The directory built for the towns big platforms forgot.

Mission

There are roughly 19,500 incorporated places in the United States. About 13,700 of them have populations between 500 and 60,000 — the towns where most Americans actually live. National platforms like Angi, Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor, Bark, and Yelp were built for big metros and pay-per-lead economics. They don't work well in towns where there's one good plumber, two good electricians, and a community that already knows their names.

Our mission is simple: make the trusted local service businesses in small-town America easy to find — without selling phone numbers, charging per click, or putting an app between a neighbor and a tradesperson. Free for residents to search. Free for businesses to be listed. Flat-rate Premium ($49/month) and an optional one-time $995 website package for the small share of pros who want extras.

Who we are

Great Local Pros is owned and operated by Pithe Digital Group LLC, a limited liability company registered in the state of Oregon. We are an independent small business — not venture-funded, not owned by a holding company, not subject to outside investor pressure to maximize per-customer revenue. That independence is the reason we can credibly commit to a flat-rate model. A company that has taken $700 million in venture capital (Thumbtack) or that trades publicly (Angi, NYSE: ANGI) is structurally compelled to grow extraction-per-user. We are not.

You can reach our team at info@greatlocalpros.com. A real human reads every email. We typically reply within one business day. Mailing entity: Pithe Digital Group LLC, registered in Oregon. For takedown requests, include the business name plus city and state — we honor takedowns within 48 hours, no questions asked.

How we source listings — full methodology

Every business on this site got here through one of two paths, both clearly labeled on every listing:

Path 1: Owner-claimed (verified by email)

The business owner submits the listing themselves through our public form. We require a working email address tied to the business, send a single-use verification link, and only publish the listing after the link is clicked. The submission also passes through Cloudflare Turnstile (a bot-protection challenge) and a manual human review before going live. Owner-claimed listings can include photos, hours, full descriptions, and (once the business has real customers through us) verified reviews.

Path 2: Publicly sourced (name and phone only)

To make every town's page useful from day one, we also list basic information about local service businesses that have publicly identified themselves as such. Our sources, in order of preference: (1) the business's own public website, (2) public state business registry filings, (3) Better Business Bureau public business profiles, (4) Chamber of Commerce public member directories, and (5) public Google Business and Yelp business pages where the business has clearly published its name and phone publicly. We never scrape private databases or paid datasets. We do not republish street addresses on these unclaimed listings — many service trades operate out of the owner's home, and we don't want to facilitate the publication of home addresses. We publish only the business name, primary phone, public website (if any), and a labeled source.

Any business owner can claim their publicly-sourced listing free (which converts it to Path 1, with full editorial control), or request its removal. We process both requests within 48 hours.

Editorial standards

Great Local Pros is a directory, not a journalism property, but we hold the content we publish to a documented standard. This is what that standard looks like in practice:

• No paid placement of listings. Free and Premium listings on each city page are organized by trade, then by listing tier and recency. Position is not for sale.
• No fake or paid reviews — full stop. The Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR Part 465 rule, which took effect in 2024, bans fake reviews, paid reviews, and review suppression. We comply. We will publish zero reviews until we have real verified ones from real customers, even though this hurts our short-term traffic and conversion.
• No paid press, no "reputation management." We do not accept payment to remove negative reviews, to suppress unfavorable mentions, or to feature a business higher than its peers.
• Transparent sourcing on every listing. Every publicly-sourced listing displays its source category (public directory, public registry, etc.). Every owner-claimed listing displays a "claimed by owner" indicator.
• Plain-language corrections policy. If we publish something inaccurate, email info@greatlocalpros.com with the URL and the correction. We correct or remove within 48 hours, and we note the change publicly when the correction is material.
• Conflict-of-interest disclosure. Pithe Digital Group LLC has no ownership stake in any listed business and accepts no commissions, referral fees, or kickbacks from listed businesses. Our only revenue from businesses is the $49/month Premium subscription and the $995 website package — both publicly priced, neither tied to a specific listing's editorial treatment.

Privacy practices, in plain English

We do not run a behavioral advertising network. No Google Ads pixel, no Meta pixel, no third-party retargeting tags, no cross-site tracking. We do not sell, rent, or share visitor data with advertisers or data brokers. Listings are static HTML served from a global content-delivery network — when you tap a phone number, your phone dials it directly, and we never see, store, or proxy your number. Full details, including your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulation, are in our Privacy Policy.

How we make money

Two revenue lines, both public:

• Premium listings — $49 per month, flat. Each Premium listing gets featured placement in its category/town, up to 8 photos, a 500-character description, a direct-to-business lead form, customer review collection, and full schema markup for richer search results. Only one Premium slot per category per town. Cancel any time from email, no contract, no exit fee.
• Done-for-you website package — $995 one-time. A single-page professional website for a small local service business, including copywriting, photo selection, mobile-responsive design, and basic on-page SEO. Optional $29/month hosting; optional $15/year domain. Optional $149/year annual update plan.

We do not charge per lead, per click, per call, or per inquiry — ever. Our cost to serve an individual visitor is essentially zero (static HTML on a CDN), so we don't need to extract value from each one. The business model works at any scale because the infrastructure scales for free.

What we are not

• Not a license bureau. We don't verify contractor licenses, insurance status, or bond compliance — that's between you, the business, and your state's licensing board. Most states publish free public license-lookup tools; always verify before any large project, here or anywhere.
• Not a background-check service. We don't screen owners or employees. Standard due diligence applies.
• Not a lead-gen platform. We don't route your job to multiple businesses on your behalf. You pick who to call. That's the entire model.
• Not a review aggregator. We don't import reviews from Google, Yelp, or anywhere else. Reviews on Great Local Pros — once real ones exist — are written by real verified customers about real claimed listings, and only ever appear on Premium listings whose owners have actively chosen to enable review collection.
• Not a contract or escrow service. Any agreement you make with a listed business is between you and that business. We're a directory.

Why this design, why now

The dominant lead-generation platforms are publicly struggling. Angi, the largest, reported a roughly 30% revenue decline in its 2024–25 fiscal year and stated in its third-quarter 2025 SEC filings that year-over-year lead volume was down 81%. Thumbtack faces an active federal class-action lawsuit alleging it sold "bogus leads" to contractors. Bark has documented Trustpilot complaints about expiring credits and refund denials. Yelp's review-suppression practices have generated more than 700 public FTC complaints over the past decade.

In other words: the old model — extract money from contractors per lead, ignore towns under 50,000, sell the customer's phone number to whoever pays most — is collapsing. Great Local Pros is what happens when you start from scratch with the opposite assumptions: serve small towns first, charge a flat rate, never sell a phone number, and let the directory itself be the value proposition rather than a wrapper around an auction.

Reach out

Questions, corrections, partnership inquiries, press, or just to say hi: info@greatlocalpros.com. We answer our own email. See also our Contact page, How it works, and List your business pages.

Page last reviewed: 2026-05-26 · Editorial standards version 1.0 · Operated by Pithe Digital Group LLC (Oregon)