For HVAC & home-service contractors

Missed the call? The text is already sent.

When you can't pick up, LeadRing texts the caller back within 60 seconds — before they dial your competitor. And when a lead comes in from your website, Google, Angi, or Thumbtack, we respond instantly, 24/7. Speed wins the job. Now you're always first.

$0 setup Live in 48 hours Flat monthly price Cancel anytime Free 14-day pilot
Missed call6:42 PM · No voicemail left
Your Company · 6:43 PMHi, this is Northside Heating & Air — sorry we missed you! Are you calling about a repair or a quote? Reply here or tap to book: link
CallerAC not cooling, upstairs is 84°
Sarah · LeadRingGot it — I can get a tech out today. What's the address, and is anyone home this afternoon?
✓ Appointment booked · Today 3–5 PM
The 5-minute rule

Speed isn't a nice-to-have. It's the whole game.

When a homeowner's AC dies, they don't call one contractor — they call down a list until someone answers. And when they fill out a form on Angi or Google, the first company to respond usually wins the job. Every minute you wait, your odds collapse.

78%
of customers buy from the company that responds first
In home services, being first to respond is worth more than being the best-reviewed.Widely cited lead-response research.
21x
more likely to qualify a lead responding in 5 minutes vs. 30
After an hour, the lead is usually gone.Lead Response Management study (InsideSales).

You're on a roof, in a crawlspace, or driving. You physically can't answer every call or reply to every lead in 60 seconds. Your competitors can't either — unless one of you automates it.

The service

Two automations. One job: never let a lead go cold.

Missed-Call Text-Back

The text goes out before they call the next name.

The moment a call to your business goes unanswered, the caller gets a text from your number within 60 seconds — a friendly message in your company's voice asking what they need, with a link to book or the promise of a fast callback. The conversation continues by text: Sarah (LeadRing's AI) answers questions, collects the job details, and books the appointment or flags you to call back.

  • Fires in under 60 seconds, 24/7
  • Sounds like your company, not a robot blast
  • Two-way: Sarah replies, qualifies, and books
  • Emergencies flagged to your phone immediately
Speed-to-Lead

Every online lead answered before your competitor sees it.

Every lead from your website form, Google Local Services Ads, Angi, or Thumbtack gets an instant response — a text within 1–2 minutes, and an optional AI callback within 5. Sarah confirms the details, answers basic questions, and books the estimate before your competitor has even seen the notification.

  • Connects to website forms, LSA, Angi, Thumbtack & Facebook lead forms
  • Instant SMS + optional AI voice callback
  • Lead details + full conversation sent to you or your CRM
  • Works nights, weekends, holidays — when most leads arrive

Everything logs to a simple dashboard, and booked jobs sync to your calendar or CRM (Zoho, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, GoHighLevel, HubSpot, or Google Calendar).

How it works

Live in 48 hours. Three steps.

Step 01 · Connect · 15 min

Connect your lines & lead sources

We hook into your phone line for missed-call detection — no number change, customers dial the same number they always have — and connect your lead sources: website form, LSA, Angi, Thumbtack.

Step 02 · Approve

Approve your messages

You approve the exact text templates and what Sarah can say — your tone, your services, your booking rules. Pricing questions get handled however you decide: quote your approved prices, or "the office will confirm."

Step 03 · Go live

Never lose a lead again

Missed calls get texted in 60 seconds. New leads get answered in 1–2 minutes. You get a notification for every conversation and a weekly summary: calls recovered, leads engaged, jobs booked.

The math

What recovering missed calls is honestly worth

Home-services businesses miss roughly 1 in 4 inbound calls, and fewer than 3% of callers who hit voicemail leave a message — most simply call the next name on Google. Industry data on missed-call text-back indicates that a fast, well-written text recovers roughly 25–45% of missed callers into a conversation, booked job, or quote request. At an average HVAC service ticket of $400–$1,200, recovering even two or three otherwise-lost calls a month pays for this service many times over.

Missed calls per month (typical small shop)~20–40
Recovered into conversations at 25–45%~5–15
Booked jobs from those (conservatively 1 in 3)~2–5
At $400–$1,200 per job$800–$6,000/mo recovered
Cost of this service$97/month
These are industry benchmarks, not a guarantee — and not (yet) our own client results. Your numbers depend on your call volume and trade. That's why we start every client with a free 14-day pilot: you'll see your own recovery numbers before you pay anything.
Pricing

One flat price. No setup. See results before you pay.

Start with a free 14-day pilot on your real calls and leads. After that, one flat monthly price — no per-text fees, no per-lead fees, no contracts.

Text-Back
$97/month
$0 setup
Never lose a missed call again.
  • Missed-call text-back in under 60 seconds, 24/7
  • Two-way AI conversation (Sarah qualifies & books)
  • Emergency flagging to your phone
  • Booking link + calendar sync
  • Weekly recovery report
  • Unlimited missed calls
Start free pilot

Already using the LeadRing AI Receptionist — or want the full front office? Receptionist + Text-Back + Speed-to-Lead bundles from $349/month. Sarah answers what she can, texts back what she can't, and chases every lead the moment it lands. Talk to us about the bundle →

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. SMS carrier pass-through fees included up to 500 messages/month (covers virtually every small shop).

The honest answer

"Can't I just set up an auto-text myself?"

Sort of — and most contractors who try end up with a dumb one-way blast: "Sorry we missed you, we'll call you back." That message doesn't book jobs; it just delays the customer calling your competitor by about ninety seconds. What actually recovers revenue is what happens after the first text: a real two-way conversation that answers "how much is a service call?", collects the address and the problem, offers a time slot, and escalates the no-heat emergency to your cell — instantly, at 2 AM, in your company's voice. That's the part you can't duct-tape together, and it's the part we run for you. Plus the unglamorous plumbing that keeps texts out of spam folders: registered numbers, carrier compliance, opt-out handling — done properly, once, by us.

Dumb auto-reply

One-way, generic, books nothing.

DIY Zapier stack

Breaks silently, no conversation, spam-filter roulette.

LeadRing

Two-way AI conversation, compliant rails, booked jobs.

Compliance & trust

Texting done the legal way.

Every text we send goes to someone who just called you or just asked for a quote — responding to an inquiry, not cold-blasting a list. Every message identifies your company and honors opt-out instantly and permanently. Every number is A2P 10DLC registered, which is why our texts land in the message thread instead of the spam filter. If a customer asks whether they're texting with an AI, Sarah tells the truth.

Replies to inbound inquiries only — never cold lists A2P 10DLC registered numbers Instant opt-out on every message Full conversation logs available to you
The complete front office

The LeadRing front office, complete.

Text-Back and Speed-to-Lead catch what slips through. The AI Receptionist answers the calls in the first place. Database Reactivation puts your past-customer list back to work booking tune-ups. Run all three and every phone lead — new, missed, or old — has a machine chasing it while you're on the job. Start with whichever leak is costing you most.

FAQ

Things you might be wondering.

Still have questions? Email us →

No. Customers dial the same number they always have. We detect the missed call and text from your business identity.

Missed-call texts fire in under 60 seconds. Lead-source responses go out within 1–2 minutes of the lead arriving (some platforms like Angi deliver leads to us with a short delay on their end — we respond the moment it hits).

She collects their details, tells them you'll follow up, and pings your phone with the full thread. Nothing gets stuck; you always see the conversation.

From a registered business texting number tied to your company identity. Depending on your carrier setup, that's either your existing number (if text-enabled) or a dedicated local number that always identifies your business. We'll confirm during setup.

Emergency keywords escalate to your phone immediately by SMS, alongside the customer conversation. You decide the escalation rules during setup.

Yes — we connect to your lead notifications from each platform. During your pilot we'll confirm each source is wired and responding.

No. Free 14-day pilot, then month-to-month. Cancel anytime.

Texts identify your company; if a customer directly asks whether they're talking to an AI assistant, Sarah answers honestly.

Get started

Find out how many calls you're losing. Free.

Start the free 14-day pilot and we'll show you your own numbers: how many calls you missed, how many we recovered by text, and how many turned into booked jobs. No setup fee, no card required to start, no obligation. Worst case, you learn exactly what your missed calls are costing you. Best case, you never lose one again.

Want to see it live? Book a quick call and we'll show you the text-back in action.

Pilot includes full setup and up to 25 recovered conversations. Your data is confidential and never shared.