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What Slow Follow-Up Is Costing Your Business

Plug in your real numbers. See exactly how much revenue you're losing every month — and what catching every lead would put back in your pocket.

Why this matters

Speed Kills Leads. Slow Kills Businesses.

The data on lead response time is brutal. And it explains why the leads you're already paying for keep slipping away.

21×

More likely to qualify

When you respond in 5 minutes vs. 30 minutes.

7×

More likely to qualify

When you respond in 1 hour vs. waiting longer.

7%

Of companies respond in 5 minutes

Half take more than 5 business days. That's your opening.

Sources: Harvard Business Review (Oldroyd & McAdams), Lead Response Management Study (Velocify), Drift State of Conversational Marketing.

The difference

What "Following Up" Actually Looks Like

Most service businesses have no real system. A person tries their best. Then leads die.

Human follow-up (what you have now)

  • ✗30 min to 2 hours before first callback. Sometimes never.
  • ✗Generic SMS template: "Hey, got your inquiry. Call us back."
  • ✗1–3 attempts. If they don't answer, the lead's dead.
  • ✗Nothing nights, weekends, holidays.
  • ✗No memory. Lead forgets who you are by tomorrow.

Stakd Systems (what you get)

  • ✓Under 60 seconds from lead submit to first contact. Every time.
  • ✓Custom AI trained on YOUR business — your services, pricing, hours, tone.
  • ✓Multi-channel: call, text, email. Keeps working until booked or opted out.
  • ✓24/7. Always. 2 AM Sunday on a holiday weekend = same response.
  • ✓Books the appointment in their calendar 30 seconds after they reach out.
Your numbers

Run Your Own Math

Type in what you actually do every month. See what slow follow-up is costing — and what catching every lead would recover.

Tell us about your business

$5,000
30
27%
$12,000
30%

Your results

Right now

Slow follow-up. Some leads close. Most don't.

Jobs closed/mo8.1
Revenue/mo$97,200
Gross profit/mo$29,160

With Stakd Systems

60-sec response. Custom AI. 24/7. Every lead answered.

Jobs closed/mo10.5
Revenue/mo$126,360
Gross profit/mo$37,908

You're leaving this on the table

$8,748

in gross profit — every single month.

$104,976

Annual Profit Gain

+2.4

Extra Jobs/Month

Right now in your service business, slow follow-up means some of your leads book with whoever answered first. With Stakd answering and booking every lead in 60 seconds, you'd recover about +2.4 more jobs/month — leads you're already paying for, closed at your own 27% rate. That's $8,748 in extra gross profit every month — $104,976/year — without spending another dollar on marketing.

Pricing

Every quote is custom. Here's why.

A solo plumber with 50 calls/month needs a different setup than a 12-truck HVAC with 500. We don't pretend otherwise.

✓
Call volume

More calls = bigger build.

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Channels

Voice, chat, SMS, Instagram — pick what fits.

✓
Integrations

Your CRM, calendar, dispatch — we wire it in.

✓
Build complexity

Industry-specific scripts, multi-location, etc.

Most clients pay back the investment in 30–60 days. No contracts. 30-day money-back.
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These are your numbers

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