About
A family business that only works with contractors.
TradeLockAI is run by the Munsons out of Old Lyme, Connecticut. We do local SEO for home-service trades and nothing else, for one contractor per trade per metro.
Who is TradeLockAI?
TradeLockAI is a family-run local SEO agency based in Old Lyme, Connecticut, founded by James Munson and run with Cooper Munson. It works exclusively with home-service contractors — roofers, HVAC companies, plumbers, electricians, painters, movers and remodelers — and takes only one contractor per trade in any given metro area.
Why we only do this
Every trade has its own version of the same problem. The roofer whose work is better than everyone in town but whose Google profile is filed under the wrong category. The HVAC company with four hundred happy customers and eleven reviews. The painter whose website was built in 2014 and takes six seconds to load on a phone.
None of these are marketing problems in the way agencies usually mean it. They are specific, technical, fixable things. And the reason they do not get fixed is that a general marketing agency has forty clients across nine industries and no particular reason to learn that HVAC companies should switch their primary category in October.
So we only do trades. It means we can be genuinely good at a narrow thing instead of adequate at a wide one.
One contractor per metro
We do not take competing contractors in the same trade and market. There is no version of this business where we sell a roofer in Hartford a playbook and then sell the same playbook to the roofer across town three weeks later — the whole point is to move you past those people.
The honest downside is that we say no fairly often, and there are cities where the slot for your trade is already taken. If that is yours, we will tell you on the first call rather than waste your time.
What we will not do
We will not guarantee a #1 ranking, because nobody can and the tactics used to fake it get profiles suspended. We will not sell you photo geotagging, 500-directory citation blasts, or mass AI-generated city pages. We will not put a fake client logo wall on this website — the proof section says exactly what we have, which right now is a small number of live engagements in the painting and HVAC trades.
We would rather be believable than impressive. The audit is free precisely so you can judge the work before you judge the marketing.
The name
Lock in the leads. Lock out the competitor. One contractor per metro, and the position you build is an asset you own — not attention you rent by the click.
The Team
Two people. You will talk to both.
Founder & CEO
James Munson
Started TradeLockAI after a decade of watching good contractors lose work to worse competitors who simply appeared first on a phone screen. Handles the calls, the strategy, and the relationships.
Head of Technology
Cooper Munson
Builds the site generation stack, the schema and Core Web Vitals work, the tracking, and the AI-visibility workflow. If something on your site is technically wrong, this is who fixes it.
Live client work running right now. We currently manage websites, Google Business Profiles, and local SEO for contractors in the painting and HVAC trades, in Connecticut and the Pacific Northwest. Client names stay private until they tell us otherwise — we'll walk you through the live builds on your audit call.
Ready to Start?
Start with the audit. Decide after.
We run the full audit on your site and Google Business Profile, then send you the PDF within 24 hours. No call required to get it.
- Technical SEO score with the exact failures listed
- Google Business Profile completeness + category check
- Who currently holds the three map-pack spots in your city
- Whether AI assistants can read your business at all