One Owner, One Messy Phone Line, Twelve Months
Rick Alvarado runs a nine-year-old HVAC and plumbing company in the Las Vegas valley: 12 technicians, 3 office staff, about $4M a year. This is what he came to us with, and where he is a year later.
What he came with
- 38% of calls never answered
- 41% of leads replied to within 5 minutes
- $12k a month in ads and no idea which ads worked
- A Google rating stuck at 4.1
What we built: one connected system
- Website and call tracking
- AI phone operator “Morgan” and missed-call text-back
- eCRM, pipeline, estimates and invoices
- Ad-to-job reporting
- Dispatch board and technician app
- Reviews engine
The deal
One fixed monthly fee to build and run it; ad spend is paid by the client directly to the platforms, and telephony and AI usage are re-billed at cost plus a 10% handling fee. Goal: answer leads fast, see which campaigns bring in jobs, and run the whole business from one screen.
Twelve months later
$114k gross profit from recovered calls: about 1.5 times the retainer and setup fees Rick paid over the year (about 1.3 times once telephony and AI usage, re-billed at cost, are counted). It is a modelled estimate, not a measured result: it counts only the calls that would otherwise have gone unanswered if the answer rate had stayed at 62%, and nothing else the system does. The fees were earned back by month eight (month nine with usage costs). Your numbers will differ, and we will tell you honestly if it would not pay back for you.





