๐Ÿ“ Built in Ontario for small businesses across Canada

AI Agents for Small Business
So You Can Stay on the Job

We build three ready-made AI agents for Canadian owner-operated businesses: a Front Desk Agent that answers your calls and website chats, a Follow-Up Agent that texts back missed calls and chases quotes, and an Admin Agent that sorts your email and invoices. Start with a free working prototype in 5 business days. If you go ahead, the fixed-price build is typically live in about 2 weeks.

What your agents are built with

Retell AIVapiTwilion8nClaudeQuickBooks
Free prototype offer

AI coding tools now do the build work about 5x faster. Are those savings being passed on to you?

"I'll build you a working prototype in 5 business days, free, no obligation."

Scott Holmes, founder

What sped up is the mechanical build: connecting your phone, calendar or email and testing it all. Getting to know your business still takes a proper conversation, so it starts with a free 30-minute call where we pick the one job to prototype. Then you watch it working on a video call before you decide anything.

5 days
Business days to a working prototype
Free
No charge for the prototype
None
Obligation. Don't go ahead and you owe nothing
4
Free prototypes a month, first come, first served

Sound familiar?

A normal week when you're the owner, the salesperson and the office manager all at once.

The phone rings while you're up a ladder

You can't answer with a drill in one hand. By the time you call back at 6 p.m., the customer has booked whoever picked up first.

Fixed by: Front Desk Agent

Quotes go out, then nothing happens

You spent an evening pricing a job and emailed it over. You meant to follow up on Thursday. Then Thursday turned into three weeks.

Fixed by: Follow-Up Agent

Sunday night is paperwork night

Receipts on the dashboard, supplier bills in the inbox, and two customers who still haven't paid. It all waits for the one evening you'd rather have off.

Fixed by: Admin Agent

You answer the same questions all day

Do you come out to my area? Are you open Saturday? Roughly what does it cost? Each call takes two minutes, and together they eat your afternoon.

Fixed by: Front Desk Agent

What can an AI agent do for a small business?

Each of our agents has one clear job. Start with the one that fixes your biggest headache and add another later if you want.

Front Desk Agent

Answers your phone and website chat 24/7 in a natural voice. It answers common questions from your own information, books appointments into your calendar, takes detailed messages and texts you a summary. Urgent calls get put through to you.

See the Front Desk Agent

Follow-Up Agent

Texts back missed calls within a minute, nudges quotes that went quiet, sends appointment reminders, asks for Google reviews and checks in with past customers when their season comes round. It only messages people who contacted you or bought from you.

See the Follow-Up Agent

Admin Agent

Sorts your inbox and drafts replies for you to approve, turns emails and photos of receipts into invoices or QuickBooks entries, keeps the job schedule current and chases unpaid invoices politely. Once a week you get a short summary.

See the Admin Agent

How does it work?

Six steps, and the first two are free. You see your agent working before you pay for anything.

Free 30-minute call

By phone or video. You tell us what eats your week. We name the 2 or 3 jobs worth handing to an agent, and agree on one to prototype.

Free prototype in 5 business days

I build a working prototype of that one job on your tools in a test setup, or on sample data. You watch it run on a video call. No charge, no obligation.

A fixed price in writing

If you like what you saw, you get a short scope and a fixed price for the real build. The prototype work isn't charged on top.

The production build

We connect it to your live phone, calendar, email or QuickBooks, and you test it before any customer does. Typically live in about 2 weeks.

Go live with support

Documentation, a walkthrough and 2 weeks of support are included. Until you trust it, you approve what it sends to customers.

Optional monthly support

Costs from $99/month, month to month, cancel anytime. Either way, you own what we build.

Who are these agents for?

Businesses with 1 to 20 people, where the owner still handles sales, scheduling and admin, often from a truck or between appointments. Some examples of how each type of business might use an agent:

Trades and home services

HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fencing, glass and windows, cleaning, renovation. For example, a window and glass company could have the Front Desk Agent take the size and address of a broken storefront window at 9 p.m. and text the owner a summary.

Front Desk Agent

Clinics

Dental, physio, chiropractic and vet clinics. For example, a physio clinic could send reminders the day before each appointment and let patients reply to confirm or ask to rebook.

Follow-Up Agent

Salons and spas

For example, a two-chair salon could let the Front Desk Agent answer "anything open Saturday?" and book the slot while the stylist keeps working.

Front Desk Agent

Local shops and food businesses

For example, an ice cream shop could have the Admin Agent pull party and catering enquiries out of the inbox and draft replies with dates and options for the owner to approve.

Admin Agent

Seasonal and rental businesses

For example, a landscaping company could message last year's customers in March about spring cleanups, and a fence rental company could remind customers before their rental period ends.

Follow-Up Agent

Small professional offices

Bookkeepers, accountants, real estate and law offices. For example, a bookkeeper could have client emails with receipts attached turned into draft QuickBooks entries for review.

Admin Agent

112 systems built. 69 running today. Ask to see any of them.

Most of what you need is already built, tested and running somewhere in our portfolio, alongside 130 n8n workflows. That's why we publish fixed prices instead of quoting from scratch. Here are three that are live right now.

AI Receptionist Call Workflows

Deployed

Post-call automations for AI phone agents: when a voice agent finishes a call, the caller is captured as a lead and a call summary is sent, plus demo flows covering both sides of a sample call.

How it's built →

Multi-Domain Lead Intake

Live in production

One webhook pipeline receives contact and lead forms from every site in the domain network, normalises and spam-checks each submission, stores it and alerts the owner within seconds.

How it's built →

AI Visibility Audit Engine (PDF report, Claude skill and Apify Actor)

Live in production

Takes one business URL, works out what the business does and where, generates real local buyer questions, asks them across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI including the live Google AI Overview, and returns a visibility score, the competitors named instead, the exact sources AI cites and a ranked action plan. Delivered as a polished PDF report with an outreach email, and as a pay-per-use Apify Actor.

How it's built →
Ontario-based ยท Working across Canada

Who builds your agent?

AI Agents for Small Business was founded by Scott Holmes, an Ontario-based AI automation builder. He builds AI voice agents with Retell AI and Vapi, workflow automations with n8n, and AI agents with Claude, and has built AI systems for clients ranging from local trades businesses to technology companies.

The way we work is built around trust. You approve anything that goes to a customer until you're comfortable. You can see every call, text and email the agent handled. And the price is fixed before we start. Calls are by phone or video, so it doesn't matter where in Canada you are.

More about us
Free
30-minute call, then a working prototype in 5 business days
Fixed
Price in writing before the build starts
~2 wks
Typical time to a live production build
2 wks
Of support included after launch

What does an AI agent cost?

The prototype is free. The build is one fixed price, in writing, and monthly support is optional.

One-time build

Your first agent

from $995

The production build after your free prototype: connection to your phone, calendar, email or QuickBooks, a test version, documentation, a walkthrough and 2 weeks of support. The prototype isn't charged on top.

Optional

Monthly support

from $99/month

We update the agent when your hours, prices or services change and fix anything that stops working. Month to month, cancel anytime, and you keep everything we built.

Only need one small piece, like texting back missed calls? A single automation is from $499. See full pricing

Quick answers

More on the full FAQ page.

What is an AI agent, in plain English?

It's software that handles one specific job for your business from start to finish, like answering a call, sending a text or filing an email. It works from your information and your rules, and when it isn't sure about something, it takes a message or asks you instead of guessing.

How much does an AI agent cost for a small business?

The prototype is free. After that, each agent is a one-time, fixed-price build, and monthly support is optional and month to month. You get the exact price in writing before the build starts. Current prices are on our pricing page.

How long does it take to set up?

Your free working prototype is ready within 5 business days of us having your sample data and test access. If you go ahead, the production build is typically live in about 2 weeks from the day you approve the fixed price, with 2 weeks of support after launch.

What if it says something wrong to a customer?

Until you trust it, you approve anything it sends to a customer. Every call, text and email it handles is logged, so you can see exactly what happened. If it gets something wrong, we correct its information and test it again.

Do you only work with businesses in Ontario?

No. We're based in Ontario and work with small businesses across Canada. Everything happens by phone or video.

AI made building about 5x faster. Get the savings.

Book a free 30-minute call. If there is a good first build, I will make you a working prototype in 5 business days, free, with no obligation.

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