AI Lead Generation — Contractors

Stop chasing leads.
Let AI find contractors who need you.

APEX Full Sales Machine scrapes Google Maps and CSLB licensing daily, scores every lead by fit, researches each prospect, sends personalized outreach, calls with AI voice, and books the meeting.

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Pipeline layers, 0 handoffs
The problem

Contractor lead gen is broken. Here's why the old ways fail.

Lead marketplaces sell the same lead to multiple competitors. Cold lists are stale. Manual outreach by a sales rep is slow. None of it scales.

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Lead marketplaces sell shared leads

Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack sell the same contact to multiple contractors simultaneously. You're in a race to call first, every time.

APEX fix: Your pipeline owns the lead data. Nobody else gets your scored, enriched prospects.
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Sales reps are expensive and inconsistent

A sales hire works a limited number of leads per day, before wages, benefits, and turnover. Their output depends on their mood. APEX runs the same script every night regardless.

APEX fix: Runs 24/7, no sick days, no ramp time.
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Generic lists lack context

Purchased lists have company name and phone. APEX adds license status, years in business, Google review velocity, ratings trajectory, and a GPT-generated pitch angle — before any outreach fires.

APEX fix: Leads enriched with verified owner names from CSLB licensing records.
How it works

Seven layers. From raw data to booked meeting.

Every layer runs autonomously each night. No manual intervention between scrape and booking.

01 Discover

Scrape the market

Google Maps + CSLB scraped across your target cities daily. Dedup against existing CRM contacts. Geo-fenced to your service area.

Google Maps CSLB

02 Score

Qualify by fit

License status, review velocity, business age, and ICP criteria collapse the scraped businesses to the hot leads. Ranked by probability to convert.

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03 Research

Enrich each prospect

GPT-4o-mini reads their website, recent reviews, competitor positioning, and license filings. Outputs a five-line pitch angle unique to each lead.

GPT-4o-mini Brave

04 Personalize

Build the pitch

Custom email sequence and landing page rendered per lead. Their logo, their reviews, your offer. Hosted on a tokenized URL for tracking.

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05 Pitch

Multi-touch outreach

3-touch email sequence with A/B variants. Reply detection pauses the sequence on a positive signal. CAN-SPAM compliant.

SMTP Snov.io

06 Call

AI voice follow-up

Vapi.ai voice agent calls every hot lead. TCPA-compliant DNC scrub, AI identification per CA SB 1001, recording disclosure, live opt-out detection.

Vapi DNC

07 Book

Land the meeting

Qualified prospects get a Cal.com link mid-call. Booking posts to CRM, fires Telegram alert to you, and stops all further outreach.

Cal.com Telegram

FAQ

Questions contractors ask about AI lead gen.

How does AI lead generation work for contractors?

APEX runs a seven-layer pipeline each night. Layer 1 scrapes Google Maps and state contractor registries (CSLB for California) across your target cities, collecting business name, phone, address, owner name, license number, review count, and rating. Layer 2 scores each prospect against your ideal customer profile using license status, business age, review velocity, and growth signals — collapsing the scraped businesses down to the hot leads. Layers 3 through 7 research each hot lead, write a personalized pitch, send multi-touch email outreach, call with a TCPA-compliant AI voice agent, and book qualified prospects directly into your calendar.

How much does AI lead generation cost for contractors?

The Full Sales Machine starts at $5,000 for a custom deployment.

What contractor types does APEX target?

APEX is calibrated for licensed contractors across the major trade categories: general contractors (Class B), electrical (C-10), plumbing (C-36), HVAC (C-20), roofing (C-39), concrete (C-8), painting (C-33), landscaping (C-27), and specialty trades. The scoring model pulls from CSLB license classifications in California and adapts to equivalent licensing boards in other states. If you serve a niche trade, we configure the ICP scoring accordingly during onboarding.

How long until I see leads from APEX?

The pipeline runs its first nightly scrape-and-score within 24 hours of deployment. You will see a scored lead report the morning after go-live. Outreach sequences begin firing within 48 hours. The Full Sales Machine deployment itself takes 14 to 30 days depending on integrations and geographic scope.

Is APEX TCPA compliant for contractor outreach?

Yes. Every outbound call scrubs against the federal Do Not Call registry before dialing. The AI voice agent identifies itself as an automated assistant in the opening sentence, per California SB 1001. Recording disclosure is delivered at the start of every call. Any prospect who says "do not call", "stop calling", or "remove me" triggers an immediate DNC flag — the lead status flips to do_not_contact and the phone number is added to our internal DNC list. Email sequences are CAN-SPAM compliant with unsubscribe footers on every message.

Get started

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We'll run a sample scrape-and-score against your target market and show you the actual lead output before you commit. No slideware. Real data from your city.