For trades, remodelers & anyone who bids work
You Sent the Estimate Four Days Ago. Then What?
You measured the job, priced it fair, and hit send. For most shops, that's the last the customer ever hears — and the silence is where jobs you already earned quietly go to die.
Score Your Follow-UpFree · 10 questions · about 3 minutes · scored 0–100 with a written report
The Estimate Is the Middle of the Sale, Not the End
They called you, walked the job with you, and asked for your number — that's a sale three-quarters done. At After the Estimate, we measure what happens in the last quarter: how soon the first follow-up lands, how many touches run, whether accepting is one tap or one awkward phone call. Then we fix the silence.
- Scored 0–100 with a written report
- Monthly cost of silent quotes, from your own numbers
- Measured discovery: your real post-quote flow, timestamped
- Fixes scoped from measurements — from $2,500
Where Quoted Jobs Go Quiet
Why Quotes Go Quiet
The ball-in-their-court myth, the comparison window, the quote with no door in it, and the open-quotes list nobody keeps.
The Math
Estimates × silent-death rate × recovery rate × job value. At trade job sizes, the silence is the biggest line item in the shop.
How We Measure
Five days measuring what your quoted customers actually receive after the number — every touch and gap, timestamped.
Quiet Isn't No — Measured
In a live business we measure, leads that engaged and then went quiet closed at 67% once someone re-engaged them — better than fresh inquiries.
A quoted customer is the warmest version of that population: they invited you onto the property and hold your number in their hand. The silence is comparison and life — not a decision against you. Until nobody follows up. Then it becomes one.
The Proof Behind the Numbers
Measured findings come from a live outpatient specialty practice we work with, anonymized. Its numbers, not industry averages — the point of measuring is that yours will differ.