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A Client-Acquisition Operating System for Contractors

The Keystone System.
You build. We conquer.

A discreet, fully-staffed client-acquisition engine for producing contractors across Canada and the United States. We do everything that has to happen before the estimate — so the builder only has to win the driveway.

The Quiet Truth

Most contractors are excellent on the job — and exposed everywhere before it.

Construction is not a marketing problem in disguise. It is a pipeline and authority problem made worse by bad marketing — slow estimate follow-up, no-show site visits, leads bought from saturated vendors, reviews left to chance, and the work surrendered to whichever company simply answered the phone faster. We exist to remove the marketing, qualification, and follow-up tax from builders who already know how to deliver the work.

What Changed in 2026

The customer has reset its expectations.
Most contractors have not.

5 min
The new threshold for first response. Beyond it, the job goes to whoever answered first.
Guaranteed
Google Local Services / Google Guaranteed placement now sits above the map — and decides who gets called.
9 in 10
Of homeowners read reviews and study photos before they ever request an estimate.
The compounding return on visual proof and reputation versus the half-life of paid spend.

Most contractors still respond in hours, follow up on estimates by hand, let site visits no-show, ignore Google's review and Guaranteed layer, and compete on price instead of authority. The few who fix this are quietly taking the market.

Two Engagements

Same standard. Different posture.

We work with contractors in one of two postures — depending on whether you want the engine run for you, or installed and owned by your company.

Build For You

The Keystone Atelier

Owned Infrastructure Suite

We engineer the systems — brand, web, conversion, analytics, AI — and hand them to your company with documentation and ninety days of operating support. For contractors ready to own their growth engine.

The Keystone Funnel

Six modules. One engine.

Acquire. Verify. Convert. Retain. Compound. Each module is precise, measurable, and integrated with the next.

ATLAS
Trade & Service-Area Intelligence

Service-area and job-type mapping, competitor and Google share-of-voice audit, ideal-project definition. The 90-day strategic brief that governs every other module.

BEACON
Authority & Reputation Engine

A managed Google Business Profile, before/after visual proof, project showcases, and local SEO by trade and city — plus the reviews engine, across Google, Houzz, and Angi, that customers vet you on. Proof you can see beats claims you cannot.

FORGE
Engineered Demand

Google Local Services Ads and Google Guaranteed first, then Google Search, Meta, and retargeting — built on intent, not impressions. Audience architecture, creative testing, weekly cost-per-qualified-estimate governance.

PURSUIT
Referral & Reactivation

Compliant cultivation of past clients and the referral web that feeds the trades — realtors, designers, architects, property managers, and suppliers — plus just-completed-job neighbour outreach. Every touch logged.

SENTINEL
AI Intake Verification & Follow-Up

The trust layer. Every inquiry screened — service area, project type, budget, and scope — and answered in under five minutes, day or night, until qualified or formally declined.

CONCIERGE
Estimate & Site-Visit Coordination

Human-led, AI-assisted. A trained Concierge confirms intent, books the site visit, handles reschedules, and kills the no-show — the trade's single biggest leak — then delivers your pre-visit brief the night before.

The Verification Standard

Why a Keystone inquiry is not a lead.

You will not see an unscreened inquiry. Every estimate our system books passes a multi-step verification — including the checks that are unique to the trades — before the contractor ever hears about it.

01Identity verified through two independent signals.
02Service area validated against where the contractor works.
03Project type matched to the contractor's trade and capability.
04Budget banded against the realistic cost of the work.
05Timeline and urgency flagged — emergency, this season, or planning.
06Job-size and scope fit confirmed against the company's ideal project.
07First response in under five minutes.
08Site visit booked or formally declined — never left to drift.
The Keystone Atelier

For contractors who want to own the engine.

Specialist modules and a master tier — engineered to integrate with your existing CRM and field-management stack, delivered with documentation, training, and ninety days of operating support.

Brand

AEGIS

Company positioning, voice, visual identity — including truck, yard-sign, and crew presentation — and a messaging architecture your team can run from.

Digital Home

CATHEDRAL

A high-conversion website with trade and service pages, project galleries, before/after proof, financing, and estimate-request funnels, with conversion-rate discipline.

Conversion

ADVOCATE

On-site estimate framework, in-home presentation system, pricing and proposal conversation, objection matrix, and follow-up and win-back sequences.

Presentation

PORTFOLIO

Capability decks, project case-study books, and bid collateral for custom-home and larger commercial pursuits, at the standard the premium segment expects.

Measurement

LEDGER

Single-source-of-truth dashboards. Cost of acquisition, job value, estimate-to-contract conversion, channel attribution, weekly governance cadence.

Intelligence

CODEX

A private AI knowledge engine trained on the company's projects, pricing logic, voice, and SOPs. A research analyst and intake assistant that never sleeps.

Master Tier

CONDUCTOR

Full growth-OS orchestration. Strategy, model selection, and KPI cadence run from above the modules. Quarterly business reviews with the principal — the fractional CMO who sits inside the company without standing on the site.

For every module in depth — what it does, why a producing practice needs it, what to expect, and when it goes live —
See The Engine  ›

Where We Operate

Two countries.
Selected, not exhaustive.

We work where the build commands the work — and where our cadence and standard are sustainable.

Toronto
Vancouver
Calgary
Ottawa
Edmonton
Montréal
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Houston
Miami
Atlanta
Dallas
Phoenix
Who We Work With

One contractor per trade per market.

A small set of contractors per market. Never competing mandates — we will not run the company across the street.

Custom Home BuildersHigh-value, considered clientele. Authority- and referral-driven, where reputation and a portfolio carry the close.
Design-Build & High-End RemodelersKitchens, additions, whole-home renovations. Visual proof and estimate-speed decide who wins the project.
Premium Specialty TradesRoofing, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing. Volume and response-speed game — the fastest, most-reviewed company is retained.
Landscaping & HardscapingSeasonal, design-led, and intensely visual. Before/after proof and a full pipeline before the season turns.
The Implementation Arc

Ninety days from signature to standing system.

Days 1–30

Foundation

ATLAS service-area and ideal-project lock. Brand and messaging audit. System installation across CRM, Local Services and ad accounts, call tracking, and analytics. SENTINEL and CONCIERGE wired in with the no-show workflow. Built-to-Code compliance review against TCPA and CASL. The strategic brief is signed.

Days 31–60

Activation

BEACON authority and reputation engine live. FORGE campaigns launched against the Atlas brief — Local Services and Search first. SENTINEL processing live intake. CONCIERGE delivering the first booked site visits to the contractor's calendar.

Days 61–90

Cadence

PURSUIT at full referral and reactivation cadence. LEDGER reporting weekly. The engine runs independent of the season. Quarterly review scheduled with the principal.

Investment

Three engagement tiers.
Six-month minimum.

Keystone Funnel pricing is structured so we are paid on outcome — the retainer covers the operating cost of the team; the per-close fee is earned only when the engine sources a signed job. All figures in USD.

Keystone Standard

Single Market · Single Trade
$4,500/month
+ $1,000 per sourced close. A single signed job more than covers the retainer.
  • ATLAS, BEACON, FORGE, PURSUIT
  • SENTINEL screening & follow-up
  • CONCIERGE site-visit booking
  • LEDGER weekly reporting
  • Six-month minimum engagement

Keystone Sovereign

Multi-Market · Custom-Home / Premium Specialty
$12,500/month
+ $1,000 per sourced close. Multi-market volume, priced for scale.
  • Full funnel across multiple markets
  • Referral and reactivation pipeline
  • Bespoke reporting and forecasting
  • Direct line to the principal
  • Twelve-month minimum engagement

The Keystone Atelier

Build engagements with documented deliverables and ninety days of operating support post-launch.

AEGIS
From $8,500
CATHEDRAL
From $14,500 + $850/mo
ADVOCATE
$6,500
PORTFOLIO
From $3,500
LEDGER
$5,500 + $750/mo
CODEX
$18,500 + $1,200/mo
CONDUCTOR — Master Tier
From $9,500/mo · Six-month minimum

A note on professional standards. Per-close fees are structured as a flat fee earned on a signed job the engine sources — never a share of contract value or a per-job commission — and every SMS, voice, and email touch is run on captured TCPA / CASL consent. The exact structure is confirmed against your jurisdiction's advertising and consent rules before any engagement begins.

Selection Criteria

We take a small number of engagements per quarter.

The market lock belongs to the engine, not the firm. One-off builds, audits, and advisory engagements carry no market exclusivity — they are open on request.

The Next Step

You build.
We conquer.

The discovery call is forty-five minutes, private, and confidential. No pitch — a diagnostic conversation. We define the engagement together. If we are right for each other, we begin. If not, you leave with a clearer view of your market.

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