Somers Bay has been a working waterfront since the tie-plant days. The boats changed; the problem did not: the phone rings while both your hands are inside a motor. An Ai agent takes the call, gets the boat details, and texts you a job that is ready to quote.
Marine work on the north shore of Flathead Lake does not spread itself politely across the calendar. The lake comes up to full pool in June and every boat owner from Somers to Bigfork wants launched, commissioned, and running the same two weeks. Then late summer brings the breakdown calls, often made from a phone on the water with a dead motor in the background. Then fall stacks winterization, haul-out, storage, and dock pull-out into one more crunch before the water drops for winter. A two- or three-person shop physically cannot answer that phone and do the work at the same time, so the overflow rolls to voicemail, and voicemail is where jobs go to call your competitor.
An Ai agent is the counter person you cannot hire for eight weeks a year. It answers every call, every time, in a natural voice, and it asks the questions a good service writer asks: what boat, what motor, where it sits, whether it is trailered or in a slip off Somers Bay, what it is doing wrong, and how soon the owner hoped to be back out. Website chat runs on the same brain for the folks who type instead of dial. You get each job as a single clean text, so callbacks happen between jobs instead of after dark. It is the marine-shaped version of the setup on our Ai Receptionist Somers page, and it works just as well for dock builders, detailers, and storage yards as it does for mechanics.
Built around how work actually comes in off the lake.
Boat make, length, motor, location, and the symptom, captured in one pass and texted to you ready for a callback.
Fall haul-out and storage inquiries collected in order, with contact details and boat specs, so the list builds itself.
Dock repair and install calls logged with shoreline location and access notes before you ever drive out.
A boat taking on water at the dock is not a Tuesday callback. Urgent calls get flagged and texted to you first.
Season hours, drop-off rules, and do-you-work-on-this questions answered without interrupting the shop.
The same agent answers on your website at 9pm in February when someone is already planning for spring.
It is not a mechanic and it does not play one on the phone. The Ai agent will not diagnose an engine, quote a repair, or promise a haul-out date, because those calls are yours to make. It will not commit your calendar unless you give it rules to schedule by. If a caller asks something outside what you taught it, it takes a careful message instead of improvising. What it removes is the interruption, not your judgment. You review the agent before it ever takes a live call.
Less than one missed repair job, and you hear it first.
$249 one time
One in-depth Ai agent of your choice with an extremely fast turnaround. Your first agent add-on is included, and hosting is optional at $99/mo.
$499 setup · $149/mo
A new website for your shop with the chat agent built in, hosted and managed, so winter researchers find you months before launch season.
$0 to hear it
Every package starts with a free basic demo built with your business basics. Call your own demo and judge it like a customer would.
Yes. It asks the questions you would ask: make and length, motor type, where the boat sits, what it is doing or not doing, and when the owner needs it back on the water. All of it lands in your text queue as one clean summary, ready for your callback.
Those are exactly the weeks it earns its keep. The agent answers every call at once, so the commissioning list and the winterization list fill themselves while you keep wrenches turning. It can also collect waitlist details in the order calls come in, so nobody gets forgotten.
The Pilot package is $249 one time for one in-depth Ai agent of your choice, with your first agent add-on included and optional hosting at $99 per month. Every package starts with a free basic demo built on your actual business, so you hear it answer before you pay anything.
Free basic demo built on your actual services and season, always before any payment. We are local, so you can also sit down with Hans in person, dockside or in town, no pressure at all.