Pros Nearby
Stop chasing quotes. Get matched with vetted local home-service pros in minutes.
- Industry
- Home services
- Year
- 2026
- URL
- prosnearby.com
What we built.
Pros Nearby replaces the painful 'call five plumbers and hope someone calls back' loop with a calm, AI-guided intake that returns up to three vetted local pros in minutes. We partnered with the founding team to design the brand, build the homeowner intake (Riley, the AI assistant), the pro-side onboarding and lead inbox, and a directory of trades, locations, and advice content that ranks for long-tail local home-service queries.
Our role
- Product strategy & discovery
- Brand & UI design
- Full-stack web app
- AI intake assistant
- Pro vetting & matching engine
Stack
Shipped in 9 weeks to live.
Time to live
9 weeks
Discovery to public launch
Time to first match
< 24 hours
Most homeowners matched same day
Record match time
18 minutes
From intake to pro contact
Verified reviews at launch
2,341
4.9 / 5 average rating
Why this was hard.
- 1
Homeowners waste hours chasing quotes from pros who never reply
- 2
Existing marketplaces sell the same lead to 10 pros and call it 'matching'
- 3
Pros pay for low-intent leads and burn out on the platform within months
- 4
Trust signals are buried — homeowners can't tell vetted pros from fly-by-night listings
How we shipped it.
01
AI intake assistant
Riley, the on-page assistant, runs a short conversational intake to understand the job, timeline, and location — then routes the homeowner to up to three pros vetted for that exact trade and area.
02
Vetted pro network
Built a pro onboarding flow with license, insurance, and reference checks. 'Vetted' is a real status, not a marketing word, and it's surfaced everywhere a homeowner makes a choice.
03
Three-pro match cap
Each lead is shared with at most three pros, so response rates stay high and pros don't get burned out on low-quality leads — the core economic loop of the marketplace.
04
SEO-driven discovery
Trades × Locations × Advice surfaces generate thousands of indexable long-tail pages ('emergency plumber in [city]', 'how to vet a roofer'), driving organic homeowner intake.
05
Trust-first brand
Calm cream + blue palette, big bold display type, real photography of pros at work, and prominent click-to-call. Reads more like a regional service brand than a lead-gen site.
Features that shipped.
Riley AI intake
Conversational on-page assistant that scopes the job and matches in under 2 minutes.
Up to 3 vetted matches
Each homeowner is matched with up to three pros — never the same lead sold to ten.
Pro onboarding & vetting
License, insurance, and reference checks gate the 'vetted' status.
Pro lead inbox
Pros see matched jobs, accept or pass, and message homeowners in one surface.
Click-to-call & SMS
Twilio-backed phone and text routing so homeowners can reach a pro instantly.
Trades directory
Browsable trade categories with SEO-optimized landing pages per trade.
Locations directory
City- and ZIP-level pages that index for 'near me' searches.
Advice content hub
Editorial how-tos and hiring guides that build trust and drive organic traffic.
Pro login portal
Dedicated pro-side experience separate from the homeowner marketing surface.
Ratings & verified reviews
4.9/5 across 2,341+ verified reviews surfaced prominently on the homepage.
"Envert built the matching experience we'd been trying to describe for a year. Homeowners actually finish the intake and pros actually answer — the loop finally works."
— Founding team, Pros Nearby
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