Front-office systems for local service businesses

Catch the revenue leaks in your front office.

Backstop Ops helps service businesses recover missed calls, speed up follow-up, organize scattered knowledge, and automate the admin work that keeps slipping through the cracks. We catch the jobs your business keeps dropping.

No new hires No ripping out your tools Built around how you already work
Built for speed →

Made for service businesses where speed matters: contractors, clinics, property managers, vacation-rental operators, and local teams that can't afford to miss the next call, quote, or follow-up.

The real problem

Most businesses don't have a lead problem. They have a leak problem.

The work is already there. It leaks out of the gaps between a call and a callback, an estimate and a follow-up, a question and an answer no one wrote down. Here's what slips through.

01

The call you didn't answer

A buyer calls, gets voicemail, and dials your competitor instead. Most never call back, and you never knew they rang.

Costs you revenue and customers
02

The lead that waited

Someone reaches out at 9pm. By the time anyone replies the next afternoon, they've already booked with whoever answered first.

Costs you revenue and customers
03

The estimate that went quiet

You send a quote once and move on. No nudge, no check-in. Half of those jobs were winnable with one more touch.

Costs you revenue
04

The lead stuck in an inbox

Leads pile up in an inbox, a spreadsheet, a stack of sticky notes. Nobody owns the follow-up, so it quietly doesn't happen.

Costs you revenue and time
05

The same question, again

Your team answers the same handful of questions all day, every day, instead of doing the work that actually moves money.

Costs you time
06

The knowledge in one head

How you price, how you handle tricky calls, what to say to the angry customer. It lives with one person and walks out the door with them.

Costs you time and consistency
07

The review never asked for

Happy customers would gladly vouch for you. Nobody asks at the right moment, so the reputation never compounds.

Costs you customers
08

The prospect nobody circled back to

Old quotes and past customers sit cold. A simple reactivation nudge would bring some of them back, but it never gets sent.

Costs you revenue
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Find your leaks

These are just the common ones. The Front Office Leak Assessment finds exactly where your business is losing, and what to fix first.

Find my revenue leaks →
From gaps to gains

Every fix moves one of three needles.

We don't build AI for the sake of AI. Everything we install has to show up in one of three places you can actually feel: more revenue, more time, or a better experience for your customers.

Effectiveness

More revenue

Catch the calls, leads, and follow-ups you're losing, so more of the demand you already have turns into booked, paid work.

Measured by revenue won back
Efficiency

More time

Hand the repeated calls, data entry, and everyday decisions to systems, and get hours back in your week for the work only you can do.

Measured by hours saved
Quality

Better experience

Faster replies, nothing dropped, consistent answers every time, so every customer walks away feeling looked after.

Measured by happier customers
What we fix

Eight backstops that plug the leaks.

Each one is a self-contained fix tied directly to money or time. Install one, or stack them into a front office that runs itself. No jargon, no science project. Just the gaps closed.

S—01

Missed-Call Recovery

The second a call goes unanswered, the caller gets a text that keeps the conversation going, instead of sending them to your competitor.

Stop losing the ring
S—02

Speed-to-Lead Follow-Up

Every web form and inquiry gets an instant, personal reply and a booking link, day or night, while they're still interested.

Reply in seconds
S—03

Estimate & Quote Follow-Up

Sent estimates get a built-in sequence of nudges instead of silence, until the customer books or closes the file.

Win the second look
S—04

Review Request Systems

Every finished job triggers a review ask at the right moment, so your reputation compounds instead of stalling.

Build the proof
S—05

Internal Knowledge Bases

We pull how you actually run things out of your head and into a system your team and your AI can both use.

Get it out of your head
S—06

SOP & Workflow Buildout

The repeatable work gets written down, tightened, and handed off, so the business runs without routing every decision through you.

Unclog the week
S—07

Inbox, Form & CRM Cleanup

We untangle the leads scattered across inboxes, forms, and spreadsheets into one clean pipeline nothing falls out of.

One clean pipeline
S—08

Reactivation Campaigns

Old quotes and past customers get a simple, well-timed nudge that brings a share of them back off the shelf.

Wake up cold leads
How it works

Find the leaks. Build the backstops. Measure what comes back.

You don't start by buying software you'll never use. You start by finding out exactly where the money and time are going. See the full process →

See the work

What a finished backstop looks like.

No stock photos, no invented testimonials. These are examples of the systems and findings you actually get. Real client results will live here as they come in.

Example workflow

Missed-Call Recovery

1Call comes in and goes unanswered during a busy stretch.
2Caller gets a text within seconds: "Sorry we missed you. Want to book or get a quote?"
3Their reply lands in one inbox your team already watches.
4A booking link goes out, and the owner gets a heads-up on anything hot.
Before & after

Estimate follow-up

Before

Quote sent once. If the customer goes quiet, the job quietly dies. No one notices.

After

Every quote enters a four-touch follow-up that runs on its own until the customer books or says no.

Redacted sample findings

From an assessment

  • ~18% of inbound calls went unanswered last month.
  • Average lead reply time: 6h 40m.
  • 43 estimates sent, 0 with any follow-up.
  • No review request in place after jobs close.
Illustrative sample. Your real numbers land here after your assessment.
Who it's for

Built for local service businesses.

Especially the ones that live and die by inbound calls, estimates, appointments, reviews, and follow-up. Pick your world.

Home service contractors

Stop missed calls and slow quotes from handing jobs to the other guy. Missed-call recovery, speed-to-lead, estimate follow-up, reviews, and seasonal reactivation.

See how it works for contractors →

Property managers & vacation rentals

Keep guests, owners, and vendors from falling through the cracks. Guest inquiry response, owner updates, maintenance intake, review replies, and SOPs.

See how it works for rentals →

Clinics & local healthcare

Fewer missed calls, faster call-backs, and less admin load on your front desk. Call-back workflows, appointment follow-up, FAQ handling, and internal SOPs.

See how it works for clinics →

Not on the list? If your business runs on calls, quotes, appointments, and follow-up, the same backstops apply. Find your revenue leaks →

Kyle Henson, founder of Backstop Ops
Kyle Henson Founder of Backstop Ops
Why Backstop Ops

You're hiring an operator, not an agency.

I've spent years helping people build businesses, and I've launched several of my own: Fyreside Club, the DinkSpy and The Drop apps, RVer Insurance, and Highlands Home Watch. I know the leaks on this site firsthand, because I've lived every one of them.

I've missed the call, let the follow-up slip, and been the bottleneck the whole business waited on. So Backstop Ops isn't about adding complicated software for its own sake. It's about building simple systems that actually work in a real, busy business, and put recovered time and revenue back where you can feel it.

I also play competitive pickleball, which is how DinkSpy came about. I tend to build for the worlds I'm already in.

A few things I've built:
Fyreside Club DinkSpy The Drop RVer Insurance Highlands Home Watch
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The Front Office Leak Assessment.

In one week, we map where your leads, tasks, follow-ups, and knowledge are falling through the cracks. You get a prioritized fix list, one quick-win workflow you can put to use right away, and a practical roadmap for the rest.

$950flat · one focused week
The $950 fee is credited toward your first implementation project
The no-leak, no-fee guarantee

If we don't find at least one fix worth 5+ hours a week or real recovered revenue, you don't pay. Full refund, no negotiation.

See everything the assessment includes →

No pressure, no pitch deck. I'll reply within one business day to set up your discovery call.

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