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"At the end of the quarter I added it up. One hundred thirty-seven calls. Every single one answered. That number doesn't happen when a busy shop answers its own phone."
That's the owner of a three-truck garage door shop in Allen Park, reading his own 90-day tally out loud. He didn't set out to keep score. The summaries just piled up, and one slow evening he counted them.
Three trucks, a steady flow of work, and a phone that rang more than anyone could catch. He wasn't a shop that ignored the phone — he was a shop that was too busy to always get to it. Techs on jobs, owner dispatching, calls stacking up during the 4-to-6 rush.
The problem with that kind of miss rate is you never see the number. There's no scoreboard for the calls that ring out. He suspected he was losing some. He had no idea it was one in five, or worse, until he had something actually counting.
That's the honest version of most shops' phone situation — not neglect, just overflow. And overflow is exactly where a shop's revenue quietly leaks.
He forwarded his existing number to Ava and left everything else alone — same number, same ads, same trucks. Ava answers every call, 24/7, captures name, phone, address, and issue, books the window, and sends an SMS and email summary on every one.
The summaries became his scoreboard. For the first time, every call left a record. Answered calls, captured leads, booked jobs — all of it in his inbox, timestamped. He wasn't guessing at his miss rate anymore. He could count it. And the count was zero missed.
Across the quarter, the pattern held through everything a normal 90 days throws at a shop: a couple of storm evenings, a stretch where two trucks were down a man, the usual afternoon rush. None of it produced a missed call, because none of it depended on a human being free to pick up.
Here's the quarter, plainly:
Fifty-eight booked jobs off a quarter of calls he used to partially drop. At a typical repair ticket, that's a serious chunk of a small shop's quarterly revenue — and a real slice of it is work that would have rung out and walked to a competitor before. Run those same figures through the pricing and ROI math and a flat monthly rate against 58 booked jobs isn't a close call.
"I'm not a spreadsheet guy," he says. "But 137 to zero is a number even I can read."
That's what a scoreboard does. It turns "I think we're missing some calls" into a number you can act on — and once you can see it, you can't unsee it. For this shop, the number was zero missed, all quarter long.
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