Home services

The 9pm call becomes a booked job on your schedule.

A homeowner with a problem calls three companies and books the one that picks up. We answer every call and every form, day or night, capture what they need, book the job into your schedule, and keep following up on every open estimate until there is an answer.

See how we do it

Where the jobs go.

After hours

The money calls when the office is closed

A call that reaches voicemail at 9pm is answered by a competitor at 9:05. Most callers who hit voicemail never call back.

Speed

Form fills lose value by the hour

The homeowner filled out three companies' forms. The first response usually gets the walkthrough, and everyone else quotes for practice.

Estimates

Quotes go out and get no reply

Estimates that took a site visit to produce sit unanswered, because nobody has time to follow up past one call. Most of them were never a no.

Paid leads

Bought leads go cold before anyone calls

Lead fees get paid whether or not anyone answers in time, so slow response is money already spent and thrown away.

What we build for a contractor.

Every call answered, day or night

Calls get answered around the clock, the caller and the reason get captured, and the job goes straight onto your schedule. Anything urgent alerts a real person immediately.

Web leads answered immediately

Every form fill gets a response in minutes, qualified, with a slot offered or a live handoff to whoever is on.

Estimate follow-up to a decision

Every open quote gets its next message on schedule, in your voice, until the homeowner says yes or no.

Build anything

We build whatever your operation needs.

Every system on this site started as one sentence from an operator describing the part of the job that eats the week. Write yours in the box below. Jake reads it himself and replies within one business day with what it would take to build.

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The systems

What we would run in a home services operation.

Front Desk

Every call, form, and message answered day and night, with the appointment booked.

For a contractor this is the 9pm call: answered on the first ring, the job and the address captured, a slot booked into the schedule you already run, and anything urgent handed to a person on the spot.

Deal Engine

A sales system that sources prospects, answers every lead in minutes, and works the follow-up until there is an answer.

Every open estimate keeps getting its next message until the homeowner answers, and every purchased or inbound lead gets a response while it is still worth something.

Three trades, three different bottlenecks.

An emergency trade lives on the night call. A remodeling business lives on estimate follow-up. The build follows the bottleneck.

HVAC, plumbing, and electrical

The problem
  • The highest-value calls arrive at night and on weekends, from a homeowner with no heat or a burst pipe who is calling three companies in a row.
What we build
  • Round-the-clock call answering that captures the caller, books the job into your schedule, and alerts a real person immediately on anything urgent.

Roofing, remodeling, and exteriors

The problem
  • An estimate takes a site visit to produce and then sits unanswered.
  • Most of the lost ones were never a no.
  • They were a silence.
What we build
  • Estimate follow-up that runs on a schedule in your voice until the homeowner answers, with every open quote tracked to a decision.

Solar and home improvement

The problem
  • Leads are bought by the unit and worked by whoever is free.
  • Response time decides whether the fee produced anything.
What we build
  • Instant response on every purchased and inbound lead, qualification against your criteria, and a booked appointment or a live handoff before the lead cools.
Get started

Interested in making your home services business AI-native?

First name, last name, and a work email is all it takes. Jake reads every one of these himself and replies within one business day with what to automate first.

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Before you call

Three things you can check on us.

Risk

Seven-day money-back guarantee

Ask for your money back inside the first seven days of the build and you get it. After day seven the standard terms in your agreement resume.

Team

Engineering from Fortune 500 companies

The team includes former Fortune 500 developers, with prior experience at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, NASA, T. Rowe Price, Perplexity, and Cognizant, and is drawn from Dartmouth, Brown, and Case Western Reserve. Read the roster.

Proof

We run Terso on the systems we sell

Our sales, research, and operations run on Deal Engine, Deep Brain, and Command Center every day. Ask on the call and we will show you ours running.

Where to start

See what this costs you before committing to anything.

Send the details of your home services operation and the reply comes back with the hours and the revenue currently going to the problems above, and which one to solve first.

  • A reply within one business day, written by Jake
  • The first build named, with the return it targets
  • No obligation to go further

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Name, email, and company. Jake reads these himself and replies within one business day.

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Where it starts.

It starts with a free discovery call, then an audit that maps where the hours and the leads are going. The build starts with the highest-value piece, and we host, monitor, and keep improving the system from there.

Read how we work

Common questions.

Will the caller know they are not talking to my office?

The call opens with a disclosure, and it sounds like your business because we script it with you. Anything urgent or unusual goes to a person immediately.

Does it work with the software we already use?

It books into the calendar and the field software you already run. We confirm exactly which connections we are building during the audit.

What happens during business hours?

Your team answers. The system covers what they cannot: after hours, overflow, weekends, and every follow-up that would otherwise wait.

Stop losing the after-hours call.

A free consultation walks through your call and estimate flow and shows what is being lost today.

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