vs-replace disputes

An independent pre-loss baseline gives adjusters and policyholders a common reference, resolving condition and depreciation disputes faster.

Integration

Built to fit the workflows you already run.

We are not selling a black box. The RH Score is a standard, built to be pulled, audited, and defended.

  • Pull at the decision points. By quote, bind, claim, renewal, or portfolio scan — designed to integrate with the policy administration and claims systems you already operate.
  • Reporting for two audiences. Outputs sized for actuarial and underwriting use, and for homeowner-facing transparency, in parallel.
  • Privacy by design. Property data and personal identity are separated by design, consistent with PIPEDA and Quebec’s Law 25.
  • Published, versioned methodology. Every score carries a methodology version, so your filings and your files stay auditable over time.

How the standard stays independent →

Partner With Us

Help shape the integration.

We are looking for early insurance partners — not customers — to shape the methodology priorities, reporting outputs, and integration roadmap. We’ll publish direct partnership contact details as we open the early-partner program.