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How We Attribute Revenue Recovered from Missed Calls — Our Methodology

When NeverMiss says it recovered pipeline value from missed calls, here's exactly what that means. Every number we report has an audit trail. No black box, no vague attribution, no inflated projections. This is the methodology — step by step.

Step 1: Every Call Creates a Lead Record

Every inbound call to a NeverMiss-connected line triggers the creation of a lead record in Supabase the moment the call ends. That record includes the timestamp, caller ID, full call transcript, and a 0–100 qualification score calculated from the conversation.

Spam calls, wrong numbers, and hang-ups create records too — but they score low. A caller who doesn't provide a name, phone number, or service type will score below 20. That score is what determines whether the lead counts.

Step 2: What the 0–100 Qualification Score Counts

The score is additive. Each data point the AI collects in the conversation adds to the score. Here's exactly what we count and how much each is worth:

Data PointPointsWhy It Matters
Caller name+15Required for CRM record creation
Phone number+15Primary contact for follow-up
Service type+15What kind of job is being requested
Non-routine urgency+10Emergency, same-day, or next-day need
Issue description+10What's actually wrong
Preferred date+10When the caller wants service
Address+10Required for dispatch and service area verification
Preferred time+5Scheduling detail
Email address+5Secondary contact, estimate delivery
Property type+5Residential vs. commercial affects pricing

Maximum score is 100. A lead scoring 50 or above is what we call a qualified lead — it has enough information for your team to follow up with a real job opportunity. A score below 50 represents incomplete contacts, hang-ups, or calls with too little information to pursue. Those still get recorded, but they don't count toward recovered pipeline.

Step 3: Qualified Leads Route to the CRM

When a lead scores 50 or above, the system fires a CRM delivery within seconds of the call ending. The lead record goes to wherever the client has configured: Monday.com, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, or a generic webhook to any system that accepts JSON.

The CRM delivery is logged in the lead record — timestamp, success or failure, and the response code from the destination. If delivery fails, it's flagged in our failure dashboard and retried. Every qualified lead that reaches a CRM is traceable end-to-end.

Step 4: GA4 Fires on Every Call

Two server-side GA4 Measurement Protocol events fire on every call: voice_call_completed and, when the score clears 50, lead_qualified. These events hit the client's GA4 property from our server — not from a browser pixel that can be blocked by ad blockers.

This means your phone leads appear in the same analytics view as your web form fills. You can see call volume by day, qualified lead rate, urgency distribution, and how phone leads compare to other acquisition channels — all in the same report. No custom dashboard required.

Step 5: Pipeline Value Comes from Your CRM

We don't assign a dollar value to a call. We don't claim a job ticket is worth $X based on industry averages or projections. The pipeline value comes from your CRM — from the actual jobs your team books when they follow up on qualified leads.

When you close a job that started as a NeverMiss-captured lead, that revenue is attributable to the lead record we created. What we report is what's in the CRM as open or closed opportunities linked to NeverMiss-sourced contacts. Nothing inflated. Nothing projected.

Why We Publish the Methodology

Most AI receptionist revenue claims are unverifiable. A vendor tells you their product recovered $47,000 in missed revenue, and there's no way to audit where that number came from. It might be based on industry averages applied to call volume. It might be a projection model. It might be accurate. You can't tell.

We publish our methodology so you can hold us to it. Every qualified lead in your NeverMiss account has a timestamp, a score breakdown, a transcript, and a CRM delivery log. If you want to audit a number, you can. That's the standard we want to be held to — and the standard we'd encourage you to ask of anyone else making similar claims.

See the audit trail for yourself

Book a free 15-minute consult. We'll walk you through exactly how lead records, scores, and delivery logs work — and what your call channel looks like with a working AI receptionist.

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