Commercial lead generation and B2B appointment setting in Providence

Providence-Warwick has 4,206 business sites with 20 or more people on site in the categories commercial trades sell to, #39 of the 100 markets we cover, and 1.59 times the national concentration of senior living and nursing. Private business establishments fell 0.3% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1. Abstrakt's U.S.-based reps prospect those buyers by phone, email and LinkedIn and book meetings with the people who sign.

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Local B2B snapshot

How many businesses are in Providence-Warwick, and which ones buy

Providence-Warwick has 20,343 establishments in the categories commercial trades sell to, 4,206 of them with 20 or more people on site. Compared with the national mix it over-indexes on senior living and nursing (1.59x), colleges and universities (1.54x) and churches and religious organizations (1.50x). Added over the past year: medical, dental and outpatient offices (+95), bank and credit union offices (+20) and senior living and nursing (+12). Down: retail stores (-132) and manufacturing plants (-108).

  • 20,343 establishments in the 21 categories commercial trades sell to

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • 4,206 of them with 20 or more people on site, where a prospecting list starts

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023

  • -0.3% private business establishments, 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1 (61,132 now; U.S. +3.6%)

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 1.59x the national concentration of senior living and nursing

    Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1

  • 4,121 decision-maker records Abstrakt can prospect for a construction and roofing program (territory: Providence-Warwick)

    Source: Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026

An establishment is one physical location, so a company with three sites counts three times; decision-maker records are contacts, not companies; open programs are not reservations.

Largest buyer groups in Providence-Warwick

  1. Restaurants 1.15x the U.S. mix1,230
  2. Retail stores971
  3. Manufacturing plants569
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices446
  5. Wholesale distributors298
  6. Senior living and nursing 1.59x the U.S. mix240
  7. Grocery stores 1.37x the U.S. mix159
  8. Private K-12 schools 1.20x the U.S. mix102

Sites with 20 or more people on site, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

All 21 categories, with establishments, concentration and one-year change
Business categories in Providence-Warwick: larger sites, all establishments, concentration and one-year change
CategorySites with 20+All establishmentsvs. U.S. mix1-yr change
Restaurants 1,2304,309 1.15x -19
Retail stores 9715,533 1.03x -132
Manufacturing plants 5691,773 0.97x -108
Medical, dental and outpatient offices 4462,878 0.81x +95
Wholesale distributors 2981,806 1.04x -46
Senior living and nursing 240724 1.59x +12
Grocery stores (also counted in retail) 1591,108 1.37x -19
Private K-12 schools 102136 1.20x -4
Auto dealerships (also counted in retail) 101313 1.24x -4
Hotels 83208 0.65x +2
Bank and credit union offices 73869 1.00x +20
Trucking companies 41666 0.70x -19
Churches and religious organizations 40678 1.50x +2
Warehousing and distribution 2980 0.57x +5
Golf courses and country clubs 2077 1.39x +1
Hospitals 1825 0.68x +5
Apartment and residential property managers 15269 0.80x -2
Colleges and universities 1124 1.54x -1
Hosting and data processing companies 857 1.20x -20
Nonresidential building owners 7149 0.69x +6
Commercial property managers 582 0.92x -7
Total, each site once4,20620,343

Sites and establishments: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; concentration (location quotient) and one-year change in establishments: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1, summed across the metro's counties.

Your industry in Providence

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Every trade in Providence at a glance

Largest buyer groups (sites with 20+ people)

  1. Restaurants1,230
  2. Retail stores971
  3. Manufacturing plants569
  4. Medical, dental and outpatient offices446
  5. Wholesale distributors298

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.

Most room per contractor

  1. Paving & Asphalt#13 of 94
  2. Commercial Construction#21 of 100
  3. Commercial Roofing#19 of 89

Larger buyer sites per contractor, ranked across up to 100 markets. Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1.

Trade panels: buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; contractors, their one-year change and employment, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026; open programs, Abstrakt territory availability.

Compare all 11 trades in Providence

Ranked by larger buyer sites per contractor against up to 100 markets (only markets with 10 or more contractors in a trade are ranked; n/r means not ranked). A higher rank means more buildings worth calling for every competitor working them.

Commercial trades in Providence: contractors, buyer sites and rank
TradeContractors1-yr changeLarger buyer sitesPer contractorRankDecision-maker records
Paving & Asphalt
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 37 -3 2,110 57.0 #13 not counted
Commercial Construction
Largest buyer group: manufacturing companies
 218 +4 1,395 6.4 #21 4,121
Commercial Roofing
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 27 0 2,294 85.0 #19 4,121
Commercial Painting & Coatings
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 32 -2 2,494 77.9 #28 not counted
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 146 +2 1,588 10.9 #33 1,744
Commercial Electrical
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 183 -11 2,077 11.3 #39 not counted
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Largest buyer group: manufacturing plants
 489 +9 1,791 3.7 #54 1,510
Managed Service Providers
Largest buyer group: manufacturers
 937 -2 2,072 2.2 #68 not counted
Commercial Flooring
Largest buyer group: ambulatory health care: physician, dental, outpatient and urgent care
 27 0 1,447 53.6 #53 not counted
Fire Protection
Largest buyer group: restaurants
 84 -7 2,633 31.3 #75 not counted
Commercial Landscaping
Largest buyer group: retail stores
 1,149 +5 2,311 2.0 #95 not counted

Sources: contractors and change, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private ownership, 2026 Q1; buyer sites, U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (each trade's own buyer categories, each site counted once); decision-maker records, Abstrakt territory record counts, October 2026.

Growth and trends

Is Providence-Warwick adding businesses? Five years of counts

Private business establishments in the metro's counties went from 53,846 in 2021 to 61,602 in 2025 (+14.4%), while private employment moved +6.3% to 619,188. In the Census Bureau's latest count, 3,580 establishments opened and 3,274 closed in a year. New sites start without an incumbent vendor.

Private establishments and employment, 2021 to 2025

Private establishments, employment and average weekly wage by year, Providence-Warwick
YearEstablishmentsEmploymentAvg weekly wage
202153,846582,673$1,131
202257,905605,159$1,169
202360,329612,353$1,193
202460,582617,760$1,236
202561,602619,188$1,287

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (opens in a new tab), private ownership, 2021 to 2025 annual averages, 6 counties summed. n/a: BLS withholds the figure for at least one county.

Establishments opened and closed each year

Establishment openings and closings by year, Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
Year to MarchOpenedRateClosedRate
20193,2558.7%2,9417.8%
20203,1368.3%3,1628.4%
20213,3889.0%3,86510.3%
20224,28311.3%3,1498.3%
20233,5809.3%3,2748.5%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics (opens in a new tab), 2023 release, Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. Each year runs March to March; rates are per 100 establishments.

New business applications

16,699 applications for an employer ID number were filed in the metro's counties in 2025, +40.7% on 2019 (11,869): Providence County 7,724, Bristol County 4,899, Kent County 1,629, Washington County 1,144, Newport County 837 and Bristol County 466. Applications include sole proprietors and filings that never hire, so they measure new business activity, not new buyers.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics (county annual) (opens in a new tab), calendar 2025, retrieved 2026-10-15.

Contractors by trade, 2021 to 2025
Contractor establishments by trade, 2021 and 2025, Providence-Warwick
Trade20212025Change
Fire Protection6689+23 (+34.8%)
Managed Service Providers796943+147 (+18.5%)
Commercial Construction183215+32 (+17.5%)
Commercial Flooring2527+2 (+8.0%)
Commercial Electrical180191+11 (+6.1%)
Commercial Landscaping1,1001,163+63 (+5.7%)
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial489488-1 (-0.2%)
Paving & Asphalt4341-2 (-4.7%)
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical155144-11 (-7.1%)
Commercial Roofing3027-3 (-10.0%)
Commercial Painting & Coatings4436-8 (-18.2%)

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages, the same NAICS codes as the trade comparison above. More contractors means more competition for the same buyers; fewer means more room for outbound.

When to prospect: the Providence calendar

Cooling demand peaks in July (241 cooling degree days in a normal year), and 71% of the 261 severe hail and wind reports from 2015 to 2024 fell in August, July and June. Start roofing and HVAC prospecting ahead of those months.

Average high temperature, cooling degree days and severe storm reports by month, Providence-Warwick
MonthAvg high (F)Cooling degree daysHail and wind reports
January3801
February40018
March4704
April5803
May68812
June768541
July8224161
August8120783
September745211
October6316
November53021
December4300

Sources: NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county monthly series, 1991-2020 averages (opens in a new tab); NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (opens in a new tab), 2015 to 2024. Reports of hail 1 inch or larger and thunderstorm wind of 58 mph or more, by month, across the market counties.

Buying signals

Where the money is moving in Providence-Warwick

Federal contracts and building permits are early signs that a building is changing: new construction, a renovation, a re-roof.

Federal contracts performed in the metro

Federal agencies obligated $1.02 billion in contracts with a place of performance in Providence-Warwick's counties in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), against $972.3 million in fiscal 2025 (+5.3%). Construction (NAICS 23) took $74.5 million.

Contract obligations by county
CountyFY2026FY2025
Bristol County$116.0 million$66.7 million
Bristol County$13.5 million$11.1 million
Kent County$28.4 million$41.5 million
Newport County$678.2 million$681.4 million
Providence County$119.1 million$90.0 million
Washington County$68.5 million$81.7 million
Metro counties$1.02 billion$972.3 million
FY2026 obligations in each trade's own NAICS code
TradeNAICSFY2026
Commercial Construction236220$56.7 million
Commercial HVAC & Mechanical238220$9.0 million
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial561720$3.8 million
Commercial Landscaping561730$3.5 million
Fire Protection561621$2.6 million
Managed Service Providers541512$1.7 million
Paving & Asphalt237310$629,085
Commercial Roofing238160$525,601
Commercial Electrical238210$325,880
Commercial Painting & Coatings238320$112,519
Commercial Flooring238330$80,811

Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury) (opens in a new tab), contract award types A to D, obligations dated October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, by place of performance; data as of 2026-10-15. Defense contract actions are published 90 days late, so fiscal 2026 will still rise. Place of performance is coded by the contracting officer.

Territory intelligence

Where the Providence buyers are

Providence County, Bristol County and Kent County hold 83% of the metro's 4,206 larger business sites, so most programs start there and add the rest of the metro for larger accounts, depending on how far your crews travel.

Larger business sites (20+ people) by county, Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
CountySitesShare
Providence County 1,56437%
Bristol County, Massachusetts 1,46535%
Kent County 48011%
Washington County 2776.6%
Newport County 1964.7%
Bristol County 791.9%
Not assigned to a county by Census1453.4%
Metro total4,206100%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, metro and county files, summed across the buyer categories on this page (each site counted once). County files withhold some size-class counts that the metro file reports, so 145 sites cannot be placed in a county.

Abstrakt territories in this market

Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. A strategist confirms which one your program would hold.

The owners that anchor Providence-Warwick

Each fact links to its source, checked 2026-10.

Health system

Rhode Island Hospital (Brown University Health)

Providence, Providence County

Brown University Health calls Rhode Island Hospital the state's largest hospital and its only Level I Trauma Center; the system also includes The Miriam, Bradley, Newport, Saint Anne's and Morton hospitals.

The Providence flagship with Hasbro Children's, plus partner hospitals in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, run around-the-clock mechanical, life-safety and cleaning programs.

HVACcleaningfire protectionelectricalflooring

Brown University Health (opens in a new tab)
Campus

University of Rhode Island

South Kingstown (Kingston), Washington County

Wikipedia, citing URI's 2024-25 Common Data Set, lists 17,210 students in fall 2024 (14,376 undergraduate and 2,834 graduate).

Residence halls, labs, athletic venues and parking on the Kingston campus need cleaning, HVAC, grounds and paving work.

cleaningHVAClandscapingpaving

Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
Campus

Brown University

Providence, Providence County

Brown lists 11,164 total students, including 7,196 undergraduates and 3,369 graduate students.

An urban Providence campus of academic buildings, labs and residence halls needs roofing, painting, HVAC and cleaning work.

roofingpaintingHVACcleaning

Brown University (opens in a new tab)
3 more anchor owners in Providence-Warwick
Major employer

General Dynamics Electric Boat, Quonset Point

North Kingstown, Washington County

Senator Jack Reed's office said in February 2026 that Electric Boat planned to hire 8,000 workers in the coming year, including 3,500 Rhode Island-based positions, with a company workforce exceeding 24,000 across all sites.

Shipyard fabrication buildings at Quonset Point carry large electrical, ventilation, roofing and fire protection systems, and Reed's office says the site's workforce is expanding.

electricalHVACroofingfire protectionpainting

Office of U.S. Senator Jack Reed (opens in a new tab)
Airport

Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (PVD)

Warwick, Kent County

The airport says PVD was the fastest-growing major airport in the U.S. for the 12 months ending October 2025, with total passengers up 11 percent and seat capacity up 10 percent.

Terminal, parking and airfield operations need cleaning, HVAC and pavement work, and the airport corporation says it will keep investing in infrastructure to meet demand.

cleaningHVACpavingelectrical

Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (opens in a new tab)
Projects and economic activity

What is being built in Providence-Warwick, and who it puts to work

Named projects from primary and local news sources, researched September 2026. Market intelligence, not open bids: confirm timing with the owner.

Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories at Brown University

300,000 sq ft

Under wayUnder construction, move-in begins February 2027

A seven-story academic research laboratory behind the Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence's Jewelry District, set to become Rhode Island's largest academic lab building.

With the structure and facade in place, the remaining work is dense lab mechanical, piping, ductwork, electrical and fire protection, followed by finishes ahead of a 2027 move-in. Wet labs also mean long-term HVAC service and specialty cleaning once occupied.

HVACelectricalfire protectionflooringcleaning

Brown University, 2026-07-01 (opens in a new tab)

Robert F. Kennedy PreK-8 School

$75 million

Under wayBroke ground June 2026, completion expected 2027

A new PreK-8 school for about 858 students replacing the former Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School in Providence.

Foundation work started in July 2026, so structural, roofing, mechanical and electrical trades follow through 2026 and 2027, with flooring, painting and site landscaping closing out the job.

constructionHVACelectricalflooringroofing

NBC 10 WJAR, 2026-06-10 (opens in a new tab)

Providence Department of Public Works Complex

$31 million

Under wayUnder construction, operational 2027

A 40,000 sq ft, fully electric and carbon-neutral public works headquarters with maintenance bays, crew quarters and a transfer station at 20 Ernest Street in Providence.

An all-electric, 24-hour fleet facility puts weight on electrical service, heat pump HVAC and fire protection, plus heavy-duty paving for truck yards and bays.

electricalHVACpavingfire protection

Providence Business News, 2025-11-21 (opens in a new tab)

Blackstone Distribution Center

$24 million

See sourceSubstantial completion targeted August 2026

A 160,000 sq ft Class A speculative industrial building with 25 loading docks at 1 Moshassuck Street in Pawtucket, about 3 miles north of downtown Providence.

As the shell wraps up, tenant fit-outs for spaces from 50,000 sq ft and up will bring electrical, office HVAC and ESFR sprinkler modifications, and the truck court and parking need paving and ongoing maintenance.

fire protectionelectricalpavingroofing

H+O Structural Engineering, 2026-03-11 (opens in a new tab)

Tidewater Landing Phase II

Under wayPhase II moving forward, public amenities in permitting or under construction

About 575 housing units on both sides of the Seekonk River, plus commercial space, a riverwalk, plazas and a pedestrian bridge next to Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket.

Multiple mid-rise residential and commercial buildings mean multi-year mechanical, electrical, sprinkler and finish work, with landscaping and hardscape for the riverwalk and plazas.

constructionHVACfire protectionlandscapingpainting

NBC 10 WJAR, 2026-05-08 (opens in a new tab)
Market view

What we see in Providence

The Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories behind Brown's medical school in the Jewelry District are the job to follow this winter. The structure and facade are done, move-in starts in February 2027, and what remains is dense lab mechanical, piping, ductwork, electrical and fire protection, then finishes. Wet labs keep paying after opening, through HVAC service and specialty cleaning. Elsewhere in Providence, the all-electric Public Works complex on Ernest Street and the new Robert F. Kennedy school both run through 2027.

Roofing is the open trade. Providence ranks #19 of 89 markets, with 85.0 larger buyer sites per roofing contractor, and the roofer count fell 10.0% from 2021 to 2025. Landscaping sits near the bottom at #95 of 100, so a grounds firm needs a narrow list and a reason to switch. Sprinkler firms grew 34.8% over the same years and now rank #75 of 96, a crowded field, which makes tenant fit-outs at the Blackstone Distribution Center in Pawtucket worth chasing early. Storm reports cluster in August, July and June, which held 71% of the region's hail and wind reports, so roof surveys belong in spring.

The buyer mix is shifting toward health care. Medical, dental and outpatient offices rose by 95 in a year while manufacturing fell by 108 and retail by 132. Senior care facilities run 1.59x the U.S. concentration, and that list is where we would start for cleaning and HVAC, ahead of the larger medical office list, which sits at only 0.81x the national mix.

Abstrakt's reading of the sourced figures and projects above, written .

Decision-makers

Who signs, and how many of them work in Providence

14,110 general and operations managers, 4,150 medical and health services managers and 2,410 buyers and purchasing agents work in the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro. Jobs across every industry, not a contact list.

Jobs and median annual pay by title, Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
TitleJobsMedian payTrades that call this title first
General and operations managers
SOC 11-1021
14,110$110,360MSP
Medical and health services managers
SOC 11-9111
4,150$119,260
Buyers and purchasing agents
SOC 13-1020
2,410$84,590
Computer and information systems managers
SOC 11-3021
1,600$171,220
Education administrators, postsecondary
SOC 11-9033
1,380$106,520
Construction managers
SOC 11-9021
900$122,830
Property, real estate, and community association managers
SOC 11-9141
900$79,650landscaping, painting, paving
Facilities managers
SOC 11-3013
760$107,310cleaning, construction, electrical, flooring, roofing, fire protection, HVAC
Purchasing managers
SOC 11-3061
300$135,850

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) (opens in a new tab), May 2025, Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, all industries. Each title is the closest BLS occupation to a role in the trade's playbook; titles BLS does not publish for this metro are left out. Each trade link opens the Providence guide's decision-maker questions.

Opportunity estimator

What Could Your Next 12 Months in Providence Look Like?

A planning model, not a forecast: put in your own numbers and it applies Abstrakt's national sales center rates for your trade.

Default 16.1%: Abstrakt national rate for this trade. Use your own if you know it.

Baseline, 12 months

12,000prospecting dials
86meetings set
22proposals
3.6customers won
$89,355first-year value of those customers
Scenarios
ScenarioDials per meetingMeetingsCustomers wonFirst-year value
Conservative190632.6$65,841
Baseline140863.6$89,355
Optimistic1081114.6$115,831
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How it works. Meetings are dials divided by dials per appointment; proposals, customers won and value follow from the proposal rate, the win rate and your customer value. The rates are Abstrakt sales center, Performance Intelligence, national, October 2026, across all programs, not Providence results; the scenarios use the slower and faster quarter of buyer industries. Outbound results typically build over 6 to 12 months, so a first year rarely runs at a full year's pace. Benchmarks by trade and method.

Hiring locally

What an in-house SDR costs in Providence

    In-house SDR, first year (illustrative)$124,700

    An illustrative model, not a quote: in-house adds $15,000 commission, 25% payroll taxes and benefits, $550/month tools, $7,000 recruiting and training, 35% yearly turnover, and manager, QA and admin time, before ramp time. Abstrakt includes the SDR, management, tools and data.

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    Ava walks through the platform our strategists use, set to Providence.

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    This demonstration showcases real Abstrakt Intelligence capabilities using fictional companies and contacts to protect client and prospect privacy. Ava is Abstrakt's AI guide. The screens are the demo set to the Providence territory; its territory counts come from the demo data, not the Census figures above.

    Read the transcript of Ava's Providence walkthrough

    Hi, I'm Ava.

    Here's what an Abstrakt program looks like in Providence.

    First, we size your territory.

    The Providence area has about 37 thousand companies and 169 thousand business contacts.

    Next, we pick the playbook for your industry.

    Each playbook starts with criteria that have already booked meetings.

    For roofing, that's roof size, roof age and who owns the building.

    Then we build the list.

    Anyone who isn't a fit comes off before a rep ever sees the name.

    Every prospect gets a full profile.

    The decision-maker, the building, and every touch so far.

    Before the first dial, each rep practices in an AI role play and gets certified.

    Now the calls start.

    The dialer, the talk track and the follow-up all live in one place.

    Every meeting is reviewed for quality before it reaches you.

    And we track each one all the way to closed.

    We take one client per trade per territory.

    Once a spot is taken, it's gone.

    Check if your trade is still open in Providence.

    Client results

    Results from programs like this one

    Each story is labeled with where the program ran. Abstrakt runs every program from its St. Louis sales floor.

    • Commercial cleaningLocal program, Tulsa

      How Century Facility Services broke its referral ceiling: $415K closed in year one

      Century Facility Services

      After losing a sales rep, Century Facility Services outsourced outbound and booked 58 appointments and closed $415K in year one.

      • 58 appointments booked
      • 7 deals closed
      • $415K closed business

      First year of the program (case published April 2026)

    • Commercial roofingRegional

      How Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and kept a seasonal calendar full

      Schena Roofing & Sheet Metal

      Schena Roofing booked 475 appointments and closed $1.69M from 2018 to 2024, with another $1.39M in proposals delivered.

      • 475 appointments
      • $1.69M closed business
      • $1.39M in proposals delivered

      2018 to 2024, from Abstrakt program records. Closed business and proposals delivered are separate figures.

    • Fire protectionLocal program, Philadelphia

      How Harring Fire Protection turned outbound and inbound into $200K in new business

      Harring Fire Protection

      Outbound appointment setting plus an inbound website produced 195 appointments and 16 closed deals worth $200K in 28 months.

      • 195 appointments booked
      • 16 deals closed
      • $200K closed business

      28-month partnership (case published April 2026); search figures within 12 months of the February 2025 site launch

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    Outsourced sales development

    How Abstrakt runs a Providence program

    Reps on Abstrakt's St. Louis sales floor work your Providence-Warwick list by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail after two weeks of training and certification on your account.

    Contractor licensing in Rhode Island

    Anyone doing construction work on a structure in Rhode Island must register with the Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board, which also licenses commercial roofers. Electrical, fire alarm, HVAC/refrigeration, pipefitting and fire sprinkler contractors are licensed by the Department of Labor and Training instead.

    Confirm with Rhode Island Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-09-30.

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    The State of Outbound Sales in Providence, 2026

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    Outsourced sales development in Providence, answered

    Does Abstrakt provide B2B lead generation and appointment setting in Providence?

    Yes. Abstrakt runs outsourced lead generation and B2B appointment setting across the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro from its St. Louis sales floor: U.S.-based reps prospect the buildings, qualify the opportunity and book meetings with the person who signs. We take one client per trade per territory.

    How does B2B appointment setting work for a Providence program?

    It starts with the list. Of the 4,206 sites in Providence-Warwick with 20 or more people on site, we keep the ones that buy your trade inside your service area, then a certified rep works them by phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail. Meetings are booked with the decision-maker, reviewed before they reach you and tracked to a proposal and a close.

    Which commercial trades have the most room to grow in Providence?

    Measured by larger buyer sites per contractor across the markets we track (a market is ranked for a trade only where it has at least 10 local contractors), paving & asphalt (#13 of 94), commercial construction (#21 of 100) and commercial roofing (#19 of 89) rank best in Providence.

    What kinds of businesses are concentrated in Providence?

    Compared with the national mix, Providence-Warwick has more senior living and nursing (1.59x), colleges and universities (1.54x) and churches and religious organizations (1.50x). Those industries are the best-represented buyers for trades that serve them.

    Is the Providence business market growing?

    Over five years, yes, on both counts below. The latest year dipped: private business establishments fell 0.3% from 2025 Q1 to 2026 Q1. Private business establishments across Providence-Warwick's counties went from 53,846 in 2021 to 61,602 in 2025 (+14.4%), and private employment +6.3% (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages). In the latest Census count, 3,580 establishments opened and 3,274 closed in the metro (U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics, 2023, March to March), so openings ran ahead of closings by 306.

    How much federal construction money is spent in Providence?

    Federal contract obligations with a place of performance in Providence-Warwick's counties came to $1.02 billion in federal fiscal year 2026 (October 2025 to September 2026), $74.5 million of it in construction (NAICS 23) (USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), retrieved 2026-10-15). Fiscal 2026 will still rise as delayed defense contract actions post.

    How does federal contract money in Newport County compare with Providence County?

    Federal obligations are counted by place of performance, and Newport County received $678.2 million this fiscal year, far more than Providence County at $119.1 million, even though Providence County holds 37% of the larger buyer sites. Most of that is not building work: federal construction obligations for the whole metro came to $74.5 million. Trade contractors should read the per-trade lines, such as $9.0 million for HVAC and mechanical.

    What will Tidewater Landing Phase II need from Pawtucket-area contractors?

    Multi-year building work on both sides of the Seekonk River next to Centreville Bank Stadium. Phase II calls for housing, commercial space, a riverwalk, plazas and a pedestrian bridge, with public amenities now in permitting or under construction. Mid-rise residential and commercial buildings mean mechanical, electrical, sprinkler and finish packages, and the riverwalk and plazas need landscaping and hardscape crews. Painters should note their contractor count here fell 18.2% since 2021.

    Which counties make up the Providence market?

    The metro covers 6 counties. Providence County, Bristol County and Kent County hold 83% of the larger business sites, so most programs start there.

    What does outsourced sales development cost in Providence?

    Starting at $5,000 per month for an Outbound BDR program, as a flat monthly program. The price depends on how many reps work your program, the channels, and how large a territory and how many trades it covers. For comparison, one in-house SDR costs about $124,700 in year one at a $55,000 base salary on our illustrative model, before ramp time.

    Sources and method

    Updated . Approved the local markets plan: the data sources, the method and the in-house SDR cost model shown on market pages: Scott Scully, Executive Chairman, October 15, 2026. Every figure is regenerated from its source by a script in the site's code, never typed by hand.

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