For lighting installers
Every lead in your towns. Yours alone.
Curbstead sends qualified Chicagoland homeowners to one installer per territory — never shared, never resold. You see the budget, the timeline, and the roof before you ever pick up the phone.
How it works
Three steps between you and a warmer season.
Step 1
Claim your territory
Apply with your towns. If they're open and you're licensed and insured for the roof stock there, the territory is yours — exclusively.
Step 2
Leads come to you alone
Homeowners in your towns complete our qualification flow. The moment one submits, you get the full lead by email — every answer included, hot leads flagged.
Step 3
You call, you close, you install
The homeowner is expecting one call — yours. No bidding wars, no racing three other installers to a shared number.
The territory model
One installer per territory. That's the whole model.
- One preferred installer per territory
- Every territory — typically two to four neighboring towns — has exactly one partner. When a homeowner in your towns requests a quote, it goes to you and only you. We never route one homeowner to multiple installers.
- Limited by design
- We currently cover 20 Chicagoland towns, which supports a small number of territories. When a territory is taken, it's closed — the next installer in that area goes on a waitlist until the seat opens.
- First-right renewal
- As a founding partner, you have first right to keep your territory at renewal. We don't shop your seat to other installers while you're performing.
- No long-term contracts
- There's nothing to sign beyond the per-lead terms. Pause during a slammed week, stop entirely if it isn't working — your only commitment is to respond to the leads you accept.
- Territory protection
- While you hold a territory, we don't recruit, list, or sell leads to any competing installer in it. Your towns are off the market.
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.
- Real homeowner, real property
- Every lead names a specific person at a specific address in your territory. We collect the address during qualification — you see the roofline on a map before you ever pick up the phone.
- Qualified before it reaches you
- Homeowners answer scope, budget-band, timeline, and ownership questions before submitting. You see every answer. A lead without a budget band and timeline doesn't get routed.
- Consented contact
- Every homeowner explicitly agrees to be contacted by text and phone about their quote before submitting. No cold lists, no scraped numbers.
- Spam-screened
- Submissions pass honeypot, rate-limit, and phone-format checks automatically, then a human review before routing. Junk dies before it costs you anything.
- Flagged when it's hot
- Leads that signal high intent — lease-model interest, no current installer, three-plus stories, top budget band — arrive marked, so you call the best ones first.
New lead — Hinsdale
🔥 Hot lead- Name
- Margaret K.
- City
- Hinsdale, IL 60521
- Phone
- (630) 555-0134
- 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.
You compete with nobody
Shared-lead platforms sell one homeowner to four installers and let you race to the phone. Here, the homeowner is expecting one call — yours.
The homeowner already knows the price range
Our city pages publish honest local price context. By the time someone requests a quote, they've seen what installs cost in their town. Fewer tire-kickers, shorter calls.
Your slow-season pipeline, handled
We do the SEO, the content, the qualification, and the follow-up infrastructure. You do installs. When the season opens, the pipeline is already warm.
Priced so the math is obvious
One converted roofline job pays for months of leads. You'll know your numbers after the first three — which are free.
Pricing
One rate. No fine print.
Founding Partner
$45 per qualified lead
No monthly fee · first 3 leads free · rate locked 12 months
What you get
- Exclusive territory — every lead in your towns goes to you alone
- Qualified homeowner leads (never shared, never resold)
- Dashboard access to every lead we send you
- Instant email notification on every new lead
- Territory protection — we don't sign your competitors
Terms, in plain English
- No monthly fee — you pay per qualified lead
- First 3 leads free while you evaluate quality
- Founding rate locked for 12 months
- No contract — pause or stop anytime
- Bad-lead credit: disconnected number or outside your area, we replace it
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 exactly one installer — the territory holder — 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
Asked by every installer we talk to.
- Where do the leads come from?
- Organic search. We run city-specific pages for 20 Chicagoland towns — local pricing, local roof types, local booking advice — and a qualification flow homeowners complete to request a quote. No purchased lists, no lead brokers, no recycled aggregator leads.
- Are leads exclusive?
- Yes, absolutely. Each lead is routed to exactly one installer — the territory holder — and is never resold, reshared, or sent to anyone else. The homeowner is told one installer will contact them.
- Can I pause?
- Yes, same-day, no penalty. Tell us you're at capacity and we hold routing until you reopen. Your territory stays yours while paused for up to 30 days each season.
- How quickly are leads delivered?
- You get an email the moment a homeowner submits, with every qualification answer included. Speed matters in this trade — our own data and every industry study agree the first hour is where quotes get won.
- What if a lead is bad?
- If the number is disconnected, the property is outside your territory, or the submission is clearly junk that slipped past screening, we credit and replace it — just flag it within 7 days from your dashboard or by reply email.
- Do I need to sign a contract?
- No. There's a one-page per-lead terms sheet and nothing else. No minimum term, no minimum volume, no exclusivity demanded of you — you can keep every other lead source you have.
- How are territories assigned?
- First qualified installer to claim a territory holds it. Qualified means licensed, insured, and experienced on the roof types in that territory — steep-pitch and cedar/slate work matters in several of our towns. Apply, and if your towns are open, they're yours.
Your towns are either open or they aren’t.
Territories close when they’re claimed. Two minutes to apply.