The Commercial Trades Playbook

Local business outbound is a different game.
We built a different playbook.

Standard B2B outbound assumes your buyers live on LinkedIn and sit in Apollo or ZoomInfo. For commercial trades, none of that is true. This is how we actually fill pipeline for roofing, HVAC, fire protection, plumbing, electrical, and cleaning contractors.

Why standard outbound fails for trades

The mainstream B2B stack doesn't see your buyers

The typical SaaS playbook (Apollo list, LinkedIn outreach, generic sequence) misses 80% of the people who actually buy commercial trades services.

Buyers aren't on LinkedIn

Facility managers, chief engineers, building superintendents, and most CRE owners don't post on LinkedIn. Many don't even have active profiles. LinkedIn-first outbound finds nobody.

Contact data is buried

Standard B2B databases don't enrich on property-level data. Facility managers float between firms. CRE ownership hides behind LLCs. Apollo can't help you here.

Generic messaging dies

Property decision-makers get pitched by trades vendors constantly. "We do roofing/HVAC/plumbing for commercial buildings" doesn't survive 5 seconds of attention.

Our data approach

We find the buyers no one else can find

Trades outbound starts with the right list. We assemble ours from sources that mainstream agencies don't touch.

Google Maps Harvesting

Programmatic extraction of commercial property data from Google Maps and Business Profiles. Address-level coverage, including the long tail of local operators that standard B2B databases never indexed.

Clay Enrichment

Property type, building size, ownership signals, and verified contact data layered onto the Google Maps base. The right people at the right buildings.

Facility Manager & Owner Mapping

We surface facility managers, owners, and on-site decision-makers tied to specific buildings, even when they're not in LinkedIn or any standard B2B CRM.

EnergyScout AI Integration

For energy-adjacent trades (HVAC, LED, solar), our own data platform identifies owner-occupied buildings with verified energy spend and incentive eligibility.

Cold email, done right

Cold email is the channel for trades

Email reaches facility managers and owners that LinkedIn and phone never will. We focus our infrastructure on one channel and we do it better than anyone else.

  • Owned sending infrastructure, not shared pools
  • Per-vertical sequences tuned for trades buyers
  • Clay-powered per-account personalization at scale
  • Daily deliverability monitoring and inbox rotation

Phone, direct mail, and LinkedIn-as-a-service are not on offer today. We may add them later, but only when we can match the standard we hold for email.

Cycle-aware timing

We show up when the buyer is ready

Trades buyers don't buy on impulse. They buy when contracts renew, when systems fail, when budgets open, when codes change.

  • Maintenance contract renewal windows mapped per building
  • Capital planning cycles signaled via building and ownership data
  • Insurance renewal triggers for roofing and fire protection
  • Seasonal pressure points (pre-summer HVAC, fall roofing, etc.)
Trades we serve

Vertical-specific playbooks across the commercial trades

Skin in the game

We charge a base retainer plus revenue share

Most agencies bill a retainer regardless of outcome. We don't. Our engagement combines a base monthly retainer with a revenue share on closed business we source.

That means we only win when you win. It also means we'll pass on engagements where the unit economics don't pencil for either side. Honest conversations from day one.

Why this model works for trades
  • Aligns us with closed revenue, not vanity metrics
  • Lower upfront commitment than pure retainer
  • We're motivated to chase quality, not just quantity
  • You see the math working before scaling spend
Process

How we build a trades outbound program

1

Geographic & ICP Map

We define the service area, property types, building age and size sweet spot, and decision-maker personas.

2

Data Harvest

Google Maps scraping plus Clay enrichment. We assemble the universe of buildings and decision-makers that match.

3

Cold Email Launch

Multi-touch sequences on owned sending infrastructure. Per-vertical messaging tuned to trades buyers.

4

Scale & Share

Reporting on meetings, proposals, and closed revenue (monthly today, weekly cadence coming soon). We track our share of your wins so the model stays honest.

Ready to fill your commercial trades pipeline?

20-minute call. Tell us your geography, your ideal customer, and your service mix. We'll show you exactly what we'd build, and how the retainer plus rev-share math would work for your business.

Book a strategy call