What does Front Counter AI do?

We build your website, run your Google listing and ads, send emails and texts to your customers, answer your phones with an AI Receptionist and set up Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT in your office. Pricing is set on a short call and put in writing before any work starts.

Who runs my website and my Google listing?

We do. Your website, your domain, your Google listing and your ad account are hosted and run on our accounts, so one company is accountable for all of it and nothing waits on a sign-up you have not done. What happens if you ever leave is confirmed on the call.

What does the Website Refresh include?

Two working sessions with you, and the site is done. Up to six pages on one of our designs, built for phones with a tap-to-call button on every screen, your Google reviews on the page and an estimate form that texts you, live in five business days. After launch, Hosting and Care includes one content change each month.

What does the Custom Storefront include?

A custom design with AI built in: an AI estimate agent that asks the right questions, gathers photos and books the visit; an AI chat agent that answers questions about hours, prices, your service area and what to expect; voice, so a customer can talk to the site out loud and get an answer; and the search words your customers actually use, with a page for every service in every town. Four working sessions, live in about 30 days.

Is the ad money extra?

Yes. Your ad money goes to Google on top of our fee, at the budget you set, and you see every dollar. The ad account is run on our accounts, so one company is accountable for all of it. Our fee is set on a short call and confirmed in writing before any work starts.

How is the AI Receptionist priced?

It is priced on a short call and confirmed in writing before any work starts, month to month. Your number and minutes are billed at the carrier's cost with no markup. It takes only the calls you miss, answers the way a receptionist does, and is live in about two weeks.

What is AI in Your Business?

We set up Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT in your office over four weeks: your files in one place and searchable, your email and calendar connected, your price book loaded, QuickBooks connected, and four classes for your team with a written playbook. Nothing custom-built. Priced on a short call, in writing before any work starts.

How do I get the free sample designs?

Give the business name and town, and a cell number or an email. A person on our team calls you for a short call (with only an email, we email you to set one up), the same business day (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific; otherwise by 9 a.m. the next business day), then sends three sample designs of your front page, built around your business, so you can pick the one you like, and a snapshot of how you show up on Google. Designs to look at, not a working website; the one you pick becomes your site when you say go. Free, no sign-up.

How do I reach a person?

Leave your number and a person calls you back the same business day, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific; otherwise by 9 a.m. the next business day. Or pick a 20-minute call at https://cal.com/frontcounter.ai/call, or email sam@frontcounter.ai. Or talk to Sam, our AI agent, right now, out loud or in writing, at https://frontcounter.ai/talk/. Or call (628) 303-3366: Sam, our AI agent, answers and takes the message for a person.

Who do you work with?

Established owner-run businesses of every kind, anywhere in the United States, by phone, video and email: roofing companies, trucking companies, plumbers, electricians, heating and air companies, pest control and every other kind of business with customers, phones and a website.

Who runs Front Counter AI?

Front Counter AI was founded by Jeff, an owner who built systems to run his own businesses better. Our team builds and runs those systems for other owners, with AI doing in minutes what used to take weeks.

No. Sam is an AI agent, our Chief AI Officer, and says so. A person on our team sees every request.

Do you need a website if you already have a Google Business Profile?

Yes, and the reason is not the one agencies give. The listing gets you found; the website gets you chosen, and Google reads the website to decide where the listing ranks. Here is what the listing alone cannot do, with numbers from our own scan of Google.

Written by Front Counter AI. Published October 12, 2026.

What our scan found.

In October 2026 we looked at the first pages of Google's local results, town by town. In the first town we checked, 16 of the 52 electricians listed and 18 of the 58 heating and air companies had no website at all. In the second it was 19 of 64 electricians. In the third, 12 of 27. These are real companies with trucks and licenses, and when a customer taps the listing they get a phone number and nothing else. Most of those customers tap the next listing instead.

What a listing cannot do.

Show your prices, or even a price range, in a way a customer can read before calling.
Show a photo of your work for each kind of job, next to the words that describe it.
Take an estimate request with the address, the problem and a photo, and text it to you.
Answer a question at nine in the evening when the customer is deciding whom to call in the morning.
Prove you are licensed, insured and local, in your own words, with your license number where a customer can find it.
Stay up when Google suspends a listing. Google can suspend a listing for a rule you did not know existed. The website stays up, hosted and run on our accounts, so one company is accountable for all of it.

How Google uses your website for the map.

Google's own help pages say the map results weigh three things: relevance, distance and prominence. Distance you cannot change. Prominence is mostly reviews and mentions. Relevance is the one you control, and the website is the biggest piece of it: the words on your pages tell Google which services you do and which towns you work in. A listing with no website behind it has very little to say for itself.

What a site needs to earn its keep.

Not much, if it is built for a phone. A tap-to-call button on every screen. Your Google reviews on the page. An estimate form that texts you. A page for each service you want more of. The towns you serve, named, each on its own page if you work several. Your license number. Real photos. That is the whole list, and it is what a Website Refresh is. What a website should cost is its own guide.

Questions owners ask.

Is a Facebook page enough instead of a website?
No. Facebook decides who sees it, search engines read very little of it, and a customer cannot request an estimate from it in a way that reaches you reliably. It is a good extra, not a replacement.

What about the free website Google used to make from my listing?
Google retired those in 2024. If your listing still points at one, the link is dead and customers see an error. That alone is a reason to fix it this week.

Does my website need a blog?
No. Six good pages that stay true beat fifty posts nobody reads. A page per service and per town does the work a blog is supposed to do.

I get all my work by word of mouth. Why bother?
Because word of mouth now ends with a search. The friend gives your name, and the customer looks you up before calling. What they find in that moment is the website, or nothing.

Do you need a website if you already have a Google Business Profile?

What our scan found.

What a listing cannot do.

How Google uses your website for the map.

What a site needs to earn its keep.

Questions owners ask.

More guides.

Your next step.

Your front page, three ways.