Fast Lead Response
Route and respond to new inquiries with a clear next step.
Revenue Recovery for Contractors
Make More of the Leads You Already Have.
Protect the referrals, word-of-mouth inquiries, and paid leads you've already earned. Prompt attention and consistent follow-through turn more of those opportunities into booked jobs—before you spend another dollar on demand.
Missed Calls | Stale Estimates | Slow Follow-Up | No-Shows | Old Leads
What's Included
- Fast response and missed-call text back
- Consistent estimate and opportunity follow-up
- Visible activity, pipeline movement, and handoff
- Built around your existing contractor operation
Common gaps we address:
- Calls that arrive while your team is on a jobsite
- Estimates that go quiet without a next step
- No-shows and cancellations that need a response
- Older leads and past customers left untouched
See the problem in under a minute
Where Are Your Leads Going?
Before adding more demand, see how missed calls, inconsistent follow-up, quiet estimates, no-shows and older opportunities can create gaps in the lead-handling process.
Fix the Leaks First. Then Add Demand.
No guaranteed outcomes. Results depend on market conditions, lead quality, pricing, staffing, sales process and follow-up execution.
Why Follow-Through Speed Matters
Two external benchmarks—not TLR outcomes—that illustrate the cost of slow or missed follow-up in service businesses.
14%
of home-services calls go unanswered
CallRail's January 2025 benchmark report analyzed 1.1 million leads across seven industries and found that home services had a 14% missed-call rate—the highest of any category measured.
Source: CallRail Benchmark Report, January 2025
Missed calls are not all qualified leads or lost sales. Rate varies by business size, staffing, and call volume.
21×
higher qualification odds at 5 min vs. 30 min
A 2007 InsideSales.com study led by Dr. James Oldroyd (MIT) tracked over 15,000 web leads and 100,000 contact attempts across six companies. Responding within five minutes produced 21× higher odds of qualifying a lead compared to waiting thirty minutes.
Source: Oldroyd et al., InsideSales.com / MIT, 2007 (15,000+ leads, 6 companies)
Study covered web leads across multiple industries in 2007—not contractor-specific. Measured qualification odds, not closed sales.
These are external industry benchmarks, not TradeLead Recovery performance claims. Missed calls are not all qualified leads or lost sales. The speed-to-contact study was conducted on web leads across multiple industries in 2007 and was not contractor-specific; it measured qualification odds, not closed sales. Results in your business will vary based on trade, market, lead quality, staffing, pricing, and sales process.
Strengthen the Follow-Through. Then Add Demand.
Contractors are busy running jobs. Calls, forms, estimates, no-shows and older opportunities can lose momentum when nobody has a dependable follow-up system. TradeLead Recovery installs and manages that operating layer.
Missed Calls
A call comes in while the crew is on a jobsite and no one gets back to it quickly.
Slow Form Response
A homeowner submits an inquiry, but the first useful response arrives after interest has cooled.
Estimates Without Consistent Follow-Up
A quote is sent, then the conversation loses its next step.
No-Shows & Cancellations
A missed appointment or cancelled visit is treated as the end instead of a recovery moment.
Old Leads & Past Customers
Past inquiries and customers sit in the database without a thoughtful re-engagement path.
Disconnected Conversations
Calls, texts, forms, and estimates live in separate places with no clear handoff.
Lead Leakage Check
See where opportunities may be slipping through your current follow-up process.
Before you spend more generating new demand, use this diagnostic to identify the follow-up areas that may deserve attention first.
Your inputs
Your Lead Leakage Profile
See where follow-through may be breaking down.
These indicators are based only on the information you entered. They identify operational exposure — not predicted revenue or recovery.
Missed Calls
6 missed calls
15% of monthly inbound opportunities
Estimate Follow-Up
18 estimates sent monthly
Needs Review · Follow-up: Sometimes
No-Shows / Cancellations
3 monthly events
Based on the count you entered.
Database Reactivation
120 stale or older contacts
Existing contacts that may warrant a structured reactivation review.
Priority Review
- Missed-call response deserves review.
- Estimate follow-up deserves review.
- No-show recovery deserves review.
- Database reactivation is available.
Illustrative planning tool only. This does not predict leads, appointments, jobs, revenue, close rate or ROI. Categories may overlap. Actual outcomes depend on market conditions, lead quality, staffing, response time, pricing, sales process, service quality, connected systems and client participation.
What would it take to cover the plan?
See the plan cost in terms of your typical job.
Enter your job economics and choose a hypothetical recovery scenario. We’ll show the simple math between your gross profit per job and the selected TradeLead Recovery plan cost.
This is illustrative math — not a prediction of recovered jobs, revenue or ROI.
Step 4: Hypothetical Additional Recovered Jobs / Month
Choose a scenario yourself. TradeLead Recovery does not predict this number.
Enter your average job value and gross margin to calculate the plan comparison.
View Core Recovery detailsIllustrative planning tool only. Calculations use the job value, margin and hypothetical recovery scenario you enter. TradeLead Recovery does not predict or guarantee leads, appointments, completed jobs, revenue, margin, close rate, payback or ROI. Actual results vary.
Plug the Leaks First
The TradeLead Recovery Platform is designed to keep follow-up moving across the moments that matter.
Missed-Call Text Back
Continue the conversation when a live answer is not possible.
Estimate Follow-Up
Create consistent follow-up around quotes and estimates.
AI-Assisted Qualification
Support qualification and routing where configured and approved.
Appointment Booking
Move qualified conversations toward a scheduled next step.
Old Lead Reactivation
Bring overlooked contacts and past customers back into view.
Long-Term Nurture
Keep appropriate conversations active over time.
Pipeline & Revenue Attribution
Track observable activity and attribution when evidence supports it.
Then Add New Demand
Once the recovery system is tighter, Growth and Scale can support a connected Demand Engine — from source to landing page, estimate request, qualification, booking, pipeline handoff, and follow-up.
Traffic/source → branded contractor landing page → Request Estimate → project/photo intake → AI qualification → appointment → opportunity/pipeline → follow-up and recovery
Client-funded Google/Meta traffic and advertising spend are separate unless specifically contracted.
A Recovery System Built to Keep Follow-Up Moving
TradeLead Recovery is designed to recover and qualify opportunities before handing them into the contractor's existing operating system.
Lead Intake
Capture calls, forms, and inquiries in a connected workflow.
Speed-to-Lead
Create a faster, more consistent first response.
Missed-Call Text Back
Keep missed calls from becoming missed conversations.
Estimate Recovery
Support follow-up around estimates that need another touch.
Appointment Reminders
Help keep scheduled conversations moving.
Pipeline Management
Give opportunities a visible next step and owner.
Project & Document Intake
Collect the details needed to qualify the right work.
Review Workflows
Support reputation workflows after completed customer interactions.
Old Lead Reactivation
Revisit appropriate past opportunities and customer lists.
Long-Term Nurture
Maintain useful follow-up over time.
Demand Engine
Growth and Scale can add conversion-ready landing-page capability.
Reporting & Attribution
Review activity, movement, and evidence-based attribution.
TradeLead Recovery complements contractor operating systems such as JobTread, Buildern, and other approved CRM or project-management platforms. Compatibility and handoff are configured where approved; native integrations are not implied.
TradeLead Recovery does not guarantee specific revenue, booked jobs, rankings, conversion rates, or lead volume. Results vary based on trade, market, lead quality, response time, staffing, customer service, offer, pricing, sales process, connected systems, and client participation. Third-party software, phone, SMS carrier, registration, email, advertising, answering-service, and special-integration fees may be billed separately.
An illustrative walkthrough — not a customer result
From a missed inquiry to a clear next step.
Here is how a typical opportunity can move through TLR. Your plan, approved messaging and connected systems determine the steps enabled for your business.
- STEP 1
An inquiry arrives
A homeowner calls while your crew is working. With missed-call recovery enabled, TLR follows up by text.
Your team sees the inquiry and conversation in TLR.
- STEP 2
The conversation continues
The homeowner responds. TLR supports the configured qualification and booking steps; your team handles questions that need a person.
Your team sees the customer’s replies and next step.
- STEP 3
An appointment is arranged
Confirmation and reminder messages support the visit. Staff verify the correct project when a customer has more than one.
Your team sees the appointment and the project details to verify.
- STEP 4
Your team prepares the estimate
You inspect the work, price it and send the estimate. Follow-up begins only after the estimate is confirmed sent.
Your team keeps control of scope, pricing and the send decision.
- STEP 5
TLR keeps follow-up moving
The configured sequence follows up on the open estimate. Replies and status changes route the conversation for the appropriate next step.
Your team can pick up the conversation for questions, changes or approval.
- STEP 6
The opportunity becomes a job
Once accepted, your team schedules and delivers the work in its operating system. Completion is recorded separately from approval.
Your team sees the agreed next step; eligible review and relationship follow-up comes later.
Contractor-built. Contractor-tested.
Built for real-world follow-through.
★★★★★
“TLR has helped us capture more leads and turn more of those opportunities into jobs. Just as importantly, it’s helped us stay connected with our customers and build stronger relationships—we’re already seeing some come back with requests for additional estimates.
We use JobTread as our existing CRM, and connecting our lead follow-up with TLR has been a real time-saver. We can keep using the system our team knows while staying more organized and keeping customer conversations moving.”
Client-provided website testimonial, edited for clarity. Individual results vary. CRM integrations depend on the agreed setup.
Less chasing. Clear ownership.
TLR helps keep follow-up moving. Your team stays in control of the work and the customer relationship.
TLR handles the configured follow-up
- Capturing inquiries through connected channels and supporting a timely response.
- Missed-call text-back and appointment confirmations and reminders.
- Follow-up on estimates confirmed sent, with appropriate handoff for replies and changes.
- Visible opportunity activity and staff notifications.
- Eligible reactivation, nurture and review requests included in your plan.
Your team handles the decisions and work
- Confirming customer details and the correct project when a match is unclear.
- Inspecting, preparing pricing, sending estimates and negotiating changes.
- Responding when a customer needs a person.
- Keeping availability and job status current, including approval and actual completion.
- Scheduling crews, delivering quality work and collecting payment.
Choose the level of follow-through you need.
Core Recovery
Build a dependable foundation for incoming inquiries, missed calls, appointment reminders and basic estimate follow-up.
Growth Recovery
Extend recovery with fuller estimate follow-up, no-show recovery, old-lead reactivation, longer-term nurture and qualification and booking capabilities.
Scale Recovery
Add more advanced routing, reporting and evidence-based attribution, with a higher level of operational support.
Your signed scope defines the services, integrations and support included. Advertising management and spend are not implied. Usage and third-party charges may be separate.
Compare plans and pricingHow the Recovery System Gets Built
01
Find the leaks
Review the calls, forms, estimates, no-shows, and older leads that need a clearer next step.
02
Build the recovery path
Configure response, follow-up, qualification, booking, and handoff around your operation.
03
Make activity visible
Review observable conversations, appointments, estimates, and pipeline movement.
Why This Exists
Built for the Work That Happens Between the Lead and the Job
Contractors do not always need another source of demand. Often, they need a better way to keep the opportunities they already earned from going cold.
TradeLead Recovery focuses on the operational moments that can be missed when the team is busy serving customers and running jobs.
The goal is not to replace your contractor operating system. It is to help recover and qualify opportunities before handing them into it.
That means practical workflows, visible activity, and a system that supports your team without promising outcomes no one can guarantee.
Built On Real Experience
- Designed around contractor lead flow and jobsite realities
- Built to complement existing CRM and project-management systems
- Focused on observable activity rather than invented results
- Configured to match approved workflows and handoff needs
Built for Contractors Who Cannot Afford to Lose the Follow-Up
A recovery system can be configured around the way your trade receives, qualifies, and follows up on opportunities.
Choose the Recovery System That Fits Your Operation
Start by tightening the leaks. Then choose the level of recovery support and visibility that fits your lead flow.
Limited Offer
Founder Proof Client
A controlled proof period for approved contractors.
- Core recovery foundation
- 90-day proof period
Core Recovery
A foundation for capturing and continuing lead conversations.
- Lead intake and speed-to-lead
- Estimate recovery and scheduling
Most Popular
Growth Recovery
More active recovery, reactivation, and demand-engine capability.
- Everything in Core
- Old lead reactivation and nurture
Scale Recovery
Higher-touch recovery operations for qualified contractors.
- Everything in Growth
- Advanced routing and visibility
Founder
$1,500
$750/mo
Core
$1,997
$997/mo
Growth
$2,997
$1,497/mo
Scale
Starting at $4,997
$2,497/mo
Limited capacity. Qualification required.
Setup fee + monthly management. 90-day minimum. See full pricing page for complete details.
Proof Should Be Visible — Not Invented
The system can make observable activity easier to review without inventing outcomes.
Calls and conversations
See calls handled, conversations continued, and replies received.
Appointments and estimates
Review appointments, estimates re-engaged, and pipeline movement.
Evidence-based attribution
Recovered-revenue attribution is used only when the available evidence supports it.
What TradeLead Recovery Is Designed to Do
TradeLead Recovery helps contractors capture, continue and recover more opportunities from missed calls, slow follow-up, stale estimates, no-shows and old leads — before they spend more money generating new demand.
Note: It does not guarantee revenue, appointments, lead volume, rankings, close rate, or ROI. Outcomes depend on market conditions, lead quality, pricing, staffing, sales process, service quality, connected systems, and client participation.
Before You Buy Another Lead, Recover the Last One.
Book a Lead Leakage Review to see where your current follow-up may be losing momentum.