ContractorInstitute Get an honest audit

For American contractors

The shield
contractors
deserve.

Real websites, real advertising, real leads — sold to you the way you sell a job: itemised, priced up front, and yours when it is done.

Month to month · No setup fee · You own the domain, the site and the ad account

What we refuse to do

The four things
that cost you most

Every contractor who has been burned was burned by one of these. We bind ourselves against all four, in writing, in the agreement you sign.

We refuse to:

We never sell your lead to your competitor

Shared-lead platforms sell the same homeowner to four contractors and let you fight over who calls first. Every lead we generate for you goes to you and to nobody else — never resold, never shared, not once.

We refuse to:

We never lock you into a long contract

Month to month, cancel any time, no termination fee. Twelve-month lock-ins exist to protect the agency from its own results. If the work is good you will stay.

We refuse to:

We never hold your domain or ad account hostage

Your domain, website and advertising accounts are registered to your business on day one, not to us. If you leave you take all of it with you, at no charge. An agency that holds your domain is holding your business.

We refuse to:

We never bill for work we did not do

Every invoice is itemised down to the line. You get the ad-platform spend receipts alongside our fee, so you can see exactly what went to Google and what came to us.

The ledger

Hidden fees,
listed out loud

These are the line items that show up on other invoices. Here is what each one costs with us, so there is nothing to discover later.

What we never charge for

  • Setup or onboarding fee $0
  • Cancellation or early-termination fee $0
  • Charge to release your domain, site files or ad account $0
  • Markup on your advertising spend $0
  • Commission on jobs you win $0
  • Fee to export your own customer list $0

See what it costs

What we do

Four jobs,
one shield

Protection

We read the agreement you are in now and tell you what it actually says — who owns your domain, what the exit costs, and who your leads really belong to.

Real lead generation

Leads generated for your business in your service area and never resold or shared. Not the same homeowner sold to four contractors racing to call first.

Education

Plain-language guides on contracts, advertising invoices and lead platforms — free, and useful whether or not you ever hire us.

Scholarships

Support for people entering the trades and for working contractors continuing their training. Opening soon — the waitlist is live.

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Bring us the
contract you are
already in

The audit is free and it is not a sales call in disguise. We read what you are signed into, show you the clauses that matter, and tell you plainly whether you are being treated fairly. If your current setup is fine, we will say so.

No obligation, no long form, and nothing is shared with anyone outside Contractor Institute. We do not sell or broker your details.

The more specific you are, the more useful the audit is.

Free, no obligation, and we will tell you if you do not need us.