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From a Four-Hour Callback to a 38-Second Reply

A regional roofing company was spending heavily on Google Ads and losing most of those leads to voicemail. In three weeks we rebuilt their GoHighLevel account around speed of reply and inspection booking. The phone stopped being the bottleneck.

Client
RoofRight, roofing and exterior repairs
Location
Leeds, United Kingdom
Team
2 estimators, 4 crews, 1 office manager
Timeline
3 weeks to launch
Services
CRM setup, automation, calendars, reporting
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Average first reply to a new lead, down from about four hours

Roofing leads that used to wait four hours for a callback now get a reply in 38 seconds, and inspections book themselves into crew calendars.

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The situation

RoofRight had a good reputation and a steady stream of enquiries from Google Ads, their website and a Facebook page. The problem was what happened next. The owner and both estimators spent their days on roofs, so calls went to voicemail and web forms sat in an inbox until the evening. Their own tracking put the average time to first contact at just under four hours.

They had bought GoHighLevel a year earlier on an agency's recommendation. It held a contact list and two half-built workflows. Nobody trusted the pipeline, so quotes were tracked in a spreadsheet and inspections in three separate phone calendars. Double bookings happened roughly once a fortnight.

Sarah Mitchell, the owner, put it plainly on the first call: "We're paying for the leads and paying for the software, and I still find out about jobs we lost when the customer tells us who they went with."

What was leaking

No reply of any kind to a missed call. Web and ad leads landing in an inbox with no notification. Quotes tracked outside the CRM and never followed up. Three calendars, no buffers, no reminders. Reviews requested only when someone remembered.

What we built

Same order as every engagement: the CRM set up right, then the automations that move the numbers, then everything around them. Each step was tested with real test leads before the client's customers saw it.

Week by week

How the Build Ran

3 weeks to launch, in the order that paid back fastest.

  1. W1

    Map and clean the account

    One diagram of the lead-to-job flow, agreed with Sarah and the office manager. Then a clean pipeline (New lead, Contacted, Inspection booked, Quote sent, Won, Lost), fields for roof type, urgency and property, and a naming convention for every workflow to come.

  2. W1

    Missed-call text-back and instant replies

    Any unanswered call now sends a text within seconds, introducing the company and offering a booking link. Website, Google and Facebook leads get a personal-sounding SMS and email inside a minute, and the estimator on duty gets a push notification.

  3. W2

    Inspection calendars that respect crews

    Two estimator calendars with drive-time buffers and service-area rules, plus reminders at 24 hours and 2 hours with a one-tap confirm. Bookings from the text-back link land straight in the right calendar.

  4. W2

    Quote follow-up sequence

    When a quote is marked sent, a polite chase goes out on day 2, day 5 and day 10 with a one-tap accept link. The sequence stops the moment the customer replies or accepts, and the estimator is alerted to call.

  5. W3

    Reviews, reactivation and reporting

    Marking a job complete triggers a review request with a direct Google link; negative responses route to Sarah first. Past customers were segmented for seasonal gutter and storm-check nudges. A dashboard shows leads by source, reply time and booked inspections.

  6. W3

    Test with real leads, then launch

    We ran forty test enquiries through every channel and branch, from three different phones, and fixed two timing issues before a single customer saw the system. The team got a 20-minute recorded walkthrough and a one-page cheat sheet.

Results

What Changed

Measured over the first quarter after launch, against the equivalent period before.

0 sec Average first reply

Measured across all channels for the first 90 days. Previously just under four hours.

0% Missed calls recovered

Nearly three in four missed callers replied to the automatic text and stayed in the pipeline instead of calling a competitor.

+0% Inspections booked

In the first 90 days versus the previous 90, on comparable ad spend and the same number of crews.

"We'd been paying for GoHighLevel for a year and using about ten percent of it. Within three weeks every lead was getting a reply in under a minute and our booking calendar was full. It finally felt like the tool was working for us."

Sarah Mitchell

Owner, RoofRight

What's next

The Flow Keeps Growing

RoofRight now runs quarterly reviews with us. The next phase adds an AI qualification step on the text-back conversation so homeowners can describe the problem and upload photos before the estimator calls back.

Every account we build comes with documentation your team can maintain, and most clients keep us on for quarterly reviews and new phases. Nine in ten come back.

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