Answers customers after hours
Somebody finds you at half past nine with a question, and gets an answer then — not a form and not silence until Tuesday. It knows the difference between a real question and small talk.
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Your business, answered — even when you're closed.
We build your shop its own AI agent: an assistant that sits on your website, knows your hours, your menu, your services and your prices, and answers your customers' questions the way you would. At nine at night. On a Sunday. While you're elbow-deep in the work.
$2,000 to build it, $500 a month to keep it running. Built by hand, one business at a time — and it never guesses an answer it doesn't have.
Day to day
What it actually does for you.
Four jobs, done the way a good front-desk person would do them — not a chatbot reciting a script.
Takes enquiry and booking details
It asks for the name, the number, the date, what they're after — whatever you tell us to collect — and sends it to you however you want it. You still say yes or no to every one.
Knows your hours, menu, services and prices
Your real ones — because you wrote them down for us. No customer gets told you're open when you're shut, or quoted last season's price, or sold a service you stopped doing in March.
Keeps the same answers coming
The questions you answer fifty times a week — do you deliver, do you take cards, is there parking, how much for a small one — get asked of the agent instead of you. Same answer every time, in your voice.
And the honest list of what it won't do.
Every one of these is deliberate. An assistant that guesses, or that quietly takes a booking you can't keep, costs you a customer — so we build it to stop and hand things back to you instead.
- It won't make up an answer. If something isn't in what you gave us, it says it doesn't know and takes the customer's details so you can come back to them.
- It won't take money. No payments, no card details, no deposits. It hands you the enquiry and you take it from there.
- It won't confirm a booking you haven't agreed to. It collects the request and tells the customer you'll come back to them — never that they're in.
- It doesn't answer the phone. This one lives in writing on your website. If you want it on the phone too, ask us — that's a different job.
How the build goes
Four steps, and you're only needed for two of them.
You tell us about the shop
An email or a chat, whichever you prefer. What you do, who asks you what, and the questions that wear you out. If you've already got your website with us, we start from that.
We write it in, in your words
Your hours, services, prices, menu, policies, the answers you give every day. We build the agent around that — not a generic assistant that has to be told what a barber is.
You read it and correct us
We send you a private link and you talk to it the way a customer would. Every time it says something wrong, you tell us and we fix it. This is the part that makes it sound like your business.
It goes on your site
Once you're happy, it goes live on your website. Then the monthly starts, and we keep it honest — watching what it answers, keeping your details current, and fixing what slips.
The price
One build fee. One monthly. Nothing hidden in between.
Building it is the work: learning your business, writing it all in, testing it with you until it sounds right. Keeping it running is the other half — and that's the part most people forget to ask about.
$2,000
One time, to build your agent. Paid once, when it goes live on your site.
$500 / month
Keeps it running
The monthly covers the whole job of keeping it on the air and telling the truth. In plain terms:
- Your agent running on your website, day and night — the hosting and the work behind every answer it gives.
- Keeping your details current. New hours, a price change, a new service, something off the menu — tell us and we change it.
- Watching the conversations and cleaning up the answers — when it says something clumsily, we rewrite how it thinks about that.
- A person to email when something's off. Not a ticket queue — the same person who built it.
No contract to sign, and the monthly stops when you say so — the agent comes off your site and the build stays yours. Fair warning from the other side: an agent is only as good as the details behind it, and a business that changes its whole offer every week will need more of our time than one that doesn't.
Questions
The ones people ask us first.
Will it sound like my business, or like a robot?
Like your business — as much as we can make it. We write in how you actually talk to people, the words you use for what you sell, and the things you'd never say. You read every answer it gives and correct us until it's right. It won't sound like a call centre, and it won't be writing poetry either.
What happens when it doesn't know something?
It says so, in plain words, and offers to take the customer's name and number so you can come back to them. That's a setting we keep on deliberately — an assistant that invents an answer costs you more than one that admits it doesn't have it.
Do I need a website first?
Yes — the agent lives on your website, so there has to be one for it to live on. If you don't have one yet, that's what the rest of Front Porch does, and we'd build the site first.
What happens to the details my customers type in?
They come to you, and they're used to answer that customer and nothing else. No lists, no reselling, no marketing of anybody else's thing. If you'd rather your customers didn't leave their details at all, we can run it so the agent answers questions and points them to your phone number instead.
What if I want to stop?
Tell us and the monthly stops. The agent comes off your site at the end of that month. There's no contract holding you in, and nothing to buy out of — we'd rather you kept it because it earns its keep.
Can it answer my phone, or reply to texts?
Not at this price, and not as part of this build. This one works in writing on your website. Phone and messaging agents are a bigger job — if that's what you're after, say so and we'll tell you honestly whether it's worth doing.
Start here
Tell us about your business and we'll show you what your agent would say.
Three questions, about a minute: what your business is, the tasks you'd hand to an agent, and how to reach you. You tell us, we come back to you with what we'd build and what it would cost — $2,000 to build, $500 a month after that. Nothing to pay for asking.
Or just email [email protected] — it reaches the person who builds them.