Founding offer: No setup fee for the first 5 clients

Stop renting your leads.

A fast local website and Google presence that keep bringing in jobs, and a site that becomes yours. From £149/month, no contract.

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Every month on a lead platform is rent.Every month here is equity.

Pay a platform and you are renting access to a customer who is being sold to five other trades at the same time. Stop paying and it all stops with you.

The trades taking over your patchare not better on the tools.

They own the thing that turns up when someone searches. That is the whole difference, and it is the one part of the job you can buy outright.

You don’t want a website. You want the phone to ring.

Nobody got into the trade to fiddle with a website, so you don’t. You give us fifteen minutes at the start and one message a month after that. We do the rest, and we send you the numbers.

15 Minutes

Of your time to get started. Services, areas, a few job photos. No design meetings.

1 Message a month

One WhatsApp with a couple of photos. Miss it and nothing stops: we post from a bank built for your trade.

48 Hours to preview

Your homepage, live on a link, with your real words in it. Measured from your Monday kick-off, and guaranteed inside 7 days or the setup fee comes back.

12 Months to yours

Stay twelve months and the website becomes yours, free. Same site, same price, same service.

The only thing we ever ask you for is a photo. Everything else, the writing, the Google profile, the reviews, the reporting, is ours to run.

Do the maths on your “leads”.

What a bought lead really costs once you count the ones that never turn into a job, and what you are left holding the day you stop paying.

Some of them charge you per lead. Some charge you every month whether the work comes or not. Either way you are paying for the same customer that three, ten or twenty other trades are also paying for.

And word of mouth? Brilliant, until the quiet month when nobody is talking.

Meanwhile 164,500 people a month type “plumber near me” or “electrician near me” into Google in this country. Every one of those is a customer choosing between whoever turns up.

Pay-per-lead platforms
£15–£40 a lead
Directory membership
from £59 a month
Same lead also sold to
3–23 others
Leads that become a job
1 in 5 to 1 in 10
So a won job really cost
£95–£375
Before you’d lifted a tool. And it all stops the day you stop paying.

Directory pricing: Checkatrade published rates, Approved £30/month and Growth from £59/month (+VAT, 12-month fixed term), accessed via Local Ladder’s sourced price record, July 2026. Members self-report real bills from £80 to £500 a month. Lead sharing, conversion and cost-per-won-job ranges are drawn from the same published analysis of member-reported quotes. Search volumes: Ubersuggest, United Kingdom, August 2026: “plumber near me” 90,500/month, “electrician near me” 74,000/month. Figures are third-party or self-reported and vary by trade and postcode. They are not a projection of your results.

A pipeline you own. Not a listing you rent.

A website built to make the phone ring

Loads in under a second, your number front and centre, a quote form for the planners and click-to-call for the emergencies.

Found where people actually look

Google, Google Maps, and now AI tools like ChatGPT, which are already answering “best electrician near me”. We build what they look for, and we check quarterly that you are appearing.

Reviews working for you

Your best jobs, your ratings, your areas, in front of every visitor deciding who to let into their home.

Proof, every month

One email: how many people visited, how many enquired, how many tapped to call. You will know exactly what the site is doing for you. Try getting that from a lead platform.

Three steps. One week.

Tell us about the business

Fifteen minutes: your services, your areas, your best job photos. No design meetings, that is our job.

We build it

Builds start on Mondays. Your Direct Debit goes in, we take two working days to prepare, and your build begins the next Monday. From that Monday the preview link is with you inside 48 hours, guaranteed within 7 days or the setup fee comes back.

The phone does the rest

Every enquiry lands in your inbox the second it is sent, and the monthly report shows the count in black and white.

One setup. Three plans. No contract.

Every plan builds the same thing: a pipeline of jobs you own, not rent. Each rung just compounds it harder. And cancelling never torches your business, because your domain, your Google profile, your reviews and your rankings stay yours.

Presence
Get found.
£149 /month

When someone looks you up, whether it is the referral checking you out or the quote-chaser comparing three names at 9pm, they find a business worth calling and they can call it in one tap.

  • Hand-built site: preview in 48 hours, most launch on day 7
  • Domain, hosting, security: all handled
  • Click-to-call and a spam-filtered enquiry form
  • 2 edit requests a month, by WhatsApp
  • Monthly numbers email
Growth Most popular
Get chosen.
£349 /month

When locals compare trades on Google and on Maps, you are the one they pick. Strangers start ringing, not just referrals, and every enquiry is counted so you can see it working.

  • Everything in Presence
  • Area pages built to win each town you serve
  • Your Google profile worked hard: categories, services, photos, the things that decide the top-3 map results
  • Every enquiry logged, instant alerts to your phone
  • Quarterly search report
  • 4 edit requests a month (one message, up to five changes each)
Engine
Run the patch.
£650 /month

Yours becomes the name your area finds first: on Google, on Maps, and in the AI answers your customers are starting to ask. The machine compounds monthly while you are on the tools.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Automatic review requests after every job, responses handled for you
  • Call tracking: every call from the site logged and reported
  • A new ranking page every month: area, service or post
  • 4 Google posts a month
  • Quarterly AI visibility check with screenshots: what ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI actually say about your trade in your town
  • Priority changes, next-working-day target

Founding offer 5 left

Setup: free for the first 5 £750

The whole build: design, all the words written for you, domain, a clean wordmark logo, Google profile setup, launch and testing. Normally £750 one-off. Waived in full for the first five founding clients, after which it returns to £750, or £250 across your first three months.

Pay the year, get two months free

Any plan, 12 months for the price of 10: £1,490 / £3,490 / £6,500, one payment.

Price locked while you stayRolling monthly by GoCardless Direct DebitCancel anytime and keep your domain, Google profile, reviews and rankings

After 12 months, the website is yours. Free.

A subscription site you could never own would just be rent with better manners. So ours is not: stay twelve months and the website, code, design, the lot, becomes yours. It is in the terms, not the small print.

Day one

Yours from the start

Your domain is registered in your name. Your Google Business Profile, your reviews, your leads and customer details are yours, full stop, whatever happens.

Month 12

Ownership vests, free

After twelve months of continuous subscription, the website itself becomes yours, with a licence to the template system behind it. Nothing changes unless you want it to: same site, same price, same service.

Any time

Or buy it out early

In a hurry? Buy the site outright any time before month 12 for a flat £1,500. And if you ever leave, a handover pack means any developer can pick it up in an afternoon.

“You stay because it’s working, not because you’re stuck.”
Try asking a lead platform what you get to keep when you stop paying.

About Own the Patch

One person, accountable.

Own the Patch is Eric Phung. Not an agency floor, not a reseller, not a queue. When you send a change it reaches the person who built the site, and it gets done.

It exists because the trades doing the best work are rarely the ones winning the search. That gap is not about skill on the tools. It is about who owns the thing a customer finds at 9pm when they are picking between three names.

So the work is deliberately narrow: essential UK trades, a hand-built site, a Google profile worked properly, and a number every month that tells you whether it is working.

And the site ends up yours. Twelve months in it vests to you for nothing, because a subscription you can never own is just rent with better manners.

Eric Phung, who builds and runs every Own the Patch site
Eric Phung Founder, Own the Patch
Based
Sale, Manchester
Built for
Essential trades
First preview
Inside 7 days
You hear back
One working day

First preview within 7 days of kick-off, or your setup fee back.

Builds start on Mondays. Once your Direct Debit is set up we take two working days to prepare, and your build begins on the next Monday. That is your kick-off, and the clock starts there.

From kick-off, 48 hours is the norm for your first preview and 7 days is the promise. We guarantee the part that is entirely in our hands. What we will not promise is a specific number of leads, because nobody honest can and you have met the people who do.

  • Mondays only Every build starts on a Monday, with two working days of prep before it.
  • In writing The guarantee is a clause in your terms, not a line on a landing page.
  • No quibble A late first preview means the setup fee comes back. No forms, no assessment.

Straight answers

The questions you were going to ask anyway.

Then let’s find out what it is doing for you. We will audit it free: speed, Google visibility, whether enquiries actually reach you. If it is leaking, we rebuild it in 7 days and you keep your domain and everything attached to it.

No. Rolling monthly by Direct Debit, cancel anytime, effective at the end of your current billing period. And cancelling does not torch your business: your domain, your Google Business Profile, your reviews and your rankings are yours and stay yours.

Your content, photos, domain, Google profile and reviews are yours, full stop, from day one. The website itself vests to you at month 12: after twelve months it is yours, free, and nothing changes unless you want it to. Before that, buy it out any time for a flat £1,500. It is in the terms, not the small print.

Try asking a lead platform what you get to keep when you stop paying.

No, and that is rather the point. Ads and lead platforms stop working the day you stop paying. Everything we build keeps working. If you ever want ads on top, you will have a site worth sending them to.

Straight answer: nobody can guarantee what an AI tool says, and anyone promising that is selling you something. What we do is build exactly what those tools look for, which is consistent business details, real reviews, and clear answers about your services and areas. Then we check quarterly and show you the screenshots. You will see it moving rather than take our word for it.

Reply to one WhatsApp with a couple of job photos. That is genuinely it. Miss a month? We post from a content bank built for your trade, so nothing stops.

The whole build: design, all the words written for you, domain, a clean wordmark logo, Google profile setup, launch and testing. Spread it over three months if that is easier. Refundable in full until we start building, and covered by the 7-day guarantee after that.

Builds start on Mondays. Once your Direct Debit is set up we take two working days to prepare properly, then your build begins on the next Monday. That Monday is your kick-off.

From kick-off the preview link is usually with you inside 48 hours, and if it ever takes more than 7 days your setup fee comes back, in writing. From your approval we are live within two working days, and most sites launch in that first week.

Start today

Own the patch.

Fifteen minutes of your details, then we build. Kick-off is the Monday after your Direct Debit is set up, and your first preview lands within 7 days of it.

  1. 01 Send your details Fifteen minutes and one form: your services, your areas, a few of your best photos.
  2. 02 We build it Kick-off is the Monday after your Direct Debit is set up. Preview inside 7 days of that, usually 48 hours.
  3. 03 The phone rings Live within two working days of your approval, and every enquiry counted from day one.
From£149/month