Kansas City, MO — AI implementation
Missed calls. Quotes nobody chased. Three hours a day of typing that never needed a person. I call your business like a customer, show you what it is costing, then build the thing that fixes it. It runs inside the software you already pay for.
Step one — the walkthrough
Pick your trade. Change the two numbers so they match your shop. This is the same arithmetic I run on your real figures later, using industry benchmarks until I have yours.
KCboostEstimated from industry benchmarks and the two numbers you entered. Every one of them gets replaced with your real data once we pull it, and sometimes the real number is smaller. We will tell you either way. See every source →
What it actually says
Follows whatever trade you picked above. It is the script I would build for you, written out rather than acted out, because I am not going to fake a recording of a customer who does not exist.
The honest comparison
You will find them the moment you search, so let us do this in the open. Rosie, Goodcall and the rest are real products and they work. Here is the actual difference.
| A $49 tool you set up | KCboost | |
|---|---|---|
| Who sets it up | You do, on a Sunday | I do, and I do not hand you a homework list |
| What it knows | Whatever it scraped off your website | Your real pricing, your service area, your intake questions, your after-hours rules |
| Booking | Texts you the details, you type them in | Writes the job straight into the software you already run |
| Quote follow-up | Not included | Every quote chased on a schedule until you get a yes or a no |
| When it gets something wrong | You dig through settings | I fix it. I am in Kansas City and I listen to the calls |
| The rest of the leak | Still leaking | Reviews, recalls, dead quotes, the admin nobody should be doing by hand |
| Cost | $49 to $299 a month | $950 a month plus setup |
If all you need is for the phone to get answered, buy one of those. Genuinely. They are good products and I am not going to pretend $950 beats $49 at a job $49 already does. Hire me when the problem is bigger than the phone: when the jobs are in one system, the customers in another, and the follow-up in nobody's hands.
Who you are actually hiring
Fair enough. KCboost is me, Dalton Stearns, working out of Kansas City. There is no account team, no junior handing your build to someone else, no Slack channel you never get invited to. You get me.
That is the trade. You are not hiring a firm with fifty logos on the wall. You are hiring the person who actually builds it, which is why it gets built the way I said it would.
Dalton Stearns
What I build
Sometimes it is something I built. Sometimes it is a tool that already exists, set up properly. You find out which one you need before you pay me anything.
Built here
An AI front desk that picks up on the second ring at any hour, sounds like your business, and puts real jobs on your calendar. Most people buy this first. A missed call is the most expensive thing in a small business and nobody ever sees it happen.
For the invisible
Plenty of good KC businesses run on a Facebook page and word of mouth. That works until the phone stops ringing. I build the site, fix the Google listing, and wire an assistant into it that answers questions and books work while you sleep.
Tools that already exist
Sometimes the right answer is not a custom build. It is an off-the-shelf tool, set up properly and wired to everything else. I will tell you when that is the case even though it is the smaller invoice, because the alternative is selling you something you did not need.
How it goes
Free. Costs you nothing
I call your business the way a customer would. Twice during business hours, once after you close. You get the recordings and a short written report saying what happened, what that call was worth, and what I would change. You do not have to sit through a meeting to get it.
Two to three weeks
I build against the report, starting with whatever is bleeding worst. Everything gets set up remotely, in accounts opened in your name. Nothing touches your real phone number until you have heard it handle test calls yourself.
First 30 days
I listen to every conversation and watch every automation, and I tune it daily. This is the part most people skip. It is also the part that decides whether you end up with something useful or a story about the time you wasted money on AI.
Ongoing
You own the accounts, the number, the data and the site. I stay on retainer to keep it tuned and build the next thing. If you fire me, everything keeps running and you keep all of it.
Straight answers
For writing, you should. But ChatGPT will not answer your phone at 9pm, does not know what you charge, and cannot put a job on your schedule. The value was never the model. It is the wiring between the model and the software you already run on, and that wiring is the actual work.
Sometimes people can tell, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What matters more is that it picks up. Somebody who gets a competent answer in two seconds books far more often than somebody who gets your voicemail and dials the next name on the list. You will hear it handle test calls before it ever touches your real line.
Then I say so in the report and you keep it. Maybe a third of the time the honest fix is a better phone process, a cheaper off-the-shelf tool, or one more person at the front desk. I would rather tell you that than sell you a build you did not need.
No. Every account is opened in your name with your billing. The site, the phone number, the transcripts and the automations are yours. Month to month after the first ninety days, thirty days notice.
The retainer covers my work. The usage underneath it, meaning phone minutes, model calls and hosting, usually runs $40 to $150 a month for a business your size. That gets billed to your own accounts at cost and you can see the meter any time you want.
Dispatch keeps answering. It does not run on me being awake, and your escalation rules send real emergencies to your own on-call person, not to my phone. What pauses when I pause is new building and tuning, not your phone line. Everything is in your name, so if I got hit by a bus tomorrow you would keep the number, the accounts and the data and could hand it to anyone. If I am at capacity I will tell you before you sign rather than after.
Mostly, and on purpose. I would rather be able to drive to you than be a support ticket in another time zone. If you are outside the metro and the fit is obviously right, ask anyway.
Pricing
Most agencies make you sit through a call just to learn whether you can afford them. Here it is.
You have no site, or one you would rather not send people to
Your phone rings more than anyone can answer
You want the whole operation to stop running on sticky notes
The call audit is free and the report is yours either way. Usage underneath the retainer, meaning phone minutes, model calls and hosting, gets billed to your own accounts at cost. Figure $40 to $150 a month. Month to month after the first ninety days. On-site work, a week spent inside your operation, starts at $7,500 and almost nobody needs it.
Start here
Free. I call your business the way a customer would, twice in business hours and once after you close, then send you the recordings with a short report on what it cost you. No meeting required.
dalton@kcboost.com
Kansas City, MO
I am Dispatch, the assistant Dalton builds for KC businesses. This one is trained on KCboost itself. Ask me what something costs, what I would do for your trade, or whether you should just buy a cheaper tool.
An AI, and it will tell you so. It does not book or take payment.