How Sherpa works
Three steps, in order: attract, convert, operate. This page is the whole path, the systems inside each step, and the data behind them.
Attract
Customers can't call a business they never find.
The guarantee
Double your Google ranking and rank on AI search in less than 90 days. Guaranteed.
Most contractor websites are buried on page three and invisible to AI tools. We fix both, with a deadline.
- Show up in ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews
- Rank for searches that book jobs, like "emergency plumber near me"
- Measured from day one. You see the ranking report
The data
Where home-service leads actually come from
125,001 leads, tracked over 90 days. 94% came from a Google Business Profile or the business's own website. That's why step one starts there.
And homeowners are using AI to find contractors more than ever before:
of homeowners now try AI first, not Google, to find a local contractor, up from just 6%
of homeowners aged 30–44 use AI assistants to pick home services, the heaviest adopters
home-service searches now trigger an AI answer before any traditional result
AI search = ChatGPT, Gemini & Google's AI Overviews. Figures from 2025–26 industry surveys of U.S. homeowners.
Live · homeowners searching for home services on AI today
15.2 million homeowners search for home services on AI-powered search engines every day in the U.S.
Google Business Profile
Your Google listing, fully optimized
When a homeowner searches "plumber near me," the map pack gets the call. We make sure you're in it.
- Every service, category, and service area filled out
- Automated review requests after every job
- Every review answered. Google rewards it
- Fresh photos and regular posts
Next-generation websites
A $20,000-class website. Yours from $297/mo.
A site like this normally costs $20,000 to $60,000. Sherpa builds, launches, and cares for yours from $297/mo.
Get my free 360° audit- Loads in about one second
- Ranks higher on Google
- AI tools like ChatGPT can read and recommend it
- Looks great on every device
- Maintained for you, so you never lift a finger
Contractors already running on Sherpa
Convert
Leads book with whoever answers first. We make sure that's you.
Speed to lead
The first company to answer wins the job
Most contractors reply in hours. Sherpa replies in seconds and follows up until the job is on the calendar.
- Every lead answered in seconds, 24/7
- Follow-up that never forgets
- One pipeline for the whole team
- Reactivation that books jobs from past customers
AI call answering
Never send another customer to voicemail
Every call picked up: nights, weekends, and while your crew is on a roof. It qualifies the caller and books real appointments.
- Answers 24/7. No voicemail, no missed emergencies
- Qualifies the job before it hits your calendar
- Books against your team's real availability
Operate
AI on the most time-consuming, expensive parts of running the business. Your team stays on the tools.
First up: field paperwork
Manual, redundant tasks: from days to minutes
Sherpa puts AI on the repetitive work that eats your team's week, starting with change orders and T&M tickets. The handshake change order nobody wrote down is where contractors lose real money. Sherpa gets it documented, signed, and synced.
- Change orders signed on site in minutes
- T&M tickets captured in the field
- CRM, accounting & job software in sync. Zero manual entry
What we automate next
The most time-consuming, expensive parts of the business, automated in priority order. The end state is the self-running contracting business.
- 01
Field paperwork (shipped)
Change orders and T&M tickets, from days to minutes.
- 02
Proposals & bidding
Priced, professional bids in minutes, built from your own numbers.
- 03
Project costing & financial reporting
Know which jobs, crews, and lead sources actually make money.
- 04
Forecasting
See cash flow and workload before they happen.
- 05
Sales operations
Pipeline, follow-up, and handoffs that run themselves.
- 06
Payroll systems
Payroll prep without the Friday scramble.
Industries
Built for the trades
Every system is built around how contractors actually win work: emergency calls, estimates, change orders, crews in the field.
All industries →- HVAC
- Roofing
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Remodeling
- Concrete
- Landscaping
- Restoration
- Solar
- General Contracting
- Custom Home Building
- Painting
- + 48 more
Start with the free 360° audit
See exactly where you stand on Google and AI search. Free, 30 seconds.