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Ten spots, setup-only on the first 60 days, in exchange for a published case study at the end of it.
Apply for the cohortAfterHours is a small team that built the manual version first, ate our own dog food running an intake desk for friends, and engineered the parts that should never have been manual.
A friend who runs a plumbing business in Sacramento sent us a screenshot of his web-form inbox at 7am. Eight inbound, all between 9pm and 4am, none replied to. He estimated half had already gone elsewhere by the time he opened his laptop.
We started replying for him by hand for two weeks. Read the inbox at 6am, draft a reply, send. He paid us in beer. The pattern was so loud it was embarrassing. The leads were small dollars individually, four hundred to two thousand each, but in aggregate it was tens of thousands of dollars a month walking past the door because nobody was at the front desk.
The manual version proved the wedge. Now we are doing it well enough that nobody has to do it by hand. The buyer never sees a chatbot, never logs into a dashboard, and never has to be impressed with the technology. They just get a calendar of warm calls in the morning and a quiet inbox the rest of the day.
If a brief or a reply ever feels off, it is because we drifted from one of these. Tell us and we tune it within a day.
The reply is a reply. It is not a chatbot transcript with disclosures and emojis. If the owner says "y'all" the agent says "y'all". If they price in ranges, the agent prices in ranges. The model serves the brand voice, not the other way around.
An answering service takes a message. We are not that. Every reply offers two open slots from the calendar and confirms one. If the inbound is genuinely emergency, we route. If it is junk, we close it. Nothing sits.
Every brief is editable, every reply is overridable, every category can be flipped to draft mode. The agent is a junior intake person. The owner is still the boss, and the brief is how the agent reports up to her.
We are intentionally small for the first cohort. Every onboarding is run by one of the founders, and every morning brief in the first 30 days is read by a human before it goes out.
Two people on the build side, one operator running onboarding, plus contracted intake reviewers for the first 90 days. We are biased toward staying small until we are sure the brief reads right at scale.
Every morning we read a sample of yesterday's outbound replies. If the tone has drifted, we tune. The product is the brief landing in your inbox, not a dashboard or a chart. If the brief reads well, we are doing our job.
There are no logo walls on this site, no faces of customers, and no pull quotes from "Mike, plumber" that we made up. The cohort closes when ten clients sign. After that we publish three real case studies with named clients and verifiable numbers. Until then, the only case study on this site is the composite one, clearly labeled.
If that earns less trust today, that is fine. We would rather be quiet now and credible later.
Ten spots, setup-only on the first 60 days, in exchange for a published case study at the end of it.
Apply for the cohort