The Proof Register: The Evidence Behind Our Products

Every MBMApps product exists because of a pain point operators describe in almost the same words. We went looking for the credible, citable evidence behind those descriptions. Every number below survived source verification; the figures that failed are listed at the end so they never enter anyone's pitch deck.

Quoting speed decides deals

Businesses that contact a new web inquiry within one hour are roughly seven times likelier to qualify it than those that wait even an hour longer — and more than sixty times likelier than those that wait a day. Yet in an audit of 2,241 U.S. companies, only 37% responded within an hour, 23% never responded at all, and the average first response took 42 hours (Harvard Business Review, 1.25M-lead study).

On the proposal side, vendor-reported platform data from roughly 90,500 signed contracts shows proposals delivered within 48 hours closing at 88%, against 69.6% for firms taking sixty days or more (D-Tools 2025 Year in Review). The sample is systems integrators, not caterers — the correlation travels by analogy, and simpler deals do close faster — but the direction is consistent with everything else in this register: the quote that goes out today is the one that closes.

This is the thesis behind QuoteFlow's guided quoting and QuietPilot's inquiry-to-proposal queue.

Catering runs understaffed

Nearly 89% of event-industry leaders say staffing shortages directly impacted their ability to deliver successful events in the past year, and only 14% of caterers reported being well-staffed heading into 2024 (Catersource, State of the Catering & Events Industry). You cannot fix the labor market — but you can see coverage gaps before the event does, which is exactly what QuietPilot's staffing and readiness review keeps visible.

Youth sports runs on overloaded parents and shrinking volunteer pools

The Aspen Institute's Project Play surveys — primary, non-commercial research — put numbers on what every league administrator already knows:

• Sports parents spend an average of 3 hours 23 minutes on every practice or game day (Project Play parent survey).
• Families spent an average of $1,016 on a child's primary sport in 2024, up 46% since 2019, with total parent spending on youth sports estimated above $40B annually (Project Play, 2025).
• Of roughly 6.5 million youth coaches — mostly volunteers — fewer than 1 in 5 are trained in effective motivational technique, and formal volunteering in America fell to 23.2% between 2019 and 2021, the largest drop the Census Bureau has ever recorded (State of Play, coaching trends).

Parents already give three hours a day and a thousand dollars a year; leagues run on volunteers they cannot afford to burn out. LeaguePilot carries the coordination — schedules, RSVPs, communication — so coaches can just coach.

The kill list

Three plausible-sounding figures failed adversarial verification and should not be cited anywhere: the "88% of proposals close within 14 days" framing (the 88% attaches to 48-hour delivery), the claim that "only one in four integrators deliver proposals within two weeks," and a "515% traffic lift from content refreshing" statistic. If you have seen these numbers elsewhere, treat them as unverified.

How to read this register

Vendor-published data (D-Tools, Jobber) is correlational and labeled as such; the HBR and Project Play findings are primary research. We hold our own marketing to the same standard we build into the products: accepted is not paid, correlation is not causation, and a claim without a source does not ship.