1
You're slow to respond.
A lead comes in at 8 p.m. Saturday and sits until Monday. By then, the homeowner has booked with whoever answered first.
$18.84M
IN HIGH-TICKET HOMEOWNER PRODUCT SALES
3 to 21
GREW A TEAM FROM 3 STAFF MEMBERS TO 21
10.8x
Revenue growth at Accelerated Strategies†
3 yrs
SELLING TO HOMEOWNERS USING PROVEN AI TOOLS
01 — The 6 Leaks
6 REASONS YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT BUSINESS MAY GET LEFT BEHIND
2
Your quotes go quiet.
Hours of measuring, designing, and pricing end with one "just checking in" text. The job didn't go away; someone else followed up.
3
The owner is the bottleneck.
Every call, consult and follow-up runs through one person. The business can only grow as far as the owner's calendar.
4
You get shopped on price.
Without a process that builds value in the home, you're one of three bids. The cheapest one usually wins.
5
You're winging the sale.
Each salesperson sells their own way, without systems, frameworks, stages or numbers. Nobody knows what's working or how to fix what isn't.
6
You're ignoring the technology shift.
AI isn't going anywhere, and most owners haven't had time to learn how to use it. Your competitors are figuring it out right now.
Every one of these leaks can be fixed, and the firms that fix them first win the projects.
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02 — Meet Your Partners
We've sat at the same kitchen tables your sales team does. At Accelerated Strategies†, we sold high-ticket products directly to homeowners, the same homeowners who hire you. While we were both there, that company grew from $406,160 to $4,401,065 in annual revenue.
Joel Montiel
Co-Founder
Joel joined Accelerated Strategies as its first salesperson and left as Chief Sales Officer. Along the way, he personally collected $2,870,470 in sales while also building a full sales team to a peak of 21 salespeople. Made possible by the ethical and effective use of AI technology in the sales processes.
David Bruce
Co-Founder
David joined Accelerated Strategies as COO and CFO in 2021 and helped scale it to its best year in 2024. Today he builds the AI systems behind BuiltForward, including the 24/7 project assistant that answers and books leads while your team is on the job site.
We're not a software company or a marketing agency. We've built this together before, and now we partner with one firm per trade per city, working alongside your team until the projects are signed.
Win More Projects
03 — How It Works
Three steps to winning more projects
1
Find the leaks.
Book a free Project Leak Audit. We walk through your sales process together and show you, in dollars, where projects are slipping away.
2
Plug the leaks.
We start by tracking every lead and fixing your landing page. Then we set up a custom CRM with instant response times to speed up how fast you reach new leads. From there, we systemize your sales process, run more effective consultations, and add follow-up agents to every quote. Finally, we grow your referrals and reviews. One simple goal: more consults booked, more projects won.
3
Track the data.
We track the numbers and show you the growth. With ongoing support and new ways to grow, we become a partner, not just another service.
04 — Questions
Frequently asked questions
Home improvement businesses that sell custom-quoted, higher-ticket projects and have a small sales and/or design team, usually one to three people. If you're getting leads but not winning as many projects as you should, we're built for you.
We spend about an hour walking through how leads come in, how fast your team responds, how consults and proposals are handled, and what happens after the quote goes out. Then we put a dollar figure on each leak and walk you through your Project Leak Report on a follow-up call.
Yes. There's no cost and no obligation. If we're a fit, we'll show you how we'd fix the leaks. If we're not, you still keep the report.
No. AI shouldn't replace anyone. It should make your team more productive and cover the gaps where projects leak, like after-hours leads and quotes nobody followed up on. We're not a tech startup. We've grown real businesses, and we know how important people are to a team. We're also realists: if you don't use these tools, your competitors will.
Yes. The assistant introduces itself as your company's AI assistant from the first message. Homeowners get honesty and an instant answer at any hour, and you can read every conversation.
No. If you already use a CRM, you keep it and we connect to it. If you don't have one, we set one up for you.
It depends on your business, your trade and what the audit uncovers. Because not every firm qualifies, we only share options after the audit, once we know we can help.
We don't want to help two competitors fight over the same homeowners. Once we partner with a firm in your trade and city, that market is closed to your competitors.
We handle the setup, and most firms are live within 10 business days. Once you're live, the assistant starts answering and booking your new leads right away.
Always. Your leads, your customers and your data belong to you, 100%.
05 — Ready When You Are
Ready to win more projects?
Find out exactly where projects are slipping through the cracks, and what it would take to win them back.
Book my free Project Leak AuditWe partner with one firm per trade per city.