When you're too busy working to answer the phone, KinneyConnect automatically texts missed callers, collects their job details, and delivers a clean lead straight to your phone.
The whole process is automatic. You focus on the job in front of you — we handle the one calling in.
You're on a job, on a ladder, or running a chainsaw. You can't answer — and that's completely fine.
Instead of voicemail, the customer gets a friendly text. We ask about the job type, urgency, name, address, and photos.
All their info is packaged into a clean lead and delivered to your KinneyConnect app in real time — ready to act on.
Open the lead, see all the details, chat directly with the customer, and decide if you want to bid the job.
Promote leads to bids, mark bids accepted, add to your calendar automatically, and track jobs in progress.
Mark the job done. Your history is saved forever so you always know exactly how many leads we've sent your way.
Built specifically for small trade businesses. No bloat, no complicated setup — just a simple tool that works.
New leads appear instantly on your phone the moment a customer finishes the text conversation. No delays, no checking email.
Every lead is automatically sorted by urgency. Emergencies get flagged in red so you always know what needs attention first.
Message customers directly from the app. No exchanging personal numbers — all communication stays in one place.
A simple three-stage pipeline keeps you organized from first contact to completed job. Color coded so everything is clear at a glance.
When a bid is accepted, the app offers to add the job to your calendar automatically. One tap and it's done.
Every lead is recorded forever in your account. See exactly how many jobs we've helped you capture since day one.
Jobs move forward through four simple stages. No confusion about what's what or where anything stands.
Urgent job, needs attention fast
Standard maintenance request
Actively quoting the customer
Job accepted and underway
Co-Founder — Operations & Business Development
Co-Founder — Technology & Product
Founded 2026 · St. Louis, Missouri
Built by brothers, for the businesses that built the midwest.
Ron Kinney and Josh Kinney are brothers from the heart of the Midwest. The kind of place where people work hard, shake hands, and do what they say they're going to do. They grew up watching family members and neighbors run small trade businesses: tree services, lawn care, contractors. People who were great at what they did but were constantly losing work to a problem that seemed almost too simple to solve.
They were missing calls. Not because they didn't care. Not because they were bad at business. But because when you're thirty feet up a tree with a chainsaw, you can't exactly stop to answer the phone. The call goes to voicemail. The customer moves on. The job is lost before it ever started.
In 2026, Ron and Josh decided to do something about it. They built KinneyConnect, a service that steps in the moment a call goes unanswered, texts the customer automatically, collects everything the business needs, and delivers it as a clean, organized lead. No missed customers. No lost jobs. No voicemails nobody listens to.
They're not venture-backed techies building software for industries they've never worked in. They're Midwesterners who understand the value of a hard day's work, a fair price, and not letting good customers slip away because of bad timing. KinneyConnect is built on that belief, and they stand behind every business they serve.
We handle onboarding personally — no automated sign-up process. Send us a message and we'll get your business set up, usually within one business day.
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