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Grade your shop's online performance in 30 seconds.

Drop in your website. Get an instant scorecard across speed, lead capture, search visibility, and booking conversion. See exactly where your shop is leaking leads — before you spend another dollar on ads.

Real-time analysis. No email. No call. ~30 seconds.

Built for HVAC · Plumbing · Electrical · Roofing · Windows · Veteran Owned

What our audits reveal in the field

$186K/yr

Average annual revenue leak the TradesLane audit identifies in a typical home service shop with no after-hours call capture.

30%+

Inbound calls that go unanswered at the average home service shop, per industry call-tracking benchmarks.

31/100

Median Google PageSpeed mobile score for home service sites — well below the 70 threshold for healthy lead capture.

Numbers from the TradesLane audit engine and published call-tracking benchmarks.

Where home service revenue actually leaks

Three problems quietly bleed six figures a year out of the average shop. The fix for all three exists. It's just nobody's installing it for the trades.

Missed calls = lost customers

The average home service shop misses 30%+ of inbound calls. Every missed call is a customer your competitor is already responding to. By the time you call back, the job is closed.

Slow sites kill mobile leads

For every additional second your mobile site takes to load over 2.5 seconds, form submissions drop ~7%. Most home service sites lose 30-50% of mobile inquiries to slow pages alone.

Weak reviews tank close rate

Shops with under 50 Google reviews and below 4.5 stars convert 12-18% lower than top-quartile competitors. Customers compare your profile to 2-3 others before they call.

What we install for home service shops

Four systems, deployed in days not months, that close the most expensive leaks first.

AI Receptionist (24/7 inbound)

Answers every call when staff can't. Captures intent, qualifies the lead, books directly into your calendar, sends a summary to your team. Cuts missed-call leak 60-80% inside 30 days. Built and operated in the US — no overseas call-center handoff.

AI Readiness Audit (free wedge)

5-page diagnostic showing exactly where your business is leaving money on the table. Real numbers, vertical-specific benchmarks. Free for any home service shop.

Inbound Lead Engine

Live chat, online booking, and lead-capture forms tuned for mobile-first home service inquiries. Pairs with the receptionist for full-funnel coverage.

Review & Reputation Automation

SMS-based post-job review requests, response automation, reputation monitoring across Google / Yelp / industry sites. Most clients see 10-20+ new 5-star reviews/month inside 90 days.

Why TradesLane vs. the alternatives

Most home service shops have three options when revenue starts leaking. Here's how the math actually shakes out.

 
TradesLane
Answering Service
Generic Marketing Agency
Monthly cost
$500-$3,500
$300-$800
per receptionist seat
$2,500-$8,000
+ ad spend on top
24/7 call coverage
✓ Always
Limited shifts
Not their problem
Built specifically for trades
✓ HVAC/Plumb/Elec/Roof
Generic intake
SaaS + dental + retail
Time to first recovered dollar
7-14 days
14-30 days
3-6 months
AI receptionist + reviews + booking, integrated
✓ Yes
Phone only
SEO/ads, no call infra
Contract
Month-to-month
Annual common
12-month minimum
Veteran-owned
Varies
Rarely

From audit to first recovered dollar in 30 days

A simple sequence. No 12-month contracts, no agency overhead, no vague AI buzzwords.

1

Free Audit (Day 0)

  • We run your site, GBP, and reviews through our automated audit engine
  • You get a 5-page PDF showing exactly where revenue is leaking, with dollar figures
  • No sales pitch, no commitment
2

Install & Configure (Days 1-7)

  • We deploy the AI receptionist, online booking, and automation flows
  • Your team gets a 30-min walkthrough — that's the only meeting we need
  • Your existing phone number stays the same; the AI sits in front of it
3

Recovery (Days 8-30)

  • AI starts capturing missed calls and after-hours inquiries day 1
  • You see weekly recovered-revenue reports
  • By day 30, most clients have recovered more than the install cost

Built for the trades

HVAC
Plumbing
Electrical
Roofing
Windows
Other Trades

If you sell installation, repair, or service work to homeowners — the playbook applies.

Real numbers from real audits

Stats pulled from the audit engine across the home services verticals we work with.

$324,000

Annual revenue typically leaking from a single HVAC shop with no after-hours capture

60-80%

Missed calls recovered after AI receptionist install (industry-tracked range)

30 days

Typical time to first recovered revenue dollar after install

What audits keep surfacing

Real findings from the audit engine. Same pattern, different shop, every time. Quotes from real clients will fill this wall as they're collected — for now, this is what the data is saying.

HVAC · 14 trucks

"Missed-call rate at 34% on weekday afternoons. After-hours coverage is a voicemail box checked once a day. Estimated leak: $26K/mo."

Plumbing · family-owned

"Mobile homepage takes 6.4 seconds to load. Industry data: ~62% of users bail past 3 seconds. They're losing about half their mobile leads before the page paints."

Electrical · regional

"42 Google reviews. Top competitor in the same metro: 380. Review velocity hasn't changed in 18 months. They're losing the search-visibility game on autopilot."

Roofing · storm-chase market

"No online booking. Form submission goes to a personal Gmail with no auto-response. Median lead-to-callback time: 19 hours. Industry standard for closes: under 5 minutes."

HVAC · two-location

"Paying $480/mo for an answering service that hangs up if more than 4 calls stack. They have 80+ calls a week. Math doesn't work out."

Windows · single-shop

"Quote turnaround: 4-6 days from request. Competitors quoting same-day with AI-assisted measure tools. They've ranked the win-rate drop, just hadn't tied it to speed yet."

HVAC · 14 trucks

"Missed-call rate at 34% on weekday afternoons. After-hours coverage is a voicemail box checked once a day. Estimated leak: $26K/mo."

Plumbing · family-owned

"Mobile homepage takes 6.4 seconds to load. Industry data: ~62% of users bail past 3 seconds. They're losing about half their mobile leads before the page paints."

Electrical · regional

"42 Google reviews. Top competitor in the same metro: 380. Review velocity hasn't changed in 18 months. They're losing the search-visibility game on autopilot."

Roofing · storm-chase market

"No online booking. Form submission goes to a personal Gmail with no auto-response. Median lead-to-callback time: 19 hours. Industry standard for closes: under 5 minutes."

HVAC · two-location

"Paying $480/mo for an answering service that hangs up if more than 4 calls stack. They have 80+ calls a week. Math doesn't work out."

Windows · single-shop

"Quote turnaround: 4-6 days from request. Competitors quoting same-day with AI-assisted measure tools. They've ranked the win-rate drop, just hadn't tied it to speed yet."

Anonymized findings from completed audits. Identifying details removed. Real client quotes replace these as testimonials are collected.

3 beliefs that guide TradesLane

— Marcus Ivery, Founder

Missed calls cost more than bad SEO.

Most agencies sell you SEO and ad spend that take 6 months to pay off. We start by fixing what's leaking right now — calls going to voicemail, mobile sites that drop forms, reviews that aren't getting captured. Stop the leak before you turn up the faucet.

Trades shops deserve big-brand tech.

The corporate chains have AI dispatchers, automated review flows, and 24/7 call coverage that small shops can't afford to build. We believe that gap is closeable. We close it for under $2K a month.

We grow your profits before our margins.

A lot of agencies bill the same whether you grow or not. That's broken. TradesLane is built around one question: did this shop take home more this month than last? That's how we measure ourselves.

TradesLane is veteran-owned and operator-built. Founded by Marcus Ivery, who spent years inside the home services industry watching shops bleed revenue from gaps that AI could close in a week. He built TradesLane to close those gaps for the trades.

No bloated agency overhead. No 12-month contracts. No vague promises. Just specific systems that recover specific dollars, with the receipts to prove it.

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