AI for salons and barbers: fill the chair from the DMs
Toby Banks — Founder, Skillzy
The dispatch
New listings, creator interviews, the occasional discount. Every other Friday.
A salon’s bookings do not come through a tidy form anymore. They come as DMs, late, on a day off — and the ones that do not get a fast reply just book somewhere that answered.
What the agent runs
- Replies to booking DMs instantly, in your voice, any hour
- Offers real open slots and locks them into the calendar
- Handles reschedules and the “what does a balayage cost” questions
- Nudges no-show-prone clients with a confirmation the day before
Where you stay
It never invents a price for custom work or promises a stylist by name without the diary backing it. It catches the booking while it is hot — you keep the chair full.
We were losing weekend DMs to slower salons. Now the DM is the booking.Featured listing
Salon booking DMs.
The Instagram “do you have Saturday” messages, answered and booked.
Salon booking DMs · $18 →Featured listingClinic front desk, never busy.
Booking, reminders, recalls, intake forms — your phone stops ringing off the hook.
Front desk, answered · $239 →Liked this? Get the next one.
Field Notes, every other Friday. No spam.
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