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Grade your speed to lead.

Most organizations have never measured how long an applicant or patient waits for a human reply. This takes 30 seconds and uses the same scale as our audits.

No email required. The grade is yours to keep.

Enter what happened after a clinician (or patient) reached out. The grader uses the same scale we use in every speed-to-lead audit.

Why reply time is the grade

A clinician who applies at night applies to several places; a patient who inquires at night has other tabs open. The first organization to reply like a human, with a real answer and a time, wins most of those conversations. Everything else about your funnel (creative, targeting, budget) is upstream of a stage that most organizations never measure. We do: we apply to real roles and request real consults every week, and the typical first human reply is measured in days.

If your grade is a C or worse, the fix is mechanical, not more staff: a follow-up system that texts every applicant or inquiry within 60 seconds, answers the first questions from an approved bank, and books onto a real calendar. See candidate engagement and speed to lead.

Common questions

Straight answers

What is speed to lead?
Speed to lead is the time between a person reaching out (an application, a consult request, a form) and the first reply from a human, or a system that answers like one. In healthcare recruiting and patient acquisition it is the single stage most correlated with conversion, because the person is comparing several options at once.
What is a good speed to lead for healthcare recruiting?
Under five minutes to a real reply is the standard that wins consistently. Within an hour is good. Same day is the median and loses to faster organizations. Next business day or longer is where most applicants are lost.
How do I improve my speed to lead without hiring more recruiters?
With a follow-up system that texts every applicant or inquiry within 60 seconds, answers the common questions from an approved bank, and books onto a real calendar, with a human taking over anything complex. Recruiters then start the day with booked conversations instead of a queue.
Is the cost estimate accurate?
It is illustrative. It applies a lost-applicant share that rises with reply time and assumes one in four lost applicants would have converted. Your real number comes from a speed-to-lead audit on your own roles, which we run free.
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Want the real number instead of an estimate?

Send us one open role. We apply like a real clinician would, time what happens, and send a written report in two business days. Free.

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