About Firstreply

The marketer who got tired of watching leads die.

Firstreply exists because of a pattern I saw for years and couldn't unsee: good businesses paying good money for enquiries, then losing them to slow replies, missed calls and follow-ups that never happened.

The short version

I'm Golam Rabbani. I spent 5+ years as a Digital Marketing Manager running Facebook campaigns — which means I've sat in the meetings where the ads worked, the leads arrived, and the revenue still didn't. The leak was never the marketing. It was the sixty minutes after the enquiry landed.

Instead of accepting that, I went back to university and took an MSc in Computer Network & System Security at the University of Hertfordshire — because the systems that fix the leak handle customer data, and I wanted to build them like someone who understands what can go wrong. Firstreply is both halves joined up: marketing that generates demand, engineered by someone trained to protect what it captures.

I'm based in London and work remotely with businesses anywhere. My founding client is a London caterer whose first-response time went from four hours to sixty seconds — the only case study on this site, because it's the only one that's real (so far).

The rules we build by

Humans approve, always

AI drafts; a person taps yes before anything reaches a customer. This is a hard rule in every system we ship, not a setting.

GDPR by design

Data minimisation, consent-aware flows and UK/EU residency where available — architecture, not an afterthought.

You own everything

Workflows, accounts, documentation — handed over. If we part ways, your system stays yours and keeps running.

Honest notes

Every service page on this site tells you when you don't need us. We'd rather lose a sale than a reputation.

No invented proof

No stock-photo testimonials, no made-up statistics. One real case study beats ten fictional ones.

Speed as a discipline

The 60-second reply isn't a gimmick — it's the single highest-leverage fix in local-business marketing, and everything we build serves it.

Fifteen minutes, no pitch deck

Book a free strategy call. We'll find where your enquiries leak and tell you honestly what's worth fixing — even if the answer is "do it yourself".

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