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More booked jobs. Without learning Google Ads.

Bytown builds your ads in 5 minutes. No agency retainer. Every call tracked to its ad.

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Incoming leads Today · 7
Sarah M. · AC not cooling
Google Search · "emergency hvac near me"
Bookedjust now
Michael T. · Furnace tune-up
Google Search · 85704
Booked14 min ago
Rita P. · Install new unit
Meta Ads · Local awareness
Booked1 hr ago
James O. · Quote request
Google Search · Tucson
Quoted2 hr ago
Dana K. · Duct cleaning
Google Search · 85742
Booked4 hr ago
6 new leads today $4,280 in estimated revenue
The old way → Bytown

Your competitors guess at ads. You get the call.

Same trade, same town, same searches. Here’s what changes when Bytown runs your ads.

Running ads yourself, or paying a guyBytown runs them for you
  • Before: Ads get done Sunday night, or never

    With Bytown: A full campaign built in about 5 minutes

  • Before: $500 a month for a PDF you never open

    With Bytown: One flat monthly price, no % of ad spend

  • Before: Campaigns left on autopilot, burning budget

    With Bytown: Daily fixes suggested, approved with a thumbs-up

  • Before: No idea which ad made the phone ring

    With Bytown: Every lead tracked to the ad behind it

How it works

More business comes in. That's the whole point.

Describe your business the way you'd describe it to a new customer. Bytown writes and runs the ads, and you approve them before they go live. You don't touch a dashboard unless you want to.

1Step 01

Bytown understands your business.

Drop your URL. Bytown reads your services, your service area and your reviews — then sums up the work you want more of.

https://kestrelheating.ca Scanning…
  • Reading homepagekestrelheating.ca
  • Identifying services & pricing11 pages
  • Mapping your service area8 neighbourhoods
  • Reading reviews & guarantees2 pages
Bytown understands

Residential heating & cooling contractor

Furnace and AC repair, new installs and maintenance plans. Same-day calls, busiest in the first cold and hot weeks.

Furnace repairAC installsHomeowners20 km radius
Ad examples

Steal from ads that already work

A free library of real ads across ten industries — dental, HVAC, med spa, landscaping and more — with run times, teardowns and AI prompts to recreate them.

Browse the ad examples library

Run a landscaping or hardscape company? See Bytown for landscaping.

Next Generation Heating and Cooling ad: an old-school local flyer — a kid in a branded cap, big phone number, service list. Knight Pediatric Dentistry ad: the practice logo — a tooth outline with the practice name — on a plain white background. Luxe Med Spa ad: a polished brand card — a woman in a white robe beside the Luxe logo.
Revenue calculator

How much will your ads bring in?

$1,000
$40
30%
$650
25 leads · 7.5 jobs / mo

Revenue from your ads

$4,875/ month

$58,500 a year.

Monthly cost$1,199
Ad spend $1,000Bytown $199
Bytown Pro compared with a traditional agency
Bytown ProTraditional agency
Fee$199/ mo$1,000/ mo
Your time1 hr/ mo6 hrs/ mo
Time to launchMinutes2–4 weeks
Saved with Bytown$801/ mo—
Saved with Bytown$9,612 and 60 hrs / yr

Example numbers for a home-service business — 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.

Your service area, right now

They're Googling. You're not showing up.

Every pulsing dot is someone in your service area typing a search that should land on your business. Without Bytown, most of them land on your competitor.

47 searches "emergency hvac near me" · today
~68% of local calls start with a Google search

Illustrative. Real volumes depend on your trade, city and service radius. Bytown shows you exact search numbers before you commit a dollar.

Works where you work

Run your ads from the job site.

Text Bytown between calls. Check this week’s leads and change an ad without opening a laptop.

9:41
BytownonlineKestrel Heating & Cooling
ClaudeBytown connected
How are the ads doing this week?
Using Bytown…Used Bytown
7 calls so far. Here’s where they came from:
Furnace repair near me5 calls · $33 each
Furnace tune-up2 calls · $40 each
This week$245 spent · 7 calls
Pause duct cleaning
Done. Duct cleaning is paused. Furnace repair keeps running.
MessageWhat do you want to do next?Reply to Claude…
InboxSearch mailInbox1 unread
Your monthly ad report · Kestrel Heating & Cooling
Bytown <hello@bytown.co>to you · 1st of the month, 9:00 AM

Calls were up 21% last month. Evening “furnace repair near me” searches booked the most jobs.

Calls & forms29▲ 21%
Spend$1,040▲ 8%
Booked revenue$14.2k▲ 17%
Calls & forms · by week
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Where your marketing money is actually going

Paying an agency? Or paying nobody?

Most local business owners either overpay an agency that sends monthly PDFs they never open — or do nothing and hope word-of-mouth keeps working. Here's what that looks like next to a Bytown month.

Before

The agency retainer

$2,500
per month · unclear results
Agency retainer
$2,000
Ad spend (managed by agency)
$500

"They send you a PDF every month. You still don't know what's working."

And if you're not paying an agency, you're probably paying Yelp, Angie's, HomeAdvisor and Thumbtack — all claiming credit for the same lead.

→
With Bytown

One platform. Every lead tracked.

From $139
per month · every lead attributed
Bytown
from $139
+ Ad spend you choose (Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft)
you set
Sarah M. → booked → $480
+$480
Michael T. → booked → $325
+$325
Rita P. → install → $4,200
+$4,200

Every call tracked to the ad that brought it

Numbers are illustrative. Your results depend on your trade, service area, and ad spend.

Done for you

Want ads 100% off your plate?

You have customers to serve. On the Done for you plan, our expert marketers run your ads for you — setup, budgets, and testing handled. You see the leads come in and get back to work.

From $799 /month

vs. $3–7K/month for an agency

Who does the work

  • Managed by an advertising expert
  • Full campaign management across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft
  • Daily monitoring

What we run

  • Campaign structure strategy
  • Creative testing — new ads tried, winners kept
  • Competitor research

What you get

  • Monthly performance reviews
  • 1-on-1 strategy calls
  • Custom reporting & dashboards
  • Slack & Teams access

Your ad budget is separate. You can change it or stop it any time.

Local businesses using Bytown

I run five shops, that’s five sets of campaigns. But only one tab in Bytown and 3 hours of work each month now that it’s set up.

Dominic R.

Multi-location automotive

Leads

123

Mar 16 – Apr 14

Cost per lead

$40.34

$4,962.30 spent

Mar 16Apr 14

Spring used to be a scramble. Now the ads are live before I’ve unloaded the truck.

Curtis B.

Landscaping

I renew policies, I don’t run ads. Quote requests come in anyway.

Bianca T.

Insurance brokerage

Leads

170

Jun 1 – Jul 12

Cost per lead

$98.47

$16,739.43 spent

Jun 1Jul 12

I’m one agent competing with brokerages that have marketing departments. Doesn’t feel that way anymore.

Marcus D.

Real estate agent

Leads

87

Jun 1 – Aug 16

Cost per lead

$28.13

$2,447.47 spent

Jun 1Aug 16

I went to school for medicine, not Google Ads. New patients book anyway.

Dr. Yusuf A.

Local medical clinic

Leads

36

Apr 1 – Jun 30 · by week

Apr 1Jun 30

Six chairs, and we were running two of them empty. The schedule is full now.

Dr. Lindiwe K.

Dental group

Leads

275

Feb 23 – Apr 5

Cost per lead

$25.08

$6,897.16 spent

Feb 23Apr 5

Tax season is four months of chaos and eight months of quiet. The ads finally follow that rhythm as we are able to run it seasonally.

Benedict O.

Accounting practice

Leads

81

Feb 9 – Mar 22 · by day

Feb 9Mar 22

Snow removal in winter, patios in summer. I ask and it creates the campaigns for me. Pure magic!

Dmitri A.

Landscaping

Leads

90

Jan 5 – Jun 28 · by week

Jan 5Jun 28

Commercial maintenance contracts, not just mowing. Those are the calls coming in now.

Pete J.

Landscaping

Leads

472

May 4 – Jul 26 · by week

May 4Jul 26

Questions owners actually ask

If you can describe your business to a customer over the phone, you can set up Bytown. You talk, Bytown listens, ads get drafted for you to read. No dashboards, no keywords or match types or acronyms. Want someone alongside you? Advisors adds a marketing expert for $199 a month.

They are. Even in small towns almost everyone searches before they call — they just do not search the words you would use. Bytown shows you the exact phrases local people type for your service, usually a few you had no idea about, and drafts ads against them.

Local Services Ads cover a few categories on one surface of Google, and they work — this sits alongside them, not instead. Bytown runs Search, Meta and LinkedIn too, so you reach the people still comparing options, not only the ones ready to call this minute.

No. Bytown can run ads that drive calls straight to your phone, or send people to whatever page you already have. If you do have a site, ads point at it as-is — no rebuild, no developer, and no waiting for someone to finish a page first.

Campaigns go live within days and the first calls often arrive the same week. Thirty days is when the picture gets useful — enough searches to see which ones bring real customers and which only bring price shoppers. You watch it in your own account throughout.

Google Ads
Instagram Ads
LinkedIn Ads

Your next customer is typing your service into Google right now.

Your competitor down the street is already on page one. Describe your business in a sentence. Bytown drafts a campaign in five minutes. You approve it. The phone starts ringing. You get back to work.

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