AI lead systems for owner-run businesses · $1M–$25M
A calendar full of qualified appointments. In weeks, not months.
We use AI to turn your leads into booked jobs on autopilot: every inquiry answered in seconds, the tire-kickers filtered out, and the ready-to-buy customers dropped straight onto your calendar. You wake up to a schedule that's already full. Most clients see more booked appointments inside the first few weeks, and you can pay us from the revenue we generate.
What you think you lose4
Measured rate for your trade11
You're low by 7 a week. 364 lost chances a year.
Revenue leaving the funnel, every year
$143,208
Invoca call data: 27% of calls to home services go unanswered. Conservative floor. Measured rates run to 62%, where this becomes $328,848.
Built for owner-run businesses like
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Why speed wins the job
The fastest reply wins. AI is always fastest.
Your customers buy from whoever answers first, not whoever's cheapest. A human can't reply in five seconds at midnight. AI can, every time, which is exactly why it books the job before your competitor even sees the lead.
78%
of customers buy from the first business that responds. Not the cheapest. Not the best reviewed. The first to pick up.
Lead Connect, 2024
86%
of callers who reach voicemail hang up without a word. You never find out they called.
Forbes Consumer Communication Survey, 2025
42 hrs
is the average time a business takes to respond to a lead. 23% never respond at all.
Harvard Business Review, audit of 2,241 firms
Why Nerres
Don't settle for the leak.
Most AI shops sell you a platform and let you self-diagnose. Here's the difference on both sides of the table.
Sound familiar?
- ✕The phone bleeds all day. Calls hit voicemail, callers vanish, and nothing in your business records it happened.
- ✕Quotes die in your inbox. A lead needs a number only you can give. Two days later, they've booked someone faster.
- ✕You're the bottleneck. Every price, every decision, every follow-up routes through you, at 9pm.
- ✕Ad spend you can't trace. Money goes to Google and Meta every month and nobody can tell you how many booked jobs it actually produced.
- ✕The AI project that went nowhere. A slick demo, a big invoice, and six months later nothing measurable changed.
With Nerres
- →Measured first, built second. We hand you your real numbers before we quote a thing, and walk away if they're small.
- →Live in weeks, not quarters. One leak, 21 days, fixed price. It pays for itself before the invoice clears.
- →Invisible to your team. The call logs itself because it happened. No new clicks, no adoption to chase.
- →Every dollar traced to a job. We tune ad spend to booked revenue, not clicks, so you finally know what your marketing actually buys.
- →We own the outcome. We keep your software, connect the seams, and stay on the hook after launch. No finger-pointing at the robot.
Results · sample testimonials, replace with real clients
What it feels like 30 days in.
The story owners tell us is almost always the same: skeptical at first, booked solid within weeks, and wishing they'd done it a year sooner.
★★★★★
I was drowning in voicemails and losing jobs to whoever called back first. Within two weeks the AI was answering everything and booking straight to my calendar. We booked 34 extra jobs the first month and I didn't lift a finger. Should've done this a year ago.
[Mike R.]
[HVAC · Freehold, NJ]
★★★★★
I was skeptical, I'd been burned by a marketing company before. But they measured everything first and only charged once it worked. My calendar went from half-empty to booked two weeks out, and the leads are actually qualified. Revenue is up 41% in 60 days.
[Sarah L.]
[Med spa · Red Bank, NJ]
★★★★★
The best part isn't even the extra money, it's that I stopped answering the phone at dinner. AI qualifies them, books them, reminds them to show up. My close rate jumped because I only talk to serious buyers now. Fastest ROI of anything I've ever paid for.
[David T.]
[Roofing · Toms River, NJ]
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Start here. The free audit
Don't take our word. Take your data.
Before you spend a dollar, we show you exactly what your leads are worth and where they're leaking, straight from your own numbers. Here's a sample of what lands in your inbox.
The Missed Call Report
Your real miss rate. The hour of the week you lose most. Your after-hours exposure. How long you actually take to call back, versus how long you think you do. And the part nobody expects.
- 01You send one call log. Two minutes. We tell you which button.
- 02We read it. No recordings, no access to anything else, nothing kept.
- 0348 hours later you have your number, and a list you can act on today.
Free. No meeting attached. Nobody rings you unless you ask.
30 days · 1,198 inbound calls
56 people tried more than once and still never got you.
| Number | Tries | Outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (732) 523-•••• | 5× | never reached a human |
| 2 | (908) 278-•••• | 5× | never reached a human |
| 3 | (908) 391-•••• | 5× | never reached a human |
| 4 | (732) 317-•••• | 4× | never reached a human |
| 5 | (732) 975-•••• | 4× | never reached a human |
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Call these today. Nobody redials a plumber they don't need. They rang, got nothing, and rang again. They wanted you. Their numbers were in your own call log the whole time.
Sample report, illustrative business. Someone who rang four times is counted once, one lost customer, not four. Anyone who ever reached a human, including on a callback, is excluded. We'd rather hand you a small number you can trust than a big one that falls apart in the first meeting.
What we do
Three ways AI fills your calendar with buyers.
Not more leads for the sake of leads. The right leads, qualified and booked, so your day is spent doing the work instead of chasing people who were never going to buy.
01 / Capture
Instant lead capture
The second someone calls, texts, or fills a form, AI responds in seconds, day or night. No lead ever sits, cools off, or calls a competitor because you were busy.
- →Replies in seconds, 24/7, even at 2am
- →Catches every call, text, form, and DM
- →Follows up until they answer
- →Nobody slips through, ever
Result: you stop losing leads you already paid for
02 / Qualify & book
AI that books buyers
AI asks the right questions, filters out the tire-kickers and price-shoppers, and drops the ready-to-buy customers straight onto your calendar. You wake up to a booked day.
- →Screens for real, ready-to-buy intent
- →Books straight onto your calendar
- →Confirms and reminds so they show up
- →You only talk to people worth your time
Result: a calendar full of qualified appointments
03 / Grow
More traffic that converts
Once the system reliably books what comes in, we turn up the volume, running and tuning ad spend against booked jobs, so every new dollar brings back more revenue.
- →Scale ads only once booking works
- →Optimize to booked revenue, not clicks
- →Reactivate old leads sitting in your database
- →Every dollar tracked to a closed job
Result: predictable, growing revenue you can see
You keep every piece of software you own. We build the AI engine underneath it, and here's what powers it.
AI front desk
Every call answered, qualified, and booked into your calendar, 24/7, after hours, at lunch, on Sundays. The leak closes first because it pays for itself first.
Inbox-to-quote
Inbound emails become leads, tasks, and follow-up the moment they land. Draft quotes wait for your approval instead of your memory. Nothing sits.
Document intake
Invoices, scopes, photos from the van, read, structured, and filed against the job automatically. Your most expensive person stops being a scanner.
Systems integration
The plumbing between platforms that need to talk: ad platform to CRM, CRM to books, field to office. One record per customer, not four spellings across four tools.
Owner dashboard
One weekly number that tells the truth: leads, cost per booked job, close rate, margin, capacity. The picture most owners have never actually seen.
AI policy & data hygiene
Your staff are already pasting customer data into free AI tools. We close that door: clear rules, controlled access, and the paperwork if your trade is regulated.
Before you hire anyone for AI
95% of AI projects deliver nothing.
MIT's Project NANDA studied enterprise generative-AI pilots and found 95% produced no measurable return. RAND put the failure rate above 80%, double that of ordinary IT projects. If you've been quietly skeptical, you were right.
What the research blames isn't the technology. It's tools that don't adapt to how a specific business actually works, and projects that start without a diagnosed problem. That's the entire reason the report above exists: we measure first, and if the number's small we tell you and go away. Be wary of the three failure modes in this market: template sellers shipping the same workflow to everyone, launch-and-leave shops gone by week six, and enterprise agencies scoping your 15-person firm like a Fortune 500. Ask any of them for a measured baseline before the contract. Watch what happens.
MIT Project NANDA, 2025; RAND Corporation, 2024
Proof · placeholder, swap for your first real client
One number, before and after.
This is the section that converts, and the one thing on this page you can't fake. The moment a real client lets you publish their figures, this becomes theirs: a name, a town, and three numbers that moved.
"We thought we were slammed and doing fine. Turns out we were missing half the phone. First month back we booked eleven jobs off a list they pulled from our own call log."[Owner name], [Business], [Town] · verify in writing before publishing
51% → 9%
Missed-call rate, 60 days
+$18k
Booked in month one
21 days
From audit to live
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How it works
Four steps. The first one's free.
The free Revenue Leak Audit
Send us your call log and a look at your ad spend. In 48 hours you get your real numbers: where leads slip, what your marketing is actually booking, and the biggest opportunities ranked in dollars. Yours to keep, whether or not we ever speak.
The game plan
45 minutes with you and whoever runs your front line. We walk the whole funnel from ad click to closed job, show you the leaks, and hand you a prioritized 30/60/90 plan, normally $2,500, and yours to keep either way.
First Fix, then Build
We start with the one leak that pays for itself, live in 21 days, fixed price. From there we build the full spine at your pace, with twice-weekly check-ins and decisions grounded in your actual numbers.
We own it, ongoing
Software doesn't stop at launch, and neither do we. Monitoring, fixes, new automations as you grow. The longer we work together, the more context we carry and the sharper the recommendations get.
Pricing, published because you asked
Pick how you want to pay.
Most agencies hide this until you've sat through a demo. We put it up front, and we let you choose the model that fits how you think about risk.
Fixed fee
Simplest
A set price for a set scope. You know the number before we start and it doesn't move. Clean, predictable, done.
Best when you want certainty and a clear line-item you can budget against.
Fee + performance
Most choose this
A smaller base to cover the build, plus a bonus tied to one clean metric we both agree on, like booked appointments. We win when you win.
Best when you want us with skin in the game without arguing over attribution.
Pay from revenue
Highest confidence
A share of the revenue we can clearly show we generated. You risk almost nothing up front, we carry the outcome, and we only earn when the jobs land.
Best for proven engagements where we can track dollars to a closed job together.
And here's what you're actually paying for, at every stage, from the free front door up.
Revenue Leak Audit
Your real numbers: where leads slip, what your ad spend is actually booking, and the biggest opportunities ranked in dollars. Yours to keep.
First Fix
One leak, fixed scope, live in production. Usually the phone or the follow-up, because it pays for itself before the invoice clears.
Funnel & Automation Build
The full path: every lead source captured, the funnel rebuilt, AI wired through it, quoting and follow-up automated, one weekly number of truth.
Managed Growth
We run it: ad spend, automations, monitoring, and monthly optimization against booked revenue. Nothing degrades quietly.
Who you work with
Operators, not junior analysts.
You work with people who've run small businesses and shipped production systems, not a discovery team that hands you off after the contract signs.
[Name]
Founder & Lead Integrator
[Name]
Client Engagement
[Name]
Senior AI Engineer, Workflows
[Name]
Senior Engineer, Integrations
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What you're thinking
Say it. We've heard it.
"I always call them back."
Every owner says this and means it. It's also the one claim your call log settles in about four seconds. The report measures your real callback rate and the median hours between the missed call and your dial. Most people are off by an order of magnitude. And it barely matters either way: fewer than 3% left a message to return, and 78% of customers buy from whoever responded first.
"We're too small for this."
Small is why it hurts. A 200-person company absorbs a missed call; you don't. One dropped job can be a week's margin. And you can change how you work on Tuesday and be running it Thursday, without a committee. SMBs think in weeks. That's the whole reason we quote in weeks.
"My team won't use it."
They won't, if it means more clicks. So we don't build things that need adopting. The good version is invisible: the call gets logged because the call happened, not because someone remembered. That's exactly what MIT found separates the 5% that work from the 95% that don't: fitting the tool to how you already operate, not the reverse.
"We already pay for ServiceTitan / Jobber / Clio."
Good, keep it. We don't sell software and we're not here to rip yours out. Those platforms are strong at the thing they do and weak at the seams between them, which is exactly where your money is going. We work with what you own.
"Is my call data safe?"
We read the export you send and nothing else. No recordings. We don't have them and don't want them. We don't keep the log; say the word and it's deleted the day you ask. And your staff are already pasting customer details into free AI tools today, without a policy. Closing that door is part of the work.
One step
See your leaks by Thursday.
Start the free Revenue Leak Audit today. In 48 hours you'll know where your leads slip, what your ad spend is really booking, and the fastest way to turn more of your traffic into paying jobs.