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Appointment Setting for Marketing Agencies. Pay Per Booked Meeting.

You sell growth all day while your own pipeline runs on referrals. We fix that. An AI SDR texts business owners in your niche, holds real conversations about getting more customers, qualifies them against criteria you write, and books them straight onto your calendar. No retainers. No monthly fees.

No retainers, ever Written qualification criteria Free no-show replacement
1,000+
SMS Conversations / Day
40%
Reply Rate, Our Campaigns
~10/day
Meetings Booked
48-72h
Campaign Launch

You sell pipeline all day. Yours runs on referrals.

Most agencies grow the same way. A few good clients, referrals from those clients, then a plateau. The founder is the closer, the strategist, and the delivery lead, so outbound happens in the gaps, and the gaps never come. Every client call is proof you know how to generate demand. For everyone except yourself.

Agencies understand per-appointment buying natively, which means you have probably bought appointments before and probably been burned. Vendors paid per appointment tend to book anything with a pulse, because volume pads the invoice. Our entire model is built to kill that incentive. You write the qualification criteria. You sign them before launch. A meeting outside them is free.

The Referral Treadmill

Growth by goodwill

  • Pipeline capped by other people's willingness to refer you
  • Founder time split between selling and delivering
  • Feast when referrals land, famine when they don't
  • Zero control over who walks in the door

Pay Per Meeting

Growth by calendar

  • Owner-operators booked on your calendar who already replied about wanting more customers
  • Qualification criteria you write and sign
  • A zero-meeting month costs zero
  • No-shows replaced free

What one retained client is actually worth

One industry study puts average agency client retention around 56 months. Treat that as one study, not gospel. But run the math on your own numbers: a client paying $2,500 a month who stays 56 months is worth about $140,000 over the life of the account. That is arithmetic, not a promise, and your retainer and retention will differ.

The point survives any discount you apply to it. When a single closed client can be worth five or six figures over its lifetime, the cost of the booked meetings that produced it rounds to nothing. You already sell this math to your own clients. We just point it at your calendar.

56 months

Average agency client retention in one industry study. Your mileage will vary. The direction won't.

~$140K

Illustrative lifetime value of a $2,500 per month retainer held 56 months. Simple multiplication, shown so you can rerun it with your own numbers.

One close

At agency retainers, a single closed client can cover a long run of booked meetings. That is the whole model.

Owners who already said they want more customers

We book you with the decision-maker: the owner of a local service business in the niche you serve. The conversation that gets them on your calendar is never a pitch about marketing services. It opens with the outcome they want, more customers and more revenue in their trade, and the meeting gets booked as the natural next step of that conversation. By the time they pick a slot, they have already told us in writing that they want what you sell. Our own campaigns run 1,000+ SMS conversations a day and hold a 40% reply rate.

Your niche, your list

The prospect list is built fresh for the vertical you serve. Roofers, med spas, auto shops, whatever your agency runs on. Never a recycled database.

The owner, not a gatekeeper

SMS lands in the decision-maker's pocket. No receptionist screen, no info@ inbox, no "send me a deck". The person who replies is the person who can say yes.

Interest confirmed in writing

Every prospect said they want more customers before the booking happened. You get the transcript with every billed meeting, so you can read exactly what they said.

Every billed meeting comes with receipts

You have sold against bad vendors. You know the pay-per-appointment failure mode: junk volume booked to hit invoice counts. Every mechanic below exists to make that impossible here. This is the product.

The Billing Trigger

Booked, double-confirmed, on your criteria

You are charged when a meeting is booked on your calendar, double-confirmed, and matches the qualification definition you signed. Not for leads, not for activity, not for effort.

The 10-Minute Rule

No-shows are never held against you

If the prospect hasn't shown within 10 minutes of start time, the meeting doesn't count as held. We rebook or replace it within 5 business days, free. You never pay for a ghost twice.

Your Written Criteria

Off-criteria means free

One page, signed at kickoff: which niches count, what revenue bar applies, who counts as a decision-maker. A meeting that falls outside it is replaced or credited. No argument.

The Paper Trail

A transcript behind every charge

Every billed meeting comes with the SMS transcript where your prospect chose the time, plus the full confirmation log. You audit us whenever you want.

Built for your agency in three moves

Campaigns launch within 48 to 72 hours of kickoff, and first bookings typically land in week one. Baseline show rate across our system is 60%, and a 24-hour, 2-hour, and 15-minute confirmation sequence exists to push it higher. The full machine, end to end, is on the how it works page.

01

Your list pack

Built in-house for the niche you serve: sourced in-house, website-verified via live crawl, phone-verified, quality-scored, deduped, DNC-suppressed. No resold data.

02

Your qualification bars

One page, written with you at kickoff: niche, revenue bar, decision-maker, confirmed interest in growth. Signed before launch. It decides what you pay for.

03

Your conversation angle

An outcome-led opener about more customers in their trade, a real two-way conversation, then a booking as the natural next step. Double-confirmed before it hits your calendar.

We screen clients as hard as we screen prospects

The model only works when the meetings get taken and closed, so we are selective about who we launch. We take agencies with a clear niche, capacity to take ten or more meetings a month, and a human who actually runs the sales calls. If that describes you, every meeting we book lands in front of someone who can close it, and both sides win on the same number.

The deal itself is simple. One flat rate per booked meeting, quoted for your niche and qualification depth on a short call, plus a one-time setup quote that covers your list build, campaign build, calendar integration, and qualification doc. No retainers, no monthly fees, cancel anytime. Billing runs on a card on file with a weekly statement and an optional weekly cap, and prepaid packs exist only as a discount lever, never a requirement. The full mechanics are on the pricing page.

A clear niche

A defined vertical means a sharper list, a sharper opener, and meetings you can actually close.

Capacity for 10+ meetings a month

The machine books at volume. If your calendar can't absorb it, the meetings go to waste and nobody wins.

A closer in the seat

Someone on your team takes the meetings and runs the sales call. We fill the calendar. You close.

Straight answers for agency founders

We sell retainers. Are these owners actually qualified to buy one?
You decide what qualified means before we send a single text. The one-page criteria you sign at kickoff set the niche, the revenue bar, the decision-maker requirement, and what counts as confirmed interest. A meeting that falls outside those criteria is replaced or credited, free. If your retainer needs a business doing real revenue, write that bar in and we book to it.
We bought appointments before and most were junk. Why would this be different?
Because the usual failure is an incentive problem, not a channel problem. Vendors paid per appointment tend to book anything that agrees to a time, because volume pads the invoice. Our mechanics exist to kill that incentive: you write and sign the qualification criteria, a meeting is only billable once it is booked and double-confirmed, an off-criteria meeting is free, a no-show is replaced free, and every charge comes with the SMS transcript where the prospect chose the time.
What niches work best?
Agencies serving local service businesses do best: trades, home services, auto, salons, restaurants, clinics, and similar owner-operated companies. The pattern that matters is simple: the decision-maker owns the phone. SMS reaches an owner-operator directly, so replies come from the person who can say yes. If your clients are enterprise brands with marketing departments, this is the wrong channel and we will tell you that on the call.
How much does a booked meeting cost?
Rates are per booked meeting and quoted for your niche, your qualification depth, and your volume on a short call, alongside a one-time setup quote. No retainers, no monthly fees, ever. See how pricing works for the full billing mechanics.
What happens if the prospect doesn't show?
The 10-minute rule applies: if the prospect hasn't shown within 10 minutes of the start time, the meeting is not counted as held. We rebook or replace it within 5 business days at no charge. You never pay for a ghost twice.
How fast can we launch?
Campaigns launch within 48 to 72 hours of kickoff: qualification criteria signed, list built for your niche, campaign live. First bookings typically land in week one.
Do you require contracts or retainers?
No retainer, no monthly fee, no long-term contract. You pay per booked meeting and you can stop whenever you want. The only fixed cost is a one-time setup, quoted with your rate, that covers your list build, campaign build, calendar integration, and qualification doc.

Your calendar should look like the ones you build for clients.

A 15-minute call gets you a per-meeting rate for your niche, your qualification criteria drafted, and a launch date inside the same week.

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