Work orderChicago, ILAutomation builds for local service businesses
Meatheads Marketing builds automations for HVAC, roofing, plumbing, dental and other local service businesses, so every new lead reaches the right person in seconds, not whenever someone checks the inbox.
The math
Ads, the truck wrap, the website, the referral. What happens in the next few minutes decides whether that lead turns into a job or calls the next company on the list. Put in your own numbers.
40 leads × 25% = 10 leads · 10 × $850 = $8,500 / month
Your numbers, shown in plain math. Not every slow lead is lost, and nobody can promise you’d win them all back. The point is to see what’s on the line before deciding whether a build is worth it.
Build #1 · Speed-to-Lead
Speed-to-Lead is the first Meatheads build, and it runs on Meatheads’ own leads. When someone fills out the contact form, this is exactly what happens. The numbers come from real submissions on September 11, 2026.
The path a lead takes
Measured, not estimated
Slack DM · test data
The real DM format, shown with a made-up test lead.
Guardrails
Same person twice? One alert, not two. Repeat submissions inside 5 minutes are dropped.
No email or name? Flagged for review instead of pinging someone with a half-empty lead.
Bots and bursts are held for review, never deleted: floods of submissions, a hidden trap field, and forms filled in under 3 seconds.
10 PM – 6 AM and weekends, leads wait for a 6 AM morning digest instead of waking anyone up.
CRM still deciding? It waits up to ~40 seconds for an owner, then flags the lead if nobody’s assigned.
Slack hiccup? It retries once, then posts a failure so the lead is never silently lost.
Every lead leaves a line in a log channel: sent, held or failed, with the reason. If the workflow itself crashes, Michael gets a separate alert with a link to the exact run. Nothing fails quietly.
What I build
Each build does one job well, is tested with real submissions before it touches your leads, and tells you when something goes wrong.
A new website lead reaches the right person on your team in seconds, with the checks above built in.
When a call goes unanswered, the caller gets a text right away, so they know you’ll call back instead of dialing the next company.
If it happens the same way every time, it can probably be automated. Bring it up in a lead-flow check and I’ll tell you straight if it’s worth building.
How it works
No retainer to find out, no pitch deck. You talk to the person who builds it.
We go through how leads reach you today: forms, calls, CRM, and who gets told. You’ll see exactly where leads wait.
One price for the build, agreed before any work starts.
Built on the tools you already use where possible, and tested with real submissions before it touches your leads.
It goes live with a lead log and failure alerts, so problems surface instead of hiding.
What you’ll need: a short call, and access to the tools the build touches (your website form, CRM, and wherever your team wants alerts).
For the first five businesses
Choose the offer that fits, enter your email, and you’ll get a redemption code with a link to claim it. Open to the first five businesses.
Any build from the list above at half the quoted price.
One automation built and launched at no cost.
A walk-through of how your leads are handled today and where they wait. No build required.
One offer per business. Prefer to just talk? Email mike@meatheadsmarketingco.com.
A note from the builder
I’m Michael Miller. I run Meatheads Marketing out of Chicago, and I work with local service businesses across Chicagoland, the Midwest, and anywhere else a lead can come in.
I build these systems myself, test them with real submissions before they touch your leads, and set them up so you hear about problems instead of finding out later. I answer my own email.
Questions
Every build gets a fixed quote before any work starts. You know the price up front, with no retainer required to find out.
Speed-to-Lead runs on HubSpot, n8n and Slack. Where possible, builds use the tools you already pay for, and the lead-flow check sorts out what fits.
Speed-to-Lead never contacts your leads. It only alerts your team. Missed-call text back does text the caller, using wording you approve first.
Every lead is logged as sent, held or failed, with the reason, and a failed alert is retried once before it’s flagged. If the workflow itself crashes, Michael gets a separate alert with a link to the run.
No. Meatheads is based in Chicago and works with businesses across Chicagoland, the Midwest, and anywhere else. The builds run in the cloud.
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