icooa is a local map for the people who actually do the work — hairdressers, carpenters, dog groomers, photographers, cleaners, trainers, tutors. A profile, a page of your own and customers who message you directly — free to join today, and founding members stay free for life.
Your page works on the web today. The icooa app is live on the App Store now and Android is close behind — the moment it's there, that badge goes live too.
Most directories rent you a slot inside their app and keep the customer. icooa gives you an address of your own, a direct line to whoever wants to book you, and stays out of the money.
icooa.app/yourname
Your work, your services, the areas you cover — on a page you can send to anyone, put in your bio or hand to a customer who asks. It's live the day you finish it, and it works whether or not they've ever heard of icooa.
A direct line
No call centre in the middle, and the same enquiry never goes out to your competitors as well.
Reputation you can't buy
A review only unlocks after a job has genuinely been paid for, and both sides review blind. Nobody can stack their own profile, including you.
No commission, no lead fees, no bidding for the same job. icooa never takes a cut of what you earn. Quote, invoice and take card payment through icooa if it suits you, and the money lands in your account, not ours.
We're building the map before we push it to them — suburb by suburb, because an empty map helps nobody. That's the deal on the table, so here's exactly what it means for you.
The page at icooa.app/yourname is live the moment you finish it. That's useful today, with or without us — share it, link it, send it to the next person who asks what you do.
When locals start searching your suburb, the profiles already sitting there are the ones they find. Helping fill an empty map is a much better position than joining a full one.
Setting up your profile and your page costs nothing right now, and founding members never pay a cent. No charge per enquiry, no commission on your work. It won't stay free for everyone — once the map passes 1,000 businesses, paid profiles start, with notice — and rather than spring that on you later, what happens after is written down on this page. If icooa never takes off you are out one afternoon, and you keep the photos.
Most apps say "free" and keep the catch for later. We'd rather put the whole plan on the page now: what's free, who stays free, when paying starts and roughly what it'll cost. Nothing about it should ever land on you as a surprise.
Right now
Free for everyoneWhile we build the map, every business profile is free. The page, the messages, quoting and invoicing, all of it. No card on file, no trial clock ticking.
Founding members
Free, for lifeThe first 100 businesses to publish a profile on icooa are our founding members — never a cent, for life, whatever happens next. That was the promise on day one and it stays on this page.
After 1,000 businesses · planned
$14.99 a monthThat's the business price we're planning for once 1,000 businesses are on the map. It's today's figure, not a rate carved in stone for all time. From then on, businesses 101 onward need a paid profile to stay on the map; founding members stay free. Still 0% commission, still nothing per enquiry.
Nothing changes quietly. As icooa gets close to 1,000 businesses you'll get a notice, in the app and by email, well before anything is charged, with the price confirmed in writing at the time. Nobody gets charged automatically: you'll be invited to opt in, and you decide then whether a paid profile is worth it to you. If it isn't, your page doesn't vanish: it comes off the map until you're back, and everything you've built stays yours. Customers never pay. The customer side is free, always.
If you've ever paid for leads, you'll recognise the left-hand column. If you haven't, this is the part we're making sure never starts.
Paying for each enquiry as it arrives, whether it turns into work or not
Nothing per enquiry. One message or fifty, it makes no difference.
That same enquiry sold on to your competitors, so it's a race to call back first
The customer messages you, and only you.
A commission taken off the top of the job
0%. You keep the whole invoice.
Reviews from anyone who can click, including people who never booked
Reviews only after a job is genuinely paid for.
Set it up yourself from your phone, or send us the bits and we'll build it with you. Either way you'll have a page you can share by the end of the day.
Create your profileHaven't got time to fiddle with it? Email it all to hello@icooa.app and we'll set the whole thing up for you.
and a few things we won't do…
Someone who messages you is messaging you. That doesn't turn into a lead we sell on.
Enquiries are not a product we sell you. A busy month never costs you more than a quiet one.
0% commission. What a customer pays you is yours, in full, and icooa never sits in the middle of it.
Still wondering about something? Talk to a real person.
Yes. icooa is for anyone locals book or buy from — hairdressers, dog groomers, photographers, cleaners, personal trainers, mobile beauty, tutors, mechanics, physios, florists, small shops. If someone would search for you by suburb, you belong on the map.
Not many, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. We're filling the map first, suburb by suburb, then pushing it to customers, because sending people to a half-empty map is how these things die. What you get in the meantime is a page of your own, and a profile that's already sitting there when locals do start searching.
Right now, nothing. icooa is free for every business while we build the map — the profile, the page at icooa.app/yourname, messaging customers back, quoting and invoicing. The customer side is free too, and always will be. The first 100 businesses to publish a profile — our founding members — are free for life. For everyone after that, it stays free until there are 1,000 businesses on the map; then a paid business profile starts, with notice well before anything is charged, at whatever price we've published at the time (today's planned figure is $14.99 a month). There is never a commission on your work and never a charge per enquiry. The full picture is here.
You need one for the verified badge, which we check against the Australian Business Register. It's the thing that tells a customer you're a real business rather than a name on a screen.
Because they do different jobs. Your website is where people go once they know your name; your icooa page is where they find you when they don't, and it puts you on a map alongside reviews they can trust. Plenty of people link one to the other.
If you want to. Send a quote, turn it into an invoice, take card payment, GST handled. The money goes to your account — icooa doesn't sit in the middle of it. If you'd rather keep invoicing the way you do now, that's fine too.
A review only unlocks after a job has genuinely been paid for. Both sides write theirs blind, so neither of you can wait and see. It's slower than the usual star-rating free-for-all, and that's the point.
Delete the profile whenever you like — nothing to cancel and no notice period. Your page comes down with it. Anything you uploaded is yours, and you keep the photos. And if paid profiles start one day and you decide not to, your page simply comes off the map until you're back; nothing is deleted.
free to join today — founding members never pay
Twenty minutes now, and you are on the map by tonight.
Set your page up on the web today — the app is on its way.