HammerDuck

Now open across the CSRA

Post the job.Let the bids come to you.

HammerDuck is a home services marketplace built for the Central Savannah River Area and nowhere else. Homeowners describe what they need. Local Home Service Pros bid on it. You pick who you want to work with.

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A veteran-owned business serving 13 Georgia counties and 5 in South Carolina, from Augusta out. Open since Friday, October 16, 2026. Posting is free for homeowners, and it is free for every Pro until December 1, 2026.

The HammerDuck logo: a duck in a hard hat holding a hammer.

We are open

HammerDuck is open across the CSRA.

Homeowners across the CSRA can post a project right now, and Home Service Pros can bid on it. It is free of charge for every Pro until December 1, 2026. No card, no catch. After December 1, add a card and you get 30 free days before your first charge as a standard member, or 60 free days as a Founding Contractor, starting the day you add it. Homeowners never pay a thing.

Meet HammerDuck

Twenty seconds. Then you will get it.

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Built by one person in Augusta, for the people who live here.

Why this exists

Helene took the roof off. Then came the phone calls.

After Hurricane Helene came through the CSRA, half of this area needed the same handful of trades at the same time. If you lived here, you remember what that was like. You left messages that never got returned. You got quoted numbers by crews who rolled in from four states away and were gone before the season turned. And the apps everybody already had on their phone were not built to help with any of it.

Here is the part most homeowners never see. On the national platforms, the local Pro you were trying to reach was having an equally bad month. Every time you filled out a form, that same request typically went out to several Pros at once, and each one of them was charged for the privilege of contacting you, whether they got the job, whether you called them back, whether you were even a serious lead. Good Pros around here quietly stopped answering, because the math had stopped working.

Both sides were losing. Only the platform was winning.

HammerDuck was built out of that specific frustration, in this specific place. It is not a national company testing a market. It is eighteen counties, one owner who lives in them, and a set of rules written so a two-truck outfit is not structurally beaten by a twenty-truck outfit before either one says a word to you.

That is the whole idea. Keep the money local, keep the rules the same for everybody, and get out of the way so a homeowner and a Pro can just talk.

HammerDuck vs. the big platforms

Same job. Completely different deal.

The difference is not the features. It is who the business model is built to protect. Read it straight across.

What a Pro pays
Per lead. Commonly $15 to $100 or more for a single contact, and on some platforms an annual fee on top of that.
A flat $25 a month, and bidding is included. Founding Pros pay $20, held for as long as their membership stays active, in good standing, with no terms violations and no break in service. Free for every Pro until December 1, 2026, then 30 free days (60 for Founding Pros) before the first charge. Nothing is charged per homeowner, and nothing is charged per bid.
Who gets your project
One request is typically pushed to several Pros at once, and every one of them gets billed for it.
Pros choose which jobs to bid on, and nobody is billed for your project. Five bids per project, then it closes, so you are never buried.
If the job falls through
The Pro already paid. That money is gone whether or not a shovel ever hit the ground.
Cancel here and no Pro is out a dime. Nothing is charged per bid, so nobody pays for work that never happened.
Can money buy the top spot
Spend more, get seen more. Volume wins, and the biggest budget usually reaches you first.
No unlimited tier. Ever. We refuse to sell an advantage that would let one outfit bury the smaller ones.
Where they operate
The entire country. Your county is a row in a database somewhere else.
Eighteen counties. 13 in Georgia, 5 in South Carolina. Enforced in the software, not just promised.
What it costs a homeowner
Free to post, then the calls start, because speed of contact is what the model rewards.
Free to post, always. No cut of your job. You read the bids and reach out on your own time.
Who you reach with a problem
A support queue at a company headquartered a long way from Augusta.
The owner. One person, in the CSRA, who has to see you at the store afterward.

Per-lead pricing reflects widely reported industry ranges that vary by trade, season and market. Check the relevant platform's current terms for exact numbers. HammerDuck pricing above is current as of October 16, 2026.

Here is how it works

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A homeowner posts a project

What needs doing, roughly where, and how soon. Posting is free, and it stays free. No fee to describe your own kitchen.

2

Local Home Service Pros bid on it

Home Service Pros nearby see the job and send a real quote. Every Pro pays the same flat membership, so nobody buys their way to the top of your list.

3

The homeowner chooses

Compare the bids, message the Pros, and hire whoever fits. HammerDuck does not pick for you and does not take a cut of the job.

What we are committing to

The rules we are not willing to break.

Plenty of platforms started out fair. The ones that stopped being fair did it one reasonable-sounding decision at a time. These are the ones we are saying out loud, in public, so you can hold us to them.

No unlimited tier

Not now, not later, not as a "pro plus" upsell. The moment one Pro can buy unlimited reach, every smaller operator in that trade starts losing on budget instead of merit.

Posting stays free

Homeowners never pay to describe their own project, and HammerDuck never takes a percentage of the job you agree to. What you settle on with your Pro is between the two of you.

Your details are not for sale

We are not a lead broker. Your name, number and project do not get packaged up and sold on to anyone, on either side of the marketplace.

The CSRA, or nothing

The service area is enforced in the database itself, not just written on a page. If we ever grow past these counties, it will be a deliberate announcement, not a quiet switch.

Founding Home Service Pros get in cheap and stay cheap

The Pros who take a chance on a marketplace before it has customers are the reason it ever gets any. That is worth paying for, permanently.

3

Per trade, no matter the trade. Roofers, plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters, landscapers, and everyone in between. Three founding spots each, across the entire CSRA. When a trade fills, it closes.

$20

A month, for as long as you qualify. Everyone else pays $25. Your rate holds for as long as your membership stays active, in good standing, with no terms violations and no break in service.

60

Free days, and nothing at all until December 1. HammerDuck is free for every Pro from opening day through November. Add a card by December 15 to keep your founding rate; your 60 free days start December 1, or the day you add it if that is later. Everyone else gets 30.

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The founding badge, for as long as you qualify. It sits on your profile where homeowners see it, on the same terms as your rate, and it does not get handed out again later.

Home Service Pros: create your account

Sign up, build your profile, and bid on real projects across the CSRA. Membership is free until December 1, 2026, and no card is needed until then. After that it is $25 a month, with 30 free days before your first charge.

Founding spots are confirmed personally by the owner, three per trade. Sign up first; if a spot is still open in your trade, Urbon will reach out. You can also email customerservice@hammerduck.com with the subject line "Founding Contractor".

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Homeowners: post your project

Describe what you need, add photos if you like, and local Home Service Pros bid on it. Free to post, always, and HammerDuck never takes a cut of your job.

You choose who to hire. Your name, address, phone and email are shared with a Pro only when you reply to them, accept their bid, or confirm a visit.

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