The AI Guy from Long Island sets up AI so every new lead your sales team gets, from Instagram, Facebook, your website or the phone, hears back fast. The serious ones get flagged and booked on your calendar. When a lead needs a real person, the full conversation goes to a rep. Matt Malley sets it up in your own accounts, online for teams anywhere in the US or in person on Long Island.
It's free and you keep what we find either way.
Last updated: October 9, 2026 by Matt Malley, Founder
Speed to lead means how fast your team answers a new lead after they reach out. A lead who messages at 8:40 PM and hears nothing until the next morning has often moved on to whoever answered first. The AI Guy helps sales teams close that gap with AI that replies right away, on the same channel, using wording your team approved, then hands off to a person.
The research points that way. In the InsideSales.com/MIT Lead Response Management Study (2007, web-form leads), the odds of contacting a lead were 100 times higher when called within 5 minutes instead of 30. That study measured contact and qualification, not closed deals. The AI Guy uses it as a reason to fix the first reply fast, not as a promise of more sales.
Slower than most managers think. In a Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 US companies published in March 2011, 37% answered a web test lead within 1 hour, 24% took more than 24 hours and 23% never responded at all. That data is old and covers web leads only. The AI Guy's point is simple: check your own team's response times before assuming you're fast.
When a lead comes in, The AI Guy's setup sends a fast first reply on the channel they used, asks a couple of questions your team picked and sorts the answers. Serious buyers get offered a time on your calendar without the back and forth. Everyone else gets a polite follow-up. Any lead who needs a person goes straight to a rep with the whole conversation attached.
First, Matt Malley maps how leads move through your office today: where they come in, who answers and where they get stuck. Then The AI Guy sets up the fast reply, the sorting questions, calendar booking and the handoff to a rep, connected to your inbox, CRM, calendar and social accounts. Everything is tested with your team before it goes live and lives in your own accounts.
Speed to lead is the first piece of AI for your sales team. Once leads get a fast reply, most teams add AI follow-up emails for sales reps and AI for call notes and CRM updates.
The relationship stays human. The AI Guy's setup handles the first reply, the sorting and the booking. Your reps handle the real conversation, the judgment on whether a deal is worth chasing and anything about pricing or commitments. In Matt Malley's view, AI should make sure no lead waits until tomorrow, not replace the person the prospect ends up working with.
The AI Guy works in three steps. First, a free 15-minute call to see where your leads slow down. Second, the $999 AI Business Assessment: Matt Malley maps your systems and processes with you and shows where AI can take over. Then you decide whether to build it yourself or talk about implementation. Your $999 credits toward implementation if you have us build it. Third, implementation and ongoing support, quoted on the call and put in writing before anything starts.
It's free and you keep what we find either way.
Or call or text Matt at 631-634-6619
Only the first reply and only with wording your team approved. The AI Guy sets it up so a new lead hears back fast, answers a couple of sorting questions and, if they're serious, books a time on your calendar. Anything beyond that goes to a real person with the full conversation attached. Matt Malley tests all of it with your team before it goes live.
The AI Guy starts with the channels your leads already use, usually Instagram, Facebook, your website form and the phone. On the free 15-minute call, Matt Malley asks where your leads come from today, who answers them and how they get into your CRM. The setup covers the sources that matter most to your team first and adds others over time.
Most likely, because The AI Guy connects to the CRM, inbox and calendar your team already uses instead of replacing them. On the free 15-minute call, Matt Malley asks which CRM you're on and how leads get into it. If something in your setup would block this, he'll tell you on the call rather than after you've paid.
As fast as the team can send something useful. The InsideSales.com/MIT study (2007, web-form leads) found contact odds were 100 times higher at 5 minutes than at 30. The AI Guy treats that as a direction, not a rule for every team. The practical goal is a real first reply before the lead moves on to someone else.
It's related. Missed-call text back sends a text when a call goes unanswered, which suits owner-run service businesses. Speed to lead for sales teams covers every new lead from social, web and phone, plus sorting, booking and the handoff to a rep. The AI Guy covers missed-call text back on its Long Island small business automation page.
Book a free 15-minute call with Matt Malley. You'll walk through where your leads come in, who answers them and how fast.
It's free and you keep what we find either way.
Or call or text Matt at 631-634-6619
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