The first contractor to call back wins the job
In solar, roofing, HVAC and remodeling, speed-to-lead decides who books the estimate. A homeowner who fills out a form is calling three companies — the one that responds first usually gets the job. When your office is on a roof or on a call, those leads go cold.
Maxima is an AI that answers every lead in seconds, qualifies the job, and puts an estimate on your calendar — 24/7, before the homeowner phones the next company.
Where contractors lose jobs
- Missed after-hours calls and web leads that arrive when the crew is out.
- Slow callbacks — the homeowner already booked with whoever replied first.
- No follow-up on quotes that never get a second touch.
How Maxima fixes it
The AI catches every enquiry the instant it lands, replies and qualifies the job, and books the estimate — so high-ticket jobs stop slipping to faster competitors.
Run a free 2-minute check to see where your jobs are slipping away and how an AI recovers them.
The data behind the leak (independent studies, not a Maxima claim)
- Replying to a new lead within 5 minutes makes a business up to 21x more likely to qualify it than waiting 30 minutes (Lead Response Management study, Oldroyd/InsideSales).
- In a Harvard Business Review study of 2,241 companies (2011), the average first response took about 42 hours — and 23% of leads were never contacted at all.
- 64% of customers now expect a real-time response when they reach out (Salesforce, State of the Connected Customer).
The leak isn't your offer or your price — it's the minutes and hours between a lead arriving and someone replying. That is exactly the gap an always-on AI closes.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the first contractor to reply usually win the job?
Homeowners requesting solar, roofing or HVAC quotes typically contact three companies at once and book with whoever responds first. Leads that wait while your crew is on-site go cold.
How can a contractor answer every lead instantly?
An AI assistant answers every web and after-hours enquiry in seconds, qualifies the job, and books the estimate - before the homeowner phones the next company.
What does an AI lead-response system for contractors cost?
It begins with a free 2-minute check of where jobs slip away. Any build is priced to the value it recovers, pay-as-you-go, with no fixed monthly fee.
See where this is costing you — free
Run the free 2-minute Revenue Leak Audit to see exactly where your leads are leaking and what it takes to recover them, or talk to the Maxima AI now — no call, no login.
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