HomeGauge Review Automation, Done For You
HomeGauge can email a review request. We run the whole ask: every buyer, after every inspection, by text and email, with a reminder if they forget. Drip-paced, Google-compliant, and managed for you.
What the gap looks like
Grab your free audit to see real shop numbers vs. the actual leaders in your area.
Three steps. You touch none of them.
Free review audit
We pull your Google listing and show you where you stand against the top inspectors near you: your count, your rating, your last 90 days of reviews, and the gap.
We connect it to your HomeGauge workflow
We wire the review ask to fire when your inspections wrap. We handle the connection during setup, about 10 minutes on your end. HomeGauge stays exactly as it is.
Reviews roll in
Every inspection you close out triggers an ask by text and email, paced so Google keeps the reviews you earn. New reviews start landing in about 30 days.
The old way of getting reviews is now penalized.
Google removed about 292 million reviews in 2025, and the FTC's review rule carries penalties up to $51,744 per violation. The old playbook, asking only your happy customers, sending the rest to a private form, blasting for reviews, is exactly what gets shops flagged.
- Ask only the customers you know are happy
- Route unhappy ones to a private form (gating)
- Buy fake reviews or bulk-blast and incentivize them
- Ask every customer after every job
- Real reviews only, no fake, bought, gated, or screened
- Drip-paced, so it is the version that actually sticks
HomeGauge emails. We add the text message.
HomeGauge’s Time Release Messaging can schedule a review-request email after the report goes out. That is a start. But an email lands in a buyer who is drowning in closing paperwork. We ask by text and email, follow up once, and pace the asks, managed for you.
- HomeGauge stays your report writer and scheduler, nothing moves
- Adds the text-message ask and the reminder that email alone does not cover
- Done-for-you: timing, reminders, and pacing handled, nothing to configure
A steady stream of real reviews, on autopilot.
Asks every buyer after every inspection, by text and email
Sends a reminder if they do not leave one the first time
Drip-paced across your customers, so it stays compliant
Done-for-you setup and management, you never touch it
Fires when your inspections wrap, no double entry
New reviews land on your own Google, visible in 30 to 60 days
What we don't do
Plain and up front, because the shortcuts are exactly what gets shops in trouble.
- No fake, bought, or AI-written reviews
- No 5-star-only gating, we do not screen out or hide unhappy customers
- We do not write or reply to your reviews for you
- We do not remove or suppress negative reviews
You watch it happen on your own Google.
Free audit. You see the review gap, in writing.
Connected to your system and live. About 10 minutes on your end.
First new reviews start landing on your Google.
The gap to the top shops near you visibly narrows.
Real client results go here as we publish them. We don't post numbers we can't back up.
About HomeGauge review automation
Time Release Messaging sends a scheduled email, and that is genuinely useful. But it is one channel, no reminder, and you configure and tend it yourself. We ask by text and email, follow up once, pace the asks, and manage the whole thing for you.
No. HomeGauge stays your report writer, your ScheduleNow booking, and your system of record. We only need to know when an inspection wraps so the ask goes out at the right time.
We handle the connection during setup, about 10 minutes on your end. Once it is live, the ask fires when your inspections wrap. You do not log into anything new.
No. The methods that get profiles flagged are the old ones: asking only happy clients, incentives, blasts. We ask every buyer, neutral and drip-paced. That is the version Google rewards.
No. About 10 minutes to connect, then it runs itself off your inspections. You never log into anything, and nobody has to remember to ask.
Yes. We run the same done-for-you reviews engine alongside Spectora, and for ISN shops we usually lead with the phone side, since ISN already includes review requests.
See where your company stands. Free.
We will audit your Google listing and show you the gap to the top inspectors near you, then show you exactly what running this alongside your HomeGauge looks like.