For owner-led local service businesses
Stop being the system.
You built the business. Otto builds the sales and customer system around it — website, phone, leads, CRM, follow-up and reviews, connected as one journey — so growth stops depending on you answering every call.
- 167 completed client projects since 2019
- 100+ client reviews on Upwork
- Home improvement website experience
The problem
You've proven the business works. Now you're the constraint.
You answer the phone. You handle enquiries. You follow up. You remember which customer wanted what. As the business grows, that doesn't scale — it just means more of your day disappears into things a system could be doing.
- Enquiries arrive across phone calls, web forms, and DMs — with no single place that shows what's happening.
- Quotes go out and nobody chases them, because chasing depends on someone remembering.
- Reviews only happen when you personally think to ask.
- None of it works while you're on the tools, on a job, or off for the weekend.
What Otto builds
The system behind the business.
We connect your phone and website into one lead system.
So every enquiry — however it arrives — lands in one place with an owner, instead of disappearing across phones, inboxes and spreadsheets.
We automate the repeatable follow-up.
So a quote doesn't go cold just because nobody remembered to chase it — reminders and check-ins go out on their own, in your voice.
We manage the review process.
So a good job reliably turns into a five-star review, instead of depending on you remembering to ask on the way out the door.
We connect your marketing data to what actually happens.
So you can see which channels produce paying jobs — not just clicks — and stop guessing where the next dollar should go.
The first six months
A clear pathway, not an open-ended project.
Nine stages from Day 1 to a business that can carry more volume without more owner hours.
Stabilise
The owner gets a clear, controlled picture of the system.
Improve
We use real behaviour and evidence to improve the system.
Build Capacity
A stronger business operating system that can carry more volume.
Why believe it
Built on years of real client delivery.
Otto Growth is a new service. The engineering behind it isn't — 167 completed client projects since 2019, including selected home improvement website migrations that preserved SEO rankings through the transition.
Website migrations
Moving a business from one platform to another — Wix to WordPress, an old host to a new one, a legacy build to something maintainable — without losing the SEO rankings and traffic the business already earned.
Website recovery & repair
Broken websites, failed checkouts, sites that stopped working after an update nobody planned for. Diagnosing the actual fault and repairing it, not just patching the symptom.
Full website builds
Complete WordPress business websites, membership sites and e-commerce builds, built to do a commercial job rather than just exist.
Tracking, funnels & integration
Connecting the tools that tell you what's actually working — analytics, ad pixels, landing pages and sales funnels built to convert, not just look finished.
Who it's for
Owner-led local service businesses.
Not one trade — a business model: an owner who's proven the business can sell, and is now the bottleneck.
Trades
Roofing · Plumbing · Electrical · HVAC · Landscaping
Home improvement & renovation
Kitchen & bathroom renovation · Design-build · Recladding · Painting · Flooring
Professional & local services
Clinics · Accountants · Local consultancies · Property services
Local e-commerce
Owner-run online stores · Hybrid retail + online businesses
The methodology behind it
Otto's diagnostic covers eight arms of the business.
This is how comprehensively Otto can inspect and improve the system — not the first thing you need to understand, just the depth underneath it.
ARM 01 · Performance
Performance
Do people leave before your site loads?
Most visitors arrive on a phone, often from an ad you paid for. Every extra second of load time sends a share of them back to the search results — before they've seen a single photo of your work.
What the assessment measures
- Mobile load time on a real connection
- Core Web Vitals on your top landing pages
- Image weight and page size
- Hosting and caching configuration
What Otto can improve
- Image compression and modern formats
- Caching and delivery configuration
- Removing plugin weight you don't need
- Prioritising what loads first on mobile
More of the visitors you already pay for actually see the page.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 02 · Conversion
Conversion
Does the site make people enquire?
Traffic without enquiries is decoration. Most websites describe the business; far fewer are built around the action a visitor should take next — and the difference is measurable.
What the assessment measures
- What a first-time visitor sees before scrolling
- Calls to action on every key page
- Proof, pricing clarity and trust signals
- Friction in the enquiry and quote paths
What Otto can improve
- Clear next steps on every page
- Enquiry paths with fewer fields and less friction
- Proof and pricing presented where decisions happen
- Mobile-first layout of the pages ads land on
A higher share of visitors become enquiries — from the same traffic.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 03 · AI
AI
Could AI answer enquiries when you can't?
Enquiries peak in the evening and on weekends — exactly when nobody's at a desk. An AI first response doesn't pretend to be you and doesn't quote your work. It confirms the enquiry arrived, asks the questions you'd ask anyway, and books a time.
What the assessment measures
- What happens to an enquiry sent at 9pm
- Whether visitors can get questions answered instantly
- Repetitive question-answering that eats your day
- Where an AI first-response would genuinely help
What Otto can improve
- After-hours AI first response with qualification
- Instant answers to the questions you answer daily
- Handover to a real person, with full context
- Clear labelling — visitors always know it's automated
Every enquiry gets a credible response in minutes, at any hour.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 04 · Security
Security
Could you lose the site tomorrow?
An out-of-date WordPress site isn't a maybe — it's a queue. Most compromised small-business sites weren't targeted; they were simply the next unpatched site on a list.
What the assessment measures
- Update status of WordPress core, theme and plugins
- Backup existence, frequency and restorability
- Login and admin exposure
- SSL and basic hardening
What Otto can improve
- Safe, tested updates on a schedule
- Automated off-site backups you can actually restore
- Login hardening and admin cleanup
- Monitoring that notices problems before customers do
The site keeps running, and there's a tested way back if anything breaks.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 05 · Lead Generation
Lead Generation
Do enquiries actually reach you?
The most common serious fault on WordPress sites that "work fine" is a form that submits, thanks the visitor — and delivers nothing. There's no error and no bounce. The homeowner assumes they were ignored and calls the next company.
What the assessment measures
- Every enquiry path, tested end to end
- Where each form actually delivers — and whether it does
- Mobile usability of forms and click-to-call
- Spam handling that isn't eating real enquiries
What Otto can improve
- Every path rebuilt and tested to deliver, every time
- Instant acknowledgement to the visitor
- Delivery to more than one place, so nothing hinges on one inbox
- Regular automated re-testing, because it breaks silently
Every enquiry a visitor sends is an enquiry you receive.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 06 · Automation
Automation
What are you still doing by hand?
The most expensive leak often sits behind the website: quotes that go out — hours of site visits and pricing — and are never followed up, because following up feels like chasing. Good automation gives the customer a reason to reply that isn't "have you decided yet."
What the assessment measures
- What happens between enquiry and booked job
- Quote follow-up — whether it happens at all
- Confirmations, reminders and review requests
- Evening admin that software should be doing
What Otto can improve
- Quote follow-up sequences written in your voice
- Booking confirmations and reminders
- Review requests at the right moment
- You approve every message before anything sends
Work you already won stops going cold, without you chasing.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 07 · CRM
CRM
Do you lose track of quotes?
An inbox is where enquiries go to be forgotten. When every lead lives in email, nothing has a status, nothing has an owner, and a busy fortnight quietly costs you the pipeline you built in the quiet one.
What the assessment measures
- Where enquiries live after they arrive
- Whether anything is tracked past the inbox
- Who owns each enquiry, and what happens when they're on site
- Whether past customers are reachable at all
What Otto can improve
- Every enquiry captured with a status and an owner
- Routing to a named person, with escalation if unanswered
- Pipeline you can see at a glance
- Integration with the tools you already use
Nothing falls through the cracks between enquiry and invoice.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →ARM 08 · Analytics
Analytics
Do you know what's actually working?
Most analytics setups count visitors and answer nothing. The question that matters is smaller and harder: which channels produce enquiries that become jobs — and which are burning budget.
What the assessment measures
- Whether enquiries and calls are counted at all
- Which sources produce enquiries — not just visits
- What your ad spend actually returns
- Whether reports answer business questions
What Otto can improve
- Enquiry and call tracking that counts what matters
- Source attribution across forms, calls and ads
- A monthly report in plain English: enquiries, sources, outcomes
- Numbers you can make decisions with
You know what each channel returns — and where the next dollar should go.
See this measured in your Otto Growth Check →Google Review Link Generator
Paste your Google Maps listing link or Place ID and get a direct link that opens straight to the review box — the same link you can text, email, or put on a receipt.
Get my review linkNo sales call required
Get the review link. Then let Otto manage the process.
A genuinely useful, Otto-branded tool you can use right now — free, no email required. It's also a preview of how Otto thinks: software can facilitate the process, but Otto manages the work.
The offer
One managed service. One price.
The ongoing work of building, connecting and improving the system around your business.
- Leverage — more of the business runs without depending on you personally.
- A managed system, not a pile of software licences.
- Better handling of sales and customer service.
- Continuous improvement, month after month.
Otto Growth
Excludes GST. No lock-in term — cancel with 30 days' notice.
See what's includedFair questions
Answered before you have to ask
No. A web agency hands you a website and moves on. Otto Growth is ongoing — we keep working on the system behind the business every month: website, phone, leads, CRM, follow-up and reviews, connected as one journey instead of separate jobs.
Otto's ongoing work: building, connecting, managing and improving the systems around your business. Not a software licence, not a pile of plugins — the actual work of keeping the system running and getting better. See what's included on the Otto Growth page.
The managed monthly service is. Larger one-off work — a major rebuild, a platform migration, custom software, significant e-commerce builds, or advertising spend — is scoped and quoted separately, and we'll always tell you before anything falls outside the monthly service.
We learn how the business actually works before changing anything, then connect the foundations and fix the highest-value problems first. By the end of month one you should have a clear, controlled picture of where enquiries arrive and what happens to them. The full six-month pathway is on the How It Works page.
No, and we won't promise that. The realistic goal is reduced dependency and more capacity — repeatable work moves off your plate so the business can grow without every single interaction running through you.
No. The technology — WordPress, a CRM, automation tools — is an implementation detail we choose based on what the business actually needs, not the product itself.
Yes — that's a substantial part of the historical delivery behind Otto, including home improvement website migrations that preserved SEO rankings through the transition. See the Proof page.
You can buy software. Otto is the ongoing work of setting it up properly, connecting it to everything else, and managing it — including the parts software can't do, like actually running a review request process.
Ready when you are
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