Who wrote this guide, and how should you read it?
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Blueprint Lead wrote this guide and appears in the table. Every fact about another company comes from that company’s own published pages, checked on September 2, 2026, and is quoted or paraphrased without a quality judgment. Use the table to sort providers by model, then test the shortlist yourself.
Blueprint Lead wrote this guide and appears in the table. We sell live call transfers and pre-set appointments to contractors from a Los Angeles home base, so we have an interest in how this reads. Everything here about other companies comes from their own published pages as they stood on September 2, 2026. We make no claims about their quality or results.
Read it like a spec sheet. A row tells you what a provider says it sells, whether it calls the lead yours alone, whether a price sits on a page you can open, and where it says it works. None of that says whether the leads are good. The trial plan below is how you learn that.
How was the table built?
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Each row scores a provider on five things: its billing model, whether it describes leads as exclusive or shared, whether pricing is published, its stated geographic focus, and the formats it offers. A cell counts as published only if it appears on a page anyone can open without logging in or calling a rep.
We opened each company’s home page and, where one existed, its pricing and how-it-works pages, and copied what they say. Where a page uses a specific phrase, the cell quotes it. Where a page is silent, the cell says “Not stated on site,” which describes the page, not the company. The row order is not a ranking.
“Published” means a figure or statement you can read today without an account, a sales call, or a form. “Contact us for pricing” is honest, but it is not published pricing. Prices and terms change without notice, so treat every competitor cell as “as published; confirm with the provider” before you rely on it.
Which three models will a Los Angeles contractor meet?
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Three models cover almost every provider in the table: shared leads from a marketplace, where one homeowner request goes to several contractors; exclusive leads, usually generated by ads and sold to one contractor; and phone-qualified delivery, where a person screens the homeowner and hands you a live transfer or a pre-set appointment.
A marketplace collects homeowner requests on its own site and sends each to more than one contractor. Networx’s page caps it at four; Angi Leads charges a fee for each lead you match to. The fee is modest, the first call is a race, and the format fits a shop with someone at a phone all day.
An exclusive-lead company runs ads for your trade, sometimes inside your own ad account, and sends every form to you alone. Minyona and 99 Calls describe this model; Construction Lead Pro sells it as monthly packages with appointment minimums. You pay per lead, per appointment, or per month, plus ad spend or a setup fee.
Phone-qualified delivery puts a person between the homeowner and you. Someone calls, confirms the project is real, and either transfers the call while the homeowner is on the line or books a time on your calendar. 33 Mile Radius and Modernize list live calls; Blueprint Lead sells transfers and appointments. It costs more per lead and less per conversation.
What does Los Angeles change?
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Los Angeles stretches a service area across dozens of cities and a drive that can run a hundred miles, puts a state license number in every homeowner’s hands, carries steady ADU demand under state law, and now adds rebuild work in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. A provider’s coverage answer should name cities, not just “LA.”
Contractors we talk to in Los Angeles describe a working radius of roughly 100 miles, Ventura County through the Valley to the Inland Empire and down into Orange County, with the drive priced into the job. That radius crosses dozens of cities with their own review timelines, so ask which cities a provider delivers in and how an out-of-radius lead is handled.
Homeowners here are told to check licenses. CSLB’s consumer pages say work valued at $1,000 or more in combined labor and materials requires a current license, and that every contractor advertisement must carry the state license number. Expect the question on a first call and have the number ready.
ADU demand is set by state law rather than city by city; the state housing department publishes the ADU handbook and notes the governing code sections were renumbered in 2024 under SB 477. Rebuild work sits on top: the County’s recovery site covers the Eaton fire in Altadena, and the City’s LA Strong site says like-for-like Palisades rebuilds within 110 percent of the original footprint get complete applications reviewed within 30 days, with pre-approved standard plans for single-family homes and ADUs.
How do you run a two-week trial with any provider?
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Before the first lead arrives, agree in writing what counts as a billable lead and what earns a credit. Then set an intake window you can actually staff, log every delivery with its timestamp, count contacts and booked estimates rather than jobs, and decide on that data at the end of two weeks.
Get the billable-lead definition in writing before money moves. For a marketplace that is the credit policy: wrong number, wrong zip, duplicate, wrong trade. For a transfer or appointment provider it is what happens when the homeowner hangs up mid-transfer or is not home. Every provider has an answer; get yours on paper.
Set an intake window and tell the provider. Transfers only work when someone answers; appointments only work when someone can be at the address. Then log every delivery: time received, time you responded, whether you reached the homeowner, whether an estimate was booked. A shared spreadsheet is enough.
After two weeks, count contacts reached and estimates booked. Closed jobs take longer than two weeks in remodeling and far longer in ADU work, so judge the provider on the conversations it delivered and judge your close rate separately. Cost per booked estimate is the number to compare across providers.
What should you ask before you buy?
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Ask who else receives the same homeowner, what a billable lead is, whether a person spoke to the homeowner before delivery, which cities the provider delivers in today, how billing runs and how you stop it, and what happens to a lead you decline. Short, direct answers are the good sign.
Keep the list short and ask every provider on your shortlist the same questions, including us. Answers that sit in the agreement are the ones you can hold a provider to.
Answers that live only on a phone call should be written down and emailed back before you pay. Then ask:
- Who else receives this homeowner, now or after I pass on it?
- What exactly makes a lead billable, and what earns a credit?
- Did a person speak with the homeowner before it reached me, and is that call recorded?
- Which Los Angeles cities are you delivering in this month, and at what volume?
- How am I billed, how often, and how do I stop?
- For appointments: is the time confirmed with the homeowner, and do they know which company is coming?
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