Most agencies explain what they actually do in a proposal you get after the third meeting. Here's ours on one page: where we start, what gets built, when your phone starts ringing, and the numbers we expect to be judged on.
You bring three numbers: leads per month, average job, and how many appointments your people can actually sit. We do the leak math together, on the call. If the arithmetic doesn't clearly pay for us, we tell you and part friends — that's the whole meeting.
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Step two · Week one
We walk your buyer's journey
The ad they scrolled past, the 8:40pm call that rang out, the “near me” search, the quote that went quiet. We find where buyers are slipping away and which leak bleeds the most — findings you keep either way.
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Step three · Weeks two to four
The build, in your name
Answering goes live first: Gary picks up every lead in under a minute from the day he's switched on. Then landing pages, location profiles, creative, tracking — all built in your accounts, so nothing is ever held hostage.
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Step four · Month two
Demand, paced to your calendar
Ads switch on, briefed in appointments — never clicks. Wherever there are empty chairs, that's where the budget goes; a diary running three weeks out doesn't get buried in leads it can't seat. The first booked appointments typically land within weeks.
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Step five · Every week after
One scoreboard, your numbers
Appointments sat, quotes worked, contracts signed — reviewed with us in the room, not attached as a PDF. Meanwhile the compounding work — search, reviews, brand — quietly lowers what every lead costs, each quarter it ages.
I'm live on day one. the humans need “weeks.” amateurs.— Gary
The short version
You'll never wonder what you're paying for.
What gets fixed
Five places buyers slip away. Each one has a page.
Every step above exists to close these five leaks. Read the ones that hurt.
Answering is instant — the day Gary goes live, the 8:40pm calls stop dying. Paid demand is fast — booked appointments within weeks. Search, reviews and brand are the slow, compounding kind: months to move, and then they keep producing long after the invoice. We'll be straight about which is which on the first call, with dates.
What do you need from us?
About an hour a week at the start: access to your accounts, straight answers about your trade, and someone who can say yes. Once the build is live, it's the weekly numbers review — most owners keep it to twenty minutes.
Who actually does the work?
The people who plan it. HONK is a small, senior team — there's no account layer, and nobody hands your account to an intern after the pitch.
What does it cost?
It depends on your trade, your area, and how many appointments you need — so we price it on the call, with your numbers on the table. What we can promise in advance: if the arithmetic doesn't clearly pay for us, we'll tell you and part friends.
What if it isn't working?
You'll see it when we see it — it's the same scoreboard. We change what's weak, and we're honest about the difference between a slow quarter of compounding and a real miss. Either way, everything we've built — pages, profiles, creative, CRM — is yours.
the compounding department, compounding.
The promise
You'll always know what's working.
No mystery reports, no invoices for “social.” One scoreboard with your numbers on it, and a team you can call who actually built the thing.
No pitch deck. No retainer talk on call one.
Step one costs twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes with a human. Bring leads per month, average job, locations open — you leave knowing what the leak costs and what fixing it is worth, before you've spent a dollar.