Divine Tree Service in the Sacramento, California area has three crews and used to run the business from Google Sheets, with every lead landing on the owner's phone. Now calls route to the right rep, every call is recorded, transcribed and summarised, missed callers get a text in about a minute, and photo requests chase themselves until the pictures arrive.
Business type: Contractors & home services. Tool used: Castalin build (call routing, AI call transcripts and summaries, CRM pipeline). Result: The source reports that leads handled went from 150 a month to 195, then 225, median time to first contact on chased leads dropped from 24.7 hours (June 2026) to 4.7 minutes (August 2026), and the owner got about 24 hours a week back. The first full month closed $54,155 from existing leads.
Source: Castalin case study (Company case study) · Added Tue, Oct 27 · Last updated 2026-10-27
The source reports that leads handled went from 150 a month to 195, then 225, median time to first contact on chased leads dropped from 24.7 hours (June 2026) to 4.7 minutes (August 2026), and the owner got about 24 hours a week back. The first full month closed $54,155 from existing leads. (as reported by the source)
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Divine Tree Service in the Sacramento, California area has three crews and used to run the business from Google Sheets, with every lead landing on the owner's phone. Now calls route to the right rep, every call is recorded, transcribed and summarised, missed callers get a text in about a minute, and photo requests chase themselves until the pictures arrive.
Castalin build (call routing, AI call transcripts and summaries, CRM pipeline).
The source reports that leads handled went from 150 a month to 195, then 225, median time to first contact on chased leads dropped from 24.7 hours (June 2026) to 4.7 minutes (August 2026), and the owner got about 24 hours a week back. The first full month closed $54,155 from existing leads. (as reported by the source)
Get one business number that routes callers to the rep who owns their job. Have every call transcribed and summarised into your CRM automatically. Send an automatic text to anyone whose call was missed.
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Write a short text to send automatically when I miss a call at my tree service: thank them, ask what they need, and ask for 2 or 3 photos of the tree. Keep it under 300 characters.
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