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AI for local businesses that live on the phone and their reputation.

Contractors, retailers and service businesses lose jobs to missed calls and slow callbacks, and lose hours to posting and paperwork. We build AI that answers every call, turns your work into content and asks every happy customer for a review.

How can a local business use AI?

AI helps local businesses capture more of the demand they already have: every call answered and every web lead called back in seconds, job photos and videos turned into scheduled posts, quotes and questions handled around the clock, and estimates, reminders and review requests running on their own.

Where AI fits, across the business

Sales: every lead, called back in seconds

Every call answered and every web lead called back fast, qualified with your questions and booked on your calendar.

Marketing: your work, turned into content

Job photos and videos turned into posts and promos, scheduled across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube automatically.

Customer service: quotes and questions, day or night

An AI receptionist for quotes, hours, service areas and scheduling, around the clock.

Operations: from estimate to five stars

Estimates, appointment reminders, job status updates and a review request after every job.

What we've built for a Houston retailer

George Diaz, our VP of Infrastructure & Systems, co-owns a North Houston furniture and mattress retailer, and it's where we build and prove these systems first. For that store we built:

  • A content engine that produces short-form product videos and schedules them across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube from one self-hosted scheduler.
  • Catalog automation that builds new product listings straight from supplier data, dozens at a time.
  • A weekly stock audit that compares the store's catalog with supplier stock, side by side with photos, and flags what to update.
  • AI-search pages written so Google and AI assistants can answer local buyers' questions with the store's products.

Hours of weekly posting and catalog work now take a review.

Built on your business brain

Every agent pulls from your business brain: a knowledge base of your services, pricing, policies and answers, so it sounds like your best employee on their best day. Decisions that need a license or judgment stay with your people.

Is it a fit?

Best for

  • Contractors and home service companies
  • Local retailers and showrooms
  • Service businesses that depend on reviews

Not the right fit

  • Businesses with very few calls or leads
  • Owners who want every call handled by a person, which is a fine choice

Questions we hear first

Can AI answer calls for a small business?

Yes. An AI receptionist answers every call, handles common questions, gives quotes from your price list and books jobs, and passes anything unusual to you. See AI voice agents.

Can you automate our social media posting?

Yes. We set up a content engine that turns your photos and videos into posts and schedules them across your channels.

How do review requests work?

After a job is marked done, customers get a short, friendly request with a direct link to leave a review.

Give your team its time back.

Tell us where the hours go. In 30 minutes we'll show you what AI can take off your team's plate, and what it shouldn't.

Book an AI readiness assessment →