Become a Rivet Partner.
Nearly half of all calls to home-services contractors go unanswered, and those callers do not leave a voicemail — they dial the next number. Rivet answers, books the appointment on the contractor’s calendar, and texts them what happened. You call those contractors, show them what they are losing, and earn 20% of their first payment and 5% of every payment for 12 months.
Commission only
No base, no draw, no ceiling. If nothing closes, nothing is paid.
Prospects provided
Vetted contractor lists in waves of 25, up to 100 open at a time.
You are in business for yourself
Your hours, your methods, your own phone, inside the calling rules.
What you would be talking about
A product with a one-sentence pitch.
“How many calls went to voicemail last week?” Most owners genuinely do not know, and the answer is always worse than they guess. Rivet answers the ones they miss, triages the emergencies, books the rest onto their calendar, and sends the transcript. No app, no new number, cancel in one click.
48%
of home-services calls go unanswered
Invoca, 2026 — 70M+ calls analysed
$7–$11
per call for a human answering service
Ruby, Smith.ai, Abby Connect list pricing
90 sec
to set Rivet up, keeping their own number
One forwarding code on the handset
Starter
1–2 trucks — you are the phone system
$149
Pro
3–5 trucks — you are missing real money
$279
Scale
6–15 trucks — multi-trade or multi-location
$549
Published prices. Partners quote these and nothing else — improvising on price is the one thing that turns a good call into a liability for both of us.
What you earn
Twenty percent up front. Five percent for a year.
What one signup pays
IllustrationOne contractor, one plan, list price, no discounts. Arithmetic — not a forecast.
On their first payment
$55.80
20% of the $279 they pay
Every month they stay
$13.95/mo
5% of $279, for 12 months
If they stay all 12 months
$223.20
Total commission on this one signup
Month one pays $55.80, then $13.95 a month for 12 months, $223.20 in total.
The first payment releases in two halves. $27.90 clears 45 days after their payment settles, and the other $27.90 once they have made a second payment and the account has handled about ten answered calls. That is there so nobody can profit from signing up a contractor who never uses Rivet.
If that contractor refunds or charges back, the commission on that payment was never earned and comes back off the balance. We would rather say that here than in a clause.
These figures are the commission rates applied to published plan prices. They are not a statement about what you or anyone else will earn.
20% of the first payment, 5% for 12 months
The recurring share follows the customer, not the calendar — if they upgrade, your percentage applies to the bigger number.
Calculated on cash collected, never on list price
After discounts, after credits, before tax. If a contractor pays less, commission is less; if a promotion means they pay nothing in month one, there is nothing to pay commission on. It also means a discount we give them never quietly removes your commission.
Held 45 days, then released in two halves
Half clears 45 days after their payment settles — our 30-day refund window plus two weeks of chargeback latency. The other half clears once they have made a second payment and the account has handled roughly ten answered calls.
Paid monthly through Stripe, $50 minimum
You onboard directly with Stripe and they hold your details — Rivet never sees or stores your SSN, your date of birth or your bank number. Below the minimum, the balance rolls to next month rather than paying a fee to move it.
Refunds and chargebacks come back off the balance
A payment that was reversed was never earned. It nets against what is owed to you next. We would rather put that in 30-point type than in clause 14(c).
90 days of recurring commission continue if the partnership ends
Either side can end it at any time. Your recurring commission keeps paying for 90 days afterwards. Termination for confirmed fraud is the one exception, and it forfeits the outstanding balance.
What a day looks like
Lists in, calls out, one number at a time.
A wave of 25 lands in your portal
You accept it, or you do not. Contractors come from public licensing records — we do the sourcing. You can hold up to 100 open at once, topped up as you work through them, so nothing sits claimed and dead for a month.
You dial them yourself, one at a time
One human click per call. There is no queue, no auto-advance and no "call next" button, because there is no automated dialling anywhere in the portal — read why below. Calling window is 8am to 9pm in the contractor’s own time zone, enforced by the software.
A real conversation locks that contractor to you
A connected call of sixty seconds or more gives you 21 days of exclusivity on that business. Nobody else can dial them. A voicemail is an attempt, not a conversation, and does not lock anything.
They sign up with your code, and it is frozen
Attribution is decided once, at their first successful payment, from evidence — call records and the code they typed. An evidenced call beats anybody’s cookie. After that the commission follows that signup permanently, even if someone else services the account later.
Rules that do not bend
Every dial is a human dial.
No autodialer. Not now, not later.
Most contractor “business numbers” are the owner’s personal cell. Under the TCPA, calling a cell with an automatic dialling system or an artificial or prerecorded voice runs $500 to $1,500 per call with a private right of action, and there is no business exception. Manual, human-dialled, human-spoken calls to a business do not need prior consent under the TCPA, and the federal Do-Not-Call registry does not cover business-to-business calls — but that is not a blanket permission. FCC rules, state telemarketing laws and a business’s own do-not-call request still apply, and the rules in this portal exist so you stay inside all of them. Nothing here is legal advice.
So the portal has no bulk dial, no power dialler, no preview countdown and no list walker. That is not a setting we left switched off — the capability is not built. Bringing your own dialler, prerecorded message, ringless voicemail or cold text ends the partnership immediately, and it is the only rule here with no second chance.
Dispositions need a real call behind them
You cannot mark twenty-five contractors "not interested" and pull a fresh wave. The portal only accepts an outcome where a matching call record exists.
Quote from the approved claims card
It sits beside the dialler. Misstating price, terms or what the product does is unlawful and it lands on Rivet as much as on you.
Do-not-call is permanent and immediate
One request, recorded forever, across every partner.
No exporting prospect lists
No CSV button exists. Numbers are revealed one at a time and every reveal is logged.
Never offer anything for a review
No commission, no priority, no bonus. Incentivised reviews carry five-figure per-violation penalties.
Before you send anything
What we would want to know, in your position.
This is commission only.
No base, no draw, no minimum, no expenses, no benefits. If nothing closes, nothing is paid. You cover your own phone and your own time.
You are an independent contractor.
You set your own hours and your own approach inside the calling rules. Nobody here assigns you a shift, reviews your performance on a schedule, or gives you a rivet.llc address.
The money arrives later than the sale.
Commission holds 45 days and half of it waits for the customer’s second payment. That is deliberate: it is what stops anyone profiting from a signup that was never real.
Reversals reach back.
Card disputes can arrive up to 120 days after a payment. If one lands, that commission comes off your balance, including after it was paid.
Rivet is early.
This program is new and has no track record to quote. We can tell you the percentages and the rules. We cannot tell you what anyone earns, and you should be sceptical of anyone who would.
Nothing is ever charged to you.
No starter kit, no training fee, no lead package, no software seat. Not now and not later. If you are ever asked to pay Rivet anything to be a partner, something has gone badly wrong.
There is no public ranking.
We do not post a leaderboard, a top-closer list or anything else about you. What you do here is between you and us.
You can stop whenever you like.
Either side can end it. Recurring commission keeps paying for 90 days afterwards, and there is no non-compete — not here, not anywhere, ever.
Where this is open
Seven states today. It is about where you live, not who you call.
A partner in Texas can call contractors in California, Maine or anywhere else in the country. The state that matters is your own, because what is being decided is how the law classifies you — not where your prospects are.
Why California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut, Vermont are not on that list
Those states use what is called an ABC test to decide whether someone is genuinely independent. One part of it asks whether the work sits outside the usual line of business of the company paying for it. Selling Rivet subscriptions is plainly inside ours, so we would fail that part — no matter what any agreement said, and no matter how genuinely independent the arrangement actually is.
The honest answer is that this is about our structure, not about you. Rather than sign someone into an arrangement that cannot hold up, we say so up front, put you on the list for when it changes, and point you at the affiliate program — which is open in every state, today.
Questions
The ones worth asking.
How are prospects assigned, and are they any good?+
They come from public contractor-licensing records, normalised and de-duplicated, then handed out in waves of 25. They are cold — nobody raised their hand — and we would rather tell you that than dress them up. What you get in exchange is exclusivity: once you have had a real conversation with a business, nobody else can dial it for 21 days.
Can I bring my own prospects?+
Yes. If you already know contractors, work them. The same commission applies and there is no requirement to use the provided lists at all.
What happens if a contractor I signed up cancels?+
Recurring commission stops when their subscription does. Anything already earned stays earned. Only a refund or a chargeback reaches backwards.
When exactly do I get paid?+
Commission accrues the moment their payment clears, holds 45 days, and is paid in the monthly run once it has released, provided the balance is at least $50. Your portal shows every customer, every payment date and the exact date each amount releases — before it releases, not after.
What do you store about me?+
Your name, email, phone and state — that is the whole list. Verification and payment details go directly to Stripe, who hold them. We never see or store an SSN, a date of birth, a government ID or a bank number, not even the last four digits.
What does the review process involve?+
You send the form, we read it, and if it looks like a fit we call you. The call matters more than the form. After that there is an agreement to read and sign, and Stripe verification to complete before anything can be paid out.
If you can hold a phone conversation with a contractor, we should talk.
Five minutes of form, then a real call. We read every one of these ourselves.