of consumers use Google to find information about a local business.
Foundation
If a customer looked you up right now, would they even find you?
For most local businesses, the honest answer is no, and the job goes to whoever they find instead. Foundation is the base that fixes it: a website, your Google profile, reviews, and a CRM that catches every call, all set up for you and wired together.
When someone needs the work you do, here's the path they take, and the three places it breaks if your base isn't there.
The search
It starts on Google, with or without you.
When someone needs the work you do, they grab their phone and search. Google shows them who's nearby and open. A working Google profile is what puts you on that list. Without one, you don't show up at all.
84%of consumers use Google to find a local business.
Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2025.The size-up
Coming up isn't enough.
The other shops are fully built out. They have photos, reviews, and a real website. Leave even one gap, and you lose the lead. It goes to the first shop that earns the trust.
The call
They reach out. Where does it land?
Your hands are full on the job, and you can't catch every lead. The ones you miss don't wait around. The Control Center catches them all in one place, and the automations we wire up text each one back the moment it comes in, even when you can't pick up. Set up once, they run on their own.
Foundation is a package on purpose.
Anyone will sell you these pieces one at a time. The gaps between them kill the results.
Foundation is a package on purpose.
Anyone will sell you these pieces one at a time. The gaps between them kill the results.
A website without a Google profile pointing to it never shows up in local search.
A Google profile that's not fully set up loses to the one above it that is.
A lead with nowhere to land vanishes into voicemail.
A website without a Google profile pointing to it never shows up in local search.
A Google profile that's not fully set up loses to the one above it that is.
A lead with nowhere to land vanishes into voicemail.
Your first 90 days
Three months done for you, then it's yours.
What we build, how it runs, and what's yours to keep.
The free audit
An honest look at exactly what is broken, and how to fix it.
Request a free audit and hop on a call. Our prices are not for everyone, and we own that, it is why the free blog exists. But making it all work, wired right so nothing breaks later, is the part we get right.
- Website is live
- Google Business Profile claimed
- Site actually turns visits into calls
- Reviews coming in automatically after every job
- Every call and lead captured in one place
Your audit will be specific to your business, delivered as a PDF at the end of the call.
By the numbers
Buyers start on Google. What they find decides who they call.
Independent research on why Foundation starts with getting you found, then gives buyers a reason to choose you.
If you are not on Google, you are not in the race.
When someone needs a contractor, a clinic, or a tutor near them, they reach for Google. BrightLocal's 2025 survey found 84% of consumers looked up a local business on Google last year. No site, no profile, no reviews means no shot at the call.
Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2025.
Showing up gets you seen. Reviews get you chosen.
BrightLocal's 2025 survey found 96% of consumers read online reviews before choosing a local business. Foundation sets up review requests from day one, going out automatically after every job, so the proof stacks up where buyers look.
of consumers read online reviews before choosing a local business.
Grad for life
Add a service later, skip the setup fee.
Once your Foundation is built, you're a grad for life. Add SEO, Social, or Ads down the road and the setup fee is waived. You just pick up the monthly. That's up to $2,385 you never pay.
This waives the setup fee only. Each service still carries its own ongoing fee, billed when it starts.
How we work
The part you stop worrying about.
We build it, you own it. Your domain, your site, your brand, your Google profile, and your CRM data go in your name, not ours, never held hostage by an agency. No long-term contract, and we guarantee our work, never your results. Every piece we agree to, we deliver, or we keep working at no extra cost until it's done. Want us to keep running it? Control Center continues at $297 a month. If you walk, what's yours stays yours and nothing we built disappears.
Omar MendivilFounder
Everything builds on this.
Website, Google profile, reviews, and CRM aren't four tools, they're one working base every service business needs, and the core Groundwork runs on too. Get it right and you're always ready: ads, SEO, social, all of it builds on top.
One team for your whole base.
One team builds and runs all of it, not a pile of vendor logins that never talk to each other.
You own every asset we build. Ownership of delivered work transfers on completion of full payment, per your service agreement.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
One price. The whole base.
Foundation is one flat price for the full setup, built and managed for 90 days, then it is yours to keep.
90-day build
Foundation
The complete base, built and launched for you.
$4,495one-time · then yours from $50/mo
Get a free auditEverything included
- A website built for your business, live and mobile-ready
- Google Business Profile claimed and optimized
- Control Center CRM with your pipeline and inbox
- Missed-call text-back and new-lead auto-reply
- Review requests sent automatically after every job
- Social profiles created and connected
- Three months of active management
- You own everything we build
Keep your tools
Plugs into the tools you already run.
We wire it all together. You don't lift a finger.
- Search Console
- QuickBooks
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Google Calendar
- Jobber
- Meta
- Gmail
- Housecall Pro
- Stripe
- twilio
- Search Console
- Google Analytics
- Google Calendar
- Jobber
- Meta
- Gmail
- Housecall Pro
- Stripe
- twilio
- Search Console
- QuickBooks
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Meta
- Gmail
- Housecall Pro
- Stripe
- twilio
- Search Console
- QuickBooks
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Google Calendar
- Jobber
- Meta
- Stripe
- twilio
- Search Console
- QuickBooks
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Google Calendar
- Jobber
- Meta
- Gmail
- Housecall Pro
- Stripe
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions about Foundation
Pairs with Foundation
Foundation gets you found. Google Local puts you at the top.
Local Service Ads run above the regular results, your business first, with Google's Verified badge after they check your license and reviews. You pay per lead, not per click. Foundation is the base it builds on.
Learn more about Local SEOIllustration of a Google search for a local roofer, where the Sponsored results sit at the top of the page and the first listing is a Google-Verified business with quote, call, and booking buttons.
Pairs with Foundation
Foundation gets you live. Voice AI answers the phone when you can't.
Foundation gets you found, so the calls start coming. Voice AI catches the ones you can't. Every call captured, every appointment booked, every lead in the same Control Center you already own.
Learn more about Voice AIMore from the blog
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