The Hive is a planned set of six workflows for missed calls, booking, reviews, after-hours questions, follow-ups, and invoices. It is not publicly operating yet. Provider setup, carrier registration, consent and opt-out handling, data-flow review, and end-to-end tests must pass before any production onboarding.
Status: no Hive purchase, subscription, live demo, or deployment is currently offered. Prices and bundle terms shown below are proposals for feedback, not quotes. An inquiry creates no obligation and does not authorize automated calls or texts.
Planned delivery process
You name it. We scope it. Then we prove it.
Name the chore
Anything you do by hand twice a week, or lose sleep over missing. If a machine should be doing it, say so — the answer is almost always “yes, I can set that up.”
I wire it up
After providers, permissions, costs, consent, retention, and failure handling are documented, a test configuration can be built on accounts you control. Nothing becomes customer-facing before an agreed acceptance test.
Production comes last
Monitoring, support boundaries, opt-outs, data retention, and a manual fallback must exist before launch. Those operating controls are still being prepared, so this step is not yet available.
The proposed Hive, cell by cell
Six workflows. What each one is intended to do.
These descriptions are requirements under review, not evidence of a live service. The pricing page shows planning estimates and lets you model a possible bundle.
The Responder · missed-call text-back
Target behavior: after an unanswered call, an approved message is sent only where the provider, carrier, law, and customer permissions allow it.
Existing-number support is subject to provider and carrier approval
You approve the exact message; it’s written in your voice, and it never pretends you typed it
A shared inbox is a planned operator requirement, not a currently supplied interface
A separate after-hours message for nights and weekends
Required carrier registration and opt-out handling must complete before activation
No public launch date or carrier-approval timeline is promised
Proposed for businesses whose hands are full when the phone rings. Planning estimate: $99/mo, $0 setup; not currently for sale.
Online booking
A booking page that fills your calendar while you work — no phone-tag, no double-booking.
A booking link under your business name — share it anywhere: your site, Google, Instagram
Your services, durations, and prices — customers only pick from what you allow
Syncs both ways with the calendar on your phone; booked is booked, no doubles
Confirmation and reminder texts go out automatically — fewer no-shows
Reschedule and cancel links that update everything on their own
For anyone booked by the hour — salons, barbers, groomers, tutors, cleaners. $200 setup, $29/mo.
Review engine
Reviews are how a town decides who to call. Most owners never ask — this asks, every time.
After each job, the customer gets one friendly text with your direct Google review link
One polite follow-up if they don’t get to it — never pestering
Every new review lands as a drafted reply in your inbox — approve it, send it
Rough reviews get a calm, professional draft so you stay gracious in public
A monthly tally: new reviews, your rating, how you stand
For trades and restaurants that live on the map results. $150 setup, $69/mo.
After-hours answering
A small chat window on your website that answers the questions people ask at 9pm.
Answers only from a fact sheet you approve — hours, prices, service area, parking, policies
Points people to booking or takes a message; it says plainly that it’s automated
Anything it can’t answer becomes a name and number texted straight to you
A transcript each morning, so you see every question your customers actually ask
Updated whenever your facts change — new prices, new hours, same day
For restaurants, gyms, contractors — anyone fielding the same ten questions. $250 setup, $69/mo.
Customer follow-ups
The cheapest customer is the one you already won. This keeps you in their pocket, gently.
Your customer list — names, numbers, emails you’ve collected — kept clean, and kept yours
A short note in your voice: what’s new, what’s seasonal, when to come by
You approve every send — nothing goes out without your nod
Sent by text or email, whichever your customers actually read
Proper unsubscribe handling, always — friendly, never spammy
For bakeries, cafés, salons, shops — anywhere people should come back. $150 setup, $49/mo.
Getting paid
Deposits up front, invoices that chase themselves, cards taken on site. Set up once, yours forever.
Set up on your own accounts — the money never touches mine
Clean, professional invoices with a pay-now button (card or bank)
Automatic polite nudges on unpaid invoices, so you never have to be the nag
Deposit collection for bigger jobs, and tap-to-pay on your phone if you want it
A walkthrough so you can run all of it without me
For trades tired of chasing checks. $200 one-time — no monthly fee to me.
Pre-launch status — no public demo line
The published business number is a normal contact line; it is not a working Responder demo. A public trial will appear here only after carrier registration, provider configuration, consent and opt-out tests, delivery/failure tests, and monitoring are complete.
Quoting, scheduling crews, intake forms, waivers, gift cards, waitlists — if a chore has a shape, there’s software for it. Tell me what it is and I’ll quote it honestly.
Nothing I set up pretends to be a person. A helper answers instantly and says what it is — then a real person, you or me, follows through. That’s the whole trick, and it’s stronger than pretending.
Customer-controlled by design
A future deployment must use accounts and data ownership documented with the customer, with explicit access, export, retention, deletion, cancellation, and shutdown procedures. Those controls are launch requirements, not current service claims.
Accountability before launch
Production support hours, monitoring, incident response, provider escalation, and manual fallback must be documented before a customer workflow is activated. They are still being prepared.
Help shape one workflow — or the whole Hive.
Tell us which workflow would matter most and what safeguards you would expect. This is product research, not onboarding. Website inquiries remain a separate path.