For San Diego local service businesses
Run the business, not the busywork.
We take the follow-ups, reminders and admin off your plate, so more inquiries turn into booked work and you get your evenings back. Set up and run by a local San Diego person.
Starter is $1,995 setup, then $499/mo. Get started online. Need something custom? We’ll quote it on a free 30-minute call.
- Done for you: we set it up and keep it running
- You approve every message before it goes live
- Local to San Diego County · jake@sandiegoautomations.com
You’re good at the work. Everything around it eats the day.
Whether you’re on a roof, under a sink, mid-haircut or under a car, the same things happen:
- The phone rings and nobody can get to it. Plenty of callers won’t leave a voicemail. They try the next business on the list.
- Quote requests and web forms sit. By the time you reply, they’ve booked someone else.
- Past customers drift away. Nobody had time to remind them it’s been a while.
- The admin never ends. Reminders, scheduling, chasing quotes and re-typing the same info, after hours, by hand.
The tools to fix this are everywhere now. What’s missing is someone who sets them up right for your business and keeps them working.
Three outcomes. One local person who owns them.
1. No lead goes cold
Every call, form and message gets a fast reply and a way to book, then a follow-up if they go quiet. Your team gets an alert when a person is needed.
In Starter: a reply to missed callers with a booking link, an instant reply to 1 website form, basic follow-up (up to 2 reminders over about 3 days), every lead logged in a simple tracker, and email alerts to up to 2 team members. Replies start by email; texting turns on once your carrier registration clears.
Custom: longer follow-up until they book, reply or opt out, more forms, locations or numbers.
2. Past customers come back
The people who already know you are the easiest to book again. We set up win-back messages, review requests and seasonal reminders (a tune-up before summer, a cleaning before the holidays, a touch-up before the wedding season).
Custom only. Win-back, review requests and seasonal campaigns aren’t part of Starter. We scope and quote them on a call.
3. You get your time back
Reminders, scheduling, quote follow-ups and the small admin jobs run on their own, so the hour of callbacks at the end of the day shrinks.
In Starter: customers book themselves through a booking link, and reminders go out as part of basic follow-up.
Custom: quote follow-up, appointment reminders, scheduling and admin built around how you work, plus syncing with your software (where your software allows; quoted if custom).
We go deeper than the front door.
Most of what slows a business down isn’t customer-facing. It’s the stuff behind the counter. We look at how your business actually runs and build fixes for the specific spots that eat your team’s time.
- Internal processes: the copy-paste, double entry, paper forms and “who’s handling this?” handoffs that cost hours every week.
- Hands-on tech training: short, plain-language training for you and your team on the tools you already pay for, so you rely on them more and on workarounds less as you grow.
- Built for your business: a salon’s bottleneck isn’t a plumber’s. We look first, then fix what’s actually slowing you down.
Custom quote, on a call. Starter includes a 30-minute team training at go-live; anything beyond that is scoped with you.
See it work behind the counter.
Four short, click-through demos of back-office work we build. Sample data only; nothing is sent or saved.
Paperwork to records
Paper job tickets, intake forms and invoices become clean tracker rows, with unclear items flagged for review.
Invoice and payment chasing
Polite scheduled reminders, payment matching, and a Monday summary of who owes what.
Schedule and dispatch prep
Tomorrow’s bookings become tech suggestions, parts lists and a morning team sheet.
Owner’s weekly report
Scattered numbers become a plain-English Monday summary with a chart and flags.
Simple steps. We handle the technical part.
01 · Pick your path
Get Starter online, or book a free 30-min call and tell us how work comes in today. We’ll show you where it slips.
02 · We set it up around your business
We map the flow and draft every message. You approve the wording before anything goes live. We file your business’s texting registration right away.
03 · You go live on email first
Inquiries get a fast reply and a booking link by email, and you get alerts for missed calls. Texting turns on once your carrier registration clears; that part is outside our control.
04 · We keep it running
Weekly system checks, a monthly results email, and a Day-30 review against your own “before” numbers.
About 30 days to go live, with about 4–5 hours of your time.
Start simple, or start with a conversation.
Starter
$1,995 setup + $499/mo
How: buy online, no call needed.
Good for: 1 location that wants fast replies and basic follow-up working now.
Going deeper
Custom quote
How: free 30-min call, then a written quote.
Good for: win-back, review requests, seasonal campaigns, longer follow-up, admin and internal fixes, team training, more locations.
3-month minimum from go-live, then month-to-month with 30 days’ written notice. The $499/mo starts when you go live. Full details on the Start page.
See it work before you talk to anyone
Try our interactive demo. You play a customer calling Tidepool Lane Home Services, a fictional home-services business. Nobody picks up, a reply comes back, it asks a quick question, gets you booked, and the owner gets an alert.
Demo only: the business and people are fictional, and no real appointment is made. The quick question shows how AI qualifying will work; that part isn’t live yet. For real clients, texting turns on once the business’s own carrier registration clears.
Tools are everywhere. Someone who owns the result isn’t.
Anyone can sign up for software. The hard part is setting it up for how your business actually works, and keeping it working when something changes. That’s the job.
- One person, here in San Diego County. You email Jake, not a ticket queue.
- You stay in control. Nothing goes to your customers until you approve the wording. It never quotes prices or diagnoses a problem; a person handles those.
- You own your stuff. Your data, your lead history and your software accounts stay yours.
Questions business owners ask
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
Local service businesses around San Diego County: HVAC, plumbing, electricians, salons and spas, cleaners, landscapers and auto shops, to name a few. Messages are written for your kind of business.
What’s in Starter and what’s custom?
Starter covers fast replies to missed callers and 1 website form, basic follow-up, a lead tracker and team alerts, for 1 location. Win-back, review requests, seasonal campaigns, longer follow-up, admin fixes and team training are custom and quoted on a call.
How much does it cost?
Starter is $1,995 setup + $499/mo. Anything beyond Starter is a custom quote; we set it on a free call.
When does texting start?
You start on email: replies, booking links and missed-call alerts. Texting turns on once your business’s own carrier registration clears. That’s outside our control, so we don’t promise a date.
Will it sound like a robot?
Every message fits your kind of business, and you approve the wording before anything goes live. It never quotes prices or diagnoses a problem.
Am I locked in?
There’s a 3-month minimum from go-live, then month-to-month with 30 days’ written notice.
Let’s find what’s eating your week.
Get started online, or book a free 30-minute call. We’ll look at how work comes into your business, where it slips, and what it would take to fix. If it isn’t worth it for you, I’ll tell you. — Jake, San Diego Automations
Prefer email? jake@sandiegoautomations.com