HVAC
Every AC repair, furnace, and heat pump lead answered in under a minute, with a real window offered before the customer messages the next shop.
The AC quits at 4 PM in July. The reply goes out at 4:01.
What your leads actually say
Three messages HVAC contractors get every week
Verbatim in spirit. Each one arrived while the person who should answer it was on a job, and each one was also sent to 2 or 3 competitors.
“Our AC is running but it is blowing warm air. It is 108 out and we have a newborn. Can someone come today?”
“Looking for a quote on replacing a 14 year old heat pump, 2,100 sq ft house in Gilbert. Do you do financing?”
“Furnace is making a loud banging noise when it kicks on. Not an emergency but I would like it looked at this week.”
How LeadBolt answers
Composed for the lead in front of it, in about 45 seconds
The reply on the right is the kind of message Live Wire, the auto-responder, sends to HVAC contractors. It is built from what the customer wrote, the service LeadBolt classified, the time of day and whether you are open, the city, and the facts you set: your prices, your policies, your license. Nothing is pasted from a script bank, and no two leads get the same message.
Strike First, the speed-to-lead engine, sends it in about 45 seconds, during hours and after. Lightning Rod, the spam detection, has already parked the lead resellers and the marketing pitches, so the crew only ever sees customers. If the customer goes quiet, Boomerang, the ghost-lead follow-up, nudges them until they answer or say stop, and the whole thread lives in Switchboard, the unified inbox, where a person can take over with one tap.
Hi Maria, this is ACME HVAC. Sorry the AC quit on a 108 degree afternoon, especially with a newborn in the house. Running but blowing warm is usually a capacitor or low charge, both same-day fixes. We can be in Chandler today between 3 and 5 PM, or tomorrow 8 to 10 AM. Reply 1 or 2 and we will lock it in.
Built from
- Customer's words: running, blowing warm, newborn
- Service: AC Repair
- 2:08 PM, open
- Chandler
- 2 windows from the calendar
Illustrative reply. The appointment windows come from Dispatch, the scheduling add-on.
The services you can auto-book
6 of 9 book from the first reply
Repairs, maintenance, thermostats, and duct work book straight from the first reply. Replacements and commercial work get a free estimate visit booked instead, which is still a booking.
With Dispatch, the scheduling add-on, the first reply offers 2 or 3 real windows and the customer books by texting a number. Services that need a quote get the estimate visit booked the same way, which is still a booking on your calendar. Which services are bookable is set per service inside LeadBolt, so the list below is a starting point, not a rule.
- AC RepairBooks instantly
- Furnace RepairBooks instantly
- Maintenance PlanBooks instantly
- Thermostat InstallationBooks instantly
- Duct CleaningBooks instantly
- Indoor Air QualityBooks instantly
- AC InstallationEstimate first
- Heat Pump InstallationEstimate first
- Commercial HVACEstimate first
Where these leads come from
The sources that matter most for HVAC contractors
Every one of them gets the same treatment: instant reply, spam screening, one inbox, and revenue attribution. Each is connected with you on a call, included with every plan.
Yelp
The largest single source for residential repair in most metros, and the one with a public response-time badge.
Google Local Services
Message leads and missed calls, replied by text within seconds so the lead is not charged and wasted.
Website forms
The maintenance plan sign-ups and the 2 AM 'no heat' forms that nobody sees until morning.
Google Ads
Replacement and financing searches, attributed by campaign and keyword.
Phone calls
Missed-call text back, so the caller who went to voicemail still gets an answer.
Seasonality and timing
When HVAC contractors get buried, and why the clock matters more then
HVAC demand is a weather chart. The first 100 degree week and the first hard freeze each produce a month of volume in about 3 days, and every shop in town is behind at once. That is exactly when a lead answered in 45 seconds beats a lead answered in 45 minutes, because the homeowner with no cooling has already messaged 3 companies and will book the first one that offers a time.
Throttle, the Yelp ad tuning, reshapes the budget around those spikes, pushing spend into heat waves and pulling it back in the shoulder months when clicks are cheap and jobs are scarce. After-hours replies matter more here than in almost any other trade: a furnace that dies at 11 PM in January is a same-night decision, and the after-hours voice captures the address, sets the morning expectation, and escalates the true emergencies to whoever is on call.
Plans start at $149/mo and every plan answers every lead in under a minute. Throttle is included in Pro. See pricing for the full grid.
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Read moreThrottle, yelp ad tuning
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Read moreDispatch, scheduling add-on
Real appointment windows in the first reply. The customer books by texting a number.
Read moreAnswer the next hvac lead in under a minute.
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