Collective Trust · Associated Contractors
What would 200 new customer contacts per week mean to you?
Take a second with that question. Then keep reading, because that's the math of a full Collective Trust chapter, and there's exactly one seat in it for your trade.
Think it through
Four questions every owner should answer
Question 1
What would 200 new customer contacts per week mean to you?
Not cold leads bought from a list, but warm introductions from 19 other trade professionals already standing in your customers' homes.
Question 2
What would a 20x salesforce do for your business?
Every member of your chapter sells for you from the job site. When they see work in your trade, you're the only name they can send it to.
Question 3
What would it be worth to never compete on price again?
One company per trade per chapter. When a member's customer needs your trade, there's no bidding war. There's you.
Question 4
What would your close rate be if every lead arrived pre-trusted?
Referrals from a vetted, licensed neighbor in the trades convert like nothing you can buy. The trust is transferred, not earned from zero.
Run your own numbers
What is a chapter seat worth to you?
Drag the sliders to your reality. No hype, just your close rate and your average ticket against warm, trade-referred contacts.
Modeled annual revenue from chapter referrals
$2,340,000
Against $1,000/month flat dues, with no per-lead fees, ever.
How it works
The Collective Trust model
An invite-only association of licensed home-service contractors. One company per trade. Every member backed by the chapter.
Twenty trades. One seat each.
Roofer, plumber, electrician, fencer: every chapter seats exactly one company per trade. Your competitors can't buy in behind you.
Flat dues. No per-lead fees.
Membership is a flat monthly due. You keep what you close.
Slots are earned, not bought.
License and insurance verified, references called, unanimous chapter vote. The badge means something because not everyone gets one.
Every member carries the verified TrustCo.in badge, earned through license checks, reference calls, and a unanimous chapter vote.
The homeowner side
You sell it at the peak of the trust curve
The homeowner promise is genuinely easy to sell: better pros, rewarded for their loyalty to the Collective, and no bidding wars. The difference between an opt-in and a shrug is timing. Ask while trust is still rising, not after it starts to fade.
Finish strong, then ask
The best moment to invite a homeowner in is the moment you're putting tools away and they can see the result. No survey, no follow-up email, no ad ever gets close to that level of trust.
One question, thirty seconds
"Before I go: our company is part of Collective Trust, one vetted pro per trade in this area. Want on the list? This job earns you a Collective Trust Credit, our way of rewarding your loyalty: up to $500 toward your next project with any other trade on the roster." That's the whole pitch. The chapter handles everything after.
The roster starts selling for you
Opted-in homeowners are rewarded for their loyalty to the Collective: they carry a Collective Trust Credit worth 5% of the job you just did, up to $500, toward their next project with a different trade. They have 30 days to use it. When they need a trade you don't do, your fellow members get the work, and return the favor in your trade.
What the homeowner gets
- · One license-verified, insured business per trade, voted in by the members themselves
- · Loyalty, rewarded: a Collective Trust Credit on real work, 5% of the completed job, up to $500, toward their next project with any other trade
- · Quotes that arrive pre-trusted, from a pro their own contractor already stands behind
- · Twenty extra sets of eyes on their home, catching problems before they are emergencies
What every opt-in means for you
- · A customer pool the other nineteen members keep feeding, once per customer, with a 30-day credit deadline pushing them to book now
- · Referrals that arrive with photos, context, and a homeowner already inclined to hire
- · Your own customers, protected: every trade they need from the chapter routes to you first
The homeowner buys nothing and risks nothing. They simply get better pros, and they're rewarded for their loyalty to the Collective with a pay-it-forward credit the next trade honors. Every one of them becomes part of your chapter's lead flow.
Last question: if your trade's seat is open in your city, who gets it: you, or your competitor?
Chapters are forming now. Once a trade seat is voted in, it's closed.