Reduce SDR Idle Time.
Your reps aren't lazy. The workflow is leaking their hours.
Most real estate SDR and acquisitions teams have 30 to 50 percent idle time hiding in plain sight. Tab stitching, lead-routing waits, broken disposition flow, missing coaching. We diagnose where the hours go and rebuild the workflow so reps spend their day in conversations.
30 minutes. We pull your activity data live and show you where the hours are going.
Where SDR hours actually go.
- Reps are stitching together data instead of selling. They're tabbing between the CRM, the dialer, the comping tool, the Sheet, the lead source dashboard. Every conversation has a 90-second pre-loading ritual. Multiply that by 80 dials a day and you've lost two hours of selling time per rep.
- "Working leads" means waiting for leads. Round-robin routing leaves half the team idle while the other half is buried. Speed-to-lead is 11 minutes when it should be 90 seconds. Reps stare at the queue waiting for the next ping instead of being deployed against the right list.
- Outcomes don't get logged because logging is painful. Disposition fields are buried four clicks deep. Notes go in the wrong place. The next rep who works the lead has no context, so they re-introduce themselves on a third touch and torch the relationship.
- Coaching is whatever the manager remembers. Nobody is listening to call recordings systematically. There's no scorecard. Reps don't know what they're doing wrong and managers don't have the data to tell them. Idle time isn't just downtime — it's untrained time on the phone.
Activity dashboards say your reps are working. Stopwatches say they're waiting.
How we kill SDR idle time.
Receipts first. Workflow rebuild second. Coaching system third. In that order, every time.
Time-track the actual day in 15-minute blocks.
We watch what reps actually do for a full week. Not what they say they do. Not what the dashboard shows. The receipts. Idle time hides in the cracks between activities — that's where we find it.
Collapse the tab-stitching into one workflow.
Lead routing logic that pre-loads context. Comping baked into the call screen. Notes that auto-populate. The 90 seconds of pre-call ritual disappears and reps stay in conversations longer.
Rebuild lead routing for speed and load balance.
Speed-to-lead under 2 minutes. Load distribution that keeps every rep deployed. Cadence rules that recycle stalled leads back into the queue automatically. No more "waiting for leads."
Install coaching as a system, not a vibe.
Call scoring rubric. Weekly 1:1 cadence with data attached. Pipeline review that reads conversion math by stage and rep. Reps know exactly what they need to do better, and managers can finally manage.
Who this is for.
REI operators with 3 or more SDRs, lead managers, or acquisitions reps who suspect the team isn't actually as busy as the dashboards make them look. The cost of an idle rep is not zero — it's their fully-loaded comp plus the deals they're not having conversations about. For most shops, that's six figures a year per rep, hiding in the gaps.
This is for offshore and onshore teams alike. Hybrid setups too. The workflow problems are the same. The coaching problems are the same. The fix is the same.
Why this works.
We've managed and rebuilt SDR teams in REI for years — onshore, offshore, hybrid. We know what 80 dials a day actually looks like, and we know what gets in the way of dial 81.
We don't hand the manager a 12-step playbook and call it consulting. We're in the dialer, in the CRM, in the recordings, in the 1:1s. We rebuild the workflow, install the coaching cadence, and stay in the seat until the activity-to- outcome math moves.
The team doesn't need motivational speeches. They need a workflow that doesn't fight them.
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30-minute diagnostic. We pull your activity data, find where idle time is hiding, and tell you what fixing it looks like.
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