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AI Automation

The business that answers first wins the job.

We build AI systems that text back missed calls in 30 seconds, qualify every lead, chase the estimates you've written off, and turn finished jobs into reviews — running on the phone number and tools you already use.

What we automate

Five systems that plug the same five leaks

Every business we work with is losing money in the same five places. Start with the worst one, or run the full stack.

01

Missed-call text-back

An unanswered call triggers a personal text within 30 seconds. The AI finds out what the caller needs, answers the obvious questions, and books the job on your calendar before they dial your competitor.

02

Speed-to-lead qualifier

Every form, ad, portal, and directory lead gets a reply in under a minute — qualified on the criteria that matter to you before it reaches your phone, so hot leads interrupt you and tire-kickers don't.

03

Follow-up and nurture

Estimates that went quiet and leads who said 'not yet' get well-timed, personal check-ins on a schedule. Consistency is the whole trick, and it's the thing humans reliably fail at.

04

Review engine

Job done, and happy customers get a review nudge at the moment they're happiest while unhappy ones route privately to you first. Your rating climbs and your local search ranking follows it.

05

Invoice and payment chaser

Overdue balances get polite, escalating reminders with a payment link attached, so you collect without anyone in your office having to make an awkward phone call about money you already earned.

Why it works

Speed is the only advantage a small business can buy outright

A homeowner with a leaking roof, a burst pipe, or a listing they want to see does not run a procurement process. They contact three or four businesses from the same search and go with whoever responds first and sounds competent. That’s not impatience — it’s a reasonable heuristic, because responsiveness before the sale genuinely predicts responsiveness after it.

Which means the business that answers first isn’t winning on price, marketing spend, or how long it’s been in business. It’s winning on sequence. And sequence is the rare competitive advantage that a three-truck operation can buy outright and hold against a competitor ten times its size, because the bigger company’s phone goes to voicemail after six exactly like yours does.

The leak nobody puts on a P&L

Missed calls and dead estimates are the most expensive line items in a local business that never appear in any report. The cost is doubled and invisible: you paid to generate the lead through ads, referrals, or door-knocking, then paid again when the revenue walked to whoever picked up. Your CRM only records the leads you actually spoke to, so your own reporting systematically conceals your largest source of loss.

This is why we open every engagement with an audit rather than a proposal. Putting a monthly number on the leak — from your call volume, your close rate, and your average job value — usually changes the conversation entirely, because most owners have never seen the figure written down. Frequently it’s larger than their entire marketing budget.

Custom builds, not a resold template

Most agencies selling automation to local businesses are reselling the same no-code template with a different logo on it. That’s why the messages read like scripts, why the system breaks the first time a customer says something unexpected, and why the owner quietly stops trusting it by month three. QuantmHill is a software engineering firm first — the same team that builds AI systems for funded startups — so these are engineered on your actual process and your actual edge cases.

It also means you own the result. It runs on your phone number, your calendar, and your data, and you get documentation on how it works. That’s a deliberate contrast with platforms that hold your customer conversations inside their dashboard and raise the price once you depend on them.

Pricing

Priced like a tool. Works like a hire.

The one-time setup builds the system. The monthly retainer keeps it monitored, tuned, and reported on.

Starter

$497 setup

$297/mo

  • 1 automation of your choice
  • Runs on your existing number and tools
  • Monitoring and human-handoff routing
  • Email support
Start with one

Growth

Most chosen

$997 setup

$697/mo

  • 3 automations working together
  • Typically text-back, speed-to-lead, and estimate chaser
  • Monthly plain-numbers report
  • Priority tweaks and same-day support
Book a free audit

Pro

$1,997 setup

$1,197/mo

  • Full stack — all 5 automations
  • Custom workflows for your process
  • Quarterly optimization sprints
  • Direct line to your engineer
Go all in

Every plan is month-to-month. 30-day guarantee: if the system isn’t producing in your first month, the retainer comes back.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers

The things owners actually ask on the audit call — answered the same way here.

In practice it means software that handles the conversations you don't have time to have: texting back a missed call, replying to a lead at midnight, chasing an estimate that went quiet, asking a happy customer for a review. It's not a robot running your business — it's the follow-up you'd do if you had an assistant who never got busy, never forgot, and worked at 2 a.m.

Roofing, plumbing, real estate, and med-spas today, because they share the same five problems — missed calls, slow lead response, no follow-up system, too few reviews, and late payments. If your business runs on inbound calls and quotes, the systems transfer even if your trade isn't on the list. The audit tells us quickly whether it fits.

Most competitors resell the same template with a new logo, which is why the messages read like scripts and it breaks on the first unusual reply. We're a software engineering firm — the same team that builds [custom software](/services/custom-software-development) for funded startups — so these are custom builds on your process, your urgency rules, and your edge cases. You own what we build and it runs on your number.

Starter is $497 setup plus $297/month for one automation, Growth is $997 plus $697/month for three, and Pro is $1,997 plus $1,197/month for the full stack of five. Every plan is month-to-month with a 30-day guarantee: if it isn't demonstrably producing in your first month, the retainer comes back.

14 days from the audit call. Week one is mapping and building, week two is testing against real scenarios before it ever touches a customer. Nothing gets migrated and your team doesn't learn new software, which is why it's two weeks rather than two quarters.

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. We map where calls, leads, and follow-ups slip through your business today, put your own numbers to what that costs per month, and give you the fix plan — whether you hire us or not. Most owners find the exercise useful on its own, which is rather the point.

Find out what your phone is costing you.

A 30-minute audit maps where calls, leads, and follow-ups slip through — with the fix plan attached, whether you hire us or not.