Local Connect Group

Plumbing · HVAC · Electrical · Garage door & more

The calls you're missing.
The leads you never got.

We answer your phone around the clock, send you jobs from sites we build and rank ourselves, follow up on every lead within a minute, and keep your review count climbing. Flat monthly pricing. No contracts.

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Try it yourself

Talk to the receptionist

This is the real thing, not a recording. It's set up as a plumbing company so you can hear how it handles a job from cold.

Things worth trying

  • Describe an emergency and see how it triages
  • Book a time, then change your mind twice
  • Ask what a repair costs
  • Ask if you're talking to a robot
Call the agent — (512) 555-0148

Answers 24/7. Costs you nothing. Hang up whenever you like.

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Job booked · sent to dispatch

Caller  Dana Whitfield

Issue  Leaking water heater, supply shut off

Address  4412 Ramsey Ave, Austin TX

Window  Tomorrow, 8–10 a.m.

Services & pricing

Pick one, or run the whole stack

Every service is month to month. Setup fees are one time. Cancel any of it with 30 days' notice.

AI receptionist

$397 / month + $495 setup

Your phone answered in one second, every hour of every day, by an assistant trained on your services, pricing and schedule.

  • Nights, weekends, holidays and overflow
  • Triages emergencies before booking
  • Books into your calendar with real windows
  • Screens out-of-area and out-of-scope calls
  • Transfers to you or the on-call tech when needed
  • Texts you a summary of every call
  • Up to 300 answered minutes; extra minutes at cost

Lead generation websites

From $500 / month No setup fee

We build and rank a site for your city and service, then send you everything it produces. Exclusive — one contractor per market, and we never resell the same lead.

  • Leads exclusive to you in your city and trade
  • Calls and form fills routed straight to you
  • We handle the build, hosting, SEO and upkeep
  • No build cost and no ad spend required
  • First 30 days free while it gains traction

Priced on what it delivers

Up to 25 leads a month$500 / mo
26 to 60 leads a month$900 / mo
Over 60, or high-ticket tradesLet's talk

You start at the bottom tier and only move up once the volume is actually there. We review together every 90 days — if lead flow drops, your price drops with it.

Speed-to-lead follow-up

$247 / month + $295 setup

A form fill at 9pm gets a text back in under 60 seconds instead of the next morning. The contractor who replies first usually wins the job.

  • Instant text and email on every inbound lead
  • Follow-up sequence if they don't reply
  • Stops the moment they respond or book
  • Works with leads from any source, not just ours

Review automation

$197 / month + $195 setup

Review count is one of the strongest local ranking signals there is, and most contractors never ask. This asks for you, every single job.

  • Automatic review request after each completed job
  • Drafted responses for you to approve and post
  • Alerts you first when something below four stars lands
  • Monthly report on rating and review velocity

Everything together

The full stack

All four services

$1,097 / month

Separately $1,341/month · you save $244 every month · $795 setup, one time
Based on the starting lead-gen tier — scales with volume

  • Every call answered, day or night
  • Exclusive leads from a site we rank for you
  • Lead-gen priced by volume, reviewed every 90 days
  • Every lead followed up within a minute
  • Reviews requested after every job
  • One point of contact, one invoice
  • Month to month, 30 days' notice
Book a 10-min call

The math

What missed calls cost you

Drag these to your own numbers. Most contractors are surprised by the total.

Your numbers

Walking out the door each year

$126,360

The full stack runs 10% of that.

Getting started

What the first month looks like

  1. Discovery call

    Twenty minutes on your services, pricing rules, service area and how you want jobs booked.

  2. We build and test

    Your receptionist gets trained and run against real call scenarios before it picks up for a customer. Lead-gen sites go up the same week.

  3. You forward missed calls

    One setting on your phone. Your number doesn't change and nothing gets ported.

  4. We tune it on real calls

    We listen to the first few weeks and tighten it up. Expect a couple of rough edges early and a much sharper agent by week four.

Questions

What contractors ask first

Do I have to change my number?

No. Your number stays where it is. We forward unanswered calls, so the receptionist only picks up when nobody else did.

Am I locked into a contract?

No. Everything is month to month with 30 days' notice. Setup fees are one time, and we don't hold your number, recordings or data hostage if you leave.

Who owns the lead-gen website?

We do, and we're upfront about that. You're renting exclusive access to the leads, which is why there's no build cost to you. If you leave, the site stays with us. If you'd rather own the site outright, we can talk about that separately — it's a different deal at a different price.

Why isn't lead-gen a fixed price?

Because a site sending you six jobs a month and one sending you sixty aren't the same product. You start at the bottom tier and only move up once the volume is actually there — and if lead flow drops, your price drops with it. We review together every 90 days so nothing lands as a surprise on an invoice.

Will callers know it's not a person?

Some will, most won't. It answers in about a second, speaks naturally and handles interruptions. We can have it identify itself as an assistant if you'd rather — plenty of contractors prefer that.

How fast will I see leads?

The receptionist starts saving calls the day it goes live. Lead-gen sites are slower and depend on how competitive your market is — typically 30 to 90 days before consistent flow, which is why the first month is free.

What can't the receptionist do?

It won't quote complex work — anything needing eyes on the job gets booked as an estimate instead. A small share of callers won't talk to an automated line at all. And it takes about a month of tuning on real calls to get genuinely sharp.

Next step

Hear it answer your own phone

Send your details and we'll build a receptionist for your business — your services, your name — and call you from it so you hear what your customers would hear. Ten minutes, costs nothing.

What are you interested in?

Or email hello@localconnectgroup.com

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