Lead Routing
Every inbound lead is routed to an agent within minutes, by a rule the whole team can see — not a habit a few people benefit from.
Built for: Broker-owners and team leads at independent brokerages where a web lead, referral, or sign call can sit unassigned for hours, or where agents already suspect routing isn't fair.
Where this breaks down today
A new lead sits unassigned for hours, and agents suspect routing favors the same few people
- A web lead goes two hours without a response because no one was clearly assigned.
- Agents compare notes and suspect certain teammates always get the better leads.
- A missed call or a comment on a listing post never makes it onto anyone's follow-up list.
How The Forge addresses it
- 1
Lead intake to scheduled appointment
A lead arrives from any source, is routed to an agent by rule within a set response window, and moves to a scheduled showing or listing appointment — one tracked thread from first contact to the calendar.
- 2
Lead-routing SLA alert
A lead that has not been contacted within the brokerage's configured response window is escalated to the team lead or broker-owner automatically.
What employees see
- Agents see their own leads, pipeline, transactions, and past clients by default — not other agents' assignments.
- The moment a lead is assigned, and to whom, the same way for every agent — so routing is visible instead of a source of office friction.
What managers control
- Broker-Owner: configures the lead-routing rule itself — round-robin, territory, or team — and sees routing distribution and response time across every office.
- Team Lead: sees pipeline and leads for their own team, but cannot view routing detail for agents outside it.
Integrations required
- Existing CRM or lead-management tool
- Brokerage website (IDX-enabled) and advertising or voice/SMS providers
- A telephony provider, once the AI Voice Receptionist is added
Security & data
Agents are scoped to their own leads and pipeline by default — a lead never becomes visible to a teammate just because they're on the same roster.
Lead Routing — questions
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Read the guide- Broker-Owner: configures the lead-routing rule itself — round-robin, territory, or team — and sees routing distribution and response time across every office.
- Team Lead: sees pipeline and leads for their own team, but cannot view routing detail for agents outside it.
- Agents see their own leads, pipeline, transactions, and past clients by default — not other agents' assignments.
- The moment a lead is assigned, and to whom, the same way for every agent — so routing is visible instead of a source of office friction.