Software development services

Local 'white glove' online-presence agency for home-service contractors

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A recurring-revenue service that fixes and upgrades local home-service businesses' entire online presence — website, domain email, brand package, Google Business Profile, review automation, QR codes, business cards — sold in person over the phone to business owners the caller finds in local Facebook groups, rather than through scraped leads or mass outreach.

Problem: Small service businesses have a janky or non-existent website, a Gmail address, no domain, few or zero Google reviews and no system to collect them — so homeowners who search for them don't trust them and don't call. Most competing agencies do lazy mass outreach (cold email, DMs, scraped lists) at 0.2% close rates and don't fix any of it.

For: Local home-service business owners (landscaping, HVAC, roofing, electrical, pest control, stucco) in the caller's own metro — especially 'golden prospects' 3-7 years in business with decent revenue but no systems, a lame website and few or zero reviews, plus brand-new unlicensed contractors just getting started.

Examples

• James's own agency: quit a nonprofit job with zero clients and zero revenue, 16 months later ~60 paying local businesses and $18,000 in his best month at 85-90% profit margin, ~90% of clients in the Phoenix area

Agentic engineering service for shipping production code

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Audit an existing software product, create a dependency-mapped backlog, and use agents to implement approved work with human pull-request review.

Problem: Growing engineering backlogs caused by limited staff or a departed developer.

For: Founders and teams shipping more software than they can staff.

Websites for machine shops

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A vertical web design agency for a single dated industry: machine shops, plating and heat-treat companies all have websites that look like 2009, and an industry insider sells them an upgrade.

Problem: Every machine shop website looks two decades old; an industry insider who knows the buyers can sell them modern sites.

For: Machine shop owners (and adjacent industrial categories like plating and heat treating).

Examples

• Branko, a CNC machine shop operator: got his first client last week and has two more about to close.