Frequently asked questions

No. You won't be writing or maintaining code. We handle setup and the ownership transfer with you. Once the platform is in your accounts, it runs as a straightforward intake pipeline — submissions show up in a simple dashboard or can route into tools your team already uses.

There are no fees owed to Vertical Reserve after you own the asset. Sites run on serverless edge hosting (typically Cloudflare Pages). At normal launch traffic, that usually stays in free or low-cost tiers. You scale with volume — not a legacy server bill.

When terms are agreed, closing goes through Escrow.com. After funds clear, we move ownership account-to-account: GitHub repo to your organization, domain and DNS into your Cloudflare account, plus documentation for what's live. No zip-file dump. Metro listings also show a fulfillment window on the listing (often 7–14 business days after Escrow) — that's separate from the account transfer itself.

By default, intake lands in a dashboard you can open from any device. If you prefer, we can set up webhooks to push new submissions into your AMS or CRM — HubSpot, Salesforce, AgencyMatrix, and similar — so your desk sees qualified risk profiles without re-keying.

Intake is built around state and product context — license categories, identifiers, and formatting aligned to official filing frameworks where the platform targets a bond or permit file. The goal is clean data before it hits your desk. It does not replace your compliance review or binding authority.

For surety and commercial capture platforms, yes — you need applicable producer or agency licensing and carrier appointments to bind business from intake. You're buying infrastructure, not a license, appointment, or book. Check the listing and Acquisition page for that SKU's operator requirements.

Not an agency, not a book of business, not appointments, not licenses, and not trailing revenue. You're buying the digital platform — brand, domain, code, and capture architecture for the market on the listing.

Geography sets the pack. Core Metro Platforms with Freight Market is five domains — construction leads, freight desk included. Core Metro Platforms is the same stack without freight. Full-service surety businesses are the town shop on one domain. Court & probate is the law-firm file, not a contractor shop. You take one listing for that metro. How the book grows is on Grow; how you close is on Acquisition.

Before many trades can pull a municipal permit or hold an active state contractor license, they need a contractors license bond or a permit bond — often tied to a new license application, a city permit file, or a reinstatement after a lapse. Those are high-intent, deadline-driven searches. The platform intercepts that moment with intake mapped to licensing and permit context; the bond opens the relationship, and cross-sell grows the commercial book after.

Established commercial agencies, large independents, and PE-backed brokerages that want a localized capture site aligned to their state license — a satellite storefront for one metro, not a generic national lead form. Underwrite it like infrastructure plus cross-sell potential, not guaranteed traffic or revenue.

Ads and lead brokers are monthly expense — stop paying and the pipeline stops. Specialty commercial and surety terms are expensive to rent. A finished capture platform saves months of explaining insurance intake to outside developers. Payback comes from accounts you write, especially cross-sell after the bond — not from guaranteed traffic. See Grow for how to model that.

Surety is the door, not the whole book. A bond filing puts you in front of the account at a moment they have to act. Intake captures who they are and what they operate. General liability, fleet, workers comp, and umbrella follow once trust is there — that's where the specialty book scales.

Rented traffic doesn't sit on your balance sheet. An owned capture platform is intellectual property your firm controls — durable demand generation, not another marketing line item that disappears when you cancel.

Most listings are pre-revenue digital assets. Gallery screenshots and Search Console show live architecture — not audited commission history. Underwrite the platform and the cross-sell path, not someone else's book.

Finished platforms and metro exclusives: statewide BondsDirect brands, five-domain and four-domain Core Metro Platforms, Full Surety town shops, court & probate platforms, event insurance distribution, and other verticals. Metro exclusives are on Metro/City Listings. Inspire Surety is our house hub — it's not for sale here.

No. Statewide brands and city exclusives are separate SKUs. Metro listings in that state stay on the market until another buyer reserves them.

Pick a listing and inquire. When terms are agreed, closing is through Escrow.com. There's no checkout on this site — diligence first, then Escrow.

Timing is on each listing. Metro geos are often 7–14 business days after cleared Escrow. Statewide brands transfer the live property as described in diligence.