of contractors never follow up same-day
ServiceTitan's 2026 Roofing Report. The same pattern holds across auto repair, dental, legal, and consulting. Most owners send the quote, get busy, and forget.
Estimate Recovery · Win back deals you already quoted
Owner approval · Estimate Recovery 86% confidence (projected) · stale-estimate timing $3,600 recovery (projected) · monthly estimate recovery R1 Projected estimate model
Stop losing deals you already quoted.
84% of contractors never follow up same-day on unsold estimates. RelayLaunch's Estimate Recovery watches your open quotes, drafts owner-approved follow-ups, and is built to recover a projected 5-12% of dead estimates, with your approval on each one. One won $1,200 brake-job estimate pays for 8 months of Starter.
- Projected 5-12% recovery (modeled)
- Owner-approved messages
- Cancel anytime
The math
Why estimate recovery pays for itself fastest.
of dead estimates can close with a single follow-up (projected)
A projected range we model for estimate follow-up, not yet measured on our own pilots. Most owners are leaving an estimated 5-12% of their estimate revenue on the table, and they don't even know it.
covers months of subscription
At $400-1,200 per typical service business estimate, recovering one estimate per month pays for Starter ($199) 2-6x over. The math sells itself.
Built for any business that quotes work
If you send estimates, you're losing some of them. Here's the fix.
Auto repair, body shops
Brake jobs, collision estimates, transmission quotes that go quiet after the inspection.
Home services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, GC bids. The kind that sit in a customer inbox for two weeks.
Dental, medical estimates
Crown follow-ups, treatment plans, elective procedure quotes that need a nudge.
Legal, paralegal
Engagement letters and matter estimates that need warm follow-up without sounding pushy.
Consulting, agencies
Scoped proposals and retainer pitches that lose momentum after week one.
Trades (electrical, HVAC, GC)
High-ticket project bids where one recovered estimate equals a year of subscription.
How it works
Aged → Drafted → Approved.
Three steps, none of them require you to change your CRM, your tools, or how you write estimates.
- 01
Aged
We track every estimate you send. When it's 7-14 days old without acceptance, we flag it for action. That's the highest-recovery window.
- 02
Drafted
The system writes a follow-up in your voice. Casual or formal, owner-tested templates by vertical (auto repair gets 'truck quote' language, dental gets 'crown follow-up' language).
- 03
Approved
You tap approve. Sent via email. Customer comes back. You close. Repeat.
Sample workflow (not a real customer)
One recovered estimate. Eight months of subscription.
Joe Hernandez, F-150 brake estimate 9 days old · $1,200 quoted
- Day 0
Joe Hernandez gets a $1,200 brake estimate for his F-150.
- Day 9
Estimate Recovery flags it. 9 days old, no response, in the recovery window.
- Day 9
AI drafts a short follow-up in your voice. Auto repair tone, mentions the truck.
- Day 9
You tap approve in the Morning Brief. One tap, three seconds.
- Day 10
Joe replies. Books the appointment for Friday.
- Outcome
$1,200 recovered. 8 months of Starter paid for from one estimate.
Sample workflow. Names are illustrative. Real RelayLaunch results pending paid pilot conversion. We don't fake testimonials.
ROI calculator
Plug in your numbers. See what's leaking.
A conservative, projected 5-12% range. Modeled, not yet measured on our own pilots.
Estimates going cold per month 14
Recoverable with Estimate Recovery (5-12% range) $280 – $672
ROI vs $199/mo Starter 1.4x – 3.4x
Math: cold estimates × estimate value × 5–12%. Conservative; assumes you don't recover anything you already would have.
Find your stale estimates before they go cold
Run the free Estimate Scan. See what you're sitting on.
Two-minute scan, no credit card. We'll show you the estimates worth chasing, the message we'd send, and what one recovered quote is worth to your business.
Run free Estimate Scan →Included in Starter ($199/mo). Refundable $500 First Recovery Setup, then flat monthly. Cancel anytime.
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