You measured, you quoted, you left a beautiful number on the table — and then the job of running jobs ate the follow-up. The homeowners did not say no. They said the four most expensive words in remodeling, and the quote went into a folder, an inbox, or a notebook in the truck. Three weeks later they signed with the contractor who called on day 3, day 10, and day 30.
Remodels are decided slowly and emotionally. That is exactly why a clock beats a memory: the system remembers every open estimate, whose turn it is, and what was promised — while you run the work you already sold.
What leaving it costs
Run your own numbers: count the estimates you wrote last quarter that never got a second contact. A published dataset of 209 contractor estimates (vendor-compiled, labeled as such) found opened quotes converted at 56% against 16% for unopened ones — and half of all yeses arrived inside three days of a follow-up touch. Even at a fraction of that effect, one recovered kitchen or bath pays for this system for years.
after-hours inquiries × $ per booked job = $ gone
The fix: Lead Register & Follow-Up Operation (the Lead System)
$2,900 setup + $590/mo
What is included
- Lead-capture pages and forms built for the services that make you money
- Every inquiry — form, email, marketplace — deduped into one register you can actually read
- Follow-up clocks at day 0 / 3 / 10 / 30, worked with you on a cadence — no lead without a next step and a date
- A monthly owner digest: leads in, response times, follow-ups done, bookings, leaks still open
- Speed-to-Lead Setup included (forms wired, alerts on, clocks set)
What is not included
- Not software and not a login — this is an operated service, run by us on machinery we built for our own business
- No advertising management and no ad spend — we work the leads you already get
- No SMS pipe of ours; texting runs on your existing stack where it supports it
Micro Credit: 100% of this fee is credited toward a Presence Foundation install or the flagship setup if you sign within 90 days. One correction round (facts, names, numbers) is included.
This is our own operating system before it is our product: a 463-row register where every inquiry has a follow-up date and an outcome, swept daily, with a booked-open pipeline tracked to the dollar. We did not design the clocks in a workshop. We run them.
The free presence audit
We check your site, your Google profile, your review state, and how fast a test inquiry gets answered — and send you the three findings that matter. Yours to keep, whoever fixes them.