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Case Study

SGM Services — Missed calls converted into booked jobs

Last updated May 14, 2026

What was broken

  • Voicemail-driven follow-up: emergencies were left to ring out and call back on the operator's schedule, not the homeowner's.
  • No after-hours coverage: every Friday-night and weekend lead was effectively a coin flip.
  • No tracking of which Google channels (LSA vs Search vs organic) were producing closes, so spend optimization was blind.

What we changed

AI follow-up on every missed call within 60 seconds. Whether the call rang to voicemail or rolled to the dispatcher and went unanswered, the AI took over inside a minute — qualified the job, captured address and damage details, booked the appointment.

Reactivation flow for 'lost' leads. Leads that didn't book on the first AI interaction got an automated 24-hour reactivation sequence over SMS and call-back. Recovered roughly one in five.

Source attribution across every booked job. Every booked appointment is now tagged by source — LSA, paid search, organic, referral — so we can see exactly which dollars are buying which jobs and reallocate weekly.

What happened

  • Under 60 seconds — AI follow-up on every missed call.
  • 20% of 'lost' leads reactivated within 36 hours.
  • After-hours leads stopped being a coin flip and started booking at parity with business-hours calls.

The net result was a measurable lift in booked jobs from the same ad spend — the system stopped leaking and started compounding.

What the team said

"Other agencies sent us a monthly PDF. These guys sent us booked jobs. The dashboard shows every call and where it came from — I finally know what's working." — Operations Lead, SGM Services.

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