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Great Work Research

We Study What Homeowners Actually Say.

Great Work Research analyzes customer reviews and market data to understand what actually creates trust, frustration and loyalty in home service and contractor businesses. No surveys. No opinions. Just what real customers wrote, at scale, in their own words.

This isn't theoretical. The same review analysis methodology already powers our Charlotte contractor directories, where we've scored 200+ companies against nearly 1,900 customer reviews.

What We'll Publish

Three Kinds of Research

Customer Experience Reports

Market-level looks at what customers say about a specific trade in a specific area - starting with pools and outdoor living.

What it tells you: Where the trust gaps are in your market before you ever pick up the phone with a prospect or a client.

Review Intelligence Studies

What patterns in 1-star and 5-star reviews actually reveal about communication, pricing and recovery.

What it tells you: Whether your problem is a service problem or a communication problem. Most owners assume the former. It's usually the latter.

Customer Language Reports

How homeowners naturally describe expertise, trust, value, communication, reliability and quality - in their own words, not marketing words.

What it tells you: The exact vocabulary to put on your website and in your sales calls, because it's language your prospects already use and trust.

Our Standard

Every Report Discloses Its Own Limitations

Transparency is part of the work, not a footnote. Every report we publish will disclose:

Number of Reviews
Companies Included
Date Range
Source
Classification Method
Known Limitations

We won't call an observation a "benchmark" until the sample size and methodology actually support that claim.

If a stat can't survive us showing our work, we don't publish it.

Where We Are Right Now

We're building our first Customer Experience Report now and don't have a published report to share yet. Rather than publish something rushed or padded with unverified numbers, we'd rather tell you that directly.

The first report is drawing from our Charlotte outdoor living review corpus - currently 1,800+ reviews across 200+ companies - and covers what homeowners say about pricing transparency, communication during the project and how companies handle problems.

In the meantime, you can:

Want to Know When the First Report Publishes?

Get in touch and we'll let you know when Great Work Research goes live.

No spam, just the report when it's ready.

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