SpeedToLead SpeedToLead

AI receptionist for garage door contractors

Never miss
another garage door job.

SpeedToLead answers every call and text for your garage door shop — books the repair on your calendar. Stuck doors, broken springs, off-track. Even at 2am.

No credit card · Live in a day · Pay only for real leads

Built for 1–5 truck shops like

Apex Plumbing  ·  CoolAir HVAC  ·  BrightSpark Electric

Missed calls cost the average contracting business $45,000–$120,000 a year.

Home service contractors miss 27–34% of inbound calls — on a job site, driving, or closed for the day. At roughly $1,200 lost per missed call, it adds up fast.

Trade / project type Avg. revenue lost per missed call
HVAC contractors$1,200 – $3,500 (high-ticket system replacements)
Plumbing$800 – $2,000 (emergency water heaters / burst pipes)
Electrical$600 – $1,800 (panel upgrades or rewiring)
Roofing / general contracting$2,000 – $15,000+ (full project replacements)
Standard service calls$200 – $500 (diagnostic / minor repairs)

Why missed calls are so costly

85%

Immediate defection

of people who reach a voicemail hang up and immediately dial your competitor. They don't wait for a callback — they take the first live person who answers.

<3%

The voicemail ghost

of prospective clients leave a voicemail when an inbound call goes unanswered. The rest vanish silently.

41%

After-hours & weekend surges

of emergency calls come after 6 PM, and 27% land on weekends — when pickup rates drop below 18%. That's another $27,000–$100,000+ in emergency revenue bleeding out every year.

$0

Wasted marketing

returned on the Google Ads and SEO you already paid for. A missed call is a lead you bought — then handed straight to a competitor.

How much is your voicemail costing you?

8
$700

≈ $6,062 / month walking to competitors

Assumes 1 in 4 missed calls was a real job.

62%

of small-business calls go unanswered (411 Locals)

85%

of missed callers never call back (Numa)

21×

more likely to qualify a lead answering in 5 min vs 30 (Harvard Business Review)

The hard numbers: where AI wins.

What contractors report after switching from voicemail and answering services to a modern AI voice agent.

Traditional answering / voicemail AI voice agent
Pickup speed Rings until voicemail — or holds up to 2 mins Under 3–5 seconds, 100% of the time
Capability Takes a message; tells the customer “someone will call back” Takes action — checks the calendar, quotes fees, books the job
Call capacity 1 operator, 1 call Unlimited parallel calls — no busy signals during storms or heatwaves
Cost $1,500 – $4,500/mo (staffing / call-center overhead) $100 – $1,500/mo (or ~$0.10–$0.40 per call minute)
Leads lost 80%–85% hang up on voicemail 92%+ reduction in uncaptured missed calls

How it works

1

We answer in 2 rings

Every call and text, 24/7 —
before voicemail picks up.

2

AI qualifies by trade

Triage, service area, urgency —
like your best dispatcher.

3

Job lands on your calendar

Booked, confirmed, and
texted to you instantly.

Built for the trades

Trade-smart triage

Burst pipe ≠ chirping detector. Emergencies break glass; routine waits for morning. You set what counts.

24/7 emergency cover

Nights, weekends, holidays. The 2am no-heat call gets answered and escalated — never voicemail.

Books your calendar

Connects Google Calendar. Jobs booked with the right duration, confirmed with the customer, no double-booking.

Instant text-back

Can't pick up? The customer gets a text in 60 seconds — a conversation, not your voicemail greeting.

Your branding

Your business name and voice — never ours. Callers hear your shop, not a call center.

Se habla español

Answers in your caller's language — English or Spanish — so no customer is ever lost in translation.

Hear it work your trade

Pick your trade — the call, the transcript, and the texts all follow.

Hear it handle a no-cool call

Real call flow · 53 seconds

0:000:53

CoolAir HVAC

Missed call · 2:14 AM → instant text-back

First 20 leads free. Then pay only for real jobs.

No subscription · No credit card to start

The math first

Your calculator above shows what missed calls cost you. We start from your numbers, not ours.

Start here

20 leads free

Live on your own number. No credit card required. If it doesn't pay, you walk away.

Pay per qualified lead

No subscription. Exact rates set on your onboarding call — after the pilot proves the math.

One recovered job pays for months of leads.

Every lead ships with the call recording + transcript. Dispute any lead within 7 days.

Built for contractors, not call centers

"We set it up with you, in your shop — your business name, your voice, your rules. Same area code, same timezone. A real local partner who knows your trade, 20 minutes away when you need one."

Questions, answered

It books. It checks your real availability, offers a window, and locks the job in before the caller hangs up — then the lead, the recording, and the transcript land on your phone in about 60 seconds. No message slips. No callback tag.

No — and don't take our word for it. Hit play on a sample call above and try to break it: interruptions, rambling, demanding a human. And if a caller ever wants a real person, we warm-transfer them to you on the spot.

That's exactly when we earn our keep. Emergencies — gas smells, burst pipes, sparking panels, no heat in a freeze — get answered and escalated to your on-call immediately, 24/7. Routine calls get a morning callback promise, never a 2am wake-up. You set which categories break glass.

Both get answered, instantly. There's no line to be busy and no hold music — it takes every call at once, so a customer never hears a busy signal while you're mid-job.

Voicemail hopes they talk after the beep — most hang up and dial the next shop instead. SpeedToLead has the actual conversation: answers their questions, triages the problem, books the window, and texts you the lead.

No. We answer on your existing number — nothing to install, no new phones. Recordings and transcripts live in your portal, and we're building direct push into Jobber, Housecall Pro, and ServiceTitan so new jobs appear where your team already works.

Yes. We answer on your existing number by forwarding — nothing changes for your customers. Prefer a fresh number? We'll provision one. Either way the number is yours: if you ever cancel, you keep it.

Anytime. No contract, no annual lock-in. You keep your number, export every lead with its recording and transcript, and your ledger stays readable for 12 months.

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