Leverline isn't an agency that read about automation in a newsletter. It's built by an operator who ran the phones, sent the quotes, chased the invoices — and then automated all of it to grow real home-services and construction companies. We turned that playbook into the Shop Leak Audit.
Running our own companies, the same pattern showed up over and over. The demand was there. The phone rang, the quotes went out, the trucks rolled. And yet money kept slipping through the cracks — a call that hit voicemail after hours, a quote nobody followed up on, hours that never made it onto an invoice, a customer who drifted because no one had a system to keep them.
None of it was a marketing problem. Buying more leads would just pour more water into a leaking bucket. The fix was operational: measure where the money was actually running out, put a real dollar figure on each leak, and seal them one at a time with automation — highest return first.
So we built the systems for ourselves. Instant text-back on every lead. Follow-up that never forgets. Estimates that write themselves on site. Billing and collections that don't wait. It worked — and it kept working. Leverline is that same playbook, packaged as an audit, aimed at the $2M–$20M HVAC, plumbing, and handyman shops that have the most to keep and the least time to go find it.
I'm an Arizona local — Flagstaff's been home for the last six years. I've always been pulled toward two things that don't usually sit at the same table: building things in the real world, and technology. Leverline is what happened when I stopped treating them as separate.
I earned my trades certificate in construction management, gave college a semester, and realized I'd rather build businesses than sit in a lecture about them. So I did — I started my construction company, then another venture, and automated them out of necessity, because the leaks were real money walking out the door and I was the one who had to plug them.
That's the whole reason I'm not a consultant studying this from the outside — I'm an operator who lived it. The two builds below are mine. They're how I know these leaks are fixable: I've already fixed them once, in businesses I owned.
We find and price the leak first. You see the money on the table before you spend another dollar — no "trust us, it'll work."
Every number comes with the assumptions and the arithmetic behind it. If anything, we lowball it — so the real result beats the promise.
Keeping money you already earned beats buying more leads. We fix the bucket first, then talk about pouring in more.
We only take shops we can help — four a month — and we stand behind it: at least $100k/yr in recoverable margin, or the audit's free.
It's the difference between someone who's read the manual and someone who's done the job. When you've chased the invoice yourself, you know where the money really hides.
Sells you leads or ads, bills a monthly retainer, and measures success by activity. Never had to make payroll off the systems they're recommending — so the risk is all yours.
Runs the same audit we ran on our own companies, prices every leak in real dollars, and ties our fee to a result. We've lived with these systems in production — so we know what actually holds up on a busy Monday.
A 20-minute call. We'll tell you straight whether the audit makes sense for your shop. Four shops a month.
Phoenix metro · HVAC, plumbing & handyman · noah@getleverline.com