For lighting installers
Own the Curbstead opportunity in your territory.
We generate homeowner lighting leads and send them to installers who cover the area. Qualified leads are $50 each, with no contract and no minimum. You see the budget, the timeline and the roof before you ever pick up the phone. Volume isn’t guaranteed — exclusivity within our routing is.
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How it works
Three steps between you and a warmer season.
Step 1
Apply
Tell us your company, the towns you cover, your licensing and insurance, and how much additional work you can take this season.
Step 2
Territory review
We check that you actually service the towns you asked for and that the roof stock matches your crew. Then we price the territory and come back to you.
Step 3
Approval and subscription
Approval reserves the territory and unlocks checkout at the agreed monthly price. Nothing is charged until you choose to start.
Step 4
Payment, then activation
Your territory goes exclusive only once the payment is confirmed. Some payment methods clear instantly and some take a few business days; we tell you which applies before you check out. Until it clears, the territory is held for you and not sold to anyone else.
Step 5
Leads route to you
Homeowners in your towns complete our qualification flow. Each eligible inquiry goes to you alone, by email and in the portal, with every answer included.
Step 6
You call, close and install
The homeowner is expecting one call — yours. Tell us what happened with the leads so we can keep improving what reaches you.
The territory model
How it works
- $50 per qualified lead
- One price. The same $50 whether the job is permanent architectural lighting or a seasonal Christmas install. You are never charged for a lead that does not meet the qualified-lead definition.
- No contract and no minimum
- Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, and no commitment to a volume. Take leads for a season, take three, or stop — there is no fixed cost running in the background while you decide.
- No free or trial leads
- Every lead is charged from the first one. Providers who were promised free leads before this policy keep them; nobody new inherits them.
- You only get work you actually do
- A permanent-only installer receives permanent-lighting leads and nothing else. Price does not vary by service type, but routing respects it.
- This is not exclusivity
- A lead may also reach another installer covering the same towns. Saying so up front is cheaper than a dispute after the fact.
- You are billed for what you received
- Leads are invoiced. If a lead does not meet the qualified-lead definition, tell us and it comes off the invoice.
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What we don’t promise.
Curbstead is early. You should decide with the downside in front of you — and applying commits you to a conversation, not to a contract, so the fit gets tested before either side has given anything up.
- Lead volume is not guaranteed.
- We do not promise a number of leads. Some areas produce steadily and some are quiet. You pay per lead, so a quiet month costs you nothing.
- Booked jobs are not guaranteed.
- We send the lead. Quoting, closing and delivering the work is yours — your pricing, responsiveness and workmanship decide the outcome.
- Return on investment is not guaranteed.
- A $50 lead can fail to convert. What per-lead pricing removes is the fixed downside: there is no subscription running while you decide whether it works.
- Exclusivity is not part of this.
- A lead may also reach another installer covering the same towns. If exclusivity matters to you, say so before you take leads rather than after.
Lead quality
This is what lands in your inbox.
Not a name and a number — the whole picture. Every qualification answer the homeowner gave, with high-intent leads flagged.
- A real homeowner in your area
- Every lead is a real person with working contact details, in the towns you cover, wanting a lighting service you actually perform. If any of that is untrue it is not a qualified lead and you do not pay for it.
- Consented contact
- The homeowner explicitly agrees to be contacted about their request before submitting. No cold lists, no scraped numbers.
- Spam-screened
- Submissions pass honeypot, rate-limit and phone-format checks automatically before anything reaches you. Junk dies before it costs you anything.
- Deliberately not interrogated first
- We ask a name, a phone, a ZIP and whatever they want to tell us — and stop. Making a homeowner classify their own job before they can raise a hand loses more good leads than it filters bad ones. You are better at scoping the work on the phone than a form is.
- You are not charged for a bad one
- A wrong number, a bot, someone outside your area, or someone wanting a service you do not offer comes off the invoice. Tell us.
New lead — Hinsdale
🔥 Hot lead- Name
- Margaret K.
- City
- Hinsdale, IL 60521
- Phone
- (630) •••-••••
- m.k•••••@gmail.com
- Desired installation
- Christmas light installation — Roofline + 2 front-yard trees + wreaths
- Property type
- 2-story colonial, cedar shake roof
- Budget
- $1,500–$3,000
- Timeline
- Before Thanksgiving
- Lights ownership
- Lease (installer owns & stores)
- Current installer
- No, first time
- Notes
- South-facing gable is steep — previous handyman wouldn't touch it.
Contact details are masked in this sample. Partners receive the full name, direct phone, email, and street address.
Why installers join
Built for the installer, not the lead broker.
No fixed cost
No contract, no minimum, no monthly fee. A quiet month costs you nothing, which is the whole reason per-lead exists — the downside of trying it is one lead.
One price, whatever the job
$50 for a permanent architectural install lead and $50 for a seasonal one. Nothing to check, nothing to argue about.
Only work you actually do
Permanent-only, seasonal-only, or both — tell us and that is what you receive. We do not send you a job you would have to turn down.
The homeowner already knows the price range
Our city pages publish honest local price context, so by the time someone asks for a quote they have seen what installs cost in their town. Fewer tyre-kickers, shorter calls.
Pricing
One rate. No fine print.
Installer
$50 per qualified lead.
The same $50 whether the job is permanent architectural lighting or a seasonal Christmas install. No contract, no minimum, no free leads.
What you get
- Qualified homeowner lighting leads from the towns you cover
- The same $50 whether the job is permanent or seasonal
- Email the moment a lead comes in
- Only the service types you actually perform
- Direct operator support
Terms, in plain English
- $50 per qualified lead.
- No contract.
- No minimum.
- No free or trial leads.
- Leads are invoiced. No card on file, and nothing is charged automatically.
- Nothing to cancel — no contract and no minimum. Tell us to stop sending leads and we stop.
Pricing varies by territory. Some territories aren't priced yet.
Trust
How the whole thing stays honest.
Homeowners
Why homeowners trust Curbstead
We publish real local price ranges for every town we serve — before anyone is asked for a phone number. We ask for contact details last, we require explicit consent to be contacted, and we send exactly one installer, not a call list.
Selection
How installers are selected
Every partner confirms licensing and insurance in their application, and we review experience against the roof stock of the territory they’re claiming — steep pitches, cedar shake, and slate in several of our towns demand non-penetrating clip work. One installer per territory; a territory stays unfilled rather than filled badly.
Verification
How leads are verified
Every lead passes automated screening — honeypot, rate limiting, and phone format checks — then a human review before routing. Homeowners answer scope, budget-band, timeline, and ownership questions, and every answer travels with the lead. Nothing is routed on a bare name and number.
Standards
Quality standards
A lead must have a specific property in a covered town, a stated budget band, a stated timeline, and explicit contact consent — or it isn’t routed. Leads that fall short get worked by us or discarded, not passed along to become a partner’s problem.
Privacy
Our privacy promise
A homeowner’s details go to at most one installer for the area — and are never sold to lead lists, brokers, or anyone else. Installers’ application details stay between them and us. We contact people about their request and nothing else.
Installer questions
The questions installers ask first.
- How much is a lead?
- $50 per qualified lead. The same price whether it is permanent architectural lighting or a seasonal Christmas install — one number, so there is never an argument about which bucket a lead fell into.
- Is there a contract or a minimum?
- No to both. Nothing recurring, nothing to cancel, and no commitment to take a certain number. If it does not work for you, stop.
- Do I get free leads to try it?
- No. Every lead is charged from the first one. A small number of installers were promised free leads before this pricing existed and those promises are being kept, but they are not available to new installers.
- Is lead volume guaranteed?
- No. We do not promise a number of leads. Some areas produce steadily and some are quiet. Because you pay per lead, a quiet month costs you nothing.
- Are jobs guaranteed?
- No. We send the lead. Quoting, closing and delivering the work is yours — your pricing, responsiveness and workmanship decide the outcome.
- Is this exclusive to me?
- No. A lead may also reach another installer who covers the same towns. If exclusivity matters to you, raise it before you start taking leads rather than after.
- What counts as a qualified lead?
- A real prospective customer with working contact details, inside the area you cover, interested in a lighting service you actually perform, with any consent requirements met. It is not a booked job, and it does not require a budget, a project value, a roofline measurement or an installation date.
- What if a lead is invalid?
- Tell us and it comes off the invoice. A wrong number, a bot, someone outside your area or someone wanting a service you do not perform is not a qualified lead and you do not pay for it.
- What information does a lead include?
- A name, a phone number, the ZIP, and whatever the homeowner chose to tell us. We deliberately do not force them through a questionnaire first — that costs leads, and you are better at scoping the job on the phone than a form is.
- How do I pay?
- Leads are invoiced. There is no card on file and nothing is charged automatically.
- Do I only get the type of work I do?
- Yes. Tell us whether you do permanent lighting, seasonal installation, or both, and you receive only that. Price is $50 either way.
- Does Curbstead install lights?
- No. Curbstead is not an installer. We generate homeowner leads and send them to installers — we never quote, never visit and never do the work.
- Does Curbstead control who the homeowner hires?
- No. We introduce you. The homeowner may call anyone else they like, and no platform can honestly promise otherwise.
Your towns are either open or they aren’t.
Territories close when they’re claimed. Two minutes to apply.