AI chat assistant: every web chat, Facebook and email answered in seconds
LeadGenie’s AI chat assistant answers your web chat, Facebook, Instagram and email messages in seconds, day or night. It asks your questions, quotes from your prices and books the job. Built for Australian tradies and small service businesses: A$199 a month on Starter, plus A$999 set-up, ex GST. No phone line needed.
Web chat, Facebook, Instagram and email in one inbox
Says it’s AI, and passes you the chat when they ask for you
Someone needs a quote at 8:40pm, so they message three businesses: one on web chat, one on Facebook, one by email. You’re on a job, on the road or asleep. By the time you reply in the morning, they’ve booked whoever answered first.
Written enquiries don’t ring. They sit quietly in four inboxes that nobody checks after five o’clock.
How it works
From first message to booked job.
One enquiry, three steps. You stay on the job.
First message
It replies
Day or night, on web chat, Facebook, Instagram or email. It says it’s an AI assistant and asks what they need.
Next minute
It asks and quotes
Your questions, in your order: job type, suburb, timing, access. Then a price from your rate card, never a made-up number.
Before they leave
It books and tells you
It offers real free times from your calendar and books the job in the chat. You get the whole conversation by email.
We write it, train it and test it with you before it answers a single customer. How we set it up for you →
What an AI chat assistant does
Not a chatbot with three buttons.
Everything below is standard on Starter. No add-ons, no per-channel charges.
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Replies in seconds
Up to 3 seconds to first reply, any hour. Five enquiries at once all get answered at once.
When someone asks for a person, you’re told straight away and get the whole conversation.
Facebook and Instagram need page access, and we connect every channel for you. How the web chat works →
Example
A Sunday night web chat, booked.
Example business: a removals company, 9:12pm on a Sunday.
0:00
Customer · Web chat
“Hi, do you do Saturday moves? Two-bed apartment, Marrickville to Coogee.”
0:04
AI chat assistant
“Yes, Saturdays are our busiest day. I’m Redgum’s AI assistant. Which floor at the Marrickville end, and is there a lift?”
0:39
Customer · Web chat
“Third floor, no lift. Ground floor at the Coogee end. Roughly what does that cost?”
0:46
AI chat assistant
“With stairs one end, a two-bed is usually A$1,150 to A$1,400, two movers and the truck included. I’ve got Saturday the 14th or the 21st. Want one?”
1:24
Customer · Web chat
“The 21st please.”
1:31
AI chat assistant
“Booked for Saturday the 21st. The details are in this chat, and Nick will call Monday to run through the inventory.”
1:31
Nick found out he had a Saturday job when his phone buzzed. He was asleep.
Example chat. Your questions, prices, service area and tone are set up for you.
See it working
See it answer your enquiries.
Book a free demo and we’ll run an enquiry for your kind of business through web chat, Facebook and email while you watch. Ask it something awkward. Ask for a human.
We don’t take on GP and medical, dental and orthodontic, legal, accounting and tax, insurance broking or financial-services clients, including mortgage and finance brokers, for AI conversations. The data-handling obligations in those sectors are ones we won’t claim to meet. Allied health and hearing clinics are welcome for bookings and enquiries only, with no clinical advice and no health histories. If that’s your industry, talk to us first and we’ll tell you honestly.
The usual monthly cost of answering messages, next to Starter. The hours are the expensive part.
Monthly cost
The usual arrangement
Separate tools, answered by you
AI chat assistant
LeadGenie Starter
Live chat software
Widget on your site, staffed by whoever's free
A$65
Included
Chatbot builder
The flowchart tool you were going to configure one weekend
A$70
Included
SMS platform
Two-way texting from a business number
A$45
From Growth
Social inbox
Facebook and Instagram DMs in one place
A$45
Included
Follow-up automation
Sequences for the leads that go quiet
A$50
Included
Booking & reminders
Calendar links, confirmations, no-show nudges
A$18
Included
Subscription
Plus all three Smart Tools: CRM, reviews, pipeline, inbox and reporting
None
A$199
Total per month
A$293
A$199
Your time answering messages
~7 hrs
Mostly after six, mostly on your phone
0 hrs
You read the summary
Messages answered in seconds
The ones you happen to see
All of them
Cost per conversation
A$1.17
A$0.80
Indicative entry-level prices for standalone tools, in AUD, for illustration. Cost per conversation uses the same example volume on both sides, and it isn’t an allowance: conversations on Starter are unlimited, fair use applies. GST and the A$999 set-up fee excluded.
It only offers times that are free in your calendar, with the travel time and buffers you set. Where you quote on site, it books the quote visit. How booking works →
No lock-in: month to month, 30 days’ notice to cancel, no exit fee. Prices are locked in for your first 12 months. The set-up fee isn’t refundable, except where the law requires it or for a billing error.
It answers only from what we load. Anything outside that, it passes to you with the details, and it never guesses a price. In the first few weeks we fix anything that reads wrong, at no extra cost.
A$199 a month plus a one-time A$999 set-up fee, ex GST, with Smart Tools included. Conversations are unlimited, fair use applies. No phone line, so no call or text charges.
It tells them you’ve been notified and passes you the whole chat, the first time they ask. If they’d rather speak, it takes their number for you to call back. Need your phone answered too? That’s Growth, A$499 a month.
An Australian answering service costs about A$2.45 to A$3.99 a call. Conversational AI chat on Starter is a flat A$199 a month, ex GST, with unlimited conversations, fair use applies.
Someone is typing right now.
We’ll send a live enquiry through your website and socials and tell you honestly if Starter is worth A$199 a month to you. Test your reply speed free →