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A lead follow-up CRM for a small real-estate team

A CRM and lead follow-up automation for a small real-estate team, designed so every buyer inquiry gets an instant reply and an easy way to book a showing.

Company
Brightgate Realty
My role
Brand, UI design & automation design
Brightgate Realty CRM on a desktop browser: a pipeline with New lead, Contacted, Showing booked and Offer columns, with the selected lead in Showing booked and a conversation panel showing the instant text reply, its Book a showing button and the booking it led to. A phone beside it shows a showing-booked notification and the agent's inbox.
How it works
  1. 01

    A buyer inquiry comes in

    From the website, a yard sign, an open house, a call or an ad

  2. 02

    Instant text reply

    Sent within seconds, with a link to book a showing

  3. 03

    Follow-up email the next day

    Only if there is no reply yet

  4. 04

    The buyer books a showing

    They pick a time on the booking page

  5. 05

    The agent is notified

    By text and in the app

The brief

Brightgate Realty is a small real-estate team. Buyer inquiries come in from everywhere: the website, yard signs, open houses, calls and ads. Agents spend the day at showings, so messages wait for hours, and by the time someone replies, the buyer may have moved on.

My approach

  • Reply first, automatically: every new inquiry gets a friendly text within seconds, with a link to book a showing.
  • Stop when a person steps in: follow-ups pause the moment the lead replies, books or an agent takes over, so nobody gets pestered.
  • One clear pipeline: four stages from new lead to offer, with the lead source and the next automated step on every card.
  • Clean and calm: white screens on a light canvas, one confident teal for actions and automation, and soft colour codes for lead sources and step types.

What’s inside

  • A pipeline dashboard with a conversation panel showing the instant reply
  • An automation builder where each step is an editable node, with quiet hours and a live text preview
  • A lead timeline on mobile that shows every automated touch
  • A showing booking page the buyer sees, plus a confirmation screen
  • Agent notifications and an inbox that flags who needs a personal reply
The automation builder: a six-step flow from New inquiry to Instant text reply, Wait 1 day, Follow-up email, Book a showing link and Notify agent, with a side panel for editing the text message and previewing it.Three phone screens: the agent's lead timeline with each automated touch, the booking page where a buyer picks a day and time for a showing, and the booking confirmation.

Next step

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