Hear every local buying conversation the moment it starts.
Every day, someone near you types “anyone know a good dentist around here?” into Reddit or a local Facebook group. Reputably is a local lead monitoring tool: it watches those conversations live, scores each one for buying intent, and drafts the reply that wins the job. You post it yourself — no accounts to connect.
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“Cracked a molar last night and my regular dentist can't see me for three weeks. Anyone know someone good who takes emergencies?”
Your next customer is asking a stranger who to hire.
Before people book a dentist, call an HVAC company, hire a cleaner, see a physio, retain a lawyer or walk into a med spa, most of them ask someone first. That used to mean a phone call to a friend. Now it's a post: “Who do you trust for AC repair around Round Rock?” on Reddit. “Anyone used a med spa here they'd actually go back to?” in the neighbourhood Facebook group.
These threads are the warmest leads a local business can get — a real person, in your service area, asking to be sold to — and they're won by whoever answers first with something genuinely helpful. They're also nearly impossible to catch by hand: they appear at random hours, across dozens of subreddits and groups, and most never show up in a Google search.
Reputably watches them for you — Reddit posts and comments, public Facebook groups, YouTube including Shorts, X and the open web — and puts the ones worth answering at the top of one feed.
From signup to your first local lead in minutes.
Tell us what you sell — and where
Your services, your service area, and the way locals phrase the ask. No social accounts to connect, ever.
We watch and score
Reputably scans Reddit (posts and comments), public Facebook groups, YouTube and X around the clock and scores every conversation for buying intent.
You post the reply
Each lead arrives with a reply drafted to sound like a helpful local, not an ad. Copy it, post from your own account, win the customer.
Ads interrupt strangers. This answers people already asking.
Local ads bid for the attention of people who might need you someday. A recommendation thread is someone who needs you today, in public, waiting for a name. Answering that thread costs you two minutes — and the answer keeps working long after an ad budget would be spent.
- Intent you can't buy. The asker has already decided to hire someone — the only question left is who. Your reply arrives at exactly that moment.
- No auction, no cost per click. You're not outbidding the franchise down the road — you're being the first helpful answer in a thread they never saw.
- Replies that keep selling. Recommendation threads get found again — by neighbours searching the group, by Google, and by the AI models that read them.
“Landlord says the place needs a proper move-out clean or I lose the deposit. Who's actually reliable here?”
“Shoulder's been wrecked for a month. Someone recommend a physio in Brunswick who won't just hand me a printout of stretches?”
“Who do you recommend?” rises to the top. Noise doesn't.
Keyword alerts drown you in every passing mention of your category. Reputably reads the conversation instead: a request for a recommendation, a complaint about a competitor, or someone comparing quotes scores far higher than chatter — so the feed opens on the leads, not the noise.
- Fresh while it matters. Recommendation threads are won in the first hours. Reputably surfaces them while the asker is still checking replies.
- Comments included. On Reddit, most buying conversations happen in comment threads, not posts — Reputably reads both.
- Drafted, never auto-posted. Every reply waits for you. Post it from your own account, in your own name — the way communities expect.
“Getting married in October and the med spa I booked just cancelled on me. Please tell me someone here has a place they swear by.”
Built for businesses that win on trust, not ad spend.
Dentists, HVAC companies, cleaners, physios, lawyers and med spas all get chosen the same way: someone asks, someone answers, the job is booked. One won thread often pays for the $99/month Starter plan many times over — and unlike an ad, the thread keeps referring you after you've stopped paying attention to it.
Multi-location businesses get monitoring per market, so the Austin team never wastes time on Denver threads. Agencies can run local lead monitoring for every client from one white-label login.
And because lead monitoring shares a feed with brand monitoring, you also hear when someone mentions your name without asking a question — praise worth amplifying, or a complaint worth catching early.
Local lead monitoring, answered.
What is local lead monitoring?
Local lead monitoring means watching the places where people near you ask for recommendations — Reddit threads, public Facebook groups, YouTube comments, X — and catching those conversations while they're still open. Reputably scans all of them continuously, scores each conversation for buying intent, and drafts a reply for you to post, so a request for exactly what you sell never slips past unanswered.
Where do people ask for local recommendations online?
Mostly on Reddit — city and neighbourhood subreddits, plus the comments under local posts — and in public Facebook groups like neighbourhood, homeowner and buy-and-sell groups. YouTube comments and X carry them too. Most of these threads never appear in Google search results, so without monitoring you simply never know they happened.
How is this different from buying local ads?
Ads pay to interrupt people who weren't asking. Lead monitoring answers people who already have their hand up — someone posting “who do you recommend for X?” has intent no ad audience can match. There's no auction and no cost per click; you spend a few minutes posting a helpful reply where a real request already exists.
Does Reputably post replies automatically?
Never. Reputably drafts the reply and you post it from your own account — no social accounts are connected at all. That keeps every reply authentically yours and keeps you inside each community's rules.
Which local businesses does this work for?
Any business people choose on trust: dentists, HVAC companies, cleaners, physios, lawyers, med spas, painters, plumbers and more. If your customers ask friends and neighbours before booking, those questions are being typed into Reddit and Facebook groups right now — and that's what Reputably watches.
How much does local lead monitoring cost?
Reputably starts at $99 per month, which includes lead monitoring across Reddit, public Facebook groups, YouTube and X — plus AI visibility tracking and Google review automation in the same subscription. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial, no card required.
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