Your bids don't die on price. They die in silence.
Electrical work runs on estimate volume. You write far more than you win, and the ones you lose mostly are not lost to a cheaper number. They are lost because nobody followed up and the customer moved on.
Estimate follow-up and CRM setup for electrical contractors
A service call is decided in an afternoon. A panel upgrade, a rewire, a generator install, a commercial tenant fit-out — those are decided over weeks, by people who are also getting two other bids and waiting on a spouse, a landlord, or a budget cycle.
The bid goes out. Then nothing. Not because anyone decided to let it go, but because following up on a three-week-old quote is exactly the kind of task that never makes it to the top of anyone's list. The estimate is not the hard part. Remembering it is.
Permits and inspections have the same shape. The application goes in, the inspection gets scheduled, and somewhere in the middle a job sits waiting on a piece of paper that belongs to whoever happens to remember it that week. Nobody owns it, so it drifts, and the crew finds out on the morning they show up and cannot start.
The lost bids get counted. The hours do not. The estimate gets written after the work day ends, and so does the chasing, and a good share of both goes into jobs that were never going to land. That is an evening spent either way, and it lands on the same few people every time.
Where we usually start
What we set up for electrical shops
Estimate follow-up that keeps going
Every quote enters a follow-up sequence timed to how people actually decide — a check-in while it is fresh, another when they are comparing, one more before it goes cold. It stops the moment they reply. Nobody has to remember any of it.
Permit and inspection tracking
Every job with a permit gets a status that someone is accountable for, with reminders before the inspection date rather than after it. The crew stops finding out on site that the job cannot start.
One place every lead lives
Calls, web forms, and referrals land in a single list with an owner and a next step, instead of being split across a phone, an inbox, and a notebook in the truck. This is the CRM part, and it is the part that makes the rest possible.
Change orders and the ask that follows
Approved change orders roll into the invoice instead of being reconstructed from memory at the end of the job, and the review request goes out once the final inspection passes.
These run in your own CRM, on your own list. Once the sequences are set they keep chasing without anyone remembering to, and that includes us. The point is a pipeline that still moves while you are in a panel, not one more thing to stay on top of.
This is not for every shop. If you win enough of what you bid without following up, or you would rather hire an estimator than change how quotes get chased, we are the wrong call. This is for shops writing more estimates than anyone has time to chase.
Before you write the next bid
Find out how many quotes went quiet.
We walk the path from estimate sent to job won and show you where the drop-off actually happens. Free, and nothing to sign.