Are you open today? Do you have cherries yet? How do we find you from Highway 93? During Flathead cherry season those three questions ring a Polson farm stand's phone all day long. An Ai agent answers every one of them while your hands stay on the ladder.
Your hours change with the picking, the weather, and the sellouts. The agent always gives callers today's real answer.
Early sweets, Lamberts, valley-grown produce, jams, honey: it tells callers what you actually have before they drive out.
Turn-by-turn from Polson, from the Highway 35 east shore route, or from US 93, described the way a local would say it.
Takes flat and box requests with names and pickup days, so the big orders are ready when the customer pulls in.
Do you take cards? Can we picnic? Are dogs okay? Do you ship? Answered kindly, instantly, every single time.
The rare call that truly needs you, a wholesale buyer or a market organizer, gets summarized and sent straight to your phone.
Nobody has to explain cherry season to a Polson grower. From roughly mid-July into August, the orchards around Flathead Lake go from quiet rows to the busiest retail weeks in Montana. Fruit stands pop up along US 93 and the Highway 35 east shore road, the Flathead Cherry Festival fills Main Street in late July, and every visitor heading between Polson and Bigfork wants to stop for a flat of cherries. The entire year's income for a stand can come down to a handful of weekends, and those are the exact weekends when nobody in the family has a free hand for the phone.
Here is what those missed calls actually cost. A family driving up from Missoula calls to ask if you are open and what you have. No answer, so they search again and call the next stand on the map. Multiply that by a full weekend of tourists circling the lake and it is real money walking, or rather driving, away. An Ai agent picks up on the first ring, tells them you are open until dusk, that the Lamberts came in yesterday, and exactly where to turn off the highway. The car that was about to pass you by now has a reason to stop.
And it is not just cherries. Polson's seasonal economy includes u-pick patches, huckleberry products, ranch beef by the quarter, pumpkin season, holiday wreaths, and the farmers market vendors who sell around the lake all summer. Anything that runs on hours, availability, and directions runs better when a patient, accurate voice answers every call. You update the agent in plain language as the season moves. It never gets tired of the same question, never sounds rushed, and never makes a customer feel like they interrupted the picking. Because they did not. The picking never stopped.
Plain talk, the Polson way: the agent does not know what it has not been told. If you sell out of cherries at 2 pm and do not update it, it will keep saying you have cherries, so we make updating it as easy as sending a text. It does not take card payments over the phone, it does not weigh fruit, and it cannot smile at a kid picking out the biggest cherry in the flat. That part of the stand stays yours. It also will not invent answers: when someone asks something outside what you have taught it, it takes a message and passes it to you instead of guessing.
Priced for a seasonal business, with a free basic demo before any payment.
$249 one time
One in-depth Ai agent of your choice with an extremely fast turnaround. Your first agent add-on is included, and optional hosting is $99/mo.
$499 setup · $149/mo
A simple, handsome website for your stand or orchard with a built-in Ai chat agent, hosted and managed.
You pick everything
Answer 10 quick questions, choose your agents and extras, and see your total before you pay.
Short seasons are the strongest case for one. When your whole year happens in a few weeks, every unanswered call is a carload of customers driving past to the next stand. The agent works hardest exactly when you are busiest, and the Pilot package is $249 one time, not a year-round contract.
Yes. You update the agent as the season moves, in plain language, and it answers accordingly. When the Lamberts come in behind the early sweets, or you sell out for the day, one quick update and every caller hears the current truth instead of last week's answer.
No. A phone agent alone can answer calls about hours, directions, and availability. If you want a simple site with built-in chat as well, the Custom Website + Chat package is $499 setup and $149 per month. Either way you get a free basic demo before any payment.
Free basic demo built on your stand or orchard, always before you pay. Call (406) 420-8181 and our own Ai receptionist answers. Rather talk face to face? Hans will come meet you, anywhere around the lake.