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Founder · HVAC
Ten years on the tools in the US. He has paid the lead fees and the CRM bills, and he built GigoPro because of that, not in spite of a spreadsheet.
Community round · United States
GigoPro — an honest b2b2c ecosystem for independent home-service pros in the US.
Democratizing local services. No middlemen, no hidden corporate tolls, built on reviews a customer actually wrote.
- 3.5M pages in the database
- 120K pages in the Google index
- 50K business profiles in that index
- iOS app built, now in final testing
The pain
The giants turned local search into a toll booth.
Yelp, Thumbtack, and Angi charge an independent HVAC tech or electrician serious money for one lead, then make them bid against national brands. On top of that, the pro pays $200–$400 a month for a CRM — Housecall Pro, Jobber — before the first job has paid.
Pay for the lead. Pay for the software. Still have not earned a dollar. The month an independent HVAC, electrical, or plumbing pro starts out.
- The market GigoPro
- A single lead You pay, then you bid against national brands Free to be found
- CRM before the first dollar $200–$400 a month Free
- What decides the top spot The biggest ad budget A published score
Our solution
Rank follows the work, not the ad budget.
GigoPro is the platform where a transparent score — real customer reviews, a finished profile, response time — decides organic order. The b2b offer is a full CRM, the job Housecall Pro does, at no charge.
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A published score
Organic order is reviews, profile completeness, and how fast the pro answers. Paid reach sits in labeled Featured slots above the list. We are taking ad weight out of the organic score so a budget cannot buy the ranking itself.
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A free CRM
Scheduling, books, and the day-to-day of a one-truck crew. Built for that crew, not as a software line item.
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QR that keeps the customer
A code on the invoice, the truck, the door hanger. The next visit starts with the pro who already did the work, not with another lead auction.
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Chat and coupons, no media buy
Talk to the customer in the product. Run an offer without paying a marketplace to introduce you to your own neighborhood.
Product and traction
This is not a slide-deck company.
The loop is already running. Here is what an investor can check.
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3.5M
Pages on Django
The database is in production and shaped to grow into millions of rows. 3.5 million pages are in the system now.
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120K
Pages Google already has
120,000 pages are in the index, including 50,000 business profiles, holding top positions for the queries they target.
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iOS
App in final testing
The iOS app is feature-complete and finishing testing. End-to-end QR codes are already live on the web.
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PoC
Tried with real pros
The product has been tried with independent HVAC, electrical, and plumbing pros. Interest from those pros has kept growing.
The traffic engine
We meet the customer at the moment of panic.
Nobody needs a million-dollar ad account to be in the room when the furnace throws a code. The homeowner is already searching.
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Error-code pages
Writers cover thousands of low-frequency equipment codes. HVAC, electrical, plumbing, appliances.
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Google, mid-breakdown
The customer searches the code on their phone. The result is a GigoPro page, not a lead form.
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One click to a local pro
From the answer to a reviewed pro nearby. The pro does not buy that introduction.
Who it is for
A one-truck HVAC, electrical, or plumbing crew, and the homeowner with a code on the screen.
The buyer of the CRM is the owner of an independent crew of one to ten people, in HVAC, electrical, plumbing, or appliances. The United States has on the order of 200,000 such contractors. National firms that already run ServiceTitan are not the customer. The homeowner is not comparing brands. They typed the code off the furnace, the panel, the washer, or the dishwasher.
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The pro
An independent HVAC, electrical, plumbing, or appliance pro. They pay for the lead, then pay $200–$400 a month for Housecall Pro or Jobber.
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The homeowner
Mid-breakdown, phone in hand. The second visit, a year later, starts from the QR on the last invoice. Property managers are not year one.
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Where we start
Only metros that already have business profiles in the index. Otherwise "one click to a local pro" opens an empty city.
How the audience is built
The page factory comes before the ads.
Brand spend turns on when a code page is live and a reviewed pro in that city can take the call. Featured credits for backers stay out of this budget.
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First 90 days
Two or three metros. The common codes, not the rare ones. One template: what the code means, what to check, when to call, and a jump to profiles that already have a score.
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Months 4–9
One to two thousand pages a month, in states that already have profiles. Rare codes wait until the common ones are indexed.
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Months 10–18
The same template in the other large states. The brand shows up in the season the house breaks, not as a banner that says download the CRM.
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Months 18–24
The return visit. QR on the invoice, the truck, the door hanger. The pro does not buy that customer again.
What two years of pages can compound to.
| Base | If the factory holds | |
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| Indexed code pages, month 12 | ~8,000 | ~15,000 |
| Visits a month, month 12 | 40–70k | 80–120k |
| Indexed code pages, month 24 | ~25,000 | 40–50,000 |
| Visits a month, month 24 | 200–350k | 500–600k |
| Pros running jobs, month 12 | 200–500 | up to ~1,000 |
| Pros running jobs, month 24 | 1–2,000 | 3–5,000 |
A planning model, not a forecast. It assumes 40–60% of new pages are indexed within six months, 10–30 visits a month on a mature code page, and 3–8 on a new one. The 50,000 profiles already in the index are mostly imported cards, not CRM customers. The narrow point is how many owners claim the card when a real job shows up.
What the round builds
A CRM for the pro, the pipes into tools they already pay for, and AI that stays on the page.
Requests, chat, coupons, services, and a QR to the profile are in the product today. The round pays for the rest of the sentence on this page.
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CRM
Free core for one truck: a calendar, a job made from the request, an estimate and a customer invoice, statuses, and a QR on that invoice back to the same pro. Premium, kept for backers even if it later costs money: job revenue, custom invoice templates, a seat per truck.
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Integrations
QuickBooks Online first, so the invoice lands in the books. Stripe Connect, so the customer pays the pro. Google Calendar and the Google Business profile. Job texts and the review ask go through Twilio and SendGrid, which are already connected. Parts catalogs and a move off Housecall Pro or Jobber come after the first year.
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AI
The code page answers only from an edited card: what it means, what to check, when to call. A generator may draft it. An editor publishes it. No open chat that walks someone through a gas valve or a panel. For the pro: draft invoice lines from notes and photos, a draft reply to a review, an open slot on the calendar. A person sends it. The pro on the code page is the published score in that city, not a model's favorite.
The long game
Two years of public utility, not a squeeze.
We are not here to tax pros who are starting from zero. For the next two years the company is aimed at media presence, compounding traffic, and the most public good we can ship.
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Be everywhere the search is
Media presence first. The brand shows up when the house breaks.
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Let the traffic compound
Every error-code page is an asset. It keeps working after the writer is done.
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Feel like a friend
The standard is a recommendation from the best friend who already used the pro.
The ask
$300,000–$500,000 to scale what already works.
A $250,000 term from Techstars is on the table. This community round is how independent pros and individual backers come in alongside that path.
Planned use of funds
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Product 45%
Android, built from scratch. Deeper CRM. A social layer. A knowledge base.
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Marketing 40%
Brand reach, and a content factory that takes the error-code engine into every US state.
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Infrastructure 15%
Servers, and keeping the CRM free while the audience grows.
Team
Built by someone who has done the work.
Engineering, data, SEO
The product team already shipped the index, the business tools, QR, and the iOS app that is in final testing.
Meet the product teamWhat backers receive
Three ways in. Product perks, not equity.
These are tools and marks inside GigoPro. They do not buy organic rank, they are not a share of the company, and they are not a token you can cash out.
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Community Master
$100–$250
Independent techs and micro-backers.
- A PRO mark on the profile. It does not lift the card in search. It tells a customer this pro backed the platform as a founder-investor.
- Early access to the Android beta.
- A base pool of Gigo utility tokens, later usable for profile customization or CRM bonuses.
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Core b2b tier
Growth Partner
$500–$1,000
Pros ready to run their jobs inside the CRM. The core b2b tier.
- Lifetime access to premium CRM modules — revenue analytics, accounting integrations, custom invoice templates — even if those become paid for everyone else.
- Ad credits equal to a placement in official Featured slots: top of the page, above search results, or key b2c moments. The pro can run that reach while organic rank builds on reviews.
- The PRO mark, plus a permanent Early Supporter status.
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Scale Investor
$2,500–$5,000
Small local companies and b2b backers.
- First right to book official ad placements in their ZIP or city, at a fixed price locked against later auction spikes.
- The top CRM plan for every technician and truck in the company. No subscription, for good.
- A closed b2b council: a direct line on which CRM features the business actually needs.
From the founder
I have spent 10 years as an HVAC tech in the United States. I know how hard it is to win a job without a huge budget. We built GigoPro so the quality of the work decides, not the size of the wallet — and we hand pros a free CRM to run that work.
For the next two years we would rather be useful than expensive.
This page describes a planned community round and the product perks that come with it. It is not an offer to sell securities and it is not investment advice. Gigo tokens are utility credits for profile customization, CRM bonuses, and advertising on GigoPro. They are not equity, not a share of revenue, and not redeemable for cash. The PRO mark does not change search rank. Payment is not accepted on this page. If the round opens, it will run through a registered funding portal and only for eligible participants. The $250,000 Techstars figure is a term offered to the company, not a guarantee that this round will close.
