When someone enquires, they get an instant reply, you get alerted on your phone, and follow-up keeps going until they book — automatically. I build it for service businesses like barbers, blinds installers, cafés and tradies. It's done-for-you and managed — you own your number, data and site, on flat AUD with no platform lock-in. Cancel anytime.
A real reply flow from a site I've built. The customer messages, the system answers in seconds, qualifies the job, alerts you, and saves the lead — on your own number, no app to install. It's the same component that runs live on the businesses I build for — press try it live and talk to it yourself.
Pick a time below — 30 minutes, online. Before the call I send a real enquiry through your site and time exactly what happens, so we start with your real numbers. You get a one-page report of where leads are slipping through, and what an owned system would fix. You keep the report. No pitch unless you ask.
30 minutes · nothing to install · you'll leave knowing your #1 leak.
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Here's the whole sequence when a customer fills in a form on a site I've built — every step automatic, nothing left to remember.
A Sunshine Coast home-services business — my own, which I built this for first — was paying $97/month for an all-in-one platform (GoHighLevel), with its AI receptionist gated behind a further ~$97/month. Roughly $1,200–2,300+/year for a system the business didn't own and would lose the day it stopped paying.
Replaced a $1,200–2,300+/year platform subscription (GoHighLevel plus its AI add-on) with a system I own — no monthly platform fee, just a few dollars of usage, zero lock-in and full data ownership — while adding things the old platform never had. It all runs off one settings file, so it re-stands for any service business that takes enquiries online — I build it, host it and run it for you, managed, from A$149/mo + a one-off setup — still less than half what GoHighLevel plus its AI add-on costs.
Enquiry comes in → customer gets a branded reply in seconds → you're alerted → follow-up keeps going. The system above, fitted to your business.
Answers your customers 24/7, captures and books them, and hands price / complaint / hot leads straight to you — grounded in your real business, never quoting a firm price.
Bookings, invoicing, reminders, CRM updates — the repetitive work that eats your evenings, done automatically.
Your forms, email, texts and calendar wired into one flow that doesn't drop things or double-book.
Swap the all-in-one platform you rent ($100–200/mo) for a leaner managed service that costs less — and where you own your site, number and data.
Deep GoHighLevel experience: automate inside it, or move you cleanly off it. I've done both.
You already know calls slip through when you're on the tools or with a customer. Slide your numbers in — this is straight multiplication on your figures, not an invented industry stat.
4 missed/wk × 4.33 wks × 30% booked × A$300 avg job
Not sure which you need? Start with the free audit — I find where leads are slipping through, then recommend the right build. Book the free audit ↑
One simple model: a done-for-you AI front desk, managed monthly. Start with missed-call text-back at $49, or go full AI receptionist from $149 — I build it, host it and run it. On the $149+ plans you own your number, data and site outright; flat AUD, no platform lock-in. Pick the tier that fits (I'll confirm it on the free audit). Need a website too? That's a separate one-off.
Fair use: 50 missed-call conversations + 300 web chats/mo. First 90 days of payments credit toward Standard setup when you upgrade.
START NOW →Best for solo barbers, cafés, single-chair shops.
A website is a one-off you own outright — never folded into the monthly fee. The receptionist plans are managed monthly.
Each plan includes a monthly call allowance; beyond it, calls are billed per minute (shown up-front in your quote) so a busy month is never a surprise. 3-month minimum on Standard & Pro. GST not charged. Founding partners — the first few clients who'll vouch for the work — get a locked $50/mo rate.
Most automation vendors pipe your customer data through whatever cloud tool is convenient. I build in data boundaries: sensitive details — names, phones, medical or financial info — are detected and hidden before anything leaves your own systems, and every piece that does leave is written to a log you can open and read.
For businesses that handle sensitive client information — clinics, brokers, legal, finance — this is the difference between "we use AI" and "we use AI responsibly." Ask me about AI that runs on a computer in your own office, with the cloud used only for what it's genuinely better at.
One short call. You describe the outcome — faster replies, fewer missed leads, less manual admin — and I'll tell you exactly what I'd build, what it costs, and how long it takes. The fastest way is to book the free audit ↑, or email me:
hello@francoautomation.com