About.chatAbout.chatAI messaging assistants for local businesses
Your customers message you. Your assistant answers right away, day or night, with your hours, your menu and prices, your directions and your policies. Find your business below and it's on your phone in minutes. We handle the rest.
Next, you sign in with Google. We read your site, you message your assistant from your own phone, and nothing goes live until you say so.
Free during the pilot. We're inviting businesses a few at a time, so you may join the list first.
Weekend Brunch
Saturdays & Sundays, 9 AM – 2 PM — pancakes, benedicts, and patio mimosas.
Copper Kettle Bistro
1440 Pearl Street, Boulder — free lot behind the building, off Spruce.
Follow one line from a restaurant's website: its Saturday hours.
We read what you already publish: hours, address and directions, menu, services and prices, policies and your FAQ.
Fix anything that's off and fill in anything missing. Then message it from your own phone, the way a customer would.
Brand verification and carrier approval are on us. Customers reach you in their phone's messaging app, with your name and logo.
Three example businesses, and what their customers get: real answers, buttons for the next step, and an honest handoff when a person should take over.
Weekend Brunch
Saturdays & Sundays, 9 AM – 2 PM — pancakes, benedicts, and patio mimosas.
Copper Kettle Bistro
1440 Pearl Street, Boulder — free lot behind the building, off Spruce.
Classic Cut — $38
30 min · wash, cut, and style.
Cut + Beard Trim — $52
45 min · the full service.
Doesn't know? Says so, and hands over your real number.
People already look you up on Google Search and Maps. Message sits beside Call and Directions, and it opens a conversation with your assistant in the messaging app already on their phone. Nothing to download.
Your customers message first. It doesn't send marketing.
Every assistant comes with both. Either one opens the same conversation in RCS, with buttons to tap, on phones and carriers that support it.
We read its website and build your assistant. Free during the pilot.
Open or closed is worked out from your actual hours, in your time zone, holiday hours and late nights included. Never a guess.
It gives the phone number, email and address you've listed, and we test every assistant for it.
Ask it something your information doesn't cover, and it says so, politely, and offers the fastest way to reach a person: you.
Connect your Google Business Profile, and your assistant keeps your hours, holiday hours, address, phone and services current from the place you already update them, alongside your website.
On your Google Business Profile
In a customer's messages
These are the kinds we've built for so far. Each starts from an assistant made for that kind of business, so it's ready for what your customers ask. If yours isn't here, sign up anyway.
Restaurants
“Are you open right now?”
Salons
“Do you take walk-ins?”
Skincare studios
“How much is a facial?”
Auto glass shops
“Do you come to me?”
Auto repair shops
“Can I drop my car off tonight?”
Home services
Plumbing, heating, electrical
“Do you cover my area?”
Gyms and fitness studios
“Is there a class tonight?”
Shops and boutiques
“Do you have this in stock?”
Florists
“Can you deliver today?”
Cleaning services
“How do I get a quote?”
Landscaping and lawn care
“Do you cover my neighborhood?”
Something else?
We're adding more kinds of business. Sign up with your website, and we'll tell you when yours is ready.
Now inviting businesses
Find your business. We build your assistant, you message it from your own phone, and when you're happy with it, we take it live for you.
Next, you sign in with Google, so we know who to write to. We're inviting businesses a few at a time, so you may join the list first. Nothing goes live until you say so.
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About.chat gives a local business an AI messaging assistant. We build it from your website, and it answers your customers' messages in seconds, with your real hours, menu, services, prices, directions and policies. Customers reach it in their phone's own messaging app, over RCS, with your name and logo on the conversation.
What your website and your review cover: hours, location and directions, menu, services and listed prices, policies and amenities, and your FAQ. Ask it something outside that, and it says it isn't sure and shares your contact details.
Almost nothing. Give us your website, and your assistant is built in minutes. Check what it found, fill any gaps, and message it from your own phone.
For now, you need one. It's where your assistant learns about your business.
Local businesses with a working website, in the US for now. We've built assistants for restaurants, salons, skincare studios, auto glass and auto repair shops, home services such as plumbing, heating and electrical, gyms and fitness studios, shops, florists, cleaning services and landscapers, and we're adding more. If yours isn't one of those, sign up anyway and we'll tell you when it's ready.
Any automated assistant can make a mistake, which is why you review what it knows first and can correct it any time. It answers only from your information. When it isn't sure, it says so and offers your phone number.
In their phone's messaging app, with your name and logo, and tappable buttons for things like calling you or getting directions. They start from the Message button on your Google listing, where Google offers it, or from the link and QR code we give you for your door, your receipts and your website.
RCS is the upgrade to text messaging that's built into the messaging app on Android phones and iPhones. A business on RCS shows up with its verified name and logo, and can send cards and buttons where a text message has only words. Your customers don't download or sign up for anything.
You can message it yourself within minutes. Going live with the carriers takes longer, because it needs brand verification and carrier approval. We do that work and keep you posted.
Connect your Google Business Profile, and changes to your hours, holiday hours, address, phone and services reach your assistant from there. We also check your website for changes, and you can change anything yourself in Aboutchat.
It's free during our pilot, with no contract. We'll tell you before that changes.
About.chat, at about.chat. Say it “about dot chat”. People who hear the name often write “About Chat” or “Aboutchat”, and we used to be at aboutchat.ai. All of them lead here.
Sign in at app.about.chat, with the Google account you used to set up your assistant.
Free during the pilot
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