60-Second Lead Response for Consulting Firms
Every inbound consulting lead replied to in under 60 seconds, in your firm's voice, with your partner booking link. We build the first one free on your real leads.
Where this sits
Layer 3 of the AI Operating System: done-for-you workflows that produce real artifacts.
For consulting firms, the cost of a slow reply is high and invisible. The prospect submits a request, you mean to get back to them after the partner meeting, and by the time you do they have moved on or someone else got there first. The leads you lose this way never appear in the pipeline report. They just quietly do not happen.
The fix is mechanical, not strategic. Every inbound lead gets a personalized reply in under 60 seconds, in your firm's voice, with the partner booking link. The right partner is pinged at the same time so they can follow up by name when they are out of the meeting. The lead never goes cold.
This is the Capabilities layer of an AI Operating System. We build it for you free, on your real leads, before you commit to anything else.
Where this sits in your AI Operating System
The 60-Second Lead Engine is the highest-leverage Capability for a consulting firm because it captures the partner brand even when the partner is in a room. It leans on the other three Cs to work:
- Context: it writes in your firm's voice. Not a chatbot tone. We capture how partners actually talk to prospects.
- Connections: it lives on your inbox, your form, and your partner calendars. Submissions push to your CRM as the same record.
- Capabilities: the reply itself, plus routing to the right partner by practice area or service line.
- Cadence: a no-show or no-reply triggers a follow-up sequence on day 1, day 3, and day 6, in the same voice, that stops the moment they reply.
It is the wedge into the larger system. Most firms start here. See the full installable system at AI Operating System for Consulting Firms.
What “done” looks like
The SLA is concrete:
- Reply lands in the prospect's inbox in under 60 seconds, every time, around the clock.
- Reply is personalized (their name, their company, the field they care about), in your firm's voice.
- Reply contains the right partner's booking link, sized to actual availability.
- The partner gets pinged instantly with the lead, the source, and the reply that went out.
- The lead is in your CRM as the same record, not duplicated.
If they do not book, a follow-up sequence runs on day 1, day 3, and day 6. If they reply mid-sequence, the sequence stops.
How we install it
Three phases. The Lead Engine is the one we offer to build free first:
- Audit, free, about 10 minutes. We score readiness across the Four Cs and confirm fit. Run the audit.
- Install the Lead Engine, free. We connect your form, your inbox, your partner calendars, and your CRM. We capture your firm's voice from past replies. The first live reply usually goes out within a week.
- Operate, ongoing if you want us to. If the Lead Engine books calls partners would have missed, we operate the rest of your AIOS on a monthly plan. See plans.
Expected results
Lead response time has decades of data behind it. Responding within the first minute or two materially increases qualification and close rate versus responding within the first hour. For consulting, the effect is amplified because high-intent inquiries often shop only the first two firms that reply.
For a typical consulting firm, here is what we plan against:
- Median reply time: from hours (often the next morning) to under 60 seconds.
- Lead-to-discovery-call rate: a meaningful lift on the leads you were already getting, with no extra spend.
- Partner time: lower, not higher. The system handles the first reply and the chase; partners only show up for the call.
The standing guarantee on the wider AIOS engagement applies once you go past the free build: recover 40 or more hours a month, or we keep working free until you do.
Frequently asked questions
What does the free build include?
The full 60-Second Lead Engine wired into your form, inbox, partner calendars, and CRM, with your firm's voice captured from past replies. No credit card, no time commitment beyond letting us see it work on your real leads.
Will it sound like a partner?
It is written in your firm's voice from samples you approve. Every reply is reviewable. Most firms iterate on the voice once and then leave it alone.
Who owns the system?
You do. Every prompt, connection, and automation lives in your accounts.
Want it built on your real leads?
We will build your 60-Second Lead Engine free, on your real leads. If it books calls you would have missed, we run the rest of your operations.
Prefer to talk first? Book a 15-minute call.