You're on the fuel dock. The phone's ringing in the office.

Good. Keep it. Helmgrove doesn't touch your booking system. It catches the people who call or message instead of booking, and points them to a person.

You don't have to. The best reason to do it now is that registration takes a few days to clear, sometimes longer, and you'd rather be testing in February than in May. If you'd rather wait, call me in February and I'll fit you in if a spot is open.

I tell you the number before you agree to anything, and then I put it in writing before we start. It's one flat monthly price for your business, month to month, and it covers the texts, the lead alerts, the weekly count and the day-7 review. The written price lists exactly what it includes, including any provider or carrier fees, so nothing surprises you. If the number doesn't make sense for you, we stop there and it cost you nothing. Nothing bills without your yes.

Me, Jesse Martinez. I'm 19, and this business is new. My family's in construction, and I've worked a powersports sales floor and a marina. I'm doing the first 3 setups free, in exchange for honest feedback and permission to share the real numbers, so you can judge the result instead of my pitch. Want to see it first? Text me and I'll run a live test on my own phone while you watch.

The business is Helmgrove LLC. That is the name on the pilot terms, the SMS terms and the privacy policy. If you need to see something before you agree, ask me, and I'll tell you straight what I have and what I don't. What I'm responsible for, and what I'm not, is in plain words on the pilot page.

Month to month. Cancel with a text. Nothing bills without your yes, and you get the price in writing before the pilot starts. Your business number stays yours. Your contacts and message history are yours to export on request. The scripts are yours too. The full terms are on the pilot page.

Yes, and for some owners that's the right call. You'd register your number for business texting, write the replies, set up forwarding, test it on each carrier, and track the numbers. Helmgrove does all of that for you, and you try it for 7 days before paying anything.

Not a voice robot. One short automatic text, in your words and approved by you, and it says it's automatic. Then you or whoever's on the dock calls back. It never quotes a price or promises a day.

You get an alert with the caller's number and, if they wrote back, their own words. To answer, call or text them from your own phone, like you do now. On go-live day we make a test call together, and you watch the alert land. How the alerts reach you is set up with you on the setup call.

Never. Availability is confirmed by a person only. The text asks what they need and when.

Then the text costs you nothing. You still get an alert with the caller's number within about a minute, so you can call back first. Seven days of numbers will show whether your callers reply.

Check in two minutes: open your recent calls and count last week's missed ones. The pilot counts them for you. If it's close to zero, you don't need Helmgrove, and I'll tell you so.

Usually not. Your number stays. Unanswered calls forward behind the scenes, and I check how your carrier handles it before we start. The text comes from a local texting number set up for your business, and the first line is your business name.

Helmgrove texts only people who just contacted you. Each text says who it's from and that it's automatic, and STOP works. I file your texting registration with the carriers before we start, which is what keeps business texts from being blocked. I'm not a lawyer, and the terms say so.

Not if you tell me not to. On the setup call you give me the numbers that never get a text: staff, vendors, family. I read the replies in the first week and take off anything that shouldn't be there.

I'm based in Clarksville, Tennessee. Where I work: Clarksville, Nashville and Middle Tennessee in person; anywhere in the U.S. by phone. Setup by phone is one call and a forwarding step. The texts go out whenever you miss a call, whatever time zone I'm in. My cell still has a Fresno area code from when I lived in California.

Every lead you pay for or earn still has to get answered. The cheapest new job is the caller who already rang you and got voicemail. Start there. Once that's handled, getting more is a separate conversation.

For the first 3 businesses: honest feedback, permission to share your real numbers (you approve what's shared), and introductions if you're happy. After day 7, nothing renews and nothing bills. You already have the monthly price in writing. Say no and you keep everything.

Your business number stays yours, always. Who holds the texting account, and how you take it with you if you leave, is written down before you agree to anything. Your contacts and message history are yours, and I'll export them for you on request. The scripts are yours too.

A setup call of about 15 minutes, about 15 minutes to read and approve your texts, a test call together on go-live day, and ten minutes on day 7. Helmgrove does the rest. For the carrier registration I also need your business's legal name, address and EIN.

They can't receive texts, so they won't get one. You still get the alert with their number when it shows, so you can call them back.

The carriers approve business texting before it goes live. I file it the day we talk and tell you the day it clears. Your 7 days start then. From the setup call to the day-7 review is usually about two weeks, sometimes longer, because the carriers take a few days to approve.

The texts run on their own, nights and weekends. If something looks off, text me and I'll reply within one business day. You can test it anytime with one call from your cell. Forwarding lives on your own phone account, so you can turn it off yourself if you ever need to, and I'll show you how at setup.

I use AI tools to help draft and build. The texts your customers get are fixed messages you approved. Nothing makes things up in a conversation with your customers.