01 · The front desk

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From the first email to the paid invoice, without the typing.

BLAM8 is the AI front desk for service businesses. It answers customer emails in your voice, books the job into a live diary, sends the quote, raises and chases the invoice, and fills the CRM as it goes. The customers you already have get a portal to check, move and pay their bookings. Nothing sends until you say so.

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02 · The loop

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One email in. A booked job, a sent quote, a raised invoice and a full CRM out.

No copying into a diary. No retyping into a quote. No spreadsheet of who owes what. BLAM8 does it while you work — and you approve before anything sends.

  1. 1

    Customer emails

    “Can you fit me in Tuesday morning, and what would it cost?”

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    BLAM8 drafts the reply

    In your voice, from your real prices, availability and policies.

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    It holds the slot

    A real hold in the diary, so it can't be double-booked. Timed, half-day, whole day, multi-day or weekly.

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    The job lands in your calendar

    Outlook or Google, confirmed in the same thread.

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    The quote goes out

    Drafted from the thread. The customer accepts online by typing their name.

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    The invoice follows

    Deposit raised on acceptance, paid by card or transfer, chased when overdue in a tone that firms up.

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    The CRM writes itself

    Contact, company, deal, promise, follow-up and every document, pulled straight from the mail.

03 · Everything inside

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Everything a front desk does. One sheet.

Each line is live today. The CRM lines open on Pro, and the Concierge on Pro + Concierge. Open one for the detail. The full list, including what it deliberately doesn't do, is on the capabilities page.

Replies Your voice, your prices — and “I'll check” when it doesn't know +

Drafted from your knowledge: prices, policies, FAQs, the rules of your trade. When the answer isn't there, the draft waits and a card asks you the one question; answer it once and it becomes knowledge. Thumbs-down a line and it becomes a standing rule.

Diary Holds that can't double-book, in whatever shape your work takes +

Timed slots, arrival windows, half-days, whole days, multi-night stays, weekly series that skip half-term. Capacity by van, bay or class place, with travel gaps and notice. It never books a date or a time nobody chose. When it's full, you choose: hold the space while details come in, and it can also offer the nearest opening or keep a waiting list. A move is re-checked like a new booking; if the new slot doesn't fit, it says no and offers times that do. Stays change too: extend, shorten or move one, and the price follows the nights.

Quotes Drafted from the thread, accepted online, deposit raised +

Optional lines and a deposit percentage. The customer accepts on a public page by typing their name; the deposit invoice is raised on acceptance, carrying their PO reference through. A quote that goes quiet is chased for you.

Getting paid Invoices raised, paid, chased, and handed to your accountant +

Card through your own Stripe account, or bank transfer; your VAT treatment, your terms. Settings you choose: a deposit to secure the booking, a higher deposit on peak dates, the balance billed the day before collection, and no separate quote when the diary already set the price. Overdue invoices are chased at 7, 14 and 30 days in a register that firms up each time — statutory interest mentioned, never invented — and the chase stands down the moment the customer writes back. One export per month or per Making Tax Digital quarter, in your accountant's format. Your Xero history imports from two CSV files.

CRM Contacts, deals, promises and documents, with no typing +

New enquiries become contacts. Several people at one firm roll up into a company. Quotes cluster into deals with a stage and a value. Every promise, from both sides, is logged. Certificates and photos sent by email are filed on the record. Gone quiet for two weeks? The check-in is drafted for you, one click to send.

Dependants Each named subject or asset has its own record +

Name the kind and what to know about each one. Every dependant sits under the customer with its own facts, its own certificate expiry and its own bookings: a required certificate that holds a stay back, an expiry date that reminds, a progress level the business moves with one tap and a message drafted to the customer.

Packages Blocks of sessions, sold and spent by your rules +

Sell ten sessions on an invoice and the credits appear the moment it is issued. Attendance, late cancellations and no-shows spend them by rules you set. The agent and the portal both know the balance, and Money shows what is sold and still unspent.

Job parties Who pays, who approves, who is on site +

One person who pays, another on site, a third kept informed. Name the parties on a job and the invoice, the certificate and the day-before reminder each go to the right person. A “the other party pays” read from an email is never acted on until you confirm it.

Customer portal Check, move, pay and ask — for the customers you already have +

Your customers, the ones your emails already reach, can check, move and pay their bookings and ask questions by conversation at blam8.com/c/your-business. They get in with the reference code on every email, or a code sent to the address you hold. Strangers are turned away. No customer login, no separate booking tool.

People Your team, including people who never sign in +

Add the people who work with you, even the ones who never sign in. Choose what each person can see and do, see the app exactly as they do with “View as”, and put one or several people on a job. On every plan, with no seat charges.

Concierge Say it, see the proposal, confirm — on Pro + Concierge +

“Block next Friday and send Mrs Patel the draft that's waiting.” The Concierge answers from your records and shows exactly what will happen as a card before she does it. You confirm, she does it, and every step lands in the audit log. Type it, or hold the icon and say it out loud. A card you didn't answer waits for you and comes back checked against today's diary. She comes with the Pro + Concierge plan.

Setup From your website, in minutes — then it runs on your phone +

Point it at your website and it drafts your knowledge for review. The setup assistant proposes your diary shape, services, booking checklist and pipeline from a few questions. Installs as an app with push notifications, and a mailbox or calendar that stops syncing reaches you within the hour. Configuration, not code — how onboarding works.

04 · Proven end to end

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Proven on 8 kinds of business, end to end.

Each one ran through the live system from the first email to the paid deposit, with the honest gaps written down and fixed. The businesses are fictional test rigs; the runs are real. Every page shows exactly how your BLAM8 would be set up.

Plumbing & heating engineers 4 September 2026 Same-day emergencies, landlord certificates with a tenant on site, and a diary that promises a morning or an afternoon, never an hour. Stonemasons & memorial masons 3 September 2026 Bereaved families, church faculties, and a diary where most visits are an arrival time, not a slot. Kennels, dog daycare & boarding 2–3 September 2026 Stays that span nights, vaccination records as documents, and two dogs' details remembered under one owner. Farriers 4 September 2026 Yard visits by the half-day, a vet-first rule the agent enforces unprompted, and two horses on one booking. Hot tub servicing 4 September 2026 Each tub its own record with a test certificate that can hold a booking back, a guest-rash rule the agent enforces unprompted, and quarterly repeats. MOT and service garages 4 September 2026 Each car its own record with an MOT date that reminds rather than refuses, a ramp and an MOT bay as pools, a lease company as the payer, and the DVSA's own rules answered unprompted. Children's swim schools 5 September 2026 Each child its own record with a stage the teacher moves, classes with six places a slot, a term booked as a weekly series that skips half-term, a grandparent poolside as a named party, and the 48-hour sickness rule worked out on the real dates. Driving instructors 5 September 2026 Blocks sold in hours and spent by the lesson's length, a progress ladder in the DVSA's own words on the pupil's record with the test-day car gated on 'Test ready', the theory certificate's expiry answered from the record, a lesson cancelled from the pupil's own email under the 48-hour rule, and a Saturday waiting list joined from the portal.

Your trade not here yet? The setup assistant works the same way for any business — see the worked setups.

05 · It stays you

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It sounds like you. It can't promise a Tuesday you don't have.

Most AI tools are a chatbot bolted onto an inbox: fluent, confident, and perfectly capable of inventing a price. BLAM8 replies from what you taught it, and checks the live state of your business before anything is quoted, booked, moved, invoiced or sent.

Your voice, your numbers

Replies are drafted in your tone from your prices, policies and FAQs. When the answer isn't in your knowledge, the draft holds and asks you — it doesn't invent one. A rule you wrote once, like “a safety concern: follow our emergency instructions first”, is applied without being asked.

A diary that can't be talked into it

A held slot is a real record, checked against your actual capacity, hours and travel gaps. Moves are re-checked the same way. Money is the same: a chase never names a payment route you don't offer, and a quote never promises a deposit that isn't set up.

Nothing acts on a claim

A customer who says they are a known contact is challenged with a code to the address on file. A “send the invoice to the other payer” read from an email becomes a card you confirm. And nothing sends until you hit approve — auto-send is per mailbox, once the queue has earned it, and every action lands in the audit log.

No one selling AI can honestly promise zero mistakes, so we wrote down how the safety actually works: will the AI make things up?

06 · Safety and data

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Built for a nervous compliance team.

What we store, where it's hosted, and who we share it with is public before you sign up — on the security & data handling page and in our Privacy Policy & sub-processor list.

  • Draft-only by default

    Nothing sends unless auto-send is enabled — your switch, per mailbox.

  • OAuth sign-in, never passwords

    Connect Outlook or Gmail with secure consent, revocable any time from your side.

  • UK data residency

    Your database is hosted in the UK; the app runs in the EU (Frankfurt). Built around UK GDPR.

  • Isolated per company

    Row-level security keeps every customer's mail, rules and data strictly separate.

  • Your data, exportable

    One download of everything, and it still works after you cancel. No lock-in.

07 · Pricing

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Start with the loop. Grow when you're ready.

Free trial: the full product — every feature, the Concierge included — for 14 days or 100 handled emails, whichever comes first. No card to start. Cancel anytime.

On every plan: quotes, invoices and chasing, the customer portal, People, calendar sync and the installable app.

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Starter

Replies, booking, quotes & invoices, for one-person businesses

£39per month

1 mailbox · 300 emails/month

  • ✓AI-drafted replies in your voice
  • ✓Knowledge base — your prices, policies, FAQs
  • ✓Booking details gathered & pinned
  • ✓Scheduling & capacity diary, calendar sync
  • ✓Quotes accepted online, invoices raised & chased
  • ✓Customer portal for the customers you already have
  • ✓Draft-only by default
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Pro

The full loop — everything in Starter plus the self-filling CRM

£99per month

1 mailbox · 750 emails/month

  • ✓Everything in Starter
  • ✓Self-filling CRM: contacts, companies, deals, promises, documents
  • ✓Dependants, packages & progress on every customer record
  • ✓Follow-up sequences & customer-mood flags
  • ✓Higher email volume — 750 emails/month
  • ✓Additional mailboxes £39/mo each (+300 emails/month)
  • ✓Priority support
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Pro + Concierge

Pro, plus the Concierge — ask, act and talk to your business

£249per month

1 mailbox · 750 emails/month

  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓The Concierge: ask anything about your business
  • ✓Say it, she drafts the card — you confirm
  • ✓Hold to talk: speak to her hands-free
  • ✓Cards that wait for you, checked again against today
  • ✓The morning brief opens straight into her
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The CRM pre-fills quietly on every account, so it opens already populated the day you upgrade. Works with Microsoft 365 / Outlook today; Gmail by invite while verification completes. Need something bigger? Talk to us.

08 · Questions

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Frequently asked questions

What is BLAM8?+

The AI front desk for service businesses. It reads every inbound customer email, drafts the reply in your voice from your real prices and policies, holds the slot so your diary can't double-book, sends the quote, raises and chases the invoice, and writes the contact, deal, promises and documents into the CRM with no typing. Your customers, the ones your emails already reach, get a portal where they check, move and pay their bookings and ask questions, answered by the same AI.

Does it do quotes and invoices?+

Yes, on every plan. A quote is drafted from the thread with optional lines and a deposit; the customer accepts it online by typing their name, and the deposit invoice is raised on acceptance carrying their PO reference. Invoices are paid by card or bank transfer, chased at 7, 14 and 30 days overdue in a tone that firms up each time and stands down the moment the customer replies, and handed to your accountant as one export per month or per Making Tax Digital quarter. Existing Xero history imports from two CSV files.

Which kinds of business does it work for?+

Any service business that books work by email. Plumbing & heating engineers, Stonemasons & memorial masons, Kennels, dog daycare & boarding, Farriers, Hot tub servicing, MOT and service garages, Children's swim schools, Driving instructors have each been run through the live system end to end, and the worked setup for each is published. For a trade not listed, the setup assistant proposes the diary shape, services, booking checklist and pipeline from a few questions.

Can my customers manage their bookings themselves?+

Your customers, the ones your emails already reach, can check, move and pay their bookings and ask questions by conversation at blam8.com/c/your-business. They get in with the reference code on every email, or a code sent to the address you hold. Strangers are turned away. No customer login, no separate booking tool.

Is there a mobile app?+

BLAM8 installs as an app on your phone, desktop or tablet straight from the browser (Chrome, Edge or Safari) — no app store. Once installed it opens in its own window and sends push notifications when a draft is ready for your approval, a customer books through your portal, or a mailbox stops syncing.

Does it send emails on its own?+

No. It's draft-only by default — you approve every reply before it sends. Auto-send is optional, per mailbox, and only when you choose.

Does it answer my phone?+

No. It answers email and runs the diary. The Concierge's voice is for you, not your callers.

Does it work with my email?+

Microsoft 365 / Outlook is open to everyone now. Gmail works the same way, and signing in is open to everyone — but connecting a Gmail inbox is invite-only while our Google verification completes. Connect a Microsoft mailbox in the meantime, or request an invite from the connect step.

Does it book into my calendar?+

Yes — Outlook and Google Calendar, with holds that can't double-book. It handles timed slots, arrival windows, whole days, multi-day stays and weekly series, and confirms the booking in the same email thread.

Will it use my real prices and policies?+

Yes — your knowledge base can be drafted from your website in one step, and every reply uses your prices, policies and FAQs. When the answer isn't there, it holds the draft and asks you the one question instead of inventing.

Where is my data?+

UK data residency — your database is hosted in the UK, the app runs in the EU (Frankfurt), and data handling is built around UK GDPR. Every company is isolated with row-level security, and the full sub-processor list is public before you sign up.

How much is it?+

From £39/month — see pricing. Starter covers replies, booking, quotes, invoices and the portal; Pro adds the self-filling CRM with dependants, packages and progress; Pro + Concierge (£249) adds the Concierge, who knows your business and acts once you confirm. The free trial opens the full product, the Concierge included, for 14 days or 100 handled emails, whichever comes first — no card to start.

Is there a contract?+

No contract — plans are monthly and you can cancel anytime, self-serve from inside the app. The price you join on is the price you keep, and if you leave you take everything with you: one download of your contacts, invoices, quotes, diary and knowledge, and it still works after you cancel.

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09 · The price promise

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The price promise

✓The price you join on is the price you keep. Ours may rise for new customers; yours doesn't while you stay subscribed.

✓No per-seat pricing. Growing your team never multiplies your bill.

✓Nothing you're already paying for moves up-tier on you. What your plan includes today, it includes tomorrow.

✓Leave with everything. One download — contacts, invoices, quotes, diary, knowledge — and it still works after you cancel.

Stop retyping the same email into a diary, a quote and an invoice.

Let BLAM8 answer, book, quote, invoice and log every customer email — while you get on with the job.

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