HutHuv for businesses
We are not a lead company.
Get Found. Get Connected. Grow Local.
HutHuv is a local directory for Charlotte and the Carolinas. Customers find your business, read your reviews and contact you directly. You never buy a lead, you never share a customer and you never sign your year away.
Everything HutHuv does for your business
One profile, built to work for you in search, in the directory and in the conversation with your next customer.
✓Free during the Charlotte launch
Joining costs nothing while we launch in Charlotte. Founding businesses keep one full free year when charging starts, and the price after that is $19.99 a month with no setup charge.
✓A verified profile
We check every business before its listing goes public. Customers see a business a real team reviewed, and that trust works for you every day.
✓Real customer reviews
Customers leave star reviews on your HutHuv page, and those reviews stay on your profile where new customers can read them before they call.
✓Direct contact, no middlemen
Customers call, message or visit you straight from your page. The customer talks with you and your team, the people who will do the work.
✓No fees per lead. Ever.
Not per contact, not per call, not per click. A customer who finds you here is your customer, and nobody meters that conversation.
✓No shared leads
Your listing is never sold to four or five competitors at the same time. When a customer finds your business, that conversation belongs to you alone.
✓No contracts and no penalties
No annual contracts, no cancellation penalties and no charge to get started. You stay because it works, not because a contract says so.
✓Your own business page
A full page with your photos, your services, your service area and your reviews, at an address of your own that you can share anywhere.
✓A place on your trade page
You also appear on the page of your trade and your city, where customers in Charlotte and across the Carolinas compare local businesses side by side.
✓Built to be found on Google, Yelp and voice assistants
Your page carries the structured information that Google and voice assistants read. We also help you claim your Google and Yelp profiles and keep your name, phone and city the same everywhere, so customers and assistants find one clear business.
✓Coming soon: Featured Business
An optional monthly highlight that will place your business in front of your trade page and the home page. It arrives with the paid phase, and there is no charge for it during the launch.
The 5 problems with lead platforms
HutHuv was built to fix all five.
Every problem below is documented, backed by a published price, an official policy, a regulator or a reported complaint. This is the model HutHuv was built to leave behind.
The problem
The big platforms
HutHuv
1One lead, sold to several pros at once
The big platforms
On Angi and Thumbtack, the same request goes to up to five pros at once, and each one pays for it. Angi says it in its own help center: a homeowner request is matched with no more than five pros. Thumbtack allows up to five pros in the first four hours, and more after that.
HutHuv
Your listing is never sold or shared. A customer finds your business, reads your reviews and contacts you. That conversation belongs to you alone.
2Contacts that never become customers
The big platforms
Angi alone holds 1,740 BBB complaints in three years, Thumbtack about 900 and Yelp 1,605, and paying for contacts that never turned into a real conversation runs through them. Angi charges for a lead whether or not you open it, and credits come back as credit for future leads, not cash. In April 2023 the Federal Trade Commission issued a final order against HomeAdvisor, now part of Angi, for deceptively marketing its leads since mid 2014. The order required up to $7.2 million in redress, and the FTC later mailed more than $3 million back to businesses in 110,372 checks. And since October 1, 2026, Google Local Services charges for missed calls during business hours when the customer stays on the line for more than 20 seconds; a voicemail counts whether or not a message is left, and since July 2024 there are no manual disputes and no credits for a job type or an area you do not serve.
HutHuv
Nobody charges you for a contact here, answered or not. People reach out from your page because they chose your business on purpose, and a ringing phone is always free.
3The price of every contact, and of every booked job
The big platforms
Angi documents $15 to $85 for a single lead. Thumbtack typically runs $15 to $60. Google Local Services averages $53 a lead, measured by SearchLight Digital in February 2026 across 888 contractors, and $233 for each customer who actually pays. With paid leads in plumbing, one booked job can cost about $516 in lead spending before the work even starts, according to Profit Acuity.
HutHuv
Your listing is free during the Charlotte launch, and $19.99 a month after that. That is the whole cost of being found here, whether two customers contact you or two hundred.
4Most shared leads never turn into work
The big platforms
Published estimates put the share of shared leads that become real work mostly between 10 and 20 percent, with extremes from 6 to 25 percent depending on the trade and on how fast you answer. Angi points to pros winning about one in every seven or eight requests in 2026. No platform publishes its own rate, so the number a business plans its month around is a guess.
HutHuv
Every conversation here starts with a person who picked your business. Nobody bought that customer before you, and nobody else is racing you for the same phone call.
5Contracts that lock you in, and tools priced like rent
The big platforms
An Angi subscription locks in a fixed term and renews automatically, and its cancellation fee is published nowhere: it lives in the contract you sign. Cases reported to the BBB show penalties from $770 to about $1,400, at 25 to 35 percent of the remaining balance depending on the contract, and cancelling means calling, not clicking. Yelp self serve advertising starts at $150 a month, and it charges per click, not per customer. Broadly, a reputation tool, charges $199 to $699 a month with setup charges of $99 to $500, all on a 12 month agreement, and its published terms allow 24 month subscriptions that renew for another 24 months, with early exit costing the full remaining balance of the term. It carries an F rating at the BBB according to Reputation Insider, and customers report charges after cancelling.
HutHuv
No annual contract, no cancellation penalty and no setup charge. You stay because it works, not because a contract says so, and your customers talk with you, never with an AI.
And two more habits of the old model
Being seen in your own neighborhood
The big platforms
On the big neighborhood app, being seen by your own neighbors is now a paid targeting product. That same app finished last among six platforms in citations by AI assistants, the discovery channel that grows the fastest.
HutHuv
Your profile lives free on HutHuv with reviews and a direct contact button, on pages built so search engines and voice assistants can find your business and cite it.
Gurus selling free things
The big platforms
Agencies and gurus charge small businesses to post and advertise in Facebook groups, work that has always been free to do yourself.
HutHuv
HutHuv is not another guru package. You get a verified profile, real reviews and direct customer contact, with nothing extra to buy.
HutHuv cannot promise that customers will choose your business. Customers compare, read reviews and decide. What we promise is the model: a verified profile, direct contact and no charge for any of it per lead.
Questions, answered
The three things business owners ask us most, in plain words.
Q.How much does it cost to list my business?
Listing your business is free during our Charlotte launch. Founding businesses keep one full year free counted from the day paid plans begin in their market.
Q.Does HutHuv charge per lead or per contact?
Never. There are no lead fees, no shared leads and no pay per contact. Customers find your profile and contact you directly.
Q.How is HutHuv different from lead platforms?
Lead platforms sell the same request to several professionals and charge for every contact. On HutHuv, your verified profile works for you around the clock and every inquiry goes straight to you.
Your next customer is already searching.
Put your business where local customers look. Your account is free during the Charlotte launch, it takes about a minute to start, and your listing goes public as soon as our team verifies it.