Restoration Answers › Founding-partner offer
Claim your city's water-damage page — $0 down
We give one local restoration company per city exclusive rights to every homeowner call the city page produces. The pages are brand-new, so founding partners pay nothinguntil it's actually sending them jobs. No setup fee, no contract to fight your way out of.
What this is
Restoration Answers publishes independent, sourced guides on home water emergencies — cost ranges, insurance answers, and a dedicated page for each city (for example, “Water damage restoration cost in your city.”) When a homeowner in your area reads that page and wants help now, the call goes to the one restoration company that claimed the city — you.
What's true today (and what we'll never claim)
True: your city's page is live and Google is indexing it now.
True: one restoration company per city gets exclusive rights to every call it produces.
True: founding partners pay $0 up front and nothing until the page is sending real calls.
What we will never tell you: that it “ranks #1” or gets some number of visitors. It's new — we don't know yet, so we won't pretend to. You're buying the exclusivity and the risk-reversal, not a traffic promise.
The offer — free until it delivers, then one flat rate
| Plan | How it works |
|---|---|
| ZIP sponsorship · $99/mo | Free until the page delivers your first 10 tracked calls. After that, a flat $99/month for exclusive rights to every call from your ZIP's page. Cancel anytime. |
| Metro-exclusive · $299/mo | Same founding terms — free until your first 10 tracked calls — then a flat $299/month for exclusivity across the whole metro's pages. Cancel anytime. |
Founding partners lock these rates. No activation fee, ever, and no charge before the first 10 tracked calls have actually reached your phone — the call log is the invoice's justification, and you can see it too.
How it works
- You claim the city. Email us the metro you want (below). One company per city — first to claim it holds it.
- We wire your tracked number into that city's call slot — within one business day of confirming your area. Every call is call-tracked, so you (and we) can see exactly what the page delivered.
- The page routes every homeowner call to you, exclusively. No shared leads, no bidding against three other companies.
- You pay only once it delivers — on whichever of the two options you picked.
Why exclusivity matters
Most lead-gen sells the same call to four companies and lets you fight over it. We don't. The homeowner on your city's page is pointed to one restoration company — you. That's the whole point of a founding partnership: you're not a line item in an auction, you're the city's pro.
Questions founders ask
Is there really nothing to pay up front?
Correct. $0 down, no activation fee, and billing only starts after the page has delivered your first 10 tracked calls — proven by the call log you can see yourself.
What if it never sends me calls?
Then you never pay, and you walk away owing nothing. The whole point of the founding terms is that the risk sits with us, not you.
How do I know the calls are real?
Every call runs through a call-tracking number, so both of us see the actual call log — length and time. You're never asked to take our word for the volume.
Can a competitor also claim my city?
No. One company per city. Once you hold it, the page points to you and only you for as long as you're a partner in good standing.
Do I have to sign a long contract?
No lock-in. Founding partners can leave any time; we'd rather keep you because it's working than because a contract traps you.
The math is simple: one water-damage job is worth roughly $3,000–$15,000. A single extra job a year more than covers the sponsorship — and the page is $0 until it delivers tracked calls.
Restoration Answers is an independent information site operated by Lumen & Ink. This page is a business offer to restoration companies; it doubles as our one-page founding-partner brief — print it for your files.
This is general information, not insurance, legal, or engineering advice. Estimates are planning ranges, not quotes — always get on-site assessments, and confirm coverage against your own policy wording or with your insurer.