The £20k quote that quietly went cold
You sent the quote. They said they'd think about it. You got busy on the next job. Three weeks later they signed with someone who followed up. The work was already yours to lose.
a creative automation studio
Fixing shaky lead and booking systems for home service operations so you can stay on the tools.
01 · The Problem
Most firms don't lose work because of bad craftsmanship. They lose it in the gaps between the enquiry and the signed quote, where the office runs out of hours and the leads run cold.
See what your missed enquiries are costing you each monthYou sent the quote. They said they'd think about it. You got busy on the next job. Three weeks later they signed with someone who followed up. The work was already yours to lose.
A renovation lead comes in mid-afternoon. By the time the office has read it, sized it up and called back, the homeowner has already booked a competitor who replied within the hour.
The kitchen you fitted two years ago is now a bathroom job for a competitor. Without a system to stay in touch, the easiest revenue you have (repeat work) quietly walks across the road.
Without a qualification step, every enquiry looks identical in the inbox. Real jobs sit next to time-wasters and you only spot the difference after a 20-minute call you didn't need to take.
02 · Services
Branded to your business, built to convert. Photography, copy and structure dialled in to turn a casual visitor into a qualified enquiry, not a faceless template that looks like every other firm in your postcode.
Every enquiry is screened, summarised in plain English, and on your phone within 60 seconds. You see who it is, what the job is, what it's worth, before deciding whether to call back.
However a lead arrives (web form, missed call, WhatsApp or text), it's read, replied to in your tone of voice within 60 seconds, and logged. The customer feels looked after before you've even reached for the phone.
03 · The System
A form, a missed call, a WhatsApp: every lead flows into the same AI brain. It reads each one, sizes it up, and gets it to your phone in seconds. We're building it out one channel at a time.
Pricing depends on the size of your operation and which of the three systems you need. We'll talk you through it on the discovery call. No hard sell, no surprises, no long contracts.
04 · How It Works
No three-month onboarding. No agency handoffs. You talk to us once, we build it around your business, you approve it, we launch it.
We look at how leads currently reach you, where the gaps are between enquiry and signed quote, and what's worth building. Free, no obligation, useful even if you don't go ahead.
Brand, copy, forms, CRM connections, follow-up flows. We do the lot. You review at one or two checkpoints. No DIY, no support tickets, no learning new software.
Within 14 days of sign-off, your systems are live and earning. Changes, fixes and tweaks handled by the same person who built it, who picks up the phone when something needs sorting.
Not a generic SaaS tool you have to bend your business into. A set of systems built around your team, your CRM, your day.
Every quote you send gets a follow-up sequence. Cold leads warm up. The work that was already yours stops walking across the road to the firm with the better admin.
Last year's kitchen client is this year's bathroom job. We rebuild the bridge to past work so repeat revenue stops being accidental.
Your phone numbers, your CRM, your team's diary, your tone of voice. We fit around your operation. Your office manager doesn't learn a single new piece of software.
60-second alerts mean you call back before the homeowner finishes phoning round. Speed wins the work. Every time.
Every enquiry arrives qualified: job type, scale, urgency. You stop guessing. Your estimator stops wasting half-days on jobs that were never going to land.
You deal directly with the person who built your system, not a help desk in a different timezone. Glasgow-based, UK-focused, available.
We fit around your firm, not the other way around.
Once you sign off on the plan, your systems are built, tested and capturing real leads within 14 days. If we miss that window, the build costs you nothing. No exclusions, no fine print.
05 · Get Started
Two ways in. Run the two-minute calculator to put a number on your missed enquiries, or send your details and book a discovery call.
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Built solo
Glasgow, UK
06 · The Founder
I studied Architecture at Edinburgh, then Game Development at postgraduate level. Architecture taught me how this kind of work actually flows: the rhythms of a project, the gap between a customer's brief and a workable answer, the difference between a firm that wins repeat work and one that doesn't. Game development taught me how to ship working systems under pressure.
When AI started reshaping what was possible for small businesses, I noticed something uncomfortable: the home service businesses people rely on every day (plumbers, electricians, builders, multi-trade teams) were being left behind. Not because they weren't capable, but because nobody was building tools around how their work actually runs.
That's why shoogly exists.
I work with home service businesses who are tired of losing work they should have won, and want a practical fix, not another piece of software to learn. I build systems that handle the lead capture, the follow-up and the admin that quietly costs you jobs, so you can stay focused on the work itself.
No buzzwords. No jargon. No software you'll log into twice. Just a system that works, built around your firm, supported by the person who built it.