Review Engine · $149/month · No contract
Turn finished jobs into five-star Google reviews. On autopilot.
Every finished job triggers a friendly text. Happy customers post a review in one tap. Unhappy ones reach you privately, before it goes public. We set it up and run it for you.
Founding offer: the first 3 businesses get month one free
Prefer to talk? (705) 539-0398 or book a 15-minute call
The business with the most reviews gets the call.
When someone in your town searches for what you do, Google shows three businesses. People pick the one with the best rating and the most recent reviews, then call, and they rarely scroll past those three. Not the best tradesperson. The best-reviewed one. We measured it: in our study of 349 Collingwood service businesses, the median business has 23 reviews while the top 8% hold more than half of all the reviews in town.
You already do work worth five stars. The problem is the ask. Asking face-to-face feels awkward, so you skip it. You mean to text them later, then later never comes. Meanwhile the competitor with a system stacks another eight reviews a month, every month, and pulls further ahead on the exact signal Google uses to rank the Map Pack.
And those reviews are fragile in ways most owners never think about: when Google's July 2026 bug wiped review counts off live listings, the businesses that recovered fastest were the ones who knew exactly what they had. A steady ask system is also your insurance policy.
The fix isn't working harder. It's making the ask automatic.
How far behind are you? Do the math.
Punch in your numbers and see exactly what it takes to catch the business above you.
Assumes roughly 1 in 3 customers you ask leaves a review (a normal rate for a one-tap text ask) and that your competitor stands still. Most don't ask at all, which is the whole opportunity.
How it works
Every customer gets the same ask. The routing is what's smart.
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You finish the job like normal
Mark it done on your phone. That is the whole workflow change. No app for your customer, no new hardware, no training.
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Your customer gets a friendly text
From your business name, minutes after the job wraps: "Thanks for choosing us. How did we do?" One tap to answer.
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Happy customers land on your Google review page
No login hunting, no "search for us on Google." One tap and they are writing the review while the good experience is still fresh.
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Unhappy customers reach you first
A private message lands on your phone instead of a public one-star. You get the chance to fix it before it ever goes near your rating.
What you get for $149 a month
Everything below, done for you. No setup fee, no contract, cancel any month.
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Full setup, done for you
$400Review link, message templates written in your voice, and QR review cards for the truck, counter, or invoice. You approve everything before it goes live.
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Automatic post-job review requests
$150/moEvery finished job triggers the ask. No sticky notes, no "I keep forgetting to ask." The system never texts the same customer twice in 30 days and honours every opt-out.
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The unhappy-customer catch
$100/moCustomers who had a bad day are routed to a private feedback line to you, not to a public review box. This alone pays for the service the first time it catches one.
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Monthly reputation report
$75/moNew reviews, rating trend, and where you stand against your three closest competitors. Plain numbers, one page, every month.
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Reply templates for every new review
$75/moKeyword-smart replies you can post in under a minute, including the calm, professional response for the rare rough one.
The same job the big platforms do, without the big-platform bill:
| Price | Contract | Who runs it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podium | from $399 USD/mo | Annual | You do |
| Birdeye | from $299 USD/mo | Annual | You do |
| NiceJob | $75–125 USD/mo + $199 setup | Monthly | You do |
| Review Engine | $149 CAD/mo | None | We do, from Collingwood |
Competitor pricing is advertised self-serve software pricing as of mid-2026, before add-ons.
No contract, ever
Month to month. Cancel with one email. Every review you earn stays on your Google profile forever.
Most businesses simply never ask, and the moment every finished job asks for you, the reviews start arriving. If it isn't earning its keep, walk away any month, no exit fees, no hostage data.
Review City · $249/month · For businesses that already won Google
Already won Google? Welcome to Review City.
If you've got a hundred-plus reviews and a strong rating, your next customer often isn't reading them. They're asking an AI. And when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity who's best at what you do, the AI reads Facebook, HomeStars, BBB, and Yelp before it answers. On Google you're a giant. Everywhere the AI looks, you might barely exist.
Here's the thing: each customer can only review you on Google once. A business with 200 Google reviews has 200 delighted customers who are used up on Google and untouched everywhere else. Review City puts them back to work. Same one-tap ask, smarter destination: first-timers go to Google, repeat customers get routed to Facebook, HomeStars, or BBB on their next job. Nobody is ever asked twice for the same platform.
Founding offer: the first 3 businesses to join get their first month free. Either tier, no contract either way.
Review Engine
$149/mo
For businesses still building their Google base. Most businesses start here.
- Every finished job triggers the one-tap Google ask
- Unhappy customers caught privately first
- Setup, QR cards, monthly report, reply templates
Review City
$249/mo
For the market leader with 100+ reviews at 4.5 stars or better.
- Everything in Review Engine, plus:
- Smart routing across Google, Facebook, HomeStars, and BBB, one ask per customer per platform
- We claim, complete, and photo-load the profiles AI assistants actually read
- Monthly AI Visibility Report: we ask the major AI assistants what your customers ask, and you see the screenshots
- Live private scorecard tracking every platform side by side
One rule we never break: we never ask anyone for a Yelp review. Yelp prohibits it and buries solicited reviews. Yelp gets a complete, claimed profile so the AI engines have something to read, and its reviews arrive on their own. We know the rules of every platform, including the ones that punish you for asking.
Review City is qualification-only: roughly 4.5 stars with a real review base. If that's you, you qualify. Most businesses don't.
Built for the good business stuck in fourth place.
Review Engine is for established businesses along the Georgian Bay shoreline that already do great work and have the handful of reviews to prove it, but sit just below the Map Pack while a louder competitor takes the calls. If that's you, this is the fastest lever you can pull.
Brand new, with no Google listing at all? Start with On The Map in 30 instead; it includes your first reviews. Already sitting on 100+ reviews at 4.5 stars? You've outgrown this tier; see Review City above. And if you want the full picture of where your local SEO stands, grab the free audit or read the Collingwood playbook.
One more leak worth patching: if your estimates go quiet after you send them, Estimate Engine chases every quote until it's answered, and it's $99/month as a Review Engine add-on.
Get your free reputation scan
Tell us your business name and town. Within one business day we'll send you your review count, rating, review recency, and exactly where you stand against your three closest competitors. Free, no meeting required, yours to keep either way.
Built in Collingwood. Prefer to talk now? Call or text (705) 539-0398.
Questions
- Is this against Google's rules?
- No. We never write, buy, or trade reviews, and every customer gets the same friendly ask. What Google prohibits is fake or incentivized reviews. A text message asking a real customer to share their real experience is exactly how Google expects reviews to happen; it is the same thing every major reputation platform does.
- What do I actually have to do?
- Mark the job done on your phone. That is it. We set everything up, write the messages in your voice, and send you a one-page report every month. If you can send a text, you can run this.
- What happens if a customer had a bad experience?
- They get routed to a private feedback form that lands with you, not on your public profile. You see exactly what went wrong and get the chance to make it right. Most upset customers just want to be heard; the ones you call back often become your loudest fans.
- Can I cancel? What happens to my reviews if I do?
- You can cancel any month, no contract and no cancellation fee. Every review earned is posted on your own Google Business Profile, so they are yours forever. Nothing disappears when you leave. That is also why we work month to month: the results have to keep earning your business.
- Will more reviews actually move my Google ranking?
- Review count, rating, and how recently reviews arrive are all Map Pack ranking signals, and they are among the few your competitors can see slipping. Steady review velocity is one of the strongest levers a local business controls. We wrote up the exact counts by trade in our review benchmarks post.
- How is $149 a month cheaper than doing it myself for free?
- Asking is free. Asking every single customer, at the right moment, with a one-tap link, while catching the unhappy ones privately, is a system. The big US platforms charge $299 to $599 USD a month for the software alone and lock you into annual contracts. We run the whole thing for you, month to month, from Collingwood.
- Do I need Review Engine or Review City?
- Review Engine ($149/mo) is for businesses still building their Google review base; that's most businesses. Review City ($249/mo) is for businesses that already won Google, roughly 100+ reviews at a 4.5 rating or better, and routes their repeat customers to Facebook, HomeStars, and BBB, the platforms AI assistants read before they answer. Brand new with no Google listing at all? Start with On The Map in 30.
Curious how many reviews it takes to rank in your trade? Read the Collingwood review benchmarks.