Miss the call, lose the job.

Speed to lead is how fast a business responds to a new inquiry — a call, a web form, or a marketplace lead. Research shows it's one of the strongest predictors of winning the job: contacting a lead within 5 minutes makes you about 21× more likely to qualify them than waiting 30 minutes (MIT/InsideSales.com). Speed to Lead is also the name of our service, which answers your leads in seconds so the research works in your favor.

Within five minutes. Harvard Business Review research found companies responding within an hour were about 7× more likely to qualify a lead than those responding an hour later — yet the average business takes 42 hours, and 23% never respond at all. Seconds beat minutes, and minutes beat everyone.

Yes. Speed to Lead answers calls 24/7 with your company name, answers questions from a playbook you approve, takes structured job details, and can book appointments or transfer callers to you live. You can hear it yourself by calling our demo line at +1 (816) 382-0487, where it answers as a fictional plumbing company.

Speed to Lead runs $299 to $749 per month depending on features, with 400–1,000 voice minutes included and overage at $0.15 per minute, metered per second. Every plan has a hard monthly cap — you're alerted at 80% and stopped at 100%, so there are no surprise bills. Plans are month-to-month with no contract.

It can only work from the playbook you approve, which includes hard "never say this" rules (like "never quote exact prices for slab leaks" or "never promise same-day service"). Email replies are checked against those rules by a second pass before anything sends, and anything the rules don't cover gets escalated to you instead of guessed at. Bookings are read back to the customer before they're confirmed, and the calendar system — not the AI — decides which slots exist.

No. You keep your number and forward the calls you can't take to your Speed to Lead line, and you forward your lead email address to the address we provision for you. Most setups are done in a day.

It books, if you want it to. Walk-in businesses get capacity-based slots; field businesses get drive-time-aware scheduling that checks real road travel times between the jobs already on your calendar before offering a slot. You can also set propose-only mode, where the assistant offers times and you confirm each booking with one tap.

Yes, without handing over your account. You subscribe to a private calendar feed to see bookings in Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar, and you can give the assistant your busy calendar so it never books over your existing jobs. No OAuth or password sharing involved.

Their notification emails are parsed the second they arrive — name, phone, job, and address extracted into a lead record, with an immediate alert to you. Google LSA has no webhook, so most software polls it every 15 minutes; we read the email the moment it lands. Instant callback to those leads is included in the Growth plan.

Not yet — SMS is built but waiting on carrier approval (A2P 10DLC review, required for all business texting in the US). Phone and email are fully live today; text notifications and missed-call text-back will switch on once approval lands. Our SMS program terms are published at composedchaos.net/sms.html.

The assistant escalates instead of improvising. You define escalation triggers — emergencies, commercial jobs, discount requests, anything sensitive — and those always go to a human. Live transfer to your phone is available when you want to take the call on the spot.

Yes. Everything is available over a REST API (leads, bookings, availability, drive times, service-area checks, lead parsing), with signed webhooks for new leads and bookings, plus an MCP server in the official registry (net.composedchaos/speed-to-lead) for AI agents. Developer keys are self-serve at $49/mo — see composedchaos.net/api/ and docs at api.composedchaos.net/docs/.