Beat the Clock

Clockwork by Beat the Clock · Naperville, IL

Never miss
a lead again.

Clockwork is the AI dispatch desk for home-service contractors. When a call slips past you on a job site, Tock texts the customer back in seconds, qualifies the work, and keeps following up until it's booked.

Founding pricing for the first 25 Illinois contractors. One email when your market opens, nothing else.

Tock · on dispatch
Missed call · 7:42 AM

Mike Johnson · AC blowing warm air, wants someone out today

Tock · SMS

Hi Mike, it's Tock with Ridgeline Heating & Air. Sorry we missed your call. Is the AC blowing warm right now? I can have a tech out this afternoon.

Answered in 4.2 seconds · marked Hot

A simulation of Tock working a missed call. Clockwork is not live yet.

Most contractors answer a new lead in hours.

Tock answers in seconds.

Roughly three quarters of jobs go to the first company that responds. Speed isn't a feature of Clockwork. It's the whole point. Nights, weekends, and 2 AM basement floods included.

A day on Clockwork

  1. 7:42 AM

    A call slips past you

    You're on a roof. Tock texts the customer back before they can dial your competitor.

  2. 7:44 AM

    The job is qualified

    Hot, warm, or cold. You get a one-line brief on your phone instead of a voicemail to decode.

  3. Tomorrow, 9:00 AM

    Follow-ups run themselves

    Yesterday's quote gets a nudge at +24h and +72h. No sticky notes, no "I meant to call them back."

  4. Next month

    Your book gets worked

    Tune-ups due, quiet customers, win-backs. Revenue that was hiding in your records gets a text.

The dashboard opens on money, not menus

Every morning Clockwork answers one question: what is sitting in your pipeline worth, and what is it costing you to leave it there?

Revenue at risk $23,600 4 unresponded leads
Revenue rescued $11,900 4 jobs booked · 5 follow-ups queued
Hiding in your book $25,500 6 customers due for outreach

Preview numbers. Clockwork is not live yet.

Everything we build ends up here

Beat the Clock already builds AI automations for businesses across Naperville and Illinois: lead routing, follow-up sequences, review collection, scheduling. Today those run as separate workflows.

When Clockwork launches, they all run through it. One AI system watching your whole pipeline instead of ten disconnected tools, and one place to see what it's earning you.

  • Lead capture and instant response
  • Quote follow-ups and win-backs
  • Review requests after every job
  • Scheduling and reminders
Tock, the Clockwork assistant, typing on a laptop
Tock, on the clock so you don't have to be.

A note from the founder

"I was raised in Naperville and I'm heading into college still building here. I've spent the last few years automating one workflow at a time for local businesses, and I kept watching the same thing kill their week: a missed call that never got a callback. Clockwork is everything I've learned from those jobs, folded into one product. It gets built for Illinois contractors first, because they're the people I grew up around."

Ian McCallumFounder, Beat the Clock · Naperville, IL

Beat the clock.

Built for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing owners. Your market opens soon.

Founding pricing for the first 25 Illinois contractors.