Alex Chicilo

I'm Alex Chicilo. I help run operations at a Colorado roofing company, and HailScore started on job sites.

Three storm seasons of climbing roofs taught me something the data industry hadn't caught up to: the tools homeowners, adjusters, and contractors use to answer “was this property actually hit?” are slow, expensive, and frequently wrong. NOAA's finalized records lag 60 to 90 days. Storm-cell radar tools were built for meteorologists, not property-level decisions. And the proprietary “storm scores” sold by incumbents don't publish their methodology, so nobody downstream can actually verify the answer. Not the homeowner, not the adjuster, not the carrier.

I came to roofing from a business operations background. When I saw the data gap, I started teaching myself the stack: PostGIS, the NOAA MRMS feed, the NEXRAD archive, scoring calibration. Then I built what's now HailScore. The methodology is published in full because the whole point is that you should be able to check the work.

HailScore is a Colorado company. I'm the founder, the sole engineer and designer, and most days I'm also still on a roof.

The methodology was developed with assistance from AI research and writing tools, including Anthropic's Claude. All scoring logic, calibration decisions, data source selection, and final methodology determinations are mine.

Alex