Groundwork vs Angi
Angi's own annual filing works out at about $401 a month per pro on lead fees alone. This is $39 a month, flat, for permits with no contractor named on them.
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Angi — about $401/mo per pro on leads
- About $401 a month per pro on lead fees alone — $587.05M of US lead revenue across 122,000 active pros. Nearer $618 counting everything Angi's US business earns per pro
- An average Angi lead works out at $29.07. Angi publishes no rate card, so nobody outside can tell you your price before you sign up
- Billed per lead, so your busiest month is your most expensive one — plus an annual membership, $287.99 when the FTC documented it in 2023
- The pro base is shrinking: 122,000 active pros in 2025 against 152,000 in 2024, and newly acquired pros down 36%
- It is a form fill: 1,879 BBB complaints against Angi Inc in three years, and Angi Inc is not BBB accredited
Groundwork — $39/mo
- $39/mo flat — under a tenth of that $401, and the bill does not move when the week is busy
- No per-lead charge, no membership fee, no annual contract
- Every qualifying job for your trade and region — which ones are worth bidding is your call
- An individual filed a building permit at their own property and no contractor is named on it — filed, dated and public
- Every lead carries a permit number you can quote to SD Development Services before you spend a minute on it
Angi figures here are our own arithmetic on Angi Inc's annual filing (Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025), not prices Angi quotes — Angi publishes no rate card. US Lead revenue $587.05M ÷ 20,195,000 Leads = $29.07 a lead; ÷ 122,000 average monthly active pros = about $401 a month per pro on leads, $618 counting all of Angi's US revenue per pro. BBB complaint counts read 12 August 2026.
$39/mo flat, however busy the week — under a tenth of the $401 a month Angi's filing works out to per pro, with no per-lead charge and no membership fee. And the thing you are buying is a government permit filing rather than a form.
Fair to them: an Angi lead is someone who filled in a form asking for quotes, and a permit holder has committed money to a job without necessarily asking anyone to call — different moments, and the outreach is on you either way. They also fixed the thing pros used to hate most: homeowner choice landed in January 2025 and Angi burned 72% of its Network revenue ($373.1M down to $103.5M) doing it. Their filing now shows 1.30 leads per service request, down from 1.42 — so we will not tell you they sell your lead eight times.
What you get here for $39 a month.
One trade, the whole county, every qualifying job every Monday — every job that qualifies, and the bill does not move when the week is busy.
- Every qualifying job for your trade, every Monday — usually a few dollars a lead.
- Address, scope, valuation, permit number, map, street view on each one.
- City of San Diego, Coronado, Vista, Oceanside and Unincorporated San Diego County leads are owner-pulled: an individual, one property, no contractor named on the permit.
- Carlsbad, Santee, El Cajon, Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Escondido, San Marcos, Huntington Beach, Brea, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, Costa Mesa, Fullerton, La Habra, Tustin, Newport Beach, Westminster and Yorba Linda are all new permits — those cities do not publish who pulled the permit, so we never call them owner-pulled.
- 13 qualified job sites a week citywide as of 2026-09-16. Real count, 7-day window.
We publish one of these for every product a contractor asks us about, including the ones that are the better buy outside San Diego.
Chad Vasquez · Groundwork, a Prompt Flow LLC company · San Diego, CA
(760) 464-5105 · chad@promptflowbusiness.com
A small San Diego operation, not a lead-gen call centre. Day job's a fireman; this is the side business. You can phone the number above and I will pick up. Cancel anytime in one click — no retention script, no website upsell. Billing is Stripe; the Monday email goes out through Resend.