Denver metro work means driving. Aurora in the morning, Lakewood after lunch, a callback in Thornton you'll get to eventually. Every one of those drives is a window where your phone rings and nobody picks up.
Meanwhile the homeowner who called you has a browser tab open with four other contractors in it. They aren't waiting for your evening callback. They're calling the next number down.
Colorado Trade Leads texts every missed caller back within about 60 seconds, from your existing number and in your voice. The homeowner gets an answer while they're still thinking about the problem, instead of a voicemail beep they'll never respond to.
The system handles the routine exchange — what's broken, where are you, when can someone come — and hands you the conversation once there's a real job in it. You get the booking without pulling over.
A Colorado Springs contractor might cross town in fifteen minutes. In the Denver metro, getting from Golden to Centennial can eat an hour, and that's an hour of unanswered phone. The wider your service area, the more calls you're structurally guaranteed to miss.
Denver is a big enough market that the national players — the ones charging $399 a month and up — are actively selling into it. Their product does roughly what ours does. They just have a sales team and a marketing budget, and they charge accordingly. We're $255 with no setup fee, run by a contractor rather than a software company.
After a serious storm across the metro, every roofer, gutter and siding contractor is fielding the same surge in the same week. That's precisely when your phone is least likely to get answered and most likely to be worth answering.
| Assumption | Figure |
|---|---|
| Average service call, conservatively | $400 |
| Calls missed in a typical week | 4 |
| Share of unreached callers who never call back | ~85% |
| Estimated weekly loss | ≈ $1,360 |
Illustrative figures, not a guarantee. Denver tickets often run higher than $400, which moves the number the wrong way. Run it with your own average and see where you land.
Denver proper, Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Thornton, Centennial, Littleton, Englewood, Broomfield, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Commerce City, Parker, Castle Rock and Highlands Ranch. If your area code is 303 or 720, you're covered.
Colorado Trade Leads is Jeff Markell of Consider It Done Contracting LLC. He built this because he was losing work the same way — phone ringing while both hands were full.
See it work — 60 secondsNo. It works with whatever number you already use, 303, 720 or otherwise. Customers see texts from the number they dialled.
Nothing sends. The text only fires on a genuinely missed call.
An answering service costs several times more and puts a stranger between you and your customer. This texts in your voice, from your number, and hands you the conversation once it's a real job.
Yes — see the Colorado Springs page. Same service, same price.
For the full explanation — including an honest look at building this yourself — read the complete guide to missed-call text-back.