The Daily Dose #253 | I Audited How Fast Builders Respond to Leads. The Results Were Ugly.

The Good Builder Podcast · Mar 22, 2026 · 11m

Most builders think they lose work on price. The reality is, they're losing work before the conversation even starts.In this episode, Az shares a story from inside the industry, a lead response audit he ran in 2018 while working within a national home building franchise. Real enquiries were submitted to some of Australia's biggest residential builders, and the response times were tracked from the moment of submission.The fastest response was 25 minutes. The slowest was almost six days. And multiple national builders never responded at all.That data is backed by some of the most respected lead…