The Real Cost of Missing Calls as a Contractor

Most contractors know they miss calls. What most do not know is exactly how much those missed calls are costing them.

Let us do the math together — because the number is probably bigger than you think.

The average job value

Depending on your trade, the average home service job is worth somewhere between $300 and $2,500. For this example, let us use a conservative $800 average.

How many calls are you missing?

The average contractor who works in the field misses 5 to 10 calls per day while on jobs. Let us say you miss 5.

Not all of those are real leads. Let us say 40% of them are — that is 2 real potential customers per day that you are not reaching.

The weekly number

2 missed leads per day, at $800 per job, 5 days a week. That is $8,000 per week in potential revenue walking out the door. Every week.

Over a year, that is over $400,000 in jobs you could have had.

Where do those customers go?

They do not wait. They call the next contractor on Google. And that contractor answers — or has an AI receptionist that answers for them.

The fix costs less than one job

An AI receptionist from Home Service Agents starts at $79 per month. That is less than the profit from a single service call. If it captures even one job per month that you would have missed, it pays for itself many times over.