Two of them booked the next aircon bloke on Google.
We pick up when you can't, qualify the job, and book it into your diary — every channel, every hour, including the 6pm rush. No SaaS to learn, no months-long onboarding, no lock-in.
Managed inbound · for Australian HVAC operators
What the industry data says
of HVAC inbound calls go unanswered (35%+ in peak season)
of unanswered callers never call back
of unanswered callers immediately ring a competitor
Industry sources: Invoca, ServiceTitan, Ethos Link
Pioneer · Perth
Founded by a Perth-based engineer running the system live before charging anyone for it. No agency middle layer.
AU-built · AU-run
Australian voice, Australian phrasing, Australian compliance. Every call answered in plain English, not a US accent.
HVAC-specific
Knows the difference between a ducted refrigerated and a split-system enquiry. Won't book your real plumber.
Bookings-first
A minimum number of qualified booked enquiries every cycle, set with you. Miss the floor — that cycle is free.
How it works
No three-month implementation. No portal to learn. We build, we test, we go live — and you see the first jobs come through before the first invoice does.
Day 1
30-min onboarding
Your services, your hours, your technicians, your FAQs, your pricing rules, your escalation logic. We build it into the agent and the workflows that same day.
Week 1
First captured call
First missed call captured. SMS goes out within 60 seconds. First after-hours booking lands on your dashboard. You see exactly what would have been lost.
Cycle 1
First strategy review
End-of-cycle review — your specific bottleneck identified, the intervention designed jointly. Bookings-first guarantee honoured, or that cycle is free.
The 5-minute audit
Move the sliders. Each one's dotted line is the Australian residential HVAC average — leave it there if you don't know your own number. Want this turned into a personalised report with the top three leaks named and three things you can change this week? Drop your details below.
Inbound
Pillar 1 · capture
Speed-to-lead
Web-form response
Conversion
Pillar 1 · convert
Owner time + list
Pillar 2 · freedom
Annual recoverable revenue
Combined missed-call, cold-form and quote follow-up leak — caught and booked at industry rates.
Vs. hiring help
That's already more than a part-time receptionist costs you ($50k/yr). And a receptionist only works business hours.
Reactivation upside (untapped)
$172,800/yr
From your dormant list, worked at industry-standard reactivation rates.
Approximate. Defaults from AU residential HVAC averages — your real numbers are in the personalised report.
What you'll get
We layer your slider answers with public data from your Google business profile, your reviews, your website, and your suburb's HVAC search patterns — to show you which leak is biggest and where it's coming from.
Whether you ever talk to us or not, the report ends with three concrete changes you can make this week. Some are free. Most take less than an hour.
If the leaks look too big to fix in-house, the report has a link to book a 15-minute call. No demo, no slide deck — we'd just walk through your specific numbers.
The Safety Net guarantee
Most agencies ask you to pay for promised outcomes. We bake the guarantee into the contract from cycle one. If the system doesn't hit the booking floor we agreed to, that cycle is free — automatically.
The trigger
A minimum number of qualified booked enquiries per cycle. Set bespoke per client in your strategy session — based on your actual inbound volume.
The volume floor
Inbound volume must hit a minimum agreed in your strategy session. Below the floor, the guarantee pauses for that cycle — protects you and us from a slow-month false-fire.
The fire
Threshold missed with inbound floor met → cycle is free. Credit appears automatically on the next invoice. No chase. No negotiation. No requirement to invoke it.
The honesty
We guarantee bookings — the activity we control. We talk about revenue because that's what you care about. The relationship between the two is strong, but we don't guarantee what we don't control.
Try it yourself
Live AI receptionist. Same setup we'd run for your business. It'll disclose it's a demo and won't book any real callouts.
0480 089 855
Tap the number to call. The AI receptionist will pick up like it would for one of your real customers.
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What you get
We don't sell features. We sell three outcomes — capture, freedom, clarity — backed by a guarantee. The components inside the system change as the technology improves; the outcomes don't.
Missed calls cost a typical 4-tech HVAC operator $45,000–$120,000 a year. The system catches every inbound — phone, web form, SMS — answers in under 60 seconds, qualifies the job, and books it into your diary. After-hours, weekends, public holidays, summer peak. Doesn't matter when. Doesn't matter who's on the tools.
Bookings-first guarantee — minimum booked enquiries every cycle, set in your strategy session. Miss the floor, that cycle is free. Automatic credit. No chase.
What's running
Trained on your services, hours, pricing rules
Text-back inside 60 seconds, every time
48hr / 7-day sequence — pauses on reply
Polite, structured, no owner involvement
Worked against your dormant list — pre-summer hooks built in
Post-job request + AI replies to every Google review
You're on the tools. The phone rings. You can't answer it. You feel guilty. You answer it. You're behind on the install. The cycle never stops. The system absorbs the routine commercial layer — calls, follow-ups, invoicing, reactivation — so you're only escalated when something genuinely needs you.
Compared to the only real alternative: a casual receptionist costs around $50k/year, works business hours, takes sick days, and doesn't do follow-ups. We're less than half that, 24/7, and we don't need a desk.
What's running
Phone, SMS, email — handled without your involvement
Sub-60-second response, calendar sync, confirmations
You only see the ones that genuinely need you
Overdue invoice sequences, payment reminders, no chasing
Most owners run on intuition. They guess close rate. They guess response time. They guess capture rate. They've never measured. The dashboard surfaces every captured opportunity, every response time, every conversion in real time — plus a monthly strategy review where we name the bottleneck and design the next intervention together.
You'll know your capture rate by Friday. Most operators never have. Once you see it, you don't go back.
What's running
Calls, bookings, capture rate, response time — in real time
Phone + SMS + email + bookings + reviews — one view
Every cycle, we name the single constraint and the fix
30 minutes, founder-to-owner, intervention designed jointly
Missed calls, stale leads, open quotes, jobs without reviews. The system catches every one — and converts them while you're on the tools.
Pillar 03 — clarity
Most owners run the business on intuition — they guess close rate, guess response time, guess capture rate. The dashboard surfaces every captured call, every booking, every conversion in real time. No black boxes. No monthly PDF report you forget to read.
Calls handled
142
↑ this month
Leads captured
38
↑ this month
Reviews gained
+11
↑ vs last cycle
Est. recovered
$41k
↑ this cycle
Lead pipeline
+5 more
+2 more
+9 more
+1 more
Live call log — today
Best fit
The system pays for itself — and the Safety Net fires — when there's enough inbound volume for the leaks to add up. The pattern that consistently works:
Residential or mixed residential. The system pays back fastest at this scale — enough volume for the leaks to add up, small enough that you feel every job we save.
Sydney from late 2026. Australian voice, Australian phrasing, Australian hours. Your customers won't hear an American accent or a confused offshore script.
Calls, web forms, SMS combined. Below this, the Safety Net guarantee math doesn't signal cleanly. Above this, every percentage point of capture becomes real revenue.
Your business works — you're just doing too much of it yourself. Marketing's producing leads; conversion is the leak.
If you've thought “I can't do this and run jobs” more than twice this week — that's the trigger.
If you're not sure you fit
If you're a solo operator, already at capacity, or running mostly commercial maintenance contracts — get in touch anyway. We'd rather a clean “not yet” than a bad fit on either side, and we'll happily point you somewhere useful instead.
Pioneer Program · Perth
DevLeads is in its Pioneer phase. We're taking on three Perth-based HVAC operators — Pioneer #1, #2, #3 — to run the full system in their business at no margin. You pay only the software costs (the Telnyx number, Retell minutes, hosting), itemised and at exact cost.
We invest in proving the system in your business. You invest in giving us honest feedback and a video case study at the end of summer.
What you get
What you give back
What you don't get
A discount that follows you into Stage 1. Pioneer ends when the program ends — Pioneers can graduate or part ways.
The questions every operator asks first.
Got a specific question, or want to lay out the basics before a call? Drop them here and we'll come back within 24 hours.
No demo, no slide deck — we'd just walk through your specific numbers. Pick a time that works around your jobs.
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