The United States and Canada. One contractor per trade, per market. When your territory's taken, it's taken. Every quarter it's locked, the gap widens.
A market is a metro, not a zip code and not a state. It is the area your crews can reach and quote profitably, which for most contractors is a single metropolitan area and its suburbs. We define it against where you actually send trucks rather than against a map we drew.
It is paired with a trade. A remodeler and a pool builder in the same city are not competitors, so both can run. Two remodelers in the same city are, so only one does. That pairing is what gets locked: the trade and the territory together.
The practical effect is that our incentive matches yours. A firm running three remodelers in one metro has to split the same demand three ways and tell each of them it is going well. We would rather have one partner per market and be able to answer honestly.
We say so on the call, and we say it early rather than after a proposal. There is no waiting list that quietly turns into an offer for an adjacent city you do not serve.
If an adjacent metro genuinely is within your reach, that is a real conversation and we will have it. If it is not, the honest answer is that we cannot help you right now, and that is the answer you will get.
Markets do open. Engagements end, contractors sell, territories get redrawn as a partner's crews expand. Asking again in a quarter is not a formality.
The United States and Canada, with no per-state qualification. The engine runs the same in a metro of four million and a metro of two hundred thousand; what changes is how quickly organic compounds and how much paid demand a market can absorb before costs climb.
Smaller markets often perform better than owners expect, because competition for the same searches is thinner and a well-built site can take a disproportionate share of a metro's organic demand. Larger markets have more volume and more contractors already spending against it.
Every quarter a market stays locked, the gap widens. Organic and AEO compound, the review stream deepens, and the site accumulates pages a competitor starting today has to build from zero.
We'll tell you on the call whether your city and trade are still open. Straight answer, fifteen minutes.
Lock your market