72%
Visualize, then buy
of people who visualize a product on a photo of their own home go on to convert to a sale.
SOURCE
TRY IT YOURSELF
Now do what your customer does.
Pick a fabric, then drag the slider. Same house every time — only the awning changes.
◄ ►
One house. One photo. Your awning on it.
FABRIC
POSITION
Frame colour, valance and motor are options too — see below. Whatever is on your price list is what your customer can pick.
THE PROBLEM
You're paying for the clicks. You're not keeping the names.
A homeowner clicks your ad with money to spend and lands on a gallery of someone else's house. They look around, leave, and you never learn they existed. The few who fill in the form tell you nothing — so you can't tell a real buyer from a price-shopper until you've driven out to find out.
GALLERY + FORM, OR BOUGHT LEADS
What happens today, without a way to see it on their own house
100 visitors land
Money to spend, no way to picture it on their house
97 leave without a trace
Other people's houses + a quote form isn't enough to act on
3 fill a blank form
Style, fabric, size — all unknown. “What would it look like?”
$25–120 per lead, if bought
Same lead resold to 3–5 competitors at once
$500–1,250 true cost
Per booked job, at a 5–15% close rate
VS
WITH PERGOLA PROOF
The same 100 visitors, with a way to see it first
100 visitors land
Same site, same traffic, same ad spend
Upload one house photo
Straight from the phone already in their hand
Put the awning on the wall
Style, fabric, frame — only what's actually sold
The lead hits your inbox
Seconds later, while it's still on their screen
A quote-ready lead
Name, number, house photo and the awning they picked
Your own ads aren't cheaper. Say $10 a click, 100 clicks, 3 form fills — that's $300+ for a lead that tells you nothing. The other 97 left without a trace, and you paid for every one of them. Shared leads? Worse.
$25–120
FOR ONE SHARED LEAD
Sold to 3 to 5 of your competitors at the same time.
5–15%
HOW MANY OF THEM CLOSE
The rest were price-shopping, ghosts, or never had a budget.
$500–1,250
TRUE COST PER BOOKED JOB
Before the yearly membership and the estimates you drove out for and lost.
Typical ranges for outdoor-living leads on shared-lead sites. Your numbers will differ — the shape won't.
HOW IT WORKS
Four steps. The last one is yours.
It sits on the website you already have. Your customer never installs anything, and you never chase a name.
- STEP 01
They photograph their house
One photo from the phone already in their hand, taken from the patio or the street.
PICK YOUR AWNING
ExtendedRetractedSTEP 02They pick your awning and fabric
Only what is actually on your price list: your styles, your fabrics, your frames.
STEP 03They see it on their own wall
To see it, they hand over a name and a number. That is the trade.
- New lead2 MIN AGO
NAME
Mark T.
STYLE
Retractable
FABRIC
Navy stripe
TIMELINE
60 days
Serious? Yes. They designed it.
STEP 04You get the lead
An email the second they submit: number, house photo, and the awning they chose.
DOES IT LOOK REAL?
Before and after. Same house, every time.
Ordinary houses photographed the way a homeowner would, with the awning added by the same engine your customers would use. Drag each one — the walls, windows and lawn do not move.
◄ ►
A retractable lateral-arm awning over the patio
Solid charcoal fabric, white cassette, over the sliding door and window.
FABRIC OR METAL
One front door. Three styles.
The same house photo, three of the awnings you sell. Your customer compares styles on their own door, not on somebody else's house. Each one is an AI render, shown with the photo it started from.
BEFORETraditional awning
Fabric on a welded aluminium frame, with a valance. Solids and stripes, over a door or every window.
BEFOREArchitectural canopy
A flat aluminium pan canopy with a deep fascia, hung on tie-back rods. Powder-coated in your colours.
BEFORELouvered sunshade
Aluminium louvres in a welded frame, on tie-back rods. Shade with daylight coming through.
THE OPTIONS
Every choice you sell, on the screen.
Your customer chooses from your fabrics, your frames and your valances — the ones on your price list, not a generic library. The swatches below show the kind of range we set up; yours replaces them.
Fabric colours & stripes
Solids and stripes, as many as you stock.
- Charcoal
- Navy stripe
- Forest stripe
- Sage stripe
- Terracotta
- Sand
- Burgundy stripe
- Slate blue
Frame colours
The cassette, arms and posts, in the finishes you actually fit.
- White
- Cream
- Bronze
- Grey
- Black
Valance
The front edge, from plain to shaped.
- Straight
- Scalloped
- Wave
- Trapezoid
Extended or retracted
Show the shade it makes, and the clean line it leaves when it is rolled away.
WHO IT'S FOR
Whichever awning you install.
If you quote it from a photo of the house, your customer can see it on that photo.
BEFORERetractable awnings
Lateral-arm and folding-arm awnings over patios and decks, out or rolled away.
BEFOREDoor & window awnings
Fabric awnings, aluminium canopies and louvered sunshades over front doors and every window on the elevation.
BEFOREPatio awnings
Larger fabric awnings on a frame with posts, for the patio that needs more than a wall bracket.
BEFOREScreens
Screen rooms and enclosed patios, framed and screened on the customer's own house.
Screens & enclosuresThis is what lands on your phone.
Every lead arrives with the decisions already made. Not a name and a number — a job you can quote from your truck. Your first call is a price, not a discovery call.
Their own photo of the houseAS THEY SAW IT
The exact awning they chosePICKED BY THEM, NOT GUESSED BY YOU
Style, fabric, frame colour and valance
Timeline, address and phone number
New quote-ready lead2 MIN AGO
NAME
Mark T.
PHONE
(555) 210-4487
STYLE
Retractable lateral-arm
FABRIC
Navy & white stripe
FRAME
White
VALANCE
Straight
TIMELINE
Next 60 days
SERIOUS?
Yes. They designed it.
NOT A NEW IDEA
The biggest names in home improvement have had this for years.
Visualizers are standard equipment at the top of this industry — and homeowners who use one are 5× more likely to book an in-home consultation. They cost six figures to build, which is the only reason a company your size doesn't have one yet.
- Trex
55%
Hand over their details
average lead-capture rate on a gated visualizer — the same trade we make: details for the render.
SOURCE
11×
More likely to buy
more likely to purchase after using the in-app visualizer, and 2.7× longer spent browsing.
SOURCE
94%
Higher conversion
higher conversion rate on products with 3D or AR content than on products without.
SOURCE
Figures published by Renoworks, Houzz and Shopify. Logos are shown to indicate companies that run their own product visualizers; they are not Pergola Proof customers, partners or endorsers, and all marks belong to their respective owners.
Built by Freshpixl
Pergola Proof turns a single photo of a house into a rendered quote, on the website you already have. Keep your web guy — this isn't a rebuild. It's one embed we install for you, and it gets a homeowner from "just browsing" to "get me a quote" in one upload. Built and supported by Freshpixl.
- WHAT IT IS
- A house designer that turns visitors into leads
- BUILT FOR
- US installers of awnings, patio covers, screens & pergolas
- WHAT IT DOES
- Renders your own awning range onto their house photo
- SETUP
- We build and install it on the site you already have
- WHAT IT COSTS
- One build fee, then a flat monthly
QUESTIONS
What awning contractors ask first.
Does it work for awnings, or only pergolas?
Awnings. It started with pergolas, and it does retractable, door, window and patio awnings, screens and enclosures the same way: the homeowner uploads a photo, picks from your range, and sees it on their own house.
What photo does the homeowner need to take?
One ordinary phone photo of the wall or patio the awning would go on. No measuring, no app to install. If the photo is not usable, the tool says so before it spends a render.
Can it show my own fabrics, stripes and frame colours?
Yes. We load what is on your price list: your styles, your fabrics and stripes, your frame colours and valances, and extended or retracted. Your customer can only pick what you actually sell.
Do I have to rebuild my website?
No. It is one embed that we install on the site you already have. Keep your web person.
What does the homeowner get, and what do I get?
The homeowner gets a still image of their own house with your awning on it. You get an email the moment they submit, with their number, their photo and the render they picked, and you can turn any render into a short video with your logo on it from your dashboard.
Does the render replace measuring up?
No. It is there to start the conversation with a customer who has already decided what they want. You still measure, spec and quote the job as you always do.
What does it cost?
We go through that on the 15-minute demo, on your own website, so you see it working before you hear a number.
See it on their house. Then get the lead.
Fifteen minutes, on your own website. We’ll show you what your next visitor would see — and you can tell us to get lost.