Case study · Leads from the site
Lead result · Leads from the site

Nobody uses that calendar link on their own. Someone did.

A stranger booked a callfrom his site, no referral, 24 years in

Adam Heaney
Adam HeaneyNewport Beach, CA (licensed in CA, AZ, CO, FL, TX, WA)Reported Aug 27, 2026 · 11 weeks after launch
adam-heaney.huzi.siteLIVE · ADAM-HEANEY.HUZI.SITE
The story
What Adam wanted
Twenty-four years of originating had been built on agent and past-client referrals. Adam wanted one more door: people who find him first.
What Halo created
Halo built a personal site and a Parents' Home Equity Guide, with a mortgage blog and a FAQ rotation each publishing three times a week. His scheduling link sits on the site.
What happened
That link only ever gets used when Adam sends it. Then an unknown name booked time through the site, with no referral and no introduction (reported August 27).
What Halo built

The work.

  • 2 authority sites
  • 2 automations
adam-heaney.huzi.siteLive ↗
  • BuildTwo sites
  • AttractMortgage content on rotation
  • ConvertBook directly from the site
Parents' Home Equity GuideLive ↗
The receipts

What the record shows.

1
self-scheduled call from a visitor with no referral or prior connectionCustomer-reported · Aug 27, 2026
540visitor-days on the sites with visitor-level analytics, 15 daysSite log · Aug 16 – Aug 30

2 sites · 171 edits · 2 automations · Halo records, Aug 30, 2026

Adam Heaney
The person behind it

Originating since 1998: reverse, FHA, VA, conventional and jumbo; a "show and tell" lender who uses video to explain each step.

Adam HeaneyLoan Officer · Emery Financial · Newport Beach, CA (licensed in CA, AZ, CO, FL, TX, WA)With Halo since Jun 8, 2026

What Halo replaced.

Hire it yourself
$13,600Built once $6,000 · kept running $1,900/mo × 4 months
With Halo
$3964 × $99
Saved so far
$13,204≈ 20+ hours of doing and briefing avoided
View the itemized estimate
2 authority sites × $3,000$6,000
Built once · the old way$6,000
Webmaster on retainer × 4 mo × $1,500$6,000
Copywriter × 4 mo × $400$1,600
Kept running · the old way$7,600
171 edits by text, any hourincluded
With Halo · 4 months$396
How we estimate this

Estimates, not invoices. Rates are low-end market rates: authority site $3,000 (quoted $3,000–6,000), single-property site $300, listing film $400, graphic $75, webmaster retainer $1,500/mo (quoted $500–2,500), copywriter $400/mo. Months on Halo are counted from the first project and rounded up; the Halo figure is $99 per month plus $99 per listing package. Time ≈ conservative do-or-brief hours per deliverable (authority site 6 h, listing site 2 h, film 2 h, graphic 30 min, edit 6 min), rounded down to the ten. Work counts are from Halo’s records as of Aug 30, 2026; nothing here is modeled or projected.

Prove it

Everything behind this story.

Open what you want to check. Every figure carries its source.

See the records
Lead results
1self-scheduled call from a visitor with no referral or prior connectionCustomer-reported · Aug 27, 2026
Marketing results
540visitor-days on the sites with visitor-level analytics, 15 daysSite log · Aug 16 – Aug 30
The work, from Halo’s records · as of Aug 30, 2026
  • 2sites live
  • 171edits by text
  • 2automations running
  • 50pages live
  • 328AI-crawler fetches · 15 days
  • 540visitor-days · 15 days

AI crawlers, Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: Amazonbot 161 · GPTBot 116 · OAI-SearchBot 29

View the timeline
  1. Site live: adam-heaney.huzi.site
  2. Site live: parents-home-equity.huzi.site
  3. Unknown visitor books a call through the site (customer-reported)

Teal = Halo records · Copper = customer-reported

What Halo built, in detail
Build

Two sites

  • A personal site and a Parents' Home Equity Guide
Attract

Mortgage content on rotation

  • A mortgage blog rotation and a FAQ post rotation, each three times a week
Convert

Book directly from the site

  • The scheduling link sits on the site; a visitor used it unprompted
The brief, as Adam gave it

A business built on agent and past-client referrals wanted one more door: people who find him first.

Ongoing automations
Already happening · 2 automations
  • FAQ Blog Post Rotationthree times weekly
  • Mortgage blog post rotationthree times weekly
Always on

Every site stays editable by text at any hour, every form writes the lead up and texts Adam, and new listings get their own site the day they are taken. 171 edits have shipped since May 28, 2026.

Methodology

Halo records are counts from Halo’s database as of Aug 30, 2026: sites, listing sites, films, edits by text, automations, graphics, custom domains and pages. Site log figures come from the sites’ own server log for Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 30, 2026: AI-crawler fetches are identified by user agent; visitor-days are counted only on hosts with visitor-level analytics, so custom-domain traffic behind an edge network is under-counted, never inflated. Customer-reported outcomes are the customer’s own words, attributed and dated, never modeled or projected; correlation is not claimed as causation. Site inquiries exclude the agent’s own tests, vendor pitches and form-fill bots; only the count and anonymised dates are shown.

Sources: AI Times, Aug 27, 2026.

Names, faces, quotes and URLs used with permission · Cost comparison is an estimate at low-end market rates, not an invoice

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