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Own the marketing, or join the marketplace.

TruLata is an AI marketing platform for service businesses, a TruLata dashboard where search, ads, content, outbound and email run on a schedule and every lead is counted from your own site. Thumbtack is a marketplace where homeowners share job details and are matched with local pros. Thumbtack's details on this page come from its own website, read in September 2026.

Is it built for a business like mine?

TruLata is built for a service business, whoever runs its marketing: an owner who carries it on the side, or a marketer who wants more reach.

Thumbtack presents itself to homeowners looking for local help, and it has a separate path for service professionals who join. Its site says it covers home projects across the country.

Built for
TruLataservice businesses
ThumbtackHomeowners, and pros who join

What will I pay, and when do I find out?

Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Every published tier is month to month with no setup fee, and committing annually drops the monthly twenty percent. Command is scoped with you. The same figures sit on the pricing page.

Thumbtack publishes consumer job prices on its site, such as house cleaning at $177 and up, TV mounting at $151 and up, pressure washing at $202 and up, and junk removal at $119 and up. It also lists national average prices by service, such as $70 for a handyman and $240 for a house cleaner.

Before the call
TruLatapublished, month to month
ThumbtackJob prices shown up front

What does each one run for me?

Engines run on a schedule whether anyone is at a desk, and the team that built them runs them. Starter carries the TruLata dashboard, full analytics, leads, search visibility, the AI visibility program, managed Google Ads search, the assistant and briefings and support tickets. Launch adds the content engine. Growth adds Meta ads. Command adds the outbound engine, social media management and your full marketing team, always on.

Thumbtack describes sharing job details, seeing a price, picking a time and being matched with a pro. It also lists cost guides, maintenance tips and project guides, plus an app.

What runs
TruLata StarterGoogle Ads search, AI visibility, leads
ThumbtackMatch, book, and app

Whose lead count can I trust?

Trust your own count. Forms on a site we build are handled server-side, and each submission is written to a Google Sheet and emailed to the team as it lands. At 7:20 Eastern every morning, on an instance whose forms feed the sheet, the lead watch compares it with the conversions Google Ads counted and the events GA4 recorded, so a dead tag or a blind ad account shows up the next day.

Whoever you choose, ask whether the lead count on your screen is your own record or the ad platform's.

  1. A form is submitted on your siteHandled server-side, written to a Google Sheet and emailed to your team as it lands
  2. 7:20am ET, every morningThe lead watch compares the sheet with Google Ads conversions and GA4 events
  3. The next day, not next quarterA dead tag or a blind ad account shows up

Will I see every change made to my ads?

At 7:05 Eastern every morning one job reads the change history of every ads account connected to us, plus the list of who holds access to it. Our own writes land in that same history, so what our team did sits on the same record as everyone else's.

Ask Thumbtack how you would see a change made to your ads account last week, and who holds access to it today.

What the 7:05am ET watch reads

It readsSo you see
  • The change history of every connected ads accountWhat changed, and when
  • The list of who holds accessAnyone added to the account
  • Our own writes, on the same historyWhat our team did, on the same record as everyone else's

What do I keep if I leave?

Keep your accounts. Every Google connection is a grant you can revoke in your own console, we never ask for an account password, and where your forms feed a lead sheet the sheet stays where it is. What we read and what leaves with you is written out in full.

Ask Thumbtack who owns the ad account, the analytics property, the website and the domain on the day you leave.

Yours on the day you leave

  • Every Google account, revoked from your own console
  • No passwords held by us
  • The lead sheet, where it is

Ask Thumbtack who owns

  • The ad account
  • The analytics property
  • The website
  • The domain

Keep your accounts.

Five questions

Put these to Thumbtack, and to us.

Ask thisTruLata's answerWhere to check it
What it costsThree published tiers, month to month, no setup fee; Command scopedThe pricing page
What is includedA ladder where each tier includes everything below itThe pricing page, row by row
Whose lead count it isYour own forms, compared daily with Ads and GA4The Leads view; the lead watch at 7:20am ET
Who changed my adsThe change history and the account users, read daily, our writes includedGoogle's change history in your own account
What I keep when I leaveYour Google accounts and your lead sheetThe Your data page
Said plainly

Ask for the price before the call and the record after it. We publish both.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does Thumbtack bring me leads or run my marketing?

Thumbtack's site describes matching customers with pros after a customer shares job details, and it has a sign up path for professionals. TruLata is marketing software you run for your own business, with search, ads, content, outbound and email on a schedule and every lead counted from your own site.

What does Thumbtack's site say about price?

It shows customer prices for jobs before booking, for example house cleaning at $177 and up and junk removal at $119 and up, and it publishes national average prices by service.

Where do the details about Thumbtack come from?

Thumbtack's own website, read in September 2026: thumbtack.com and thumbtack.com/prices. If something on this page no longer matches what Thumbtack publishes, tell us and we correct it.

Does TruLata publish its prices?

Yes: Starter is $400 a month, Launch $650, Growth $1,200, and Command is scoped per engagement. Command is scoped with you. The figures match on every page we publish.

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  • Refreshed when you open itLive data on page load, never a monthly PDF
  • Counted from your own formsLeads recorded server-side, compared daily with Ads and GA4
  • Seen in AI answersHow often ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok name you, measured
  • Every send loggedProspect emails leave from a review-first queue, and every send is logged.