New leads ready every week
Each week it searches, holds the best businesses and waits for you to choose.
Busy weeks stop the hunt
Selling websites has a rhythm problem. In a quiet week you search, save, build and send. Then a client says yes, their site takes over your week, and nothing new goes out. When that job ends, the list is empty and you start again from nothing.
Prospecting Autopilot keeps the first part going. Once a week, on the day and at the time you set, it runs your search on Radar and picks the businesses most worth a demo: no website, or one that doesn't do the job, the most likely first, in your team's own order. It leaves out any your team has saved, any it rates as a low opportunity, and any on the do-not-contact list.
Then it stops and asks. Nothing is saved and no credit is spent until you've looked at the list and chosen. Each business you choose gets a demo and a brief, and each pitch waits for you to send it from your own phone or email. The follow-ups on day 3 and day 7 wait for you too, and they only appear while the business hasn't answered.
What a week looks like
It searches
On the day you set, it runs your trades and area on Radar, which costs no credits.
You choose
Its picks wait in Ready for you with what they'd cost. Uncheck any you don't want, or skip the week.
It builds
Each business you chose is saved and gets its demo and brief. Then each goes on by itself.
You send
Each pitch waits in Ready for you. Send it yourself, mark how it went out, and the run moves on.
It lands on your board
Everything Autopilot brings in sits with the businesses you found by hand. Each one you chose becomes a prospect in your CRM, with a deal on your board, and the deal moves on its own as the demo is built, sent, read and answered.
The workflow's page shows its last 30 days: how many businesses said they're interested after its pitch, the credits its demos spent and any runs that failed. What it saved and built is on your team's Activity too, so nobody has to wonder who spent what.
- Follow-ups stop once a business answers
- A business that says stop is never pitched again
- Pause all stops every workflow at once
Its part and yours
Autopilot does
- Searches up to eight trades, one to ten miles around a place
- Holds its best picks, from one to ten a week
- Builds the demos you chose, with their briefs
- Brings back each pitch, then follow-ups on day 3 and day 7
You do
- Turn it on, since it starts off
- Choose who gets a demo
- Read each demo and brief
- Send every message from your own phone or email
- Call while they're looking
You set what it spends
Nothing is spent until you choose, and you see what it costs before you do.
Credits you approve
Each demo is 10 credits, shown before you press. At five a week, that's at most 50 credits.
Searches cost nothing
Its Radar searches use no credits, and there's no monthly limit on what they find.
A search you control
Change the trades, the area and how many it offers on its page. Turn it off whenever you like.
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
No. It never sends anything. Each pitch and follow-up waits in Ready for you until you send it from your own phone or email and mark how it went out. Shingle doesn't write to businesses you've saved, so every message they get comes from you.
No. It comes with the plan and its trial, and you pay only for the demos you choose, at 10 credits each. You can also do the same work by hand, with Radar, Build demo and Send demo. What Autopilot adds is the weekly search, the picks waiting for your OK, and each follow-up coming back on its day.
None until you choose. Each demo you pick uses 10 credits, which come back if the build fails. It offers five businesses a week by default, so at most 50 credits a week, which can use the plan's 200 a month by itself. You can set that anywhere from one to ten, and top-ups add more.
It keeps businesses worth a demo, meaning no website or one that doesn't do the job. It leaves out low opportunities, anyone your team has already saved and anyone on the do-not-contact list. The most likely come first, in your team's own order. A week can come up empty if nobody fits.
Skip the list and nothing is saved or spent. That week's run ends, and next week it searches again. Skip a follow-up and the next one still comes if they haven't answered. Skip a first pitch and that business's run ends, though it stays saved with its demo.
If a business presses Don't contact me again on its demo page, Autopilot's run for it ends and it's never pitched again, by your team or any other on Shingle. If it presses Not now or I'm interested, the follow-ups stop, since they only come up while a business hasn't answered.
Read next
- Find businessesA map of who has no website, or a weak one.
- Demo sites and pitch linksA site to show them, and a link you send yourself.
- WorkflowsFollow-ups and reviews, with your OK where you want it.
- Web design agenciesMany client sites, one team, your brand to clients.
- Get web design clientsThe channels that work, and a week to run them.
- Pricing7 days for $1, then one plan at $49 a month.
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