Result
85%
About 85% of callers who do not reach you will not call back, and a missed call to a home service business is worth roughly $100 to $200 each. An instant text recovers the ones you would have lost. Source
You are on a roof or pouring a slab when the phone rings, and the next caller hires whoever picks up first.
For every protocol: how it works today (manual), how it would run automated, and what changes (the number).
Pulled from Reddit threads, industry forums, and owner surveys. The pain is universal.