The contractor lead market is broken.
Agencies that sell to home service contractors — plumbers, roofers, HVAC technicians, electricians — have three options for building their prospect list: buy leads from resellers at $30–150 each (shared with competitors), build a scraper and watch it break on a monthly cadence, or hire a VA to copy phone numbers from Yelp into a spreadsheet for $1,600/month. None of these options are good. All of them are common.
LeadTrawl exists because the obvious solution — automated, vertical-specific prospecting from the platforms contractors actually use — didn't exist.
General-purpose tools are built for general-purpose problems. Apollo is excellent for B2B SaaS outreach. LinkedIn Sales Navigator is excellent for finding enterprise decision-makers. But home service contractors are not enterprise decision-makers. They don't have corporate email addresses. They're not on LinkedIn. Their professional identity lives on Yelp, Google Business, and Thumbtack — and general tools don't know how to read those signals.
LeadTrawl is built specifically for the home services vertical. That means it understands what matters: review count as a proxy for business volume, rating as a proxy for reliability, response rate as a proxy for sales readiness. A plumber with 4.7 stars and 200 reviews is a fundamentally different prospect than one with 3.2 stars and 8 reviews — even at the same location and price point. LeadTrawl scores leads on these signals automatically, so your best prospects surface first instead of buried in a flat export.
Most prospecting tools end at the list. You get a CSV and then figure out what to do with it. LeadTrawl closes the loop: trawl → deduplicate → score → export → outreach templates. You're not stitching together four tools to get from "I want leads" to "I have a ready-to-work pipeline." The workflow is complete inside a single product.
The deduplication matters more than it sounds. When you scan Yelp and Google for the same territory, you'll find the same roofer on both platforms. Without deduplication, you're calling the same person twice — damaging your outreach quality and wasting sequences. LeadTrawl's composite matching (phone + domain + name + city) ensures you never contact the same business twice from a multi-source scan. That's not a nice-to-have. That's table stakes for any tool claiming to be production-ready for agency use.
At $49/month, the Agency plan delivers ~400 leads at $0.12 each. Angi charges $30–150 per lead (shared). A VA doing this work full-time costs $1,600–2,400/month. A DIY scraper costs $200–800/month in combined tool and labor costs. LeadTrawl doesn't just beat these alternatives on price — it beats them by an order of magnitude.
The compounding effect: every month you run LeadTrawl, you're building a territory database that improves. Historical data lets you see which businesses have grown, which have new owners, which have jumped from 50 reviews to 200. Static exports decay. An active trawl schedule compounds.
Everything you pull from LeadTrawl is yours. No auction, no shared leads, no reseller terms. You own the export. You own the data. You contact on your own terms. When a reseller sells you a lead, they've already sold it to three other agencies. When you trawl your territory on LeadTrawl, you're the first call — because the lead was never packaged and sold to begin with.
Yelp changes their API. Google updates Places response formats. Thumbtack adds new authentication flows. These changes break DIY scrapers within weeks of deployment. LeadTrawl absorbs all of this. When a source changes, we update the integration — not you. Every tool you don't use is a lead you don't close. A scraper that breaks on a Tuesday and takes until Friday to fix costs you three days of prospecting. LeadTrawl doesn't have maintenance windows.
Built for home services specifically — Yelp, Google Places, Thumbtack. Rating-based scoring that means something for contractors. Not a general tool adapted for this segment; a purpose-built one.
Trawl → deduplicate → score → export — complete pipeline in one product. No stitching together four tools to go from "I want leads" to "I have a ready list."
$0.12/lead vs. $30–150 on Angi. $49/mo vs. $1,600+ for a VA doing the same task. The cost advantage doesn't just beat alternatives — it makes them look absurd.
Every lead is 100% yours — no shared lists, no auction. We handle API changes and platform updates. You get consistent output with no engineering overhead.
Marketing agencies, software vendors, suppliers, consultants, and service businesses who sell to home service contractors. If your customer is a roofer, plumber, HVAC tech, electrician, landscaper, or painter — LeadTrawl builds your outbound list. You're not a contractor using LeadTrawl to find homeowners; you're a business that sells to contractors.
Every trawl is a live query against Yelp, Google Places, and Thumbtack. You're not downloading from a cached database — you're pulling fresh data at the moment you run the trawl. Agency+ users can schedule weekly auto-trawls so their territory data refreshes automatically.
These are the three platforms where home service contractors maintain active profiles with contact information, ratings, and reviews. Together they cover 90%+ of active contractors in any US market. More sources (Angi, Houzz, Bark.com) are on the roadmap for Agency+ plans.
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