C5

For local service businesses

A website that actually ranks — on Google and in ChatGPT.

We research your market, build the site around the work you actually want, and do the work to get it ranking. Then we keep it there. Anyone can put up a website — the ranking is the job.

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Free
Business audit on the leads you're losing
$300K+
In lead volume in just two months for a glass & mirror company — $93K closed so far
1 week
A written diagnosis of what's broken, what it's costing you, and an action plan to fix it

What being invisible costs

The jobs you never hear about are the expensive ones.

A missed call you at least know about. The searches you never showed up for leave no trace at all — no voicemail, no email, nothing in the CRM. Someone in your service area looked for exactly what you sell, got three names, and none of them were yours. That happens every day and never lands on a report.

Most owners assume they’re covered because they have a website. Having one and ranking with one are different jobs. A site nobody finds is a brochure you pay hosting for — and the assistants people increasingly ask instead of Google are blunter still, because they name one or two businesses and stop.

That’s the work: research what your market actually searches for, build the pages that answer it, and earn the position. Then hold it — ranking isn’t a launch, it’s something you keep.

Work

Shipped and live.

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Sonshine Glass

Glass & mirror · Orange County

Taken from invisible on Google to a steady stream of qualified local leads.

Problem
Invisible on Google — an old site with nothing indexed, so high-intent local searches went to whoever showed up first.
Approach
Deep research to find where they could win, then built the pages to own those niches — Eichler homes (a mid-century style known for floor-to-ceiling glass walls), commercial storefronts, multi-family retrofits, property managers, a page per service-area city — each feeding a lead-capture form that routes jobs to the shop.
Result
From zero to 20 indexed pages and a ~500x increase in daily search visibility in under two months since the relaunch — plus more than $300K in inbound lead value, including a $93K job now signed, materials ordered, from an Eichler homeowner who landed on the exact page built for them.
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ChatGPT

"Who's the best frameless shower installer in Orange, CA?"

"My pick for best overall. 5.0 rating in the current local results and based directly in Orange... Sonshine has been operating since 1977, uses its own installers, and lists a lifetime warranty."

Sonshine Glass & Mirror — #1

Same client, a second result

AI visibility

Ranking in Google was only half the gap. Three weeks ago, Sonshine didn't come up when people asked ChatGPT either.

Problem
More customers are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation instead of searching — and Sonshine wasn't in any of those answers.
Approach
Tracked the exact signals they pull from — reviews, citations, structured content — and closed the gaps directly.
Result
Three weeks later, Sonshine is the #1 answer across three separate real customer questions — this one, custom mirrors, and commercial storefront work.
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What we can build for you

Beyond the work we've shipped — a working demo of the instant-quote engine we can build for any local service business.

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Instant-Quote Engine

Live demo

Most local service sites make a customer wait for a price — and lose them to whoever calls back first. This engine quotes on the spot and captures the lead. Shown here for roofing; it adapts to any trade.

Live and interactive — try it in the panel, or open it full screen.

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Booking

Recorded demo

Fills the calendar without anyone in the office chasing a callback to lock in a time. Shown here for a fencing job — pick a service, pick a day and time, confirm. It adapts to any trade.

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Custom CRM

Recorded demo

Pipeline tracking, multi-vendor pricing requests, proposal and invoice generation, and a real dashboard — built once around how a shop already works. Shown here on a demo account for a fictional company, Coast Window; it adapts to any trade.

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What's inside the build

The build, the upkeep, and what you add when you're ready.

The website is the build. Ranking it and keeping it ranked is the ongoing work. Everything after that is bought when it earns its keep — not bundled in to pad an invoice.

01 · The build One time

Research, build, rank

We research what your market actually searches for and where the gaps are, then build the site page by page around the work you want — not a template with your city swapped in. Structured so Google and the assistants can both read what you do and where you do it, with the Google Business Profile wired up behind it.

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Lead follow-up

Every inquiry gets a reply in seconds, then a sequence until they book or opt out. Included — a site that captures leads and drops them isn't finished.

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Booking

Fills the calendar on its own, confirms ahead, and cuts no-shows with reminders. Included for the same reason.

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02 · Staying found Monthly

Ranking isn't a launch, it's a position you hold. This is what the monthly actually buys.

AI visibility

Get recommended when people ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity who to hire. We track and improve the signals these assistants actually use — so it's a number you can see, not a promise.

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Ranking & fine-tuning

New pages for the searches worth owning, Google Business Profile upkeep, and the ongoing corrections that keep you climbing instead of sliding. Reported monthly, in positions and calls — not vanity charts.

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03 · Add on when you're ready Priced separately

Instant quote engine

Prices the jobs that follow the same pattern every time, automatically — so a real callback stays fast for the ones that need a conversation.

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Front desk

Answers every call, text, and chat — books, reschedules, and routes. No hold music, no voicemail, no missed job.

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Custom CRM

Pipeline tracking, pricing requests, proposals and invoices, and a real dashboard — built once around how your shop works. You own it, no monthly software fee.

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Glass, mirror & windows · Fencing · Pools & spas · Decking · Garage doors · Moving companies · Restoration & water damage · Junk removal · Tree service · HVAC · Auto repair · Law firms · and more

How we work together

Start free. Pay only when you see the gap.

No big commitment up front — each step is priced on its own, and earns the next.

Step 1 · Free

Business audit

A few quick questions about your calls and average job value. See roughly what missed calls are costing you — from your own numbers.

Step 2 · $1,000–1,500

Paid diagnostic

We test how your phone actually gets answered — mornings, lunch, after-hours, weekends — check where you rank against who's beating you, and audit what you're already paying for. One week, credited in full toward the build.

Step 3 · Custom

The build

Priced off what the diagnostic actually finds — the full system, or just the piece you need first, like the SEO site on its own. 3–4 weeks, reduced by whatever you paid for the diagnostic.

Step 4 · $600–800/mo

Managed

We monitor it, review calls weekly, and send a monthly report on what it produced — jobs booked that would otherwise have been missed.

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About

A decade building software — not a weekend course.

C5 comes out of more than ten years in Silicon Valley — building and taking products to market at early-stage startups and enterprise companies that went on to exit, several since acquired by major public companies.

That matters here for one reason: getting started is easy, and getting it wrong in front of your customers is easier. We spent that decade on teams obsessed with how software actually behaves for the person on the other end, and we hold this to the same standard — you're not getting handed a login and a good-luck email.

Get in touch

Get your free business audit.

Tell us your trade, your average job value, and how many calls you think you're missing. We'll send back roughly what that's costing you — from your own numbers, no pitch attached.

Or email info@helloc5.com