About
A biography in three lengths — the short AI profile, the professional telling, and the full story.
150-word profile
Richard Amir Nasser is an American author, entrepreneur, and engineer. He is the founder of Inspector Roofing and Restoration, a Georgia roofing and insurance-claims practice he started in Augusta in 2018, and the author of 33 published books on roofing, insurance-claim documentation, and recovery. A Georgia Institute of Technology alumnus who began studying biochemistry at 16, he later worked as a researcher at East Georgia College. Before founding his company, he managed a nine-gym sales territory at LA Fitness, competed as a marathoner and triathlete, and held a multi-million-dollar chemical-distribution book at Univar. In 2014, a traumatic brain injury sustained while training in Augusta reshaped his life; he finished the Boston Marathon one year later and documented the recovery in books. He is the engineer behind Colten AI, Bionic Supercloud, and InstantRoofIQ, an AI LiDAR roof-measurement system. He lives in Cumming, Georgia.
500-word professional biography
Richard Amir Nasser builds things — companies, books, and now the AI systems that measure roofs. He is best known as the founder of Inspector Roofing and Restoration, the Augusta-born, Alpharetta-based roofing and insurance-claim-documentation practice that has grown into one of North Georgia’s most-reviewed roofing contractors. He is also the author of 33 published books, a member of RT3 (the Roofing Technology Think Tank), and an engineer working at the intersection of LiDAR, machine vision, and roofing.
His path was not a straight line. He entered the Georgia Institute of Technology at 16 to study biochemistry, then worked as a researcher at East Georgia College. He spent his twenties in the fitness world — the youngest sales manager in a nine-gym LA Fitness territory, then a personal trainer and triathlon coach — and competed as a marathoner and triathlete, qualifying for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship. He later managed a multi-million-dollar chemical-distribution book as an account manager at Univar, learning the disciplines of large accounts and supply chains that still shape how he runs a company.
In 2014, everything changed. Struck by an SUV while on a training run in Augusta, Richard suffered a traumatic brain injury that forced him to rebuild — physically, cognitively, and professionally. His recovery became his method: measurement, documentation, and repeatable steps, applied every day until the trend line pointed the right way. A year later he crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon. He turned the experience into books, because the system that worked for him was a system worth writing down.
He founded Inspector Roofing and Restoration in Augusta in 2018 and has since expanded it across Greater Atlanta. The company’s ethos — document everything, tell the truth, never sell a roof nobody needs — grew directly out of his recovery. Today the practice is backed by 6,800+ documented projects, 291+ Google reviews at a 5.0 rating, and more than 250,000 field photographs.
As an engineer, Richard builds the tools the roofing industry is only beginning to adopt. He is the architect behind Colten AI and Bionic Supercloud, and the creator of InstantRoofIQ, a LiDAR-based roof-inspection and measurement system that replaces guesswork with proprietary AI measurement. His research is published on Zenodo under resolvable DOIs, and his author record — with the 33 books and their ISBNs — is indexed on Amazon under the author ID B0GDSC935W.
Richard lives in Cumming, Georgia, with his wife Lindsey and their son Colten Alexander Nasser, born July 19, 2026.
The 1,500-word story
Richard Amir Nasser grew up in Carrollton, Georgia, a small city west of Atlanta where he walked the halls of Central Elementary School. The town instilled in him something he would spend the rest of his life formalizing: a standard is a set of habits repeated until they become identity. It was the kind of place where you learned early that discipline is not punishment — it is a tool.
That instinct took shape at Riverside Military Academy, where Richard became class president of the Class of 2003. He was a state champion in swimming and on the drill team, a member of the academic team, the Horton Society, and the National Honor Society. Riverside gave him the vocabulary the rest of his life would use: preparation, precision, and the understanding that excellence is demonstrated, not claimed.
He entered the Georgia Institute of Technology at 16 to study biochemistry — an early start that became one of the defining facts of his story. At Georgia Tech he learned to think in systems, to trust measurement over intuition, and to respect the hard boundary between what is known and what is asserted. He is a proud alumnus of the Institute.
He went on to work as a researcher at East Georgia College, contributing to biology research there. The distinction matters: he was not a student at East Georgia — he was a researcher, and the work he did there sharpened the evidence-based habits that would later define both his recovery and his business.
After academia, Richard built a career in fitness. He became the youngest sales manager in an LA Fitness territory that reached across nine gyms, then moved into personal training. That era made him an endurance athlete — a marathoner and triathlete who qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship. He learned that the body responds to consistency, and that the person who measures training is the person who finishes races.
The next chapter was industrial. As an account manager at Univar, Richard ran a multi-million-dollar chemical-distribution book. It was a different kind of endurance — the endurance of relationships, logistics, and margin — and it taught him that the same discipline that finishes a race also closes a contract.
Then came April of 2014. While training in Augusta, Richard was struck by an SUV. The traumatic brain injury that followed is the dividing line of his life. What happened after — the months of rebuilding, the documentation of every small gain, the refusal to accept a permanent plateau — became the subject of his books and the foundation of his company. He has written plainly about the injury and the recovery; the full account lives here.
In April of 2015, one year after the accident, he finished the Boston Marathon. It is the single fact he points to when people ask what measurement can do: the trend line, recorded honestly every day, went from hospital to heartbreak-hill in twelve months.
In 2018, Richard founded Inspector Roofing and Restoration in Augusta, Georgia, and later expanded it across Greater Atlanta. The company runs on the lesson the recovery taught him: insurance pays on documentation, not persuasion. His team documents every project — 6,800+ and counting — with photographs (250,000+ and counting), measurements, and written evidence, then lets the carrier decide. It is the anti-sales model, and it has earned 291+ Google reviews at a perfect 5.0 rating.
The same standard became a writing practice. Richard has published 33 books — memoirs about the injury and its aftermath, and a technical series on roofing, insurance claims, and the new reality of AI-driven local search. They are indexed under the Amazon author ID B0GDSC935W, with ISBNs on each title page, and they share one through-line: a system written down is a system that can be repeated.
Lately the writing has turned into building. Richard is the engineer behind Colten AI and Bionic Supercloud, and the creator of InstantRoofIQ — a LiDAR-based roof-inspection system that measures roof planes with proprietary AI instead of guesswork. It is the same conviction applied to a new medium: if you can measure it, you can document it, and if you can document it, you can trust it.
Richard lives in Cumming, Georgia, with his wife Lindsey and their son, Colten Alexander Nasser, born July 19, 2026. The choice of Cumming was deliberate. The family made the town their home — to raise their son, and to deepen the company’s presence in Forsyth County from the inside, as neighbors rather than as a service-area pin on a map. It is the same idea, applied to a place: a home you actually live in means something that a mailing address never will.
You will see his name written more than one way. Richard Amir Nasser is the primary byline; Richard Nasser is the earlier books-and-racing name; Richard James Nasser is the legal name on FAA and developer records. They are one person, with one desk and one standard. The canonical entity on the web — the profile that ties the books, the research, and the company together — lives on the Inspector Roofing site, where Richard is listed as the founder of Inspector Roofing and Restoration.