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Option 01 · Off-the-shelf setup

Set up AI tools that already work.

If a proven AI tool already fits your business, we pick it, set it up, and keep it running.

Best for businesses ready to plug ai into the tools they already use. Typically live in 2–3 weeks.

Option 01

Set up AI tools that already work

If a proven AI tool already fits your business, we pick it, set it up, and keep it running.

What's included

  • We pick the right tool for your business
  • We connect it to the software you already use
  • We check on it every week to keep it working

How the engagement runs

  1. Week 0

    Audit

    We map your tools and pick the one that fits.

  2. Week 1

    Setup

    We install, configure, and connect it to your stack.

  3. Week 2

    Go live

    Live in your business, with you in the loop.

  4. Ongoing

    Weekly check-ins

    We tune it as your business grows.

Examples in practice

After-hours receptionist

An AI receptionist that answers your phone after hours.

No more missed-call voicemails turning into lost jobs.

Instant lead reply

New website leads get a personal reply inside 60 seconds.

First responder usually wins. Now that's always you.

No-show recovery

Automatic appointment reminders that cut no-shows in half.

Recovered revenue every week, with zero staff effort.

Review engine

Reviews collected by text after every visit, replied to by AI.

A steady stream of fresh 5-stars on Google.

AI search visibility

Get found on Google and ChatGPT when locals search your service.

Show up where neighbors are actually looking now.

Social on autopilot

Daily social posts in your voice, scheduled a week ahead.

A presence that doesn't depend on you having time.

What gets delivered

Here's what your customer sees.

What this looks like in your business

A Friday night, after launch.

  1. Call lands

    Fri 6:47 PM

  2. AI answers

    Qualifies, books

  3. On the calendar

    Sat 8:30 AM

It's 6:47 PM on a Friday. You're loading the last truck. A homeowner with a dead AC searches “AC repair near me” and hits your number. Last month, that call would have rung four times and gone to voicemail. The kind of voicemail nobody listens to until Monday, by which point they've called the next three names on the list.

Tonight it gets answered. Not by you, not by a tired front desk. By an AI receptionist that knows your service area, your hours, your pricing, and your calendar. It asks the right questions: what's the system, when did it stop cooling, is it under warranty. It books a Saturday morning service call at 8:30 AM. By the time you're home for dinner, the appointment is in your calendar with the customer's address, the problem description, and a confirmed callback number.

You didn't lift a finger. The next morning, the customer gets a confirmation text. After the visit, an automatic review request goes out. Three days later, a five-star Google review lands. None of that touched your phone.

That's what this offering does. Not a chatbot. Not a script. A working piece of your operation that runs while you sleep.

Off-the-shelf setups, in practice

What an integrate engagement actually does.

When ad spend brings in leads but nobody answers fast, the leads ghost. Drop a sub-minute AI reply that qualifies and books the consult, and show-up rates typically move from around 40% to nearly 70%. The owner stops chasing.

Med spa pattern · Major-metro ad volume

In peak-demand summers, an HVAC shop misses 15 to 20 after-hours calls a day, and most go to the next contractor on the list. A 24/7 AI receptionist that books the job and dispatches the address often recovers $30K to $50K a month in after-hours revenue that used to disappear.

Home services pattern · Peak-demand markets

Past 10,000 orders a month, ticket volume eats the team and hiring more reps barely moves response time. AI that handles where-is-my-order and refund questions absorbs about 70% of the load and drops response time from a day to single-digit minutes — usually saves the next hire.

Ecommerce pattern · Mid-volume support

Most agencies produce one podcast a week and squeeze maybe four LinkedIn posts out of it when the editor isn't slammed. Automated repurposing turns the same recording into the LinkedIn post, the X thread, the YouTube short, the newsletter blurb, and the carousels — and client retention climbs because the work shows up.

Agency pattern · Content repurposing

Patterns we observe across the categories we work in. Specific outcomes vary by business and market.

Common questions

Plain answers, no fluff.

  • What does this cost?

    Set-up engagements usually start in the low thousands. Custom builds are scoped on the audit, so you see a fixed number before you commit. No surprise invoices.

  • Do I have to change the software I already use?

    No. We work with what you've got. Your CRM, your phones, your booking system, your email. The point is to make it smarter, not replace it.

  • What if it doesn't work?

    We don't go live until it works on your real data with your real customers. After launch, weekly check-ins catch drift before it costs you anything.

  • Who owns the data and the system?

    You do. Your data, your accounts, your logins. If we ever part ways, you keep everything.

  • Do I need a tech person on my side?

    No. You don't need to know how any of it works. You only need to know what you want it to do. We handle the rest.

  • What if I want to stop?

    Monthly engagements, cancel anytime. No long contracts. We stay because the work earns it.

Low risk

You're not locked into anything.

  • Month to month. Cancel anytime. No long contracts.
  • You own your data, your accounts, your logins. If we ever part ways, you keep everything.
  • We don't go live until it works on your real customers with your real data.

We stay because the work earns it, not because the contract forces it.

Tell us your situation

Tell us about your business. We'll write back today.

What happens next

  1. You send this

    Logged and scored by our AI employees within a minute, so nothing sits waiting in an inbox.

  2. We reply today

    Two suggested times for the discovery call.

  3. 30 to 45 min call

    We listen, audit, find the bottlenecks. No deck, no pricing.

  4. If there's a fit

    We follow up with a written plan.

Joe Zeng, founder of Apex Local

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