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Guide · Getting started

Welcome to Contractor Leads

What this product is for, who it serves, and the complete path from signup to your first Hot lead — with every screen explained.

Guide · Getting started · 10 min read · Updated 2026-07-23

Who this is for

Contractor Leads (LeadFlow USA) is built for marketing agencies, media buyers, appointment setters, and sales teams who sell services to home-service contractors — roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and related trades. You use it to find real businesses, score them, outreach, and track deals.

  • Agencies selling SEO, ads, websites, or CRM to contractors
  • In-house growth teams building local contractor pipelines
  • SDRs / setters who need a daily call list with context

Tip: This is not a marketplace for homeowners hiring a contractor. Homeowners will not find value here.

What you get in one workspace

Live, verified contractor businesses with AI lead scores (Hot / Warm / Nurture), contact signals, outreach angles, and optional enrichment from Google Places, Yelp, and social sources. You search, save, email, map, and move deals through a simple pipeline — without leaving the app for research.

  • Lead Finder — industry + geography search that spends credits per lead returned
  • Hot Leads — highest-score opportunities as your daily dialer list
  • Saved Leads — your keepers for follow-up
  • Pipeline CRM — New → Contacted → Qualified → Closed
  • Lead Map — territory pins (Growth+ plans)
  • Email inbox — send, receive, and reply via your SMTP
  • Ask Expert — marketing strategy AI (uses credits)
  • Academy — this self-serve learning hub

Main sidebar map

After login you land in the app shell. Learn these destinations once:

  • Home — credits snapshot, quick links, AI chat history
  • Lead Finder — run searches
  • Hot / Saved / Pipeline / Map — work the list
  • Email inbox — replies and threads
  • Setup hub — Email, API, CRM webhooks, business profile
  • Ask Expert + My Scripts + Academy — AI and learning
  • Workspace settings — teams, billing, security, integrations

Your first 10 minutes (do this once)

Complete these steps in order. After that, your team can sell every day without guessing where things live.

  • 1. Open Setup hub and mark Email → Business profile as ready
  • 2. Fill company name, services, ICP, and goal on Business profile (AI uses this)
  • 3. Open Lead Finder and run one small search in your best market
  • 4. Open a Hot lead detail page — read score, phone, website, outreach angle
  • 5. Save 3–5 keepers
  • 6. Connect SMTP if you want to email from the app
  • 7. Send one test email to yourself or a known inbox
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Data integrity rule

If a field is empty, enrichment could not confirm it. The product never invents owner names, emails, or social URLs. Blank is honest — treat it as “not verified,” not as a bug.

Tip: Prefer phone, website, Google Maps / rating signals that are present. Use Ask Expert only for copy and strategy — not to invent missing contact data.

When to ask admin vs use Academy

Use Academy (and the floating support assistant) for how-to and product questions. Contact your site admin only for account suspension, plan assignment, credit top-ups you cannot buy yourself, inbound email webhook secrets, or Google Places API outages on the platform side.

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Put this into practice

Start a free trial and run your first Lead Finder search with AI scoring — no card required.

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