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Including the ones with awkward answers. If yours is not here, ask the bot on the demo, or call and ask a person.

Getting started

What actually happens after I sign up?
You tell us about your business, services, prices, hours, the rules you never want broken. We build your bot from that and send it to you. You read it, you argue with it, you change what you do not like. Nothing goes near a customer until you say so. Most businesses are live inside 24 hours.
How does the 30-day free trial work?
On a monthly AI Receptionist plan you get the whole product for thirty days, your own bot, trained on your business, answering on your site. Nothing is charged during the trial and there is no contract to sign. If you stop, you keep everything it collected for you: every lead, every conversation, every booking.
What does it cost after that?
AI Receptionist is $199 a month. Pay for the year instead and you get two months free, annual plans are billed up front and carry no trial. No setup fee on either, and you can cancel any time.
Do I need a new phone number?
No. The chat on your website works the moment the bot is live, and text-back runs on a business line we provision with your account, your own number never changes.

What it does

How is this different from a chatbot that says "we'll get back to you"?
Those bots have no idea what you charge. StrykBot is trained on your actual services, prices, hours and rules before it ever talks to a customer, so it quotes the real number, holds the real slot on your real calendar, and never promises something you do not do.
Can it actually book a job, or does it just take a message?
It books. It reads your real availability, offers the openings that exist, takes the booking and writes it into your diary. It checks the slot before it confirms, so the same hour never goes out to two people.
What information do I get about each customer?
Name, phone, email, address and the job they asked about, pulled out of the conversation and written into your customer list. Each one is scored hot, warm or cold, so you open the app knowing who to ring first. The whole conversation is kept alongside it.
Can customers send me photos?
Yes. You send a link, they upload photos and paperwork from their phone. They do not need an account and they never make one. The files land against their record in your customer list.
What if it does not know the answer?
It says so and hands over, rather than inventing something. It answers out of what you gave it, it is not guessing from the internet, and the rules you set are rules it cannot talk its way around.
What kinds of business is StrykBot for?
Local businesses where the person who answers the phone is the person doing the work, plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, salons and studios, and the trades around them. If a customer reaches out while your hands are busy, that is the gap it fills. There is a page per trade under "Who it is for".
Does it work with Google Calendar?
Yes, and that is the calendar it books into. You connect your Google account once; from then on it reads your real availability, offers only openings that exist, and writes the booking into the same diary you already look at. Nothing lives in a separate calendar you have to remember to check.
Can you build my website and my app too?
Yes, that is the Full Digital Presence plan at $899 a month. STRYK DIGITAL, StrykBot’s own marketing team, builds and updates your website, builds an installable customer app for your business (added to the home screen from the browser on iPhone and Android, native App Store and Google Play builds are quoted separately), runs your SEO and AI-search optimization, makes and manages your social media, and designs your print marketing. Your StrykBot is inside all of it.
Do you do flyers, business cards and signs?
On the Full Digital Presence plan, yes. We design the flyers, business cards, door hangers, yard signs, banners and vehicle wraps in your brand, and we order them with the printer for you. The design is part of the plan; the printing itself is billed at cost with no markup, the same way ad spend is.

Missed calls

Does it text back my missed calls?
Yes. When a call rings out, a text goes out from your business line within seconds, and the conversation carries on by SMS, it can end in a booking without you picking up.

Your data, and stopping

Who can see my customers?
You. Every business on StrykBot is walled off from every other one at the database, not just in the interface, and it is checked automatically on every release. Your customer list is not shared, sold, or used to train anything for anybody else.
What happens to my data if I leave?
It is yours. Cancel and you can take your customers, conversations and bookings with you. We do not hold your list hostage to keep you subscribed.
How do I cancel?
From inside the app, on your own: Settings → Manage plan & payment. Monthly cancels any time and stays active to the end of the paid period, with no phone call, no retention script and no notice period. Annual can turn off renewal at any time and is refundable only within 30 days of the charge.

Still not sure?

Go and ask the bot itself, it is a real StrykBot, not a recording, and it does not mind being tested.