Founder’s note

I built Quorum Local because I needed it and couldn’t find it.

That sentence is the agency. The rest of this page is the operating model it commits to.

See whether your slot is openRead the four-step methodology

The exclusivity thesis, plainly

One client, one trade, one city — explained without a sales pitch.

Three short statements make up the discipline. Together they are the difference between a retainer that compounds and an agency-equivalent invoice that does not.

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    One client per trade, per city

    If a roofer is already a client in your Connecticut city, Quorum Local is not taking on another one. The slot is filled for the life of that engagement, and the next roofer who writes will be told so on the first reply. The same discipline applies to any trade the agency opens next — but today, the only trade the agency is currently serving is residential roofing in Connecticut.

    This is the entire deal — structured that way because it is the only way the retainer can do what it promises. Without territorial exclusivity, the agency could not justify a flat monthly fee in a single trade inside a single city, because the work would be quietly happening for the next-door competitor at the same rate.

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    Single-location, single-trade

    Multi-location businesses are exactly the accounts where exclusivity does not hold — the second branch is, by definition, the same trade in the same city as the first. Those accounts are referred to other agencies rather than quoted up to a number. The retainer assumes a buyer profile that picks up the phone from a single address.

    One trade actively paired today. The other crafts on the registry open in time, on the same discipline: local, single-location, reachable, and never two of the same trade in the same city. Categories outside that list get the same answer the second roofer in town would get: not this agency.

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    $1,200/mo is the entire scope

    The retainer is published, not negotiated. There is no hourly billing, no surprise scoping, and no closing-document disclosure that quietly doubles the number. A flat monthly fee, billed monthly, with a 30-day written notice from either side to end the engagement.

    The fee works because exclusivity carries the load. Were the agency to take on multiple roofers in the same city, the $1,200 number would have to cover a sales budget on top of the work. By owning the territory outright, every dollar goes into the deliverable list — not into the chase for the next client in the same trade.

How this is different

What changes when an agency refuses to dilute its client roster.

The contrast below is the reason the exclusivity clause is signed before the first invoice. It is also the most-asked question on the first call.

Shared-list agency · Quorum Local
Side-by-side, on the items that decide whether a retainer compounds.

Dimension

A shared-list agency

Quorum Local

Attention
Twenty clients in the same county, stacked on one shared roster
One client per trade in your city, period
Monthly reporting
An opaque dashboard, the same link for everyone
A one-page report, plain English, on the same day every month
Pricing
A scope-of-work doc that grows as the account grows
$1,200/mo, published, with no surprise scoping
Onboarding
An inherited playbook from the last three clients
A four-step methodology applied the same way to every trade
End of the engagement
Everything stays inside the agency dashboard
You keep the site, the GBP, the ad accounts, and the reporting

Start the conversation

Tell us your city and your trade. We will tell you whether the slot is open in one business day.
Same shape as the close on the home page — an email, a one-line reply, and the first ten minutes of the conversation tell both sides whether this is the right fit. No intake form, no booked-on-the-spot discovery call.
Email quorum-local@polsia.appRead the retainer termsReplies within one business day