▲ THE TRADES ENTRY DOOR · $4,900 ONE-TIME
Every call, form, and DM that reaches it — answered in under 60 seconds, every unbooked lead followed up on schedule. Measured in its own logs for your first 30 days, or I work free until the logs show seven clean days straight.
For trades and home-services businesses. Install date set in writing at booking — answering fast first, tuned by day 30. $4,900 flat, printed right here. Your people stay your people — this catches what they physically can't. (And logs are timestamps, not opinions — you can read them yourself.)
Your phone rang while you were up on a roof today.
By the time you heard the voicemail — if they left one — they'd already called the next name on the list. 78% of customers go with whoever answers first. The average business takes 42 hours to reply. sources ↗ That gap is the whole game, and it's costing you jobs you never even knew existed.
You've seen the $49-a-month AI receptionist apps. Maybe you tried a chatbot once and it embarrassed you in front of a customer. Fair — most of them are bought, half-configured, and left to freelance. This is not that. This is an install: wired into your actual systems, tested against your actual calls, measured by its own logs, with a human backstop so nothing weird ever dead-ends.
What gets installed — in the order your customer experiences it
A call comes in. If your people can grab it, they grab it — nothing changes.
If they can't, it's answered in seconds. Not a robot doing improv — it books, takes the job details, answers the basics you approved, and hands anything unusual straight to a human phone.
Web form or DM comes in at 9pm? Answered in under a minute. Followed up until it books or says no.
Every one of these lands in your calendar and your CRM — ServiceTitan, Jobber, whatever you run. No re-typing.
You get a text when a job books. You see everything in the log: every call, every response time, every booking.
▲ THE GUARANTEE — IN WRITING · WORKS-OR-I-WORK-FREE
It does its job — proven by its own logs — or I keep working free until it does.
First 30 days: every call, form, and DM that reaches the system is answered in under 60 seconds, and every unbooked lead gets its scheduled follow-up — measured by the system's own logs, not my word. If it isn't, I work free until the logs show seven consecutive clean days.
(Scope note, locked with the wording: the system catches what your people can't — when your staff answers first, that's your business working, not the guarantee's subject. The guarantee covers everything that reaches the system.)
Logs are timestamps, not opinions — you can read them yourself.
The math — yours, not an industry stat
A missed emergency call in the trades runs $275–$1,200 in industry estimates — but forget the industry. The free Leak Check calls your line the way a customer would and times what happens: your number, in the report. Take your average ticket and run it — on replacement tickets, one saved job can cover the install outright. On service tickets, count the weeks.
Price, in context
$4,900 one-time. Your $3,500 audit credits against it if you started there. Compare: a human answering service runs $300+/month forever and isn't wired into your calendar, your CRM, or your logs. A front-desk hire is $3,750+/month. Ongoing care afterward is optional: Operate ($2,900/mo), month-to-month, cancel anytime — printed next to the install price so there's no surprise invoice later.
Your part: one 15-minute call, forward a phone number, and approve the answers it's allowed to give. That's it. No homework for your office manager.
Which door? Never-Miss-a-Lead handles the calls you already get. Sales Engine goes and gets the jobs you're not getting yet.
Fair questions
“Is a bot going to talk to my customers?”
It answers, books, and hands anything unusual to a human. It never pretends to be a person, and it never freelances outside the answers you approved. Your customers keep getting humans — just never a dead end at 2am.
“What happens when it breaks — Saturday, 7am?”
Calls roll straight to a human phone. Nothing dead-ends. For your first 30 days I'm watching the logs — they'll tell me it broke before you have to. After that, that's exactly what the Maintain plan is for. Nothing “won't break.” The promise is what happens when it does: it fails safe and it gets fixed — under the care plans, same-day response is written in. I spent eight years keeping 125+ mission-critical systems at 99%+ availability — designing for the failure is the job.
“My customer data?”
Lives in accounts you control. Never sold, never used to train anyone's AI. Where AI answers a call, it runs under business terms that forbid training on your data — and I'll name every system on the day-one list. Leave and it all goes with you.
“Why not the $49 app, the $297 software sub, or the $20 Fiverr gig?”
You can, honestly. The tools are cheap. What you're paying for is that it's wired into your real systems, tested on your real calls, guaranteed by its logs, and someone answers when it breaks. Outside installs succeed about twice as often as DIY — that's MIT, not me. Seventeen months of the software sub buys this install once, working.
“Contract?”
The install is one price. Anything ongoing is month-to-month, cancel with one email. Accounts in your name.
Start free, or start talking.
The system answers in under 60 seconds either way — and I call you the same day.
The Leak Check, in one line: we call your line the way a customer would, test your web form, and time what happens — you get the report free, either way.