You are pushing off from the put-in while the office phone rings behind you. Your Ai agent answers the trip questions, captures the booking, and texts you the lead before the boat hits the first wave.
Columbia Falls is the last real town before US 2 bends through Bad Rock Canyon and climbs toward West Glacier. Every summer morning, rigs loaded with rafts roll out toward the Middle Fork while the office phone starts ringing behind them. A family in a Kalispell motel wants to know if their eight year old can ride the whitewater section. A group that just spent the whole day on Going-to-the-Sun Road wants a half day float tomorrow. Somebody needs to move a booking, somebody wants to know if wetsuits are included, and somebody is asking about your weather policy for the third time today. If nobody picks up, most of those callers do not leave a voicemail. They call the next outfitter on the list.
An Ai agent from Ai Boost answers every one of those calls and website chats, 24/7, trained on your actual trips, your meeting spots, and your policies. It knows the difference between your scenic float and your whitewater run because you taught it. It gathers the party size, the date, the ages, and the phone number, handles the booking the way you want bookings handled, and texts you the details while you are still on the water.
And it is not just rafting. Fly fishing guides working the three forks of the Flathead field the same flood: what is included, do you supply rods, where do we meet, what does a full day run. Trail ride outfits, shuttle services, and Glacier tour operators around Columbia Falls, Hungry Horse, and Coram all live on the same phone. Your agent answers from the information you approved and never improvises about regulations or river conditions. When a question needs a guide's judgment, it takes a message and gets it to you fast.
Minimum ages, what to bring, trip lengths, difficulty, and where to meet, answered instantly and accurately from your own trip sheets.
Party size, date, ages, and contact info gathered on every call, then booked or handed to you exactly the way you set it up.
Meeting times, parking, shuttle details, and turn-by-turn directions to your shop or put-in, repeated patiently as many times as it takes.
Your weather and cancellation policies, word for word, so callers hear the same answer every single time.
The same trained agent lives on your website, answering the evening planners who research trips from their couch after work.
The 9pm caller booking tomorrow's trip from a motel room gets a real answer, not a voicemail greeting recorded in 2019.
From the first big June water to the last warm weekend in September, call volume in Columbia Falls tracks the park. Your agent absorbs the July and August surge without hiring a single extra body, then keeps answering through the quiet months, when winter planners from around the country start lining up next summer's trips. One agent, the same friendly answers, every month of the year. During Heritage Days week, when the whole town is on the street and nobody is near the shop phone, it just keeps working.
Honest limits, because that is how we do business. Your Ai agent does not guide trips, read water, or make safety calls. It will not tell a caller the river is good to go, guess at flows, or invent an answer it does not have. It follows the weather and cancellation policies you wrote, word for word, and when something needs a human decision it takes a message and hands the call to you. Think of it as the most reliable front desk you have ever had, not a replacement for a trip leader's judgment.
Most outfitters start with the Pilot: $249 one time for one in-depth Ai agent, with your first agent add-on included and optional hosting at $99 per month. Need a new website with the chat agent built in? Custom Website + Chat is $499 setup plus $149 per month, hosted and managed. Bigger systems with voice, bookings, and SEO start at $1,249. Every package begins with a free basic demo built on your actual trips, so you hear it answer your questions before you pay anything, and turnaround is extremely fast. See every option on the Columbia Falls packages page or price it yourself on the order page.
Yes. It gathers the party size, the date, the ages in the group, and a callback number, then handles the booking the way you tell it to: placing it on your calendar, capturing it as a confirmed lead for you to finalize, or walking the caller through your online booking page. You decide how deep it goes, and it texts you the details either way.
It says so honestly, takes the caller's name and number, and gets the question to you fast. It never guesses at water levels, invents a policy, or makes a safety call. It only answers from the trip details, policies, and pricing you approved during setup.
Yes. The agent answers year round, and off-season calls are often the most valuable ones: planners booking next summer's trips months ahead, group organizers comparing outfitters in January, and guests with gift certificate questions. Those callers reach a helpful voice instead of a winter voicemail.
Free basic demo built on your actual trips, always before any payment. And since we are local, you can sit down with Hans in person anywhere in the Flathead Valley, no pressure at all.