For Contractors, Salons & Spas, Health Offices, Restaurants & Local Shops

Never Miss Another Customer
While You're Busy Working.

Every call, text, and website message gets answered, booked, and followed up, day or night. You keep your hands on the job and get your evenings back. We set it all up for you.

You don't need more software to manage. You need one more reliable person at the front desk. That's what we build.
24/7 Calls, texts & chats answered
100% Set up and run for you
0 Hidden fees. Ever.
A cafe owner taking a customer call while working behind the counter

It Sounds Like You

Your AI assistant is set up with your services, your hours, your prices, and the way you talk to customers. You approve what it says before it goes live.

A Person When It Matters

When a customer asks for a human, or the question needs your judgment, the conversation is handed to you or your staff with the details attached.

Nothing Breaks

We work alongside the phone number, calendar, and tools you already use. Nothing that works today gets ripped out.

Set Up For You

No software to learn and no weekend lost to setup. We build it, test it, and keep it running. You talk to a real person when you need us.

You Can't Do the Work and Answer the Phone at the Same Time

You're good at what you do, and that's why you're busy. But while you're with one customer, the next one is calling, and nobody is picking up.

PROBLEM 01

The Phone Rings While Your Hands Are Full

You're on a ladder, with a client in the chair, or in the middle of the dinner rush. The call goes to voicemail. Most people don't leave one. They call the next business on the list.

PROBLEM 02

The Follow-Up Nobody Owns

The quote you sent last week. The person who said "let me think about it." The missed call you meant to return. Nobody is in charge of chasing them, so they quietly go cold.

PROBLEM 03

The Work After the Work

Estimates, reminders, invoices, and messages all wait until the day is over. So you do paperwork at night and feel like you're always giving up time at the job or time at home.

You're Not Short on Customers. They're Slipping Away Before You Get to Them.

These are the four places local businesses lose work they already earned.

  • Calls After Hours and During the Rush

    People call when it suits them: at lunch, after work, on Sunday. If nobody answers and nobody texts back, they move on.

  • Website Visitors With a Quick Question

    "Do you do this?" "How much?" "Are you open Saturday?" With nobody to ask, they leave and you never know they were there.

  • Quotes and Inquiries That Never Get Chased

    One follow-up text often decides who gets the job. When you're busy, that text doesn't get sent.

  • No-Shows and Last-Minute Cancellations

    An empty slot is money you can't get back. Without reminders, deposits, or a waitlist, it keeps happening.

None of this shows up on a report. You just feel it as a slow week and a long night.

A few missed calls, a couple of quotes nobody chased, and one no-show a day add up quickly. The free analysis puts real numbers on it for your business, using your own call log and statements.

It's Costing You More Than Money

The bill for doing everything yourself comes due in three places.

Jobs
Lost to Whoever Answered First

The customer wanted you. They hired the business that picked up the phone, replied to the message, or sent the follow-up.

Evenings
Spent on Estimates and Paperwork

Returning calls at 8 PM, writing quotes at the kitchen table, and sending reminders by hand. That time comes out of your family and your sleep.

Margin
Eaten by Fees You Never See

Card processing statements are hard to read on purpose. Most owners have never had someone go through theirs line by line.

You Don't Need More Software.
You Need Dependable Help.

Most owners don't want a big team or a complicated system. They want a few things handled properly, every time, without having to think about them. Here is what that gives you back.

Your Time Back

Calls, booking, reminders, and follow-up happen without you. Evenings and weekends stop being catch-up time.

A Fuller Calendar

More of the people who reach out end up booked, and more of the people who book show up.

Still Your Voice

Customers get a fast, friendly answer in your words, and a real person whenever they need one.

Proof It's Working

A simple report shows calls answered, appointments booked, and payments collected, so you can see what you're paying for.

Six Ways We Take Work Off Your Plate

Start with the one that hurts most. Add the rest when you're ready.

Most owners start with number one.

1. Never Miss a Customer

An AI assistant answers your calls and website chat, takes after-hours inquiries, and texts back anyone you missed. It hands off to a person when needed.

  • Takes away: calls going to voicemail while you're working.
  • Gives you: every customer answered, with a next step.
Start here

2. Booked and Showing Up

Online booking, intake forms, confirmations, and reminders. Deposits and a waitlist if you want them.

  • Takes away: phone tag, no-shows, and empty slots.
  • Gives you: a fuller, more predictable calendar.
Fewer no-shows

3. Follow-Up That Happens on Its Own

Texts and emails after every inquiry and quote, callbacks to people who reached out, review requests, and check-ins with past customers.

  • Takes away: quotes and callers that go cold.
  • Gives you: more jobs from people who already contacted you.
More repeat business

4. A Website That Brings In Work

A fast, clean website built and hosted for you, set up to be found locally and kept current without you touching it.

  • Takes away: a dated site and the upkeep.
  • Gives you: a business that looks established and gets found.
Built and hosted for you

5. Get Paid Faster, Keep More

Payment links, deposits, and invoices by text, plus a line-by-line audit of your card processing fees. Transparent rates, no hidden fees.

  • Takes away: chasing invoices and fees you can't explain.
  • Gives you: cash in sooner and more of every sale.
Free fee audit

6. Built Around How You Work

Custom AI and automations that connect the tools you already use, so information moves on its own and you get one simple report.

  • Takes away: typing the same thing into two places.
  • Gives you: hours back every week, with nothing replaced that already works.
Custom to your business

What Stops Landing on You

You keep your phone number, your calendar, and the tools that already work. We take over the parts that keep slipping.

× Calls going to voicemail
× Website messages nobody sees until morning
× Quotes sent and never chased
× No-shows and empty slots
× Invoices you have to chase
× Typing the same details twice
Core Merchants

Handled For You

One team sets it up, watches it, and answers when you call.

  • Every call and message answered
  • Appointments booked and confirmed
  • Follow-ups sent on time
  • Reminders out before every visit
  • Payments requested and collected
  • Details passed between your tools
  • One simple report

Set Up for the Way Your Business Runs

The same help, tuned to what a busy day looks like for you.

For Contractors & Trades

  • Calls answered while you're on the job, with the details texted to you
  • Missed calls get an instant text back so the customer doesn't call the next name
  • Estimate requests collected with photos, address, and job type before you call
  • Quotes followed up automatically until you get a yes or a no
  • Deposits and final payments collected by text
  • Review requests sent when the job is done

Stop answering the phone with equipment running, and stop writing estimates at night.

For Salons & Spas

  • Booking by phone, text, or website at any hour, without pulling staff off the floor
  • Confirmations and reminders before every appointment
  • Deposits and a clear cancellation policy applied for you
  • A waitlist that fills last-minute openings
  • Follow-up with people who asked about a service and didn't book
  • Rebooking nudges and review requests after each visit

Fewer no-shows and empty chairs, and a front desk that isn't stuck on the phone.

For Health Offices

  • Common questions answered at any hour: hours, location, services, what to bring
  • Appointment requests taken when the front desk is busy or closed
  • Missed calls get a text back with a way to book
  • Reminders by text and email to cut no-shows
  • Forms sent ahead so they aren't filled out at the counter
  • Set up with your privacy and compliance requirements in mind

Take pressure off a short-staffed front desk without adding headcount.

For Restaurants

  • The phone answered during the rush: hours, directions, menu and allergy questions
  • Reservations and large-party requests taken without tying up the host
  • Catering and private event inquiries captured and followed up
  • A website that sends orders and bookings to you directly
  • A line-by-line audit of your card processing fees
  • Review requests and offers that bring regulars back

Keep staff on the floor during service, and keep more of every check.

For Shops & Retail

  • "Do you have it?" and "Are you open?" answered by phone, text, and chat
  • Messages after closing answered instead of waiting until morning
  • Holds, special orders, and pickup requests taken down for you
  • A website that reflects your shop and your voice
  • Emails and texts that bring past customers back in
  • A line-by-line audit of your card processing fees

Help the customer in front of you without losing the one on the phone.

Doing It All Yourself vs. Having It Handled

The same business, the same customers, and a different week.

On Your Own Today With Core Merchants
Calls While You're Busy Voicemail, if they leave one Answered, with details sent to you
After Hours Wait until morning Answered and booked overnight
Missed Calls Call back when you remember Instant text back
Website Questions A contact form you check later Chat that answers right away
Booking Phone tag and back-and-forth Customers book themselves
No-Shows Hope they turn up Reminders, deposits, and a waitlist
Quotes and Inquiries Chased when there's time Followed up automatically
Reviews Asked for now and then Requested after every job or visit
Getting Paid Paper invoices and reminders Pay-by-text links and deposits
Processing Fees A statement nobody has explained Audited line by line, no hidden fees
Setup You figure it out at night We build and run it for you
Support Ticket queues A real person who knows your business

Three Steps. No Homework.

We do the setup. You keep working.

1

Free Business Analysis

We look at your missed calls, your follow-up, your website, and your card processing fees, and show you where customers and money are slipping away. No cost and no obligation.

2

We Set It Up

We build it around your phone number, your calendar, and your way of talking to customers. You approve what it says before anything goes live.

3

You Get Back to Work

Calls get answered, appointments get booked, and follow-ups go out. You get a simple report, and a real person to call when you want something changed.

A smiling shop owner standing behind her counter

Core Merchants is the extra set of hands your business has been missing.

We answer, book, follow up, and help you get paid, so you can spend your day on the work and your evening at home.

Find Out How Many Customers
You're Missing.

Get a free, no-pressure look at your missed calls, follow-up, website, and processing fees. We'll show you the numbers, and you decide what to do next.

No contracts. No pressure. No hidden fees. Just clarity.