Two project inquiries the first month. One turned into our biggest build of the year.
Mei-Lin O.
Architecture studio
Leads
84
Feb 1 – Jul 31
Cost per lead
CA$59.95
CA$5,035.84 spent
Bytown runs your Google and LinkedIn ads to reach developers and custom-home clients. You keep designing.
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Same studio, same craft. Here’s what changes when Bytown runs your ads.
Before: Feast for eight months, then the phone goes quiet
With Bytown: Ads that keep inquiries coming between projects
Before: One rainmaker retires and the pipeline goes too
With Bytown: A pipeline that doesn’t depend on one partner
Before: $2,000 to a contractor for one tire-kicker
With Bytown: Developers and owners who match your book
Before: No idea what a new client costs to win
With Bytown: Every dollar tracked to a signed contract
Describe your firm once. Bytown writes, launches and tunes the ads. You approve everything before it goes live.
Drop your URL. Bytown reads your portfolio, the sectors you work in and the size of projects you take on — then sums up the work you want more of.
Residential & mixed-use architecture studio
Custom homes, multi-family and small mixed-use buildings. Long decisions, high-value commissions, clients who hire on trust.
A short list aimed at owners and developers with real projects, with the searches they type and what a qualified inquiry should cost you.
Recommended — highest expected return
Ask in plain English. Bytown drafts and stages every change, with the reasoning shown, and nothing runs until you approve it.
Which campaigns are bringing in real projects, and what should I change?
Answers, not dashboards. Spend, inquiries and meetings booked — in WhatsApp, email, or Bytown chat.
Every inquiry is tracked to the ad that produced it, so you know what a client costs to win before you fund more.
A free library of real ads with public run times — which formats survive, why they work, and AI prompts to recreate them. Architecture examples are on the roadmap.
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Revenue from your ads
$640,000 a year.
| Bytown Max | Traditional agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee | $449/ mo | $1,000/ mo |
| Your time | 1 hr/ mo | 6 hrs/ mo |
| Time to launch | Minutes | 2–4 weeks |
| Saved with Bytown | $551/ mo | — |
Example numbers for a residential and mixed-use studio — drag the sliders to match yours. Agency fee assumes 15% of ad spend with a $1,000 minimum. Your time is the hours a month you spend on calls, briefs and approvals.
Drafted by Bytown, in the language your buyers actually speak. You approve it before a single dollar gets spent.
Appears when developers search "multi-family architect Northern Virginia"
Targets: Development principals, acquisitions teams, Northern Virginia
Every campaign drafted by Bytown. Approved by you before a single dollar runs.
Bytown runs Google Search and LinkedIn Sponsored in parallel, then hand-delivers the qualified leads to your inbox. You decide who to call.
Ask about new inquiries from your phone, Claude or inbox. Answers, not dashboards.
Inquiries were up 22% last month, and 4 turned into meetings.
Your hours are worth too much to spend in an ads dashboard. On the Done for you plan, our expert marketers run your campaigns for you. You review results between projects — that’s it.
vs. $3–7K/month for an agency
Who does the work
What we run
What you get
Your ad budget is separate. You can change it or stop it any time.
Two project inquiries the first month. One turned into our biggest build of the year.
Mei-Lin O.
Architecture studio
Leads
84
Feb 1 – Jul 31
Cost per lead
CA$59.95
CA$5,035.84 spent
Residential kept us alive. Commercial pays better. Guess which ones call now.
Ingrid S.
Architecture studio
We specialize in heritage restoration which is only maybe a few hundred clients in this province. And we were able to get in front of all them.
Rosalind E.
Architecture studio
Leads
34
Mar 2 – Jul 26
Cost per lead
CA$209.83
CA$7,134.20 spent
Nobody searches for structural engineering. Turns out they do — just not the way I’d have phrased it. We were invisible for years because of that.
Anders L.
Engineering firm
Engineering firms don’t advertise. That’s exactly why it worked — nobody else in our category was bidding.
Jae-won P.
Engineering firm
Leads
188
Mar 16 – Aug 9 · by week
They already do. Commercial developers, multi-family owners and custom residential clients research firms online before they reach out. The only question is whether they find you or the practice two zip codes over. Bytown puts you in front of them on Google Search and LinkedIn.
Yes. You give Bytown your building typologies, your market radius and your ideal client — multi-family, 20 to 60 units, Brooklyn and Queens. It builds the keyword sets, ad copy and targeting around exactly that, and you approve all of it before anything goes live.
Organic LinkedIn reaches the people already in your network — the ones who know you. Paid LinkedIn reaches the developers, acquisitions teams and asset managers you have never met. That is where new work comes from, and it is the lane a Sunday-night post cannot touch.
It starts it the same way a referral does — by being there when someone is looking. A high project value means one enquiry a quarter can pay for years of ads, so the maths works in your favour. The ad opens the door; your portfolio closes it.
Campaigns go live within days, but this is a considered purchase, so expect the first useful enquiries over weeks rather than days. Thirty to sixty days shows which typologies and markets actually generate conversations — the answer that shapes where you spend next.
Yes, if you want to. Every campaign is drafted and sent to you for sign-off before it goes live. Bytown drafts, you stamp, and nothing launches without your name on it — which matters when the ad is carrying your practice's reputation into a new market.
Yes. Copy is drafted in the language your market respects — no clickbait, no discount offers, no call now. It positions the practice the way you would position it in a pitch, and you read every line before it runs. Nothing goes out unapproved.
Your practice does. Bytown works inside accounts held in your name, so campaigns, enquiry history and audiences stay with you. If a partner leaves or you stop using Bytown, the account and everything in it carries on unchanged — there is nothing to reclaim.
An agency wants a 6 to 12 month retainer, a discovery call, a brand strategy deck and a three-month ramp. Bytown launches campaigns the day you describe the practice. Every dollar is tracked to an enquiry, and you can turn it off tomorrow with no exit email.
Pro is $199 a month for one platform, Max is $449 for all of them — both month to month with no contract. For most practices that is less than a single billable hour, and the price does not move as your ad budget grows.
No. The monthly fee is the whole invoice, and your budget goes straight to Google or LinkedIn on your own card. Nobody here earns more when you spend more, so the recommendation is about which markets are worth pursuing rather than about scale.
The firm three zip codes over is already in the search results. Describe your practice in a sentence. Bytown drafts a campaign in five minutes. You approve it. Ads run tomorrow.
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