April is a phone tornado in the landscape business.
Cedar Cuts has two halves: mowing crews on routes and a design team Tomás runs himself. The mowing keeps the lights on. The design work — full-yard makeovers, hardscape, garden plans — is where the meaningful money is. Tomás is the designer. He's also, until recently, the receptionist.
Every April, the phone explodes. Mowing customers calling to start service. New design inquiries from homeowners with spring fever. Tomás would be on a job site sketching a plan when his phone rang for the fifth time in an hour, and he'd lose the thought. Some weeks he'd close on zero new design jobs because he never had the bandwidth to schedule the consult.
Taiso took the phone. Tomás took back the craft.
Cedar Cuts onboarded Taiso in March 2025. The first week was nervous — Tomás kept checking the call logs to see what Taiso was telling people. Within ten days he stopped checking. Taiso was booking mowing routes correctly, qualifying design jobs by budget and timeline, and scheduling in-home consults on the days Tomás had blocked out.
The first design job Taiso booked was a $42,000 backyard renovation. Tomás found out about it from a confirmation text.
What Taiso does for Cedar Cuts specifically:
- Books mowing route additions — knows service days, route geography, crew capacity
- Qualifies design inquiries by budget and timeline before booking the consult
- Reserves Tomás's design days exclusively for design — never books mowing in those slots
- Sends portfolio links pre-consult so customers arrive primed
- Handles the spring rush solo — peak weeks have hit 80 calls/day with zero missed
"I designed gardens this spring. Last spring I answered phones. Same April. Different business."
Tomás Reynoso · Owner, Cedar Cuts · Denver, COTime given back is time made into money.
The 12 hours a week Taiso freed up didn't go to leisure — Tomás used them to design more. He took on three additional design clients per month, each averaging $26k in revenue. The math is clean: Taiso costs less than the design revenue from a single typical job. The other thirty-five jobs are profit.