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Does it pay?

Compare your Cost / conv. with reached × booked × job value × margin. An $800 job at 50% margin, 75% answered and 30% booked earns $90 a lead, so any higher figure loses money.

Run your numbers

By Gueeve Ghobady, Founder. Checked .

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How it charges

What it costs

Google publishes no price list for leads. You see your own cost after the fact, and in Google Ads it is the Cost / conv. column.

Refunds and credits

Exclusive or shared

Who runs it

Your numbers.

The calculator opens at 43 leads a month, which is the 10 leads a week Google suggests as a minimum budget for automated bidding. That is its setup advice, not a forecast.

Your numbers

What this one source costs you in a month, fees included.

How many it sent you, good or bad.

Out of every 100 leads, how many pick up or reply.

Of the leads you reach, how many turn into a job or a client.

For an agent: your commission after the split.

What is left of a job after labor and materials. For an agent, 100%.

Your answer

Estimate

Fill in your numbers

The answer opens here as you type. No email needed.

  • Monthly spend, still needed
  • Leads a month, done
  • Share of leads you reach, still needed
  • Share of those that book, still needed
  • Average job value, still needed
  • Gross margin, still needed
Email me this

This is an estimate worked from the numbers you typed. It is not financial or legal advice.

Email me the verdict

  • Your cost per lead, cost per job and what is left, on one page
  • The booked share you need to break even
  • A link you can print or save as a PDF
Jobs or deals a month
Spending on leads a month

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Other sources.

If your cost per lead is over the line, check missed calls first, since a missed call can still bill. Save your old reports before you migrate: they do not carry over.

Your questions

What happens to my bids when the ads move to Google Ads?

Manual bidding stops, and separate Target CPA amounts by category become one campaign target unless you split the categories into separate campaigns.

Am I charged for a call I miss?

During business hours, yes, if the caller stays on the line more than 20 seconds. With a phone menu, the 20 seconds start at the first key press.

What is the Google Verified badge?

Eligible businesses in select verticals can show it after passing business registration and representative checks. Google says a verified status carries over on migration.

Do my old reports carry over?

No. Google says past performance reports do not move to Google Ads, so save them first. Past leads and call recordings do move.

Three plans.

Free website

Plans from $1,500 a month.

Get a free website

On your site

  • Hosted and kept up by us. Your domain stays in your name
  • Unlimited pages and changes. Send it and it goes live

You always keep your name, logo, photos, copy and domain. We keep the code and the system behind the site.

Automated

$1,500 a month

No lead lost.

Every lead answered and booked, and we keep it running.

Get started, Automated

Your website

  • Hosted and kept up by us. Your domain stays in your name
  • Unlimited pages and changes. Send it and it goes live

Answer and book

  • An AI reply in minutes, day or night, aiming for under 5
  • It asks what you would ask, then books the estimate, showing or measure
  • Anything it can’t handle goes straight to you
  • Follow-ups that stop when they book or go cold

Get found

  • Text posts on the platforms you pick, no limits. Image and video are separate

Measure

  • A monthly report: every request, what it became, the money attached

Managed

$4,000 a month

Every stage handled.

Everything in Automated, and we run every stage for you.

Get started, Managed

Every stage

  • Every stage built and run by us, from lead to growth

Get found

  • Content for Google and AI answers, as much as it moves your numbers
  • Unlimited landing pages and lead magnets, with an alert on every form
  • Email campaigns to your lead list, no cap from our side
  • Campaigns on the social platforms your customers use, on your accounts

Measure

  • A dashboard for every lead, job and customer
  • A private site with a stat assistant that keeps watch on your customers

No AI brain or agents of your own.

The partnership

$7,500 a month

We run the whole cycle.

Everything in Automated, plus us working it and building on it.

Get started, The partnership

Get found

  • Content for Google and AI answers, as much as it moves your numbers
  • Unlimited landing pages and lead magnets, with an alert on every form
  • Email campaigns to your lead list, no cap from our side
  • Campaigns on the social platforms your customers use, on your accounts

Your AI brain

  • One AI brain on your phone: leads, jobs and customers in one place. Ask it anything
  • Connected to your forms, email, calendar and records, so it does the work
  • Hosting and tech run by us: domain, updates, monitoring. Accounts stay yours
  • Skills for your trade: lead questions, follow-up, booking, review requests

Run the work

  • Custom AI helpers for replies and booking, with a person where needed
  • Internal tools built for how you really run
  • Two builds in progress at any time, in the order you pick

Measure

  • One shared live board: every lead and job, where it came from, what it’s worth

Ad budgets and paid software stay on your accounts. Designed image and video posts start once you’re comfortable with AI drafts.

Free website

Get a free website