The Hand-Raise Test
I work with businesses to recover revenue from people who inquired and never bought. We restart those conversations using SMS, and your team only talks to the ones who raise their hand.
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What nobody talks about
Something nobody warns you about when you're growing fast: leads come in faster than anyone can handle them. The ones that slip through don't disappear. They sit in your CRM, costing money and doing nothing.
By morning they've moved on. Called someone else. Signed with a competitor who answered faster. The lead cost you the same either way.
The last two years of old ones just sit there. Everyone says they'll "get to it." Nobody does. Those leads already know who you are, and they're not being touched.
The bottom leaks. New leads pour in, old leads pour out. You're paying to replace people you already paid to find.
The Hand-Raise Test
Watch the SMS conversation below and imagine you're a real prospect. Try to stump it, push back, go off-script. That's what your leads will do.
Any CRM, any format, any age. A spreadsheet works. We've onboarded lists from every platform you can think of.
Two-way text outreach that reads like a message from someone on your team. Conversational, personal, and calibrated to match your brand.
The ones who are still interested reply. We route them back to your team warm and flagged. Your people only talk to the ones who said yes.
Apex Solar
Hand-Raise Test · Mark D.
Try it yourself
This is the same conversation your old leads would get. Reply the way a real customer would, throw curveballs at it, and watch how it handles them. It is free to try and there is nothing to sign up for.
Where this started
We scaled our tutoring company to 300 teachers a year. Business was good. But our response time was killing us.
We had 2,400 leads from the last 18 months that never got a proper follow-up. We cared, we just couldn't keep up. The team was chasing new inquiries and the old ones sat there.
So I started experimenting with SMS outreach. Conversational, two-way, human-sounding. We ran a simple test: uploaded the list, sent one message ("Are you still looking for help?") and waited.
48 replies in 24 hours. 9 rebooked. $0 ad spend.
Then we pointed it at past-due customers with empathetic messaging and recovered $47,000 in a week. From a list we had stopped working.
That's when we turned the workflows, prompts, guardrails, and routing into a system anyone could use. That system is Leverage OS.
What it turns up
I didn't think old leads would convert. Then we pulled a $47K solar job from someone we'd written off 8 months ago.
Two mortgage clients in one week, from a list of 400 I thought were dead. This thing works.
I was skeptical. Then three old insurance leads called me back inside 48 hours. Easiest pipeline I've added in years.
Straight from client threads
Found revenue
Avg reply rate
Businesses served
To first result
The numbers
Old leads
20% reply
conversations
5% close
sales
At $4K GP
found revenue
These are example numbers. Your list size and close rate will vary, but the math tends to surprise people.
We've run this across 11 industries. Same pattern, different lists.
What we actually do
We go back through the ones you already paid for. Your CRM, your old quotes, your "not right now" pile. All of it.
Your team only talks to the people who replied. We handle the outreach, the back-and-forth, the qualifying. You get warm hand-raises.
We run a free test first to prove it works on your actual leads. If it makes you money, we scale it together on a profit-share that works for both sides.
If your database is under 200 people or less than six months of collected inquiries, the math doesn't work yet. We'll still run the test and tell you what we find.
About Greg & Leverage OS
I'm Greg Courtepatte. I run Modern Operator out of Edmonton. Before this I was a certified Civil Engineering Technologist, then I walked away from that in 2015 to build businesses instead.
My wife Lara and I built a tutoring company called Tutor Teach. I handled the operations and the tech side. We got good at bringing leads in. What we were bad at was getting back to them fast enough. Leads came in, nobody replied in time, and thousands of them sat in our CRM going cold.
So I started messing around with ChatGPT and SMS to talk to those old leads the way a person on our team would. Fast, natural, back and forth. The first run pulled $47,000 out of a list we'd already given up on, inside a week. I turned the prompts, the guardrails and the routing into something anyone could point at their own list. That became Leverage OS.
Dad of two. Still running Tutor Teach. This is the system I wish I'd had five years earlier.
Answers at 10pm on a Saturday, in the channel buyers already use
Holds natural back-and-forth until a prospect is ready to book
Surfaces real intent so your team only talks to ready buyers
Plugs into your existing CRM and sales process with minimal setup
Skip the line
We take on a limited number of new partners each month so every account gets the attention it needs. Fill out the form and we\'ll get back to you within 24 hours to set up your free test.
You\'ll see real reply rates and booked calls from your own list before we talk about anything else. If it works, we figure out a profit-share that makes sense for both of us.