Stop losing jobswhile you're doing jobs.
The customer doesn't know you're on a roof. They just know they called and nobody answered.
Lead Mule texts every missed call back in 30 seconds. Before they call the next guy.
14-day free trial. No card. No BS.
Built by a contractor's wife who got tired of hearing “I missed another call” every night.
The reality
Every missed call feels like this.
See the whole loop in 60 seconds
Missed call → Bid sent → Invoice paid.
Auto-text every missed call.
In 30 seconds. Sounds like you wrote it. Built for owner-operators.
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Phone's in the truck. You don't hear it.
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The pain
Here's how the money walks away.
You're under a sink. Up a tree. Behind a mower. The phone rings. By the time you check the voicemail, someone else already booked the job.
You
Missed the call.
On a job. Working.
The desk guy
Booked the job.
At a desk. Picked up.
Reality check
Up to 40% of business calls go unanswered.
The average residential contractor loses ~$60K a year to missed calls and slow replies. Voicemails don't pay bills.
A CRM is too complicated. Overkill.
Your hardworking ass just needs a mule.
What it does
So we built a mule.
Four things. Done well. No corporate filler.
It catches.
Voicemails transcribed. Texts pulled in. Emails yanked from Gmail or Outlook. Screenshot of a text or a Facebook DM? Drop it in — The Mule pulls the lead out. All on one clean dashboard.
It replies.
Under a minute after a missed call, the customer gets a friendly text with your name on it. Looks human. Feels fast. No more “I’ll call them later” excuses.
It follows up.
Bid sent Monday, silent Thursday? Polite nudge. Job done but they haven’t paid? Another nudge. Customer replies and it stops. We’re not here to embarrass you.
It gets you paid.
One tap sends a professional bid with an Accept button. Job done? One tap sends the invoice with your Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, or Cash App. Customer pays. You see it. No more “Did you get my Venmo?”
Done? Get paid.
Hammer down. Money in.
When the job's done, tap one button. The Mule texts your customer the bill — Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, whatever you take. They tap. They pay. You see it. While you're still on site.
You tap “Mark Complete.”
They get the bill in a text.
They tap. They pay. You see it.
Three days go by and they still haven't paid? The Mule plays bad cop. Sends a polite nudge. So you don't have to remember.
Setup
Five minutes. Close the app. Go back to work.
Make an account.
Ten seconds. Email, Google, whatever you use. No address, no EIN, no accountant’s name, no 12-step onboarding video.
Forward your missed calls to us.
One dial code on your phone, takes 30 seconds. Your number stays the same. Lead Mule just catches the calls you can’t.
Connect your inbox.
Read-only Gmail or Outlook. We never touch what’s already there. We watch the door for new leads.
The expensive part
You're already paying for the leads.
Getting the phone to ring is the expensive part. Don't lose the job after that.
Pricing
$39 a month. Flat.
No tiers. No per-user crap. No annual contract.
Compare to the $99–$300/mo enterprise tools you’d need to learn first. Or the $200+/mo CRM you stopped opening.
One missed lead costs more than a year of Lead Mule.
The Mule won't let a lead walk.
At $39 a month, it earns its keep in a hard day's work.
What most contractors pay
- Answering service to catch missed calls$99/mo
- Invoicing tool (QuickBooks, FreshBooks)$25/mo
- Total$124/mo
Same job. $85 less. Every month.
Lead Mule
Everything, one price.
- ✓Every voicemail, text, and lead email in one place
- ✓Auto-text reply with your name on every missed call
- ✓Auto-follow-up on every bid sent
- ✓One-tap bids with a customer-side Accept button
- ✓One-tap invoice with Venmo / Zelle / PayPal / Cash App
- ✓Cancel any time. Your data is yours.
14-day free trial. No card to start.
Who it's for
Built for people who work with their hands.
If your office is a truck, a ladder, a roof, or under somebody's sink — this is for you.
You hate complexity. You hate losing money more. Welcome home.
Common questions
Straight answers.
Do I have to change my phone number?+
No. Your number stays the same — the one on your truck, your business cards, your website. Customers call it, your phone rings normally, and if you can pick up, you pick up. Lead Mule never touches answered calls. You set up conditional call forwarding once (one dial code from your carrier, 30 seconds) which only kicks in when you DON’T answer. Missed calls route to Lead Mule. Picked-up calls stay between you and the customer like they always have.
Walk me through what happens when someone calls me.+
Customer dials your business number. Your phone rings normally. Three things can happen: (1) You pick up — it’s a normal call, Lead Mule is not involved. (2) You don’t pick up and the customer leaves a voicemail — the call rolls to Lead Mule, your Lead Mule line records the voicemail, Whisper transcribes it, Claude pulls out the customer’s name and what they need, the lead lands on your dashboard within about a minute, and we auto-text the caller back with your name on it (“Hi, this is John — got your message, I’ll get back to you by end of day”). (3) They hang up without leaving a voicemail — no lead is created (we can’t transcribe silence). For most contractors that’s fine; the high-intent customers are the ones who actually leave a message.
What’s the Lead Mule number for then?+
It’s the receiving end of your call forwarding. Think of it like a second answering machine, but smart. Your customer never sees it on inbound — they always call your real number and see your real caller ID. The Lead Mule number is just where missed calls route to so we can record + transcribe them. The auto-reply text goes out from that number too, so your personal cell stays off the customer’s text thread.
Will Lead Mule text my family?+
No. You add trusted contacts (your wife, your kids, your suppliers) and they skip the auto-reply entirely. Only unknown numbers (i.e., new customers) get the auto-text. Your wife is not going to get a text from you, by you, addressed as a stranger.
What if a customer replies? Will the follow-up still nag them?+
No. The moment a customer replies, auto-follow-up pauses for that lead. The conversation is yours from there. The Mule isn’t here to embarrass you.
Does Lead Mule send email from my Gmail or Outlook?+
Never. Read-only access. We only read your inbox to spot incoming leads. Outbound goes through our own infrastructure with your name on it; replies route back to your inbox.
Will Lead Mule pull every email in my inbox into leads?+
No. Only real leads. Lead Mule reads each new email and decides whether a real customer is trying to hire you. Angi, Google Local Services, Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor, Yelp, and direct customer emails come through. Receipts, newsletters, marketing, password resets, vendor pitches, and account notifications get skipped. Existing-customer follow-ups also don’t get re-added as new leads.
How do I actually get paid?+
When the job’s done, you tap one button. Your customer gets a text or email with the link to pay you — Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, Cash App, whatever you take. They tap, they pay, you see it. Three days later if they still haven’t paid, the mule sends a polite reminder. You set your payment links once in Settings. We never touch the money.
Is this a CRM?+
No. No scheduling, no time tracking, no fancy line-item invoices, no customer database. Your last CRM had all of that. How many leads did it close for you? Lead Mule does the one job a CRM is bad at: catching the lead and getting you paid for the work.
Will Lead Mule wake me up at 11pm?+
No. Quiet hours are on by default (10pm–7am, plus weekends if you want). New leads still get caught and replied to in real time; your phone stays quiet until morning. A customer can mark a lead urgent — those break through.
What carriers does it work with?+
All major US carriers: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Cricket, Mint, Visible, US Cellular, and most MVNOs. Conditional call forwarding has been a standard phone feature for 40 years.
How long is the trial? Do I need a card?+
14 days. No card to start. We’ll ask for one on day 12 if you want to continue. Cancel before day 14 and you’re never billed.
What if I cancel? Can I get my data out?+
Yes. Settings → Export Data. Everything in CSV. We keep your data for 30 days after cancellation, then delete it.
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