Why Hosted Proof exists.
Built by an operator who got tired of finishing great work and forgetting to post about it. Now the photos publish themselves.
The problem.
Every local service business has the same disease: the techs do great work, take a few photos, and the photos die on a phone. Nobody posts them to Google Business Profile. Nobody posts them to Facebook. Nobody posts them to Instagram. The single biggest signal of “active, trustworthy local business” — fresh photos of your real work — never makes it to the platforms where prospects are actually looking.
We tried every social media scheduler. Every one of them is built for marketing teams, not the operator with a truck in the driveway. They’re too expensive, too complicated, and they don’t understand the workflow — the photo doesn’t come from the marketing team, it comes from the tech who just finished the job.
The fix.
Hosted Proof does the one thing that actually moves the needle for a local service business: turn the photos your techs are already taking into branded social posts, automatically, across all three platforms customers actually use to find you. Snap. Approve. Publish. $19 a month on the Starter plan. Built by an operator, for operators.
The product is narrow on purpose. Three platforms (GBP, Facebook, Instagram) — not seven. PIN-based tech upload — not a separate app to install. AI captions in your brand voice — not generic templates. Approval queue with one-tap publish — not a 12-step approval workflow.
Built at Top Care Cleaning Services.
Top Care Cleaning is a family cleaning company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Same place we run Hosted Reviews from. Same dogfooding loop: if a feature wouldn’t survive a Tuesday at Top Care, it doesn’t ship in Hosted Proof.
Every feature in this product was built because we needed it at Top Care first. The PIN-based tech upload exists because we couldn’t get our techs to install another app. The brand voice training exists because the default AI captions sounded like they were written by a marketing intern at a tech company. The before/after composites exist because that’s the format that actually performs on local social.
The bigger picture.
Hosted Proof is part of the Hosted Brands stack — a suite of tools for local service businesses where each one makes the next more valuable. A completed job becomes a Google review (via Hosted Reviews), a postcard to that customer’s neighbors (via Hosted Reach), an attributed lead from the next caller (via Hosted Leads), and a branded social post from the photo the tech took on-site (Hosted Proof). One job, four marketing touches.
Who’s building.
Alex Host — founder of Hosted Brands LLC. Owner-operator at Top Care Cleaning Services in Grand Rapids, MI. Building the Hosted Stack in public. Full bio at hostedbrands.com.
Get in touch.
- Email: hostedbrands@gmail.com
- App: https://app.hostedproof.com
- Contact form: /contact