Identity · pending
Working brand name declared: StormWitness (changed from the blueprint's placeholder 'StormProof' due to a name-collision risk). Operating entity/EIN not yet declared by the owner.
Audience
Commercial snow & ice management contractors (15-150 contracted sites, $500K-$8M seasonal revenue) in snowbelt metros with an active GL policy
Problem
Every winter storm is a legal event at every contracted site. Crews plow, shovel, and apply de-icer under time pressure, often overnight, across dozens of properties in one shift. The proof that it happened, on time, under the right conditions — a timestamped check-in, a geotagged photo, a material-application log, and certified weather data proving exactly when precipitation started and stopped — exists only if someone captured, correlated, and preserved it. It has to survive intact for the 2-3 years a typical slip-and-fall lawsuit takes to resolve.
Offer
Storm Event Defense File Documentation Subscription — $19-$39 per contracted site per month, in-season, plus a free Storm Readiness Gap Scan and a claim-triggered Litigation Hold add-on. Never hourly, never contingent on any claim outcome.
Operating process
[
{
"body": "Site/contract roster, dispatch-tool export access or photo/SMS intake setup, Completeness Rulebook activated for your operating states.",
"title": "Onboarding"
},
{
"body": "Crews perform service and capture check-in/out timestamps and geotagged photos via their existing workflow.",
"title": "Storm event occurs"
},
{
"body": "Within hours of storm end, we ingest the data and pull matched certified weather data for each site.",
"title": "Ingestion & Weather Match"
},
{
"body": "Deterministic hard-fail rules run before any file moves forward; gaps are flagged back to you the same day.",
"title": "Completeness Checklist"
},
{
"body": "A trained reviewer confirms completeness on every file within the 24-48 hour SLA.",
"title": "Ops/QA Reviewer sign-off"
},
{
"body": "Files land in your searchable portal; a Season Completeness Scorecard rolls up the whole season ahead of your GL renewal.",
"title": "Delivery & season rollup"
}
]Evidence status
Regulatory · verified
'Storm in progress' doctrine and its certified-NOAA/NCDC-weather-record evidentiary requirement, verified against NYSBA, Lewis Brisbois, and Marshall Dennehey source text as of 2026-07-13.
Market · verified
US snowplowing services industry: $22.9B revenue, 112,000 businesses, 1.9% CAGR 2021-2026 (IBISWorld, 2026).
Pricing · verified
Typical commercial seasonal snow/ice contract $2,000-$10,000/site; per-push $30-$95/event (Trillium Facility Solutions, confirmed current as a 2026 pricing guide).
Competitive landscape · verified
MATERIAL CORRECTION to the source blueprint: a live, priced competitor (Certified Snowfall Totals) already sells meteorologist-verified snowfall/weather certification data to snow contractors, and a pre-launch self-operated logging app (SnowProof) was found in the same category. The blueprint's claim that 'no existing vendor... correlates service records against certified weather data' is corrected across every artifact to a more precise differentiation claim: StormWitness is the only DONE-FOR-YOU service combining crew evidence + certified weather match + completeness QA + human sign-off into one finished file.
Competitive landscape · verified
SiteCapture field-documentation software pricing $110-$850/month, confirmed current.
Market · verified
SIMA (Snow & Ice Management Association) publishes a SIMA-10-2025 Standard Practice for Procuring and Planning Snow and Ice Management Services (published June 2025) — a fresher, more specific citation than the source blueprint had.
Unverified claim · flagged
The widely-repeated 'over 1 million ER visits annually' ice/snow-fall statistic (commonly NSC-attributed) could not be traced to a primary NSC publication.
Domain-design coverage
Passed: 10; total: 10; coverage: 100.