Lead response
Speed to lead that answers every lead in secondsbuilt on the tools you already use.
Speed to lead is how fast your company first responds to a new lead. We build systems that contact every inbound lead in seconds, qualify it and book the meeting, day or night.
30 minutes. You leave knowing which 3 processes to automate first and what they cost you today.
Illustrative example
Trusted by companies worldwide
Trusted by companies worldwide: Braffess, Casa Sors, HollaBoo, Laoom, Guardian Development Group
Results
From hours to seconds to first contact.
Same approach as every build: start with the process that costs the most, then measure what changes.
E-commerce / D2C
Every lead contacted in under 20 seconds.
A home goods brand spending $40K a month on ads took 6–12 hours to reply to new leads, so many bought elsewhere. We built an AI system that replies by SMS, email or voice call within 20 seconds, day or night.
+34%conversion rate−28%customer acquisition cost100%of leads contacted
The problem
Leads go cold while you wait.
~7x
Firms that contacted a lead within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify it as those that waited one more hour.
42 hours
Average response time among companies that replied within 30 days.
23%
Share of companies that never responded to the lead at all.
Most companies reply to new leads late or not at all. Every hour of delay makes the lead harder to reach and harder to win.
- Slow, manual follow-up: Leads sit in an inbox until someone checks it.With instant lead response: Every new lead gets a first message within seconds.
- Slow, manual follow-up: Nights and weekends go unanswered until Monday.With instant lead response: The system replies day or night and keeps the conversation going.
- Slow, manual follow-up: Follow-up depends on a rep remembering to chase.With instant lead response: A set follow-up cadence runs on its own until the lead answers.
- Slow, manual follow-up: Notes live in texts, email and memory.With instant lead response: Every message and call outcome is logged in the CRM.
The first reply is often the one that wins.
What we automate
What the system does, step by step.
Instant first contact
Reaches each new lead by SMS, email or call within seconds of the form, call or chat.
Qualification
Asks the questions your team would ask and scores the lead on your criteria.
Booking or routing
Books the meeting on a rep's calendar or routes the lead to the right person.
Follow-up cadence
Keeps following up on a schedule you set until the lead replies or opts out.
Consent and quiet hours
Tracks opt-ins and opt-outs and holds calls and texts outside allowed hours.
CRM logging
Writes every message, call and outcome to the lead record for your team.
Is it time?
Signs you need speed to lead automation.
Signals you need this
- Leads wait hours for a first reply, or longer
- Nobody covers new leads at night or on weekends
- You pay for ads or lead sources and lose leads to slow follow-up
- Follow-up stops after one or two attempts
- Reps can't say which leads were contacted and when
When not to invest yet
- You get only a few leads a month and reply to each one yourself
- Your sales run on long enterprise cycles with no inbound form leads
- You have no lead source or CRM to build on yet
What you get
From the first lead to a live system.
- A map of how leads move today, with the hours and dollars slow response costs you
- A fixed-price proposal with exact scope and timeline, before anything starts
- Instant outreach by SMS, email or voice call, built into your CRM, inbox and phone
- Qualification, meeting booking and rep routing set to your rules
- Follow-up cadence and opt-out handling built in
- Testing end to end before launch, plus training and documentation for your team
- Everything we build is yours: code, accounts, prompts and data
How it works
The Payback Loop. Five steps. Each build pays for the next.
We don't start with the AI. We start with the money.
Consulting
We find the manual work in your company and how many hours each task eats every week.
Process mapConsulting
We put a dollar figure on each process and rank them by payback. You see what to automate first, and what to leave alone.
AI roadmap, ranked by paybackImplementation
We build the first system on the tools you already use. Nothing new for your team to learn.
A working systemImplementation
We test it end to end before launch. It doesn't go live until it works without errors.
Tested, system liveSupport
The first build pays back fastest, so its savings fund the next one. Back to the map, and we keep every system running.
Monthly support (optional)
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Consultancies stop at the roadmap. Freelancers build without one. The loop only works when one team runs all five. You approve, we execute: about an hour a week from you.
FAQ
Questions about speed to lead.
- Speed to lead is how quickly your company first responds to a new inbound lead. Research on online leads found that firms reaching out within an hour were nearly seven times as likely to qualify them.
- A system replies to every new lead in seconds, by SMS, email or call. Then it qualifies the lead, books the meeting or routes it to a rep, and keeps following up.
- In our e-commerce case, a home goods brand now contacts every lead in under 20 seconds, day or night, instead of 6 to 12 hours. Conversion rate rose 34%.
- Often yes. Prerecorded or artificial-voice marketing calls need prior express written consent, and telemarketing calls are barred before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m. at the called party's location.
- Requests to revoke consent for calls and texts must be honored within a reasonable time, no more than ten business days. Marketing email opt-outs also get ten business days, so opt-out handling is part of the build.
- The system books the meeting or hands the lead to the right rep with the full conversation logged. Your team takes over from there, with the context already in the CRM.
- Your CRM stays. We build on the CRM, inbox and phone tools you already use, so every message, call and booking lands in the records your reps already work from.
Final step
Pick a time. Let's talk.
You leave knowing which processes to automate first and what each one costs you today, whether we work together or not.
You can keep paying for manual work, or find out this week exactly what it costs you.
What happens on the call
Before
You answer 3 quick questions when you book, so we come prepared.
On the call
We find the manual work that costs you most and put a number on it, live.
Decide
An honest read on whether we're the right fit. If we're not, you'll hear it on the call.
Once you book, we look at your site and tools before the call, so the 30 minutes go to your numbers, not introductions.
Prefer to write first? Email us directly: contact@nexumautomations.com