One unchased renovation quote costs more than a year of chasing them.
You don't miss many calls. You just can't afford the ones you do — or the quotes that go quiet after you send them.
$497/month · done-for-you setup · month-to-month
Where the money goes
Renovation is a low-volume, high-value trade, which changes the arithmetic completely. You might only miss three or four real calls a month. But when a single kitchen is worth forty thousand dollars, one recovered lead a quarter pays for the system for years.
The real money, though, is in the sent folder. You spend an unpaid evening scoping and pricing a basement, send a serious number, and then hear nothing. Renovation decisions take months and involve two people who need to agree. Contractors almost never follow up, partly out of pride — and the homeowner reads silence as disinterest and hires the one who kept in touch.
What a job is worth here
Reference figures for this trade- Bathroom renovation
- $18,000 – $40,000
- Kitchen renovation
- $35,000 – $90,000
- Basement finish
- $40,000 – $85,000
- Hours spent scoping a quote
- 4 – 12, unpaid
- Typical decision window
- 6 weeks – 6 months
Figures are ranges we see quoted in the Ottawa market, not our numbers. Put your own into the revenue calculator and see where it lands.
What the text actually says
Nine seconds after a call goes unanswered, the caller gets this — in your business's name, in wording we write with you before it goes live.
What it finds out before you call back
- What the project actually is, in their words, before you spend an evening on it
- Timeline — this spring or someday, which is the single best qualifier in renovation
- Whether they've had other contractors through and what happened
- Budget range, asked the way you'd ask it, so you don't scope a job that was never real
And the quotes that go quiet
Every quote you send gets a polite, automatic follow-up until the customer decides. It stops the moment they book or decline. At the end of the month you get one page showing which jobs came back and what they were worth.
Questions general contractors ask
Following up feels like chasing. I don't like it.
The sequence is written to read like a professional who wants the work, spaced over weeks. It also gives you a clean out: one of the messages asks them to tell you if they've gone another way, which ends the guessing.
Low call volume — is the text-back even worth it?
On its own, maybe not. Bundled with quote follow-up on jobs this size, one recovered project a year covers several years of retainer. Most GCs buy it for the second engine.
Can it handle trade partners and suppliers calling?
Numbers you know get skipped. We build the exclusion list during setup so your framer never gets a qualifying text.
Find out what you're leaving on the table.
A 15-minute call. We look at your call volume and your average job together, and you'll know before we hang up whether the math works for your shop.
Or call the system yourself at 343-503-5515 and see what it does.