Issue 04  ·  The front desk

There's an AI answering questions on my website right now. Go ask it something, I'll wait. Nav bar, "✦ Ask AI," or click the glowing TV in the room.

Last issue I hired an AI employee. That one works for me, in private, in my chat window. This one is the opposite. It works for my customers, out in the open, while I'm asleep. Same idea, moved to the front desk.

What it actually does

Three jobs, no salary. It answers real questions about what I build, with the real prices, not vague marketing. When it's a custom job it doesn't guess, it points people to a call. And when someone shows up at 2am genuinely interested, it catches their name and email so the lead doesn't evaporate by morning.

● ● ●   someguyandai.com · Ask AI
A real chat with the AI on someguyandai.com: it says it's an AI and offers a call with Tim

A real answer from the live bot. Go ask it yourself.

The honest part, because someone should say it

I asked mine "are you a real person?" It said it's an AI, and that you're talking to the thing that does the work. It will not pretend to be me. That's on purpose, and it's half the reason it works.

  You're literally talking to the thing that does the work.

It talks. It doesn't act.

Here's the line that keeps it safe: it never books a call on its own, never charges anything, and never invents a price or a promise. If it isn't sure, it hands you to a human. That's not the bot being dumb. When a bot speaks for your business, its words are your words, and a made-up price is a real one you now have to honor. "I don't know, let me get Tim" is the most important thing it says.

Steal this

→ Give it the whole brief, not a search system. A small business has small knowledge. Put the prices, the policies, and the voice straight into its instructions. Simpler than the fancy setups, and it can't grab the wrong file.
→ Make "I don't know" the main feature. Its number one job isn't answering everything. It's never making anything up, then handing off cleanly. Build that in from the first line.
→ Tell people it's an AI. Say it in the opening line, put a tag on it. It's honest, it's the law now, and people trust it more when it's upfront, not less.
→ Catch the lead, don't just chat. A pleasant conversation that ends with the person gone is a loss. The whole point is that they leave a name instead of leaving.

What it costs to run

Pennies. It runs on the cheap fast model, well under a cent per conversation, a few bucks a month at my traffic. The build is the cost. The running is a rounding error.

Go ask mine a question →

Then, if you want your own: The Full Build: The AI Concierge has the files, the prompts, the order I built it in, and the gotchas.

 

Or get it free

Get 3 friends to subscribe with your personal link and the kit is on the house. No catch, just a deal between us. Your link:

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Next week, a different build, same deal: the thing I made, and the part you can steal. If you know someone who wishes their website could answer for itself, send them this one.

Talk soon,
Tim

Some guy. Not an expert. Just building.

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