Hover’s Spring Product Launch delivered a wave of innovation for construction and insurance professionals. The new updates will improve sales cycles, simplify complex workflows, reduce time on-site, and create seamless collaboration between field and office teams, with the ultimate goal to improve the homeowner experience.
These innovations for construction are especially timely. According to the 2025 APB SORCI Report, builders’ top challenges are managing unrealistic homeowner expectations and generating qualified leads. Additionally, contractors who systemize processes with technology report the highest levels of profitability. Hover is built to help contractors solve these challenges.
And for insurance, the J.D. Power U.S. Property Claims Satisfaction Study reported declining satisfaction for the second year in a row, citing longer cycle times and inconsistent documentation as major contributors. Hover addresses both with a unified claims workflow that automates inspections, measurements, and estimates.
Here’s a recap of the key announcements and how they directly align with the industry’s most pressing needs.
Instant Design solves two key sales challenges
Hover Instant Design helps pros engage homeowners with design, improving conversion rates across the marketing and sales funnels. Leveraging our proprietary AI, pros can use a single photo to show the homeowner how their own home will look with real products, colors, and materials — instantly. This streamlines decision-making, shortens sales cycles, and builds trust.
Moreover, it helps builders address the key challenges they face: managing unrealistic homeowner expectations and generating quality leads.
Levi Schoenfeld, Product Manager for Hover summarized this new experience best, “With Hover Instant Design, you can spark inspiration and get to final design decisions in minutes. You can upsell products or even entire trades. Cut out all the guessing, hoping and delaying, and just show your customers what their home will look like in photorealistic detail. This isn’t just visualization—it’s a sales and marketing tool. When homeowners can see it, they can buy with confidence.”
A seamless inspection workflow, for interiors and exteriors
Product leaders shared our new property inspection workflow, showcasing that Hover is so much more than measurements. It’s a single unified workflow to measure and document any property, for both interior and exterior projects. Documenting properties the same way every time means improved speed, accuracy, and better field to office communication — the factors most strongly correlated with higher customer satisfaction.
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Simple, but comprehensive, property documentation solution
Hover’s new document workflow is built specifically for the fast-paced, detail-heavy environments pros work in. Capture structured notes, tag photos, and complete custom checklists — whether you’re offline or online. Eliminate the chaos of managing hundreds of camera roll photos and manual uploads.
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Complete, accurate Interior measurements for remodel and claims
With Hover Interiors, getting 3D property data for the inside of a structure is as simple as walking it with your smartphone. There’s no special equipment needed, and the app captures floorplans, room-by-room details, and even cabinetry. And it’s built to handle even the most complex structure or damage scenarios.
- Review property data from anywhere with Virtual Walkthrough
With Hover’s proprietary technology, we generate a virtual walkthrough anchored in 3D. Teams can revisit the job remotely, take measurements, and annotate specific areas without needing to return to site. This improves communication and reduces missed details or rework.
- Streamline workflows with our Xactimate Integration
To further streamline your workflows for restoration projects, all of this data flows seamlessly into Verisk Xactimate, including the ability to navigate and review both the floorplan and virtual walkthrough without ever leaving Xactimate.
Automate the claims estimation process
For insurance claims, we introduced a new Guided Estimate experience that auto-generates Xactimate line items based on Hover property data. With customizable question flows and built-in logic, it ensures estimate compliance and reduces estimate errors. Guided Estimates removes the need for complex spreadsheets, macros, or missed details due to inexperience. Moreover, it simplifies training for new adjusters and estimators, helping our Insurance customers resolve property claims faster and improve homeowner satisfaction rates.
Improving our leading exterior 3D property data solution
We're not just expanding how you use Hover across your business. We’re also making our leading exterior 3D property data solution better, largely thanks to the partnership we have with our customers. Here are a just a few improvements:
- Capture multiple structures in one project
Now you can capture and manage multiple structures within the same Hover project. Whether it's a main home and a detached garage, barn, shed, or ADU, Hover has you covered. This was one of our most requested enhancements from customers, so we’re excited to bring it to our construction and insurance customers.
- Bulk apply Material List details on large multi-family projects
Contractors have come to love the power and detail of our facet selection tool when creating Material Lists. But on large structures, it can take a lot of time to select each facet. We’ve added Bulk Apply where we automatically recognize and group facets by material type and allow you to select the entire group.
- Review how your teams are adopting and using Hover
Also one of our top requested features, we announced an easy to use dashboard where you can track your team's use and adoption, ensuring you get the most out of Hover.
Hover is now the only app you need to design, document, measure, estimate, and collaborate – for any job, interior or exterior. The APB SORCI 2025 report makes it clear: systemized, tech-driven processes are key to overcoming industry challenges and increasing profitability. With millions of projects completed and new features built directly from your feedback, we’re helping professionals like you lead the way.
To see all of these announcements, and more with full product demonstrations, watch the recordings of the 2025 Spring Product Launch Event.
