One slow month and the client is gone
Lead-gen retainers are judged monthly. You are always one bad report away from the cancellation call, no matter how good the last eleven months were.
Run local directories as an asset, not another retainer.
Import the listings, let the owners claim them, charge for the good spots. Your brand, your domain, your Stripe account — on a platform built to hold thousands of directories without slowing down.
Your subdomain is live the moment you finish setup.
Why directories
A retainer ends the month it stops working. A directory keeps earning after you stop selling it.
Every new dollar costs a new pitch
New client, new discovery, new onboarding, new campaign. The work never compounds — you rebuild the same machine for each account and rent it back to them.
When it ends you own nothing
The rankings were theirs. The ad account was theirs. A directory is the opposite: the domain, the traffic and the listings stay on your side of the contract.
How it works
Four moves from empty to earning
Setup takes an afternoon. Learn free in our Skool community, launch your directory for $9 a month — we provision it, and you finish the afternoon with a populated, live site.
Name your directory
Pick the city or the niche, set your colours, and your subdomain goes live immediately. Custom domain whenever you are ready.
Import the listings
Upload a CSV and map the columns, or pull a category straight from Google Places. A directory with nothing in it never gets claimed.
Owners claim their page
An owner finds their listing and asks for it. Nothing is auto-approved — every claim lands in your queue as a named lead with a phone number.
Charge for the good spots
Featured placement, category top slots, extra photos. Owners subscribe through your own Stripe account and you keep the whole thing.
What you get
Three people use this. All three are handled.
For your agency
- Your brand end to end
- Custom domain, logo, palette and type. Nothing on the page says our name.
- Many directories, one company
- Cities, niches or clients live side by side and switch from one menu.
- Theme editor
- Change the public site without opening a template file.
- Media library
- One place for the photos every listing and post pulls from.
For business owners
- Claim workflow
- Find the listing, prove it is theirs, wait for you to approve it.
- Owner dashboard
- Hours, photos, services, team, events and posts — edited by them, not you.
- Inquiries that reach them
- Every enquiry emails the owner and lands in your inbox at the same time.
- Self-serve upgrades
- They pick a paid tier and pay for it without emailing you.
For visitors
- Search that autocompletes
- Names and categories resolve as they type, not after a page load.
- A page per category and place
- Indexable landing pages for every niche-and-location pair you carry.
- Profiles worth landing on
- Hours, gallery, services, events, offers and reviews on one page.
- Submit a business
- The directory grows from its own visitors, into your approval queue.
To run it
- One inbox
- Enquiries, claims and submissions in a single queue instead of three.
- Approvals, never automatic
- A claim is a warm lead. You see it, you call, then you approve.
- Contacts and leads
- Every person who ever touched the directory, kept and searchable.
- Analytics
- Visits, uniques, claims and enquiries over any window back to launch.
Measured, not projected
Built for the tenth directory and the ten-thousandth.
These are benchmark numbers from our own load tests, not customer counts. We would rather show you the engineering than invent a testimonial.
0.99 msHostname → directory lookup, measured at 10,000 directories
84,159Listings in the benchmark corpus behind our query tuning
242×Category-browse speed-up from the current index design
Pricing
Priced per directory, because that is the thing that earns.
What the businesses in your directory pay you is yours. We charge you for the platform, not a cut of your revenue.
Starter$97/ monthOne directory. The whole platform.
- Unlimited listings and categories
- Your custom domain
- Claim workflow and owner dashboards
- Your own Stripe — you keep 100%
- CSV and Google Places import
FOR AGENCIES
Growth$297/ monthFive directories. Then $47 each after that.
- Everything in Starter, five times over
- One company, one login, all directories
- A separate domain for each one
- Add a directory any time at $47/mo
- [CONFIRM: team seats — not decided]
Questions people ask first
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Everything on the public site — colours, copy, navigation, categories — is edited from the admin. There is no template file to open and no deploy to run.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on the Starter plan and up. Every directory gets a subdomain the moment it is provisioned so you can start working immediately; upgrading to Starter lets you point your own domain at it whenever the DNS is ready.
How do the businesses pay me?
Through your own Stripe account, connected in settings. Their subscriptions are between them and you — we never touch that money and we take no percentage of it.
What happens when someone claims a listing?
It waits for you. The claim arrives in your approvals queue with the owner’s name, email and phone number. Nothing is approved automatically, because a claim is the warmest lead the directory will ever hand you — call them before you click approve.
Where do the first listings come from?
We give you real ones. Pick a seed set — scratch-and-dent appliance stores, diesel shops, bin stores, foreclosure specialists, auto repair — and your directory starts with named, located businesses in your metro instead of an empty page. Bring your own CSV too if you have one.
So the listings arrive finished?
No, and that is the part nobody else tells you. Names and locations come seeded; the phone numbers and emails are the work, and that work is what a directory is actually worth. We show you which sets are already reachable and which will cost you an evening, and we point you at a scraper with a free tier rather than an uncapped Google bill.
Is there a free trial?
No free directory — a directory is a year-long asset, not a weekend project, and a free tier mostly attracts people evaluating software rather than building a business. What is free is the community: join our Skool group, learn the model, and when you are ready your own directory is $9 a month from day one.
Stop renting out your expertise. Build the thing they come to.
Name your directory, import your listings, and have a live site under your own domain before the end of the afternoon.
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