Dropped Estimates
Which open estimates have no next date, named owner, or record of what the customer is waiting on?
What this looks like on a real Tuesday.
A technician writes up a proposal, hands it over, and the customer says they will think about it. Weeks later nobody can say whether that number is still alive — who was going to follow up, when, and what the customer was waiting to hear. A stack of quiet estimates accumulates while the shop buys more leads to replace them.
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Where the handoff stops connecting.
Once a proposal goes out, the estimate's next action, owner, and customer context stop being connected to anything that moves it forward.
What changes when you see it this way.
The fix is not more estimates. It is that every open estimate has one named owner, one next date, and a known reason the customer is still deciding.
Against your own records, not a benchmark.
This is a handoff check, not a diagnosis. It tells you whether the leak is worth examining — and what to bring to a real assessment.
Open your estimate list and flag every job without a next contact date or a named owner — that list is the backlog that is being managed by memory today.
Check My Estimate Leak
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