Communications

Phone, SMS and email — in and out of the yard. As of 31 Aug.

Contact volume

This month vs last month, all channels

4,532

Inbound contacts

+7.8% vs last month

3,056

Outbound contacts

+10.8% vs last month

Phone1,842 in · 1,106 out

331 unanswered · median reply 6m · 2,948 total

SMS486 in · 612 out

74 unanswered · median reply 41m · 1,098 total

Email2,204 in · 1,338 out

512 unanswered · median reply 3.6h · 3,542 total

Responsiveness

Are we picking up, and calling back?

82%

Phone answer rate

0.67×

Outbound per inbound

Answer rate, last 13 days

Unanswered inbound

917

20% of all inbound

No follow-up logged

214

nothing back on the record

Median phone reply

6m

fastest channel

Tied to a quote

38%

of all contacts

Where the load lands

Contacts by hour of the working day

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Peak inbound is 9–10am; outbound doesn't catch up until mid-afternoon.

Contacts, this FY vs last FY

All channels, both directions

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Who's answering

Ranked by outbound contacts made

  1. 1Dana Whitfield34 missed · 9m reply386
  2. 2Priya Nair22 missed · 12m reply271
  3. 3Marcus Boyd96 missed · 47m reply214
  4. 4Grace Lund31 missed · 21m reply164
  5. 5Tom Reyes121 missed · 1.6h reply128

Chase the silence

Contact gaps ranked by what's at stake

Email replies averaging 3.6h

Inbound email is the biggest channel and the slowest to answer

512 unansweredReview

331 missed inbound calls this month

Answer rate 82% — every miss is a customer who called a competitor next

331 callsOpen queue

214 inbound contacts with no follow-up logged

Answered or missed, then nothing back — no call, SMS or email on the record

214 contactsSee owners

Only 38% of contacts tie back to a quote

The rest are conversations the pipeline never hears about

Open quotes

Missed inbound calls

with Chirpy331 calls that currently die on the ring

Today — without Chirpy

331

missed inbound calls this month — 18% of everyone who rang the yard. Nobody knows who they were unless the caller tries again.

With Chirpy

285

missed calls returned automatically the same day — Chirpy calls back, captures the reason, and logs the outcome on the customer timeline so the rep sees it next morning.

Email response time

with Engine3.6h → minutes, not hours

Today — without Engine

2,204 inbound emails a month, median reply 3.6h, and 512 never answered at all.

With Engine

Engine acknowledges every inbound email instantly, routes it to the right rep by account, and chases the ones nobody has opened after two hours.