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Pick your kind of business and get a ready setup for the jobs that eat your evenings: missed calls, rebooking texts, catering requests, product pages. Every setup keeps you in charge of what gets sent.
One setup for a real local business, in a short email you can act on the same day.
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36 setups across 8 kinds of business
Home services and trades5 setups
Plumbers, electricians, heating and cooling, roofers and landscapers: calls, estimates and follow-ups.
Cleaning companies5 setups
House cleaners and commercial cleaning crews: quotes, checklists and repeat bookings.
Salons and barbershops5 setups
Hair, nails and barbers: rebooking, open chairs and service menus.
Restaurants and cafes4 setups
Restaurants, cafes, bakeries and food trucks: menus, specials and catering requests.
Shops and boutiques4 setups
Independent stores and small online shops: product pages, stock notes and customer emails.
Gyms and studios4 setups
Gyms, yoga and dance studios and personal trainers: trials, class schedules and member check-ins.
Auto repair and detailing4 setups
Repair shops and detailers: repair explanations, service reminders and reviews.
Pet grooming and care5 setups
Groomers, dog walkers and boarding: booking notes, visit reports and reminders.
Home services and trades
Turn each missed-call voicemail transcript into a filled-in job ticket and a short callback text for the owner to check and send.
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Setups are sorted by kind of business, so the examples sound like your shop, your crew and your customers.
Your prices, policies and schedule go into the brackets. The agent works only from what you give it.
You read every draft before a customer sees it. Each setup lists the mistakes to watch for.
36 setups
Turn a new job request into a short message asking for photos and details, then a one-page job sheet the owner can quote from or book a visit.
Rewrite your own repair estimate as a plain explanation with good, better and best options, using only your prices and warranty terms.
Turn each missed-call voicemail transcript into a filled-in job ticket and a short callback text for the owner to check and send.
Draft the night-before arrival window text and a short running-late text from your schedule, so the office or tech can check and send them fast.
Draft friendly seasonal reminders, such as fall sprinkler blowouts or furnace tune-ups, for each past customer from your own customer list.
Draft a calm reply when a client says your cleaning quote is too high: what the price covers, a smaller option if you offer one, and an easy next step.
When a holiday closes your cleaning day, match each regular client to an open slot you choose and draft a short note for the owner to check and send.
Draft a recurring cleaning quote from rooms, square footage and pets, with the price math shown line by line from your own rate sheet.
Draft a warm apology and a re-clean offer when a client says a spot was missed, using your re-clean policy, for the owner to approve.
Turn your walkthrough notes for a new cleaning client into a room-by-room checklist with requests, do-not items and add-ons for you to price.
Draft one clear deposit announcement and short, kind notes for each group of clients, all in your own policy words, for the owner to check and send.
Draft friendly replies to price questions in direct messages, giving your real starting prices and inviting a quick consult, for the stylist to check and send.
Draft rebooking texts timed to each service, such as color at six weeks or a fade at three, from your own client list, for a person to approve.
Turn a short list of salon services into a clear menu with plain descriptions, appointment lengths and who each service suits, using your own facts.
When a client cancels at short notice, draft short texts to waitlisted clients who fit the open slot, so a stylist can fill the chair fast.
Reply to office and party catering requests with a menu proposal built only from your catering menu and its prices, ready for the owner to check and send.
Turn the chef's morning specials list into chalkboard lines, a social post and a server rundown, using only the dishes and prices the kitchen wrote down.
Draft day-before reminder texts that ask guests to confirm or cancel, a same-day note for big parties, and plain wording for your no-show policy.
Rewrite flat or confusing menu descriptions into short, appetizing lines that show what is in each dish and send every allergy question to your staff.
Turn a maker's spec sheet and your own notes into warm product page copy with accurate sizes, materials and care details, checked by you before it goes live.
Build a holiday gift guide, such as gifts under $25, from your current inventory export, using only items with enough stock and the prices you set.
Draft "your order is in" messages and a friendly hold reminder from your special-order list, for the counter to check and send.
Draft back-in-stock and waitlist emails from today's stock count, so the customers who asked hear first, with every quantity and date checked by you.
Turn today's class sign-in list and your own policy into short, friendly notes for members who missed, for the owner or manager to check and send.
Draft a short, friendly follow-up sequence for people who took a free trial class or session, built from your studio's real offers and schedule.
Spot members whose visits have dropped off and draft a short, caring check-in from their coach or studio owner, for a person to review and send.
Turn your studio timetable into a clear weekly schedule post, and draft short notices when a class is cancelled, moved or gets a substitute teacher.
Use your shop's visit records and interval sheet to draft mileage or date based service reminders, ready for a person to review and send.
Turn open repair orders and supplier dates into short updates for each customer whose car is waiting on parts, for the service writer to send.
Turn your technician's shorthand repair notes into a plain explanation for the customer, with prices only from the repair order.
Draft a personal follow-up text after a customer picks up their vehicle, with care tips from your own sheet and a polite review request.
When a dog or cat arrives badly matted, draft a calm, clear message that explains the shave-down and asks the owner's OK before the groomer starts.
Sort holiday boarding requests against your open kennel space and draft waitlist and deposit reminder messages using only your own policy.
Turn a long new pet intake form into short handling notes for the groomer or sitter: temperament, coat, triggers and anything to ask the owner.
Turn a dog walker's or sitter's quick notes into a friendly visit report card for the pet parent, with any health concern flagged for a vet.
Check upcoming grooming and boarding visits against record dates on file, and draft a friendly note to each pet parent whose record runs out first.
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Small Business AI Agents is a free library of AI agent setups for small businesses. Each setup covers one job, with the prompt to copy, the steps to follow and the checks a person runs before anything goes out. It has 36 setups across 8 categories.
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Tuesday mornings, 6:30am Pacific, before you open. Each issue has one setup.
No. Every setup keeps a person in charge. It writes the first draft. You read it and send it yourself, or fix it first.
Most setups work with Claude or ChatGPT. Every setup says which app to use, about how much time it gives back, and what to double-check.
Home services and trades, Cleaning companies, Salons and barbershops, Restaurants and cafes, Shops and boutiques, Gyms and studios, Auto repair and detailing, Pet grooming and care.