The Receipts

    Real accounts, real numbers

    Every figure below is pulled from a live client’s ad account or CRM, identified by trade only. The ads themselves stay private.

    Why you won’t find the ads here

    We don’t publish client creative, offers, or targeting, and we don’t run a public portfolio of campaigns. In home services the winning ad is the asset. Put it on a public page and competitors in the same market are running a copy of it within a week, at the expense of the client who paid to build it.

    So the numbers are here and the accounts are not. Every case study below is identified by trade alone. On a call we’ll screen-share the real accounts for the trades closest to yours, including the creative and what it cost to book an estimate.

    $815,202tracked closed revenue across the accounts below
    16.6xblended return on ad spend
    $23lowest cost per lead recorded
    5.5%cost of marketing on our top account

    Figures below are the accounts that produced them. Every number on this page is checkable against the case studies it came from.

    Selected Accounts

    Account performance

    Six accounts across six trades. Return varies by trade, market, and offer. These are individual account results, not averages.

    Roofing contractor

    $484,137

    signed in 24 days

    Ad spend$24,222
    Leads446
    Cost per leadindustry $80-$150$54
    Booked appointments39
    Return on ad spend20.0x
    Cost of marketing5.5%

    $118,000 signed in week one, $281,590 by week two, $484,137 by week three and a half. Cost to book dropped from $644 to $621 while we scaled spend from $1,000 to $1,500 per day. Getting cheaper while getting bigger is the hard version of scaling. Another $505,068 sits quoted in open pipeline.

    Crawl space and insulation contractor

    18x

    return on ad spend

    Ad spend$7,860
    Revenue$147,000
    Return on ad spend18x
    All-in including our fee9.6x
    Per booked appointmentindustry $200-$400$103

    Most agencies aim for 6 to 10x and celebrate at 8. This account ran 18x across its first full quarter, and 9.6x after our fee is subtracted out. Cost per booked appointment held at about a third of the industry benchmark from month one.

    Remodeling contractor

    14.2x

    return on ad spend

    Ad spend$6,566
    Leads197
    Cost per lead$33
    Closed$93,060
    Return on ad spend14.2x
    Per booked consultindustry $450$180

    The most recent week was the best on record. Leads rose 52% while cost per lead fell from $35 to $23, and booked consults doubled in the same stretch. Volume going up while cost goes down is the pattern we build for.

    HVAC contractor

    $63,701

    closed in seven days

    Ad spend$9,760
    Leads89
    Cost per lead$110
    Booked appointments19
    Booking rate21.3%
    Return on ad spend6.53x

    Four jobs closed out of a single week of leads. Two of them signed in the same week the lead came in. We opened a second market for this client days later and it produced its first close on day two.

    HVAC contractor, price transparency funnel

    $175

    per booked appointment

    Ad spend$701
    Leads25
    Cost per lead$28
    Booked appointments4
    Booking rate16.0%
    Closed$27,304

    Leads walked through system type, square footage and fuel type and saw a real price range before they ever reached a calendar. By the time they booked, they had already accepted the price. One went from click to signed job in under 48 hours.

    Painting contractor

    7% to 35%

    booking rate

    Booking rate before7%
    Booking rate after35%
    Change madeOne added qualifying question
    Ad spendUnchanged
    CreativeUnchanged

    We added a single open-text question asking what was driving the project. Nothing else changed, not the budget and not the ads. Booking rate went from 7% to 35%. This is what we mean when we say the funnel is the difference, not the ad.

    Six accounts, six different trades, one system.

    Results reflect actual client reporting from 2026. Client names withheld at their request. Individual results vary.

    See the numbers for your trade.

    Book a 15-minute intro call and we'll screen-share real accounts in your trade: the creative, what a booked estimate costs in your market, and what the return looks like.