For the trade
For Landscaping Companies
An honest pitch, which in this category means opening with what we have not got rather than with a lead volume nobody can verify.
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Where this actually stands, today. HyreYard has no contracted landscaping companies, no live matching, and no lead volume to quote you. We are not going to open with a number we have not produced, because you have almost certainly been sold one before — and probably one built on a twelve-month average that fell apart in March. What we have is a site that answers the questions your customers arrive with, a published standard for how enquiries are handled, and a willingness to have a short conversation about what a fair arrangement would look like.
What we are
hyreyard.com publishes independent information for homeowners planning outdoor work: what the job involves, what is buried underneath it, what moves the price, and what a written scope should contain. HyreYard performs no landscaping, no lawn care and no tree work of any kind, employs no crews and holds no licence. The intention is to introduce the people who read it to companies who can do the work.
What we are not, and will not become
- Not a lead auction. One enquiry, one introduction. We do not sell the same homeowner to five companies and let you race each other to the driveway.
- Not a reseller. Every enquiry originates on this site from someone who read a page. We buy no traffic dressed as interest and syndicate nothing.
- Not a directory. There are no profiles, no ratings and no rankings — so there is nothing to buy a position in.
- Not a review platform. We carry no reviews, because we have no policy under which they were collected.
- Not a company that will call you “trusted”. We will name what we verified and let a homeowner draw their own conclusion.
Maintenance and installation are not one product
Most lead products in this trade treat “landscaping” as a single category, which is how a company that wants route density in mowing contracts ends up paying for a patio enquiry, and how a hardscape builder ends up quoting weekly mowing. They are different businesses:
| Recurring maintenance | Installation and build | |
|---|---|---|
| What the customer is buying | A season, or an ongoing arrangement | A one-off project with a scope |
| Decision speed | Often within days | Frequently weeks, sometimes a season or more |
| What wins it | Route proximity, reliability, price per visit | The scope, the base specification, the drawing |
| What a bad match costs you | A phone call | A site visit, a measure-up and a written proposal |
| Seasonal shape | Follows the growing season closely | Enquiry peak runs ahead of the build season |
So the enquiry form asks which one it is, and an introduction carries that answer. A company that only wants one of the two can say so and be held to it.
Season is part of the enquiry, not a footnote
The same enquiry is a different product in February and in July. A February enquiry is usually a plan being priced; a July enquiry is usually a job that needs doing now; an October one may be a renovation window that closes in weeks. We ask when the work is wanted and pass on the answer, and we will not describe volume as an annual average, because the months that average conceals are the months that decide whether an arrangement was worth it.
What a homeowner arrives having read
What a customer already understands should interest an operator more than a volume figure. Someone who reached you through this site has, plausibly, already read that:
- A base specification — depth, compaction, edge restraint — is the half of a patio or wall they will never see, and belongs in the quote in writing.
- Drainage is a job that comes before the landscaping job, not a line item to be left silent.
- A maintenance contract is priced per visit, and what it includes needs to be written down before the season starts.
- A plant warranty has watering conditions attached and is not a guarantee against everything.
- Retaining walls above a threshold height usually need engineering and a permit — see retaining walls.
- Chemical applications are a licensed activity and worth asking about specifically — see lawn chemical safety.
- Three bids only compare if they describe the same scope — see reading a landscaping estimate.
If that reads as a harder customer, it is worth noticing which kind of company it is harder for. An operator who specifies the base, scopes the drainage and writes down what the contract includes has just had most of the conversation held for them.
What we would ask of you
| Requirement | Why |
|---|---|
| Whatever licence your state does require, current | Licensing in this trade is fragmented: many states license no landscaper as such, while separately licensing irrigators and pesticide applicators. We ask for what applies where you work, and we check what we can — see how we vet. |
| A pesticide applicator licence if you apply chemicals | Commercial application is a licensed activity in its own right, and a homeowner is told on this site to ask for it specifically. |
| General liability and workers’ compensation | Machinery, excavation and tree work near a house make this a floor rather than a distinction. |
| A written scope before a price | Species and sizes, quantities, base specification, and what is being removed as well as installed. It is what makes a quote comparable, and it is already what we tell homeowners to expect. |
| Drainage addressed, one way or the other | Either stated as adequate with a reason, or scoped and priced. Silence on water is the failure this site warns about most often. |
| Say which work you want | Maintenance, installation, or both, and which services. The alternative is us guessing, which is how bad introductions happen. |
| A response time you can hold in your busy season | Not your February response time. We would rather publish a slower number that survives July than a faster one that does not. |
| Tell us when an enquiry was bad | Out of area, wrong service, access that made it unviable, duplicate, unreachable, pricing a future season. Each is a defect in our process and we cannot fix what we are not told about. |
What we would not ask
- Not exclusivity we cannot deliver.
- Not a minimum spend against volume we have not produced.
- Not a commitment through the off-season for leads that arrive in the growing season.
- Not a change to your pricing, your plant list or your contract terms.
- Not a review-gathering campaign. We do not carry reviews.
- Not payment for editorial mention, because there is none to sell.
Read these before you email
- How the introduction process works — what actually happens, step by step.
- Questions operators ask — pricing, exclusivity, volume, seasonality, and what happens when a lead is wrong.
- Our lead quality standard — the eight rules, published so you can hold us to them.
- How we vet professionals — what we check and what we openly do not.
Get in touch
Register your interest, or email hello@hyreyard.com directly. Tell us where you work, which services you actually want, and whether you are after maintenance, installation or both. A short honest conversation about what is live beats a long one about what is planned.