AI bookings for local businesses

When someone asks AI where to book: be the answer.

People are starting to ask ChatGPT and Alexa instead of searching. Counterpart makes sure your business shows up in those answers — and that the booking actually goes through, straight into the calendar you already use.

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No scraping. No customer passwords. You stay merchant-of-record.

Your next customer won't search. They'll ask.

When someone says "find me a plumber who can come today," the AI picks the winner, and it can only pick from businesses it can read. Counterpart makes yours one of them — the booking comes straight to you, and the customer stays yours, not ours.

Reachable from the assistants people already use ChatGPT Gemini Claude Alexa+ Copilot
800M+
people use ChatGPT every week. Your customers are already in there.
$20.6B
will be spent through AI assistants in 2026, and it's still early.
38%
of shoppers have already let an AI help them buy something.
1–3%
is all we take when a booking goes through. The big apps take 15–30%.

The shift, in numbers · updated 2026

Chapter I · The problem

You could be the best shop in town — and AI still wouldn't know you exist.

Every day, someone nearby asks an AI for exactly what you do. If it can't read your business, it sends them to someone else.

Chapter II · What we do

Watch a business become bookable.

This is what we do for your business, in four steps, using the software you already run. Same view, same town; keep scrolling and watch the lights come on.

Step 1 of 4 · Invisible

Right now, AI can't see this business at all.

A customer asks for help nearby. The AI looks, finds nothing it can read here, and sends the job to someone else. That's happening today, quietly.

Step 2 of 4 · Readable

We turn your info into something AI can read.

We plug into the scheduling, register, or booking tool you already use and publish your services, prices, and hours in a form every assistant understands.

Step 3 of 4 · Connected

Every big AI reads from one live connection.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Alexa+, and Copilot all see the same thing: your real open times and real prices, with tax. Only assistants we've verified get in.

Step 4 of 4 · Booked

A customer says "just handle it." The job comes to you.

The AI checks your calendar, quotes the full price, and books it. You get a confirmed job, the money goes to you, and the customer stays yours.

Chapter III · The proof

The first AI bookings in your area will go to whichever business the AI can read.

We make sure that's you. Three bookings that already work this way. The businesses are made up; the mechanics are real.

The furnace call

Home services · Rivet Heating & Air

“My furnace quit. Find a licensed tech near me who can come today.”

Found one. Rivet Heating & Air — no-heat diagnostic, $89, first opening 2:00–4:00 today. Book it?

The Thursday lunch

Restaurants · Maple & Oak Deli

“Order my usual Thursday lunch from the deli near the office.”

Got it. Maple & Oak Deli — turkey on rye, no onion, extra pickle. Ready 12:15. Place it?

The Saturday cut

Salons & clinics · Field & Fade Studio

“Book my usual cut with Mara for Saturday morning.”

Done—pending confirm. Field & Fade Studio — Mara, men’s cut, Sat 10:30. $42. Confirm?

Why now

More bookings go through AI every month. Most local businesses are invisible to it.

Visa and ChatGPT just connected payments straight into the assistant, so an AI can now book and pay on the spot, not just recommend. And most local businesses still have no way to show up.

Demand

People are asking, not searching.

"Who can fix my AC today?" "Book my usual haircut." "Reorder Friday's lunch." The AI picks who gets that job, and it can only pick from businesses it can read. If it can't read yours, you're simply not in the answer.

Visibility

The big platforms got a head start. You didn't.

Big chains and online stores got easy switches to turn on AI bookings. Local businesses running their own scheduling, register, or booking software got nothing: no simple way to be found and booked.

Risk

The shortcut some tools took just backfired.

Some companies got around this by logging into customers' accounts or copying business websites without asking, then charging for it. In 2026, courts started ruling against exactly that. The permission-based way, where you approve the access, is the only one that lasts.

We only ever work with your permission. We never copy your website, never log in as your customers, and never store their passwords. You approve the connection, you control what AI is allowed to do, and you can shut it off anytime.

How it works

Three steps. You plug in. We handle the rest.

No new app for your customers. No new website for you. Think of us as the translator between your booking system and every AI assistant: you don't learn a new language, we speak it for you.

1You grant access

You connect the software you already use.

Link your scheduling, register, or booking tool in a few clicks, and set the rules: what AI is allowed to do, and what it isn't. For example: bookings yes, refunds no, nothing over $200. You're granting permission, not handing over keys. Unplug anytime.

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2We build the bridge

We make your business readable to every AI.

From then on, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Alexa can all see your real openings and real prices through one connection we look after. When something changes in your system, the AI sees the change. You don't touch anything.

3AI books you jobs

Now any AI can book with you, and every job goes through.

When a customer tells their assistant to book you, it sees a real open time, quotes the full price with tax, and confirms it. No double-bookings, no "sorry, that slot was taken." And if something goes wrong after the job, there's a real system to fix it, not a dead end.

real-time openingsfull price, tax includedjob & refund status
What you pay for

Discovery is free. Reliability isn't.

Being findable by AI is already free, and we'll never charge you just to show up. What we charge for is the hard part: making sure the booking actually goes through: the right time, the right price, the money in your account.

WHAT WE HANDLE Making bookings go through

  • Your real availability, always.An AI can never book a time you don't have, a person who's already busy, or something you're out of.
  • Taxes and paperwork, done.The sale runs under your name, and sales tax is worked out and filed automatically. Zero extra work for you.
  • Refunds and “where's my order?”When something goes wrong after the job, there's a real system handling it, not a dead end in a chat window.
  • Only trusted AIs get in.We check who's asking. Good assistants get through; scrapers and bad bots stay out. You set the limits.

This is what we charge for: the work nobody built for businesses your size.

ALREADY FREE Never pay anyone for these

  • Just being visible to AI.Showing up in AI answers is free and open. We include the setup at no charge.
  • The payment system itself.Payments run on the same secure card networks you already use. We never touch a password.
  • A special “AI language.”We use the open formats the assistants already speak. Nothing locks you in to us.
  • Another app to be listed in.Customers use the assistants they already have. There's nothing for them to download.

In one line: being seen by AI is free. Getting reliably booked is the hard part, and that's what we do.

Pricing

We get paid when a real order or booking goes through, and not before.

No setup fee. No charge just to be listed somewhere. And far less than the 15–30% the delivery apps and marketplaces take.

Per booking

1–3 % of the booking

When an AI books a real, completed job with you, we take a small cut. That's the whole model.

  • The delivery apps and marketplaces take 15–30%. We take 1–3%.
  • Browsing, questions, and abandoned carts cost you nothing.
  • Sales tax is handled inside that cut: no surprise line items.

NEVER: a fee just to get "listed" somewhere your customers have never heard of. If you don't get booked, you don't pay.

Monthly base

Under $300 / month

Keeps the connection alive: your live calendar, correct prices and tax, refunds, and the gate that keeps bad bots out.

  • We keep up with the AI companies' changes so you don't have to.
  • You see every job that came through AI, and what happened to it.
  • The free readiness scan and full setup are included.

Early partners start free while we set up and prove the first bookings.

Chapter IV · Your business

Find out if an AI can book you today.

Type in your website. In seconds, we'll show you what an AI assistant sees when it looks at your business, and what's standing between a customer's "just handle it" and you.

Takes ~6 seconds. No account, no card. We never scrape or log in.

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Straight answers

The questions every owner asks first.

Is this scraping my site?
NOScraping is copying your website without asking; we never do that. With Counterpart, you approve the access: you connect the system you already use, you decide what AI can see and do, and you can switch it off anytime.
Do you store my customers' passwords or log in as them?
NEVERNo passwords, ever: not yours, not your customers'. Payments run on the same secure card systems you already use. That's deliberate: the companies that took the password shortcut are the ones that ended up in court in 2026.
Do I keep my own customers?
YESThe booking is yours, the receipt has your name on it, and the money goes to you. That's what "you stay merchant-of-record" means. We handle the plumbing in the background. We're not a marketplace, and we never put ourselves between you and your customer.
Is anyone actually booking through AI yet, or is this hype?
NOWYes, and it just sped up. Visa and ChatGPT connected payments directly into the assistant, so an AI can now pay and book on the spot instead of just recommending. The big chains are already racing to show up first. Every month you wait, more of the first AI bookings in your area go to someone else.
Do I have to switch my software or rebuild my website?
NOWe plug into what you already run: your scheduling, register, or booking tool. When something changes in your system, the AI sees the change. Nothing to rebuild, nothing for your customers to download.
What if an AI books a time I can't cover?
That's the exact mistake we exist to prevent. AIs see your real calendar before they book, so they can't promise a time you don't have, a person who's busy, or something you're out of. And if a job does need to be undone, refunds go through a real system, not a dead-end chat.
Counterpart · Denver, Colorado

Be the answer when someone says “just handle it.”

Run the free scan, see what an AI sees today, and get bookable — the permission-based way.

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