A website builder for excavation contractors

Site prep is the first call on a build, so it leads

Clearing, stripping topsoil, cutting a pad and putting in a construction drive are what a builder buys first. That page speaks to a builder, not a homeowner.

Say how you stage a job, what you haul off, what stays on site, and how you work behind the surveyor's stakes.

If you take residential lots and commercial sites both, say so. The two callers ask very different questions.

Grading and drainage pages answer the water question

Most homeowner calls start with water going the wrong way. A wet yard, a soggy basement wall, a gravel drive that washes out every spring.

That page explains what you look at: the slope, the outlet, and where the water goes next. It says what you build and what a visit checks.

It should not promise a yard will stay dry. Ground, rain and the property next door all have a say, and the page can admit that.

Trenching pages say plainly who calls for the locate

Water lines, sewer laterals, conduit and footing drains are trench work. Callers want to know how deep, how wide, and how the ground is put back.

Utility locating is the owner's process, and the page says it straight. The property owner or the general contractor requests the locate before anyone digs, and you work to the marks.

Never promise that nothing underground gets hit. Say what you do when a line is unmarked or turns up away from the paint.

Demolition, ponds and haul-off each pull their own search

Taking down a garage, a barn or a house is searched by name, not as excavation. Give it a page, and say how utility disconnects are arranged before you start.

Ponds, dams and basins are a rural search with long questions. If you build them, the page says what you dig, what you line, and what you leave to others.

Hauling in stone, sand or fill is a service by itself, and some callers want only that.

Permits, erosion control and inspections point to the county

Grading permits, erosion control and culvert rules are set by the county or the state. The page says who files and what the owner handles.

It never says a job will pass an inspection, because that call is not yours. It says what you build to, and what happens if an inspector wants a change.

The proof a builder or an owner asks an excavator for

Everything here comes out of the interview and goes where a reader looks. Nothing is invented, and nothing stays up after you say it lapsed.

• Your contractor license or registration where your state requires one
• Liability and workers' compensation insurance, named plainly
• Bonding, if you bid public or municipal work
• The machines you run, so a caller knows the job fits
• Photos of finished grade and seeded sites, not only open holes

How excavation quotes start and where the lead lands

Nearly every job needs a look at the site, and often a plan set. The form on every page asks for the address, the scope and a call back.

Submissions are delivered to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, email or any webhook. A Send test lead button proves the connection before a real lead flows.

On the Leads screen each one carries a status and a note. You can export every lead across every site to a spreadsheet in one click, which helps when a builder asks what you bid last spring.

What the interview asks, and the Census label behind the figures

Each page opens with a short capsule near the top. The AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google's AI answers can take that piece and quote it.

The in-app assistant asks what work you take, whether you run residential, commercial or municipal jobs, and which machines you own. It asks about license, insurance, bonding, your areas and what makes you different.

You approve the planned pages and the cost before the build runs. Every page then passes a check that runs before anything publishes, validated against Google Search Essentials and modern web standards. A page written from a conversation about your own jobs is genuinely useful.

One note on the Census figures below. They count site preparation contractors, which is broader than excavation alone, so the label covers more companies than yours. For scale, it counts 41,777 establishments in the United States, and 472,783 people employed.

• How soon can you get a machine on my lot
• Do you haul the dirt away
• Who calls in the utility locate
• Can you fix the spot where water sits
• Do I need a permit to regrade

The site preparation contractors trade, in Census numbers

• 41,777 Site preparation contractors establishments in the United States (NAICS 238910, County Business Patterns 2023) U.S. Census County Business Patterns 2023
• 472,783 people employed in Site preparation contractors in the United States (NAICS 238910, County Business Patterns 2023) U.S. Census County Business Patterns 2023

Figures are from the source named beside each one, as published. They describe the area or the trade, not this product.