Front Ave AI · Toronto
AI for the shops on your street.
Restaurants, barbers, salons — every small business has a back room full of busywork. AI can take it off your plate.
AI automation for Toronto salons, barbershops and clinics — built by a working salon owner
Get found
Show up where locals look.
AI drafts your posts, menu specials and Google updates in your voice — you approve, it keeps your name in front of the neighbourhood.
Get booked
Never miss another booking.
AI answers calls and DMs, books the appointment, and texts back anyone you missed — day or night, even mid-cut.
Keep them coming back
Turn one visit into regulars.
Every review gets a thoughtful reply, and past clients get a friendly nudge when they're due for their next appointment.
The payoff
You get your hours back.
The busywork runs quietly in the back room while you're out front with customers. Book a free call and I'll show you what AI can take off your plate.
Front Ave AI · Toronto
AI for the shops on your street.
Salons, barbershops, studios and clinics all have a back room full of busywork — missed calls, unanswered reviews, captions written at midnight. I build the AI that takes it off your plate, and I test it in my own salon first.
- Toronto-based
- Built in a working salon
- No contracts, ever
Built for the shops on your street
- Nail salons
- Barbershops
- Hair salons
- Lash & brow studios
- Massage & spa
- Med spas
- Tattoo studios
- Dental & clinics
- Pet grooming
- Restaurants & cafés
- Fitness studios
- Auto shops
The honest version
The work that grows a shop keeps losing to the work that runs one
Not because you're disorganised. Because you were with a client, and that is the correct place to be.
Your week right now
A call rings out while your hands are busy
Reviews sit unanswered for three weeks
Captions written at 11pm, or not at all
Thursday is quiet and nobody told your clients
The DMs ask the same five questions all day
Your week with this running
Missed calls get a text back in seconds
Every review has a reply waiting for your nod
Next week's posts are drafted before you open
Slow days get a promo without you noticing
The five questions answer themselves
Three ways in
Get found, get booked, or get trained
Most owners start with whichever one is bleeding. You don't have to take all three.
See it work
What this actually looks like
Not a feature list. These are the four jobs owners hand over first — each one running the way it would in your shop.
Missed-call text-back
The call you couldn't take, saved in seconds
You're mid-service, the phone rings out, and that client calls the next place on the list. This closes the gap: the moment a call goes unanswered, they get a friendly text in your voice — and a way to book without calling back.
- Fires the instant a call is missed, day or night
- Written the way you'd say it, not the way software says it
- Replies land in one inbox you can take over any time
9:41
Incoming call
+1 416 555 0142
You're mid‑service
Review replies
Every review answered, none of them by you at midnight
New reviews get a drafted reply within hours — specific to what the client actually said, not a template. Anything less than glowing waits for your approval before it posts, so you keep the final word where it matters.
- Reads the review and answers the actual point
- Negative ones always route to you first
- The steady response rate Google quietly rewards
Reviews
M
2 min agoMaya R.
“Dana did the most beautiful almond set — took her time and it still looks perfect two weeks later. Booking again.”
Your reply
Waiting…
Booking agent
Questions answered and chairs filled while you work
“How much for a full set?” “Are you open Sunday?” “Do you take walk-ins?” The same five questions, all day. An agent trained on your services and hours handles them on your site and in your DMs — and books straight into your calendar.
- Knows your services, hours and the way you talk
- Works on your website and Instagram or Facebook DMs
- Hands off to you the moment a human is needed
Booking agent
Instagram DMhey do you have anything friday after 5? 🙏
Friday
- 3:00Gel fill · Priya
- 4:00Pedicure · Noor
- 5:15Open
- 6:30Open
- 7:30Lash fill · Sam
Books into the calendar you already use.
Content engine
A week of posts, drafted before you open
Captions, Google Business posts and slow-week promos, planned around your real work instead of a content calendar someone else wrote. You skim, tweak the one that isn't quite right, approve. That's the whole job.
- Built from your services, your seasons, your neighbourhood
- Nothing publishes without your approval
- Keeps your Google profile active, which is what local search reads
Content plan
- Mon—
- Tue—
- Wed—
- Thu—
- Fri—
- Sat—
- Sun—
Wednesday · Reel caption
Written from your services and your week — never published without you.
These are illustrations of how each system behaves, not recordings of client accounts — your setup is trained on your own services, hours and voice.
See what this would cost for your shopHow it goes
From first message to hours back
Four steps, no surprises. You can stop after step two if the quote isn't right for you.
Tell me what's eating your week
A short form, then a twenty-minute call. You describe how you run things and what keeps slipping. No pitch deck, I promise.
You get a quote and a plan
In writing: what I'd build, in what order, what it costs, and how long it takes. If I think AI is the wrong answer, I'll say so here.
I build it and train it on you
Your services, your hours, your voice. You approve everything before a single message reaches a client.
You get your hours back
It runs quietly while you're with clients. Tweak it any time, cancel any time, keep everything either way.
Start with step one
Two minutes to fill in. No card, no contract, no pitch deck.
Huy
Founder, Front Ave AI · Nail salon owner, Koreatown
Who you're dealing with
I looked at agencies first. The quotes were more than my rent, and nobody could tell me in plain words what I'd get. So I built it myself — then other owners started asking.
I run a nail salon in Toronto's Koreatown. Most days you'll find me on the floor, not behind a laptop — which is exactly why these systems exist. Every one of them had to survive a real week in a real shop before it went anywhere near a client of mine.
Tested in my own salon before it's sold to yours
Plain words — no glossary, no dashboards you'll never open
Month to month, so it has to keep earning its place
You own the accounts, the content and the systems
Do it yourself
Or start tonight for the price of lunch
Not ready to hand anything over? These are the prompts I use in my own salon. Copy, paste into ChatGPT or Claude, post.
Nail Salons
$12USD
55 AI Prompts for Nail Salon Marketing
The prompts I use to market my own nail salon in Toronto. Copy, paste into ChatGPT or Claude, post.
Get it on Gumroad
Instant download · yours forever
Barbershops
$12USD
55 AI Prompts for Barbershop Marketing
The same system, written for barbers. Fresh-cut captions, review replies, slow-day promos — done in minutes.
Get it on Gumroad
Instant download · yours forever
Best Value
$18USD
The Bundle — Both Prompt Packs
All 110 prompts in one download. Both industries covered — handy for suites, shared shops, and multi-service spots.
Save $6 vs. buying separately
Get it on Gumroad
Instant download · yours forever
Request a quote
Tell me what's eating your week
Tell me what's eating your weekTwo minutes on a form, then a twenty-minute call. You'll leave it with a plan and a price, whether or not you hire me.
- A real number in writing
- No contract, cancel any time
- I'll say so if AI isn't your fix
Questions
The things owners ask me first
AI automation for local businesses, built in Toronto. I own a nail salon in Koreatown, and Front Ave AI sells the workflows I use to run it — to help you get found (social, reviews, local search), get booked (a voice receptionist, missed-call text-back, a booking agent), and get trained (classes for owners) — plus prompt packs you can use yourself today.
Something not covered here? Ask me on the form