AI front desk for service businesses

AI receptionists take a message. FrontIQ takes care of it.

Not a voice agent that answers and hands the work back to you — an automation platform that books the appointment, applies your rules, updates your systems, and follows up. Across voice, text, and webchat.

50 free minutes/month · No card · Live the same day

Pet groomer? Start here →

incoming call · 0:48handled by FrontIQ
Caller“Hey, can I bring Biscuit in for a de-shed Friday? He’s a golden.”
an AI receptionist stops here
  • Checked the live calendar2 stations · Friday availability
  • Booked the right slotFri 10:00 AM · de-shed · 90 min (double coat)
  • Verified rabies vaccineon file · valid
  • Texted the confirmation$85 · sent to caller
  • Saved to the customer recordBiscuit · golden retriever · new client
no staff touched the phoneJob complete
What “takes care of it” looks like

A real grooming call — from “can you fit Biscuit in?” to booked, confirmed, and logged.

Caller“Hey, can I bring Biscuit in for a de-shed Friday? He’s a golden.”
FrontIQ“Of course! Golden retrievers usually need about 90 minutes for a de-shed. I’ve got 10 AM or 2 PM open Friday. Before I book — can you confirm Biscuit’s rabies vaccine is still valid?”
Caller“Yes, last month. Let’s do 10.”
FrontIQ“Booked — Biscuit, Friday at 10 AM for a de-shed. That’s $85. I’ll text the confirmation to this number.”

When the call ended, so did the work

  • Appointment on the calendar
  • Duration set by breed & coat
  • Vaccine status verified
  • Confirmation text sent
  • Customer + pet record created
  • Rebooking nudge scheduled

An answering service stops at the first line and leaves you a message. FrontIQ finishes the other five — without you touching the phone.

Want to hear it live? Call the SalonTail demo on the grooming page →

Why they can’t follow

Anyone can answer the phone. The hard part is everything after hello.

Voice quality and answer rates are converging fast — soon every AI receptionist will sound fine on a call. That’s exactly why “never miss a call” stopped being a reason to choose anyone.

The hard part is everything after hello: reading your real calendar, applying the rules specific to your business, booking the right slot, writing it back to your system of record, and following up days later. That takes vertical logic, real integrations, and your operating rules — the part a generic answering layer hands right back to you.

Answering layer

  • Answers the call
  • Takes a message
  • Routes to staff
  • Hands the work back

Automation platform

  • Applies your booking rules
  • Books into your system
  • Writes the record back
  • Follows up on its own
One platform, tuned to your vertical — and your shop

It doesn’t answer like a generic bot. It operates like your business.

FrontIQ runs on vertical Skills — packaged operating knowledge for how your kind of business runs, shipped in the box, not prompts you write. Then it follows your specific SOPs on top: your booking rules, deposits, escalations, and upsells. Neither a generic script nor a blank page.

Live now

Pet Grooming

Breed-aware scheduling, vaccine verification, no-show recovery, and grooming PMS integrations — out of the box.

See the grooming Skill →
Q3 2026

Med Spa

Consult booking, service-specific intake, deposit and pre-care rules.

Roadmap

Salons

Stylist matching, service durations, rebooking cadence.

Roadmap

Clinics & Optometry

Eligibility questions, appointment types, recall reminders.

Your rules, encoded once

The Skill knows your industry. The Flow knows your shop.

Write your rules in plain language. The agent follows them on every call, text, and chat — the same way, every time, at every location.

new customer → collect a depositconfirm eligibility before bookingsize the slot to the serviceif caller upset → hand off to ownerafter visit → schedule a follow-up
Works with what you run

Already on Gingr, MoeGo, or a CRM? FrontIQ makes it do more.

01

Your system of record stores data.

It doesn't answer at 7 PM, book the slot, check the vaccine, and text the follow-up. That work stays manual.

02

FrontIQ is the layer that acts.

It reads your real calendar, books straight into your PMS, and writes every interaction back. You don't replace your stack — you finally automate the customer side of it.

03

No system yet? You don't need one.

The FrontIQ customer list builds itself from your first call — and plugs into a PMS the day you adopt one.

FrontIQacts · books · writes back
↕ reads & writes
Your PMS / CRM / Calendarsystem of record
Gingr · MoeGo · DaySmart · Google Calendar
Live the same day

From your website to your first test call in under 10 minutes.

Step 01

Find your business

Search Google Places — we pull your name, hours, services, and phone automatically.

Step 02

Set up your agent

One form: agent name, handoff number, booking link. We scrape your site and generate FAQs in the background.

Step 03

Make your first call

We provision a number on the spot. Call it. Drop the webchat widget on your site. You're live.

Pick your vertical

Built for appointment-based service businesses.

Live now

Pet Grooming

Breed-aware booking, vaccine checks, no-show recovery, grooming PMS integrations.

Start here →
Q3 2026

Med Spa

Coming this summer.

Notify me →
Roadmap

Salons · Clinics · Optometry

On the way.

See all industries →

Running multiple locations or a franchise network?

Standardize every location on one agent that actually executes — and see captured leads, bookings, and recovered no-shows per location, in dollars.

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Early access

Don’t take our word for it. Put it on your own shop.

See it live

Run it on your business

Tell us your shop’s name. In a couple of minutes we email you a FrontIQ agent loaded with your services and hours — on a real number. Call it. Try to trip it up.

Try the Instant Preview →

Track record

Built by the team behind ShopVOX

We built and sold ShopVOX — operations software for thousands of small service shops. We’ve shipped this kind of tool before, and we know what breaks at the front desk.

Founding partners

Be one of our first shops

We’re hand-onboarding a small group of founding partners — go live early, lock founder pricing, and shape the Skill around how your shop runs. Spots are limited.

Apply to be a founding partner →

See it finish the job on your business.

Tell us your business — we’ll email you a personalized FrontIQ agent in a few minutes. Call it. Watch it book, update, and follow up.