No restrictive contracts
No term, no lock-in. We earn our place in your business; if we're not generating cashflow for you, we don't want cashflow from you.
Marketing for local service businesses
We come to you and film what actually sells.
CityPulse Ventures is a marketing agency for local service businesses. Most local agencies never set foot in the building. We show up, shoot original footage of you and the work, advertise it in your area, and track every call it brings in. Our deepest track record is in independent auto repair, and the same model runs for HVAC, roofing, other home services, and higher-ticket local businesses like chiropractic practices.
- States
- 15
- Locations
- 35+
Results
Shops we filmed, and what happened next
Shops we drove out to, filmed, and advertised. Click any card to read it full size.
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Why us
For marketing agencies, you're just “dough” to cookie-cut
We do the opposite. We drive out to you, film you and the work, edit it, get your approval, and run it as advertising in your own area. You never read a script. And we measure the whole thing in calls and booked jobs, not page views. We cut our teeth in independent auto repair, and the model is universal; we've also used it in HVAC, landscaping, chiropractor practices, and other high ticket service-based businesses.
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In person
We come to you.
We come to your shop and record exactly what it needs to bring in more customers. Whether it's a garage, van, treatment room, or on the moon; our method works.
No scripts, no acting
We don't make you read scripts or become actors. Your business isn't a drama class, and we don't want it to feel like one. We're flies on the wall.
No vanity metrics
We don't take your money, show you page views, and call it a day. We track where the buyers actually came from.
The Five Gears
A business runs on five systems
If a gear in your business jams, it's not isolated; it slows or blocks everything else and caps how much profit you can make.
The free Five Gears Quiz scores all five and tells you which one is costing you the most.
Interest
Do enough of the right people know about your business and what problems you solve?
Sales
How many of the people you're trying to help actually pay for your solution?
Fulfillment
How much value do you actually offer for what clients pay? Just doing the thing is rarely enough nowadays.
Operations
Can your business consistently function as necessary, regardless of external circumstances?
Money Model
How profitable your business actually is when everything else is running on full cylinders.
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How it works
We come to you. You approve. We track it.
Three simple steps. It runs the same whether you fix cars, furnaces, roofs or backs.
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We come to you
We drive out, and we record exactly what your business needs to bring in more customers. Shop floor, job site or front desk — we film where the work happens. You do not write anything, learn anything, or become an actor. We film you doing what you already do.
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We edit it. You approve it. We run it.
We cut the footage, and you see it before anyone else does. Nothing goes live until you have signed it off. Then we put it in front of people in your own area.
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We track everything
We track every call and every booking back to the ad that produced it, so you know where your buyers came from. We will not hand you a screenshot of page views and call that a result.
The math
What a month of ad spend has returned
Drag to your own monthly ad spend. The three figures are returns we have seen on real client accounts — the low, typical and high end of what has actually happened.
$3,000
$300Drag to your own number$10,000
Return at this spend · per month
Conservative3× on ad spend
$9,000
A garage-door repair client averaging “a solid 3X return” on Facebook and YouTube ads.
Typical12× on ad spend
$36,000
AutoWorks, published as “achieving 12-16x ROAS per month” — the low end of that range.
High16× on ad spend
$48,000
AutoWorks again, published as “16X ROAS” — the top of the same range.
Illustrative only, and based on past client results. This is not a projection, a quote or a guarantee — your shop, your market and your spend will produce different numbers.
The founder
Turning the Rust Belt into the Autumn Belt
On location
We don't run this from a desk. Every shop on this page, we've traveled to. And no, it's not photoshopped or AI.
A client shop visit. 
The manager's office. 
With Capture the Moment and the crew at Kolar Tires. 
A service bay lineup. 
With Jim, Jim's Motorcycle Services, Houston.
A note from Isaak
Before CityPulse I did marketing across a lot of industries and a lot of countries — from Utah to Romania, the Philippines to Spain. I built competence across most areas of a business, beyond just marketing, and I'm glad I did. But two things were missing.
The first is I was always hopping from one business or role to another. It was great for developing more business skills, but I never built one solid thing that was my own. And so I was always hunting, but I never had a village to come back to, so to speak.
The second is who I wanted to build it for: the local business owner who's genuinely hungry to improve and trying their best, but doesn't have the business knowledge, mindsets and strategies that more cutting-edge companies take for granted.
They're still advertising in the paper.
They're still thinking, “if I just had more customers.”
They're still wondering why the business needs them for everything.
In 2024 I focused on the U.S. and started helping 30+ local businesses across the country grow beyond what they thought possible. Then I planted my roots back in Western New York this year, where I live, to build up this area.
People here work hard, and they mean well, but there's a sort of pain that people in The Rust Belt tend to carry around that borders on hopelessness. And it doesn't have to be that way. I'd rather see the “Rust Belt” as the “Autumn Belt” and have it shine again. That's why CityPulse Ventures exists; to make the business and community we hope for Tomorrow, happen Today.
Isaak Hyde
Founder, CityPulse Ventures
Isaak HydeFounderMarketing across many industries and countries — Utah to Romania, the Philippines to Spain — before focusing on the U.S. in 2024 and helping 30+ local businesses grow. Now back in Western New York, where he lives.
In their words
The shop owners, on the record
Their words, not ours.
It wasn’t ‘can I afford to advertise with them,’ it was ‘can I afford NOT to’?
Ryan Hogan · Flyin’ Ryan Performance · Tomball, TX The Facebook ads you’ve been running for me the last two months have been kicking ass. I’m getting messages every day, people asking us to come in. We’re also getting a lot of new customers saying they found us either on Instagram or Facebook. If you look around, the shop is busy. We have a few big jobs.
Fernando Aguilar · The Car Clinic of Miami · Miami, FL
Questions
The things owners ask first
If yours isn't here, ask Isaak directly.
Yes — but you do not have to perform. The whole model is built on filming you and your business, so there is no version of this that works without you in front of a lens. In CityPulse's own words: we don't make you read scripts or become actors. We film you doing what you already do.
No. “We don't lock you into contracts” is stated plainly and repeatedly in CityPulse's advertising. If the work stops paying for itself, you stop.
Three steps: we come to you and record exactly what your business needs to bring in more customers; we edit it all, get your approval, and advertise it in your local area; and we track everything, so both of us know exactly where the buyers came from.
By calls and booked jobs, not impressions. CityPulse measures itself on tracked calls, bookings and revenue, explicitly against agencies that “say ‘hey, look at these page views!’ and then call it a day.”
Isaak Hyde, the founder. The ads put it directly: you'll talk to the founder of CityPulse Ventures, still local to the area. CityPulse is part of the Storyline Marketing Network, so you get that team too — marketers through video editors.
No. Independent auto repair is where we have the deepest track record, and it is where every result on this page comes from — so that is what we show you. The model itself is not auto-specific: we film the owner and the work, run it locally and track the calls. It runs the same for HVAC, roofing and other home services, and for higher-ticket local businesses like chiropractic.
Owners who won't appear on camera at all, since there is no product without footage. Businesses too far out to reach for an on-site shoot, unless travel is priced in. And businesses whose real constraint isn't lead flow — pouring more calls into a broken money model or broken operations makes things worse, which is exactly what the Five Gears Quiz is for.
Still have a question? Start with the Quiz
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Find out which gear is costing you
The Five Gears Quiz is free. It scores your business across all five gears and tells you which one is holding the rest back — before anyone talks to you about advertising.
See the results firstFree, and no call required to get your score.