Joeckel Design

AI Integration
for small businesses

Claude and GPT plugged into the tools your business already uses. AI chat assistants, automated review replies, booking bots, content engines, and lead follow-up — built custom, sounds like you, runs on autopilot.

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The Services

Six AI integrations most small businesses can use today

Claude-backed, 24/7, trained on your business

AI Chat Assistant

A chatbot on your website that knows your hours, menu, services, pricing, location, and frequently asked questions. Customers get instant answers without calling or waiting for you to respond to an email. Handles 60 to 80 percent of routine customer questions without escalation. Hands off to a real human for anything it is not confident about.

Included on Pro ($149/mo)

Every review gets a personal reply, automatically

Automated Google Review Responses

When a new review posts on Google, the AI drafts a personalized reply in your voice, citing something specific from the review. You approve it with one click from your inbox (or let it auto-post if you trust it). Covers 5-star celebrations, 1-star damage control, and everything in between. Integrates with Google Business Profile API.

Starts on Growth ($99/mo)

Conversational AI that fills your calendar

Appointment Booking Bot

Customers chat with the bot on your website or Facebook Messenger, describe what they want, and book an appointment synced directly to your Google Calendar or Acuity. The bot knows your services, prices, available times, and any restrictions (e.g. "no pedicures after 5 PM on weekdays"). Handles reschedules and cancellations too.

Pro plan or Growth + custom quote

Monthly social posts + Google Business updates

AI Content Engine

Weekly or monthly content written in your brand voice, ready to post. Includes Facebook and Instagram captions, Google Business Profile posts, seasonal specials, promotional announcements, and customer-spotlight content. Optionally auto-posts on a schedule if you prefer hands-off.

Included on Growth and Pro

Nobody slips through the cracks

Lead Follow-up Automation

When a new lead fills out your contact form but does not book, the AI drafts a personalized follow-up email on day 2, day 5, and day 10. Includes a soft pitch, a free consultation offer, and a 'no is fine' opt-out. Tracks opens and replies. You approve each send or let it auto-send if you trust the draft.

Growth + custom config

Get cited by ChatGPT and Google AI

AI Search Optimization (GEO)

Making sure your business shows up when customers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews about businesses like yours. Involves structured data, llms.txt maintenance, content formatted for LLM retrieval, and cross-surface fact consistency. See the SEO service page for the full breakdown.

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How We Build It

Real integrations, not ChatGPT in a disguise

We build AI integrations as actual software — API calls from a backend service, running on a schedule or triggered by events in your business. The AI model (Claude or GPT) is the language-understanding layer, but it is wrapped in real code that handles authentication, data storage, error recovery, rate limiting, and context loading.

Nothing we ship depends on a customer having a ChatGPT subscription, browsing to a chat interface, or copy-pasting output from a web UI. When a new Google review posts, the response draft happens automatically. When a customer chats with your website, the answer comes from your knowledge base plus live context about your current hours and menu. When Monday morning rolls around, the social media posts for the week are already in your inbox waiting for approval.

Under the hood, every integration runs on the same stack: Anthropic or OpenAI APIs, a FastAPI or Azure Functions backend, TypeScript or Python code, and Azure Table Storage or Postgres for state. We dogfood this on our own business — the joeckel.design contact form, the lead pipeline, the pitch email system, and the AI content for our own social channels all run on the same architecture.

Privacy & Data

Your customer data stays in your systems

AI integrations we build send narrow pieces of context (a customer question, a review text, an appointment request) to Claude or GPT through the official APIs and receive a response. We do not warehouse customer conversations in a third-party database. We do not share data with any party beyond the API provider handling that specific request.

Anthropic and OpenAI both offer enterprise-grade privacy — API traffic is not used for model training, requests are encrypted in transit, and both providers offer data processing agreements for businesses that need them. For healthcare, legal, or financial workloads that need HIPAA or SOC 2 compliance, we can run the entire pipeline through Azure OpenAI on your own Azure subscription, which keeps data inside the Microsoft compliance boundary.

Pricing

AI services are bundled with the Growth and Pro plans

Most AI services (content engine, review replies, lead follow-up, GEO) are included on Growth ($99/mo) or Pro ($149/mo). The AI chat assistant specifically is a Pro-plan feature. Custom AI agents that do not fit the standard offerings are quoted per project after a discovery call. Normal API usage is included — we only pass through overage fees if a business hits very high volume, which almost never happens.

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The Other Option

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Frequently Asked

AI integration questions

What does "AI integration" actually mean for a small business?+
In practice, it means deploying Claude, GPT, or other large language models inside tools your business already uses — the website, Google Business Profile, your email inbox, your Facebook page, your booking system — to automate repetitive work. Things like answering "what are your hours?" at 2 AM, drafting personalized replies to every Google review, writing weekly social posts, following up with leads who did not book, or letting customers schedule appointments through a chatbot. We build these as real integrations with your existing infrastructure, not as a separate subscription to ChatGPT.
Will the AI sound like my business or like a generic robot?+
Every AI integration we ship is trained on your actual business — your hours, menu, services, pricing, FAQs, brand voice, and any specific things you want us to say or avoid saying. We start with a discovery call where we capture how you talk about your business, then build a prompt that preserves that voice. During the first week after launch we iterate on edge cases you catch. The goal is that a customer reading an AI-drafted review reply should not be able to tell it was not written by you.
Who handles customer data when an AI is involved?+
Your customer data stays in your systems. The AI integrations we build send narrow pieces of context (the customer's question, the review text, the appointment request) to Claude or GPT through the Anthropic or OpenAI APIs and receive a response. We do not store conversation history in a third-party database, and we do not use any customer data to train models. Anthropic's API has enterprise-grade privacy guarantees and is HIPAA-compatible when configured correctly. For businesses handling sensitive data we can run the entire pipeline through Azure OpenAI on your own Azure subscription.
How much does an AI chat assistant cost?+
The AI chat assistant is included on our Pro website plan ($149/mo). The monthly price covers the build, integration with your website, training on your business information, and ongoing updates. API usage costs (Claude or GPT tokens) are included for normal business volumes — we only pass through overage fees if you hit very high usage, which almost no small business does.
Can you build custom AI agents that are not in your standard service list?+
Yes. The six services listed on this page (chat assistant, review responses, booking bot, content engine, lead follow-up, AI SEO) are the most common asks, but custom agents are absolutely in scope. Common custom builds include: internal staff tools that summarize customer call transcripts, automated invoice data extraction, inventory tracking bots, email triage assistants, and CRM enrichment pipelines. Custom work is quoted per project after a discovery call.
What AI models and providers do you use?+
Primary: Claude from Anthropic, because it is the most reliable model for writing that actually sounds human and following brand voice instructions. Secondary: GPT from OpenAI, for workflows where OpenAI-specific features are cleaner. For sensitive workloads we run Claude or GPT through Azure OpenAI on your own Azure subscription. We avoid lock-in by writing integration code that can swap providers in a few hours if needed — which matters because the AI model landscape changes fast.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT myself?+
ChatGPT is a chat interface for humans. What we build is automation — the AI runs on a schedule or when triggered by an event (a new review, a customer question on your website, a scheduled time to post on Facebook) and does the work without you opening a tab. You still benefit from using ChatGPT yourself for one-off questions. The AI services on this page are for recurring work that would otherwise eat your day.

Let's talk about what you want the AI to do

Every good AI integration starts with a specific problem. Book a free discovery call and we will figure out whether one of our standard integrations fits, whether a custom agent makes more sense, or whether you just need to use ChatGPT yourself for now.

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