Your customers call. How many hang up without an appointment?

I listen to your inbound calls, score them one by one against a grid that is the same for everyone, and tell you which of the three links — marketing, reception, sales — breaks the chain before the sale.

Reply within two business days. No commitment.

Three links. Only one breaks at a time.

Between the moment the phone rings and the moment a contract is signed, there are three links. Most businesses invest in the first without ever measuring the second.

01

Marketing

It makes the phone ring. It is the link everyone measures, because it is the one that gets invoiced — cost per lead, cost per click, ad budget.

02

Reception

It decides whether the call becomes an appointment. It is the link nobody measures, and almost always the one costing the most.

03

Sales

They close, or they do not. It is the link everyone blames, often wrongly: you cannot close an appointment that was never booked.

Paying more to make a phone ring that is answered badly is watering a leaking bucket.

What I measure

Every call is scored against a grid of binary questions — yes or no, no half points. The same grid across industries, which keeps audits comparable with one another and from one period to the next.

Contact rate

Did a human answer, and in under twenty seconds? No amount of training fixes a phone ringing into the void.

Appointments offered

Did the agent explicitly offer a meeting? “Call us back” does not count. This is the number that moves fastest once you fix it.

Appointments booked

A date AND a time. A date alone is not an appointment, it is an intention.

Show rate

Of the appointments booked, how many actually show up? Tracked over thirty to sixty days.

Public industry benchmarks

Your figures mean nothing on their own. They are compared against public benchmarks, always cited with their source — and when an industry has none, I say so rather than borrowing another one's.

52%
of calls to home services reach a human
Invoca, analysis of 70M calls — 9th of 10 industries
36%
of businesses explicitly ask for the sale or the appointment
Invoca, all industries
31%
of callers hang up before speaking to anyone
Patient Prism, 11.5M calls

And one indicator nobody else measures

Since June 1, 2023, section 5 of the Charter of the French language gives your customers the right to be informed and served in French, and section 50.2 requires you to honour it.

This is an obligation of CAPACITY, not a ban on English. You can perfectly well serve a customer in English if they ask. What is required is that French be available and offered by default.

So I measure three things, and never “the share of calls in English” — which would be legally wrong and commercially indefensible:

  • was the greeting in French, in the very first words;
  • could the prospect carry the call in the language of their choice, without friction;
  • when the language changed, did the customer ask for it.

The Office québécois de la langue française received 10,371 complaints in 2024-2025, up 14% in one year and 140% over five years. Language of service went from 25% to 40% of complaint grounds, and the Office now conducts proactive inspections.

OQLF annual report 2024-2025, published October 9, 2025

How it works

  1. 01

    You send me a sample

    Twenty to thirty real inbound calls, over a representative period. French, English or mixed — switching language mid-call is common in Greater Montreal, and it is handled.

  2. 02

    I listen and score

    Every call, one by one, against the grid. Every answer is confirmed by a human listening: no figure in the report comes from unverified automatic analysis.

  3. 03

    You get the diagnosis

    The report, the corrective plan and your compliance documents. Then, thirty to sixty days later, the follow-up on booked appointments: did they show, did they sign?

What you get

A diagnostic report

A one-sentence verdict, four rates, the funnel call by call, and the amount you leave on the table every month — with the calculation shown plainly, and the limits of the sample stated next to the figure, not in a footnote.

A prioritized corrective plan

Split between what is fixed this week, this month, and what remains to watch. Instructions you can apply Monday morning, not a seminar.

Your compliance documents

A service agreement compliant with section 18.3 of Law 25, and a recording notice script to hand to your team. You need these the moment you record a call — whether you work with me or not.

Your recordings never leave Canada

A call recording contains personal information. Database, authentication, files and code execution are all hosted in Canada, in the Canada Central region. Automatic transcription stays in Canada too.

Recordings and their transcriptions are destroyed automatically after the engagement closes, and every deletion is logged. You can obtain attestation of it, or request early destruction at any time.

If you ask, I can show you the screen displaying the region actually observed at runtime — not the one declared in a document.

Request an audit

Tell me where you stand. I reply within two business days, in French or English, whichever you prefer.

Optional, but faster.

Your details are used only to reply to you. They are not resold, and not used for anything else.