Ownbox for local businesses
Run your local business
on Ownbox.
Every AI tool sold to local businesses is one more subscription and one more place your customers' details live. Ownbox is a Shared Company Brain your business owns, where your team and your AI agents work from the same facts and keep every customer moving, and nothing goes out that you haven't allowed.
Day one
Your inbox at 8 AM and this morning's review.
This is your Ownbox on its first morning at a local business, in its own words.
Dana R.Hi, are you open this weekend? I'd love to stop by if you have time.
Hi Dana, thanks for reaching out. What would you like to come in for? I'll check our openings and confirm right back.
Draft ready, waiting for your OK
- Unified Inbox5 conversations are waiting on your reply
- Unified Inbox4 replies are written and ready to send
- SEO MachinePublished “Do I need an appointment, or can I walk in?”
Example. The review lines are your Ownbox's own wording; the names and numbers are made up.
The Shared Company Brain
One brain for your whole local business.
Your team and every AI agent work from the same files, so nobody explains the business twice and nothing gets lost in a handoff.
- Your services, prices and hours
- Booking, cancellation and refund policies
- Answers to the questions customers ask most
- Staff schedules and contact lists
- Licenses, permits and insurance
A reply waits for your OK until you tell a channel otherwise, and anything an AI agent wants to do waits for a person's OK and is logged.
Every department
Machines made for departments, so they fit any business.
An Ownbox machine does one kind of work, like sales follow-up, content or invoicing, so the same machine runs {a name} as well as any company. Here is each department's work in your own words. Any of it can run on your Ownbox as a machine you build with the free SDK, or one your developer or agency builds. You approve it, and it runs in a locked space that can do only what you allowed.
Sales
- Every inquiry answered the same day
- Quotes and bookings followed up until they're a yes or a no
- Past customers invited back on a schedule
Marketing
- A review asked for after every visit
- Your news turned into each channel's post, with your OK
- A seasonal note to past customers
Operations
- Tomorrow's bookings checked for gaps and double bookings
- Customers told when their booking is confirmed or moved
- Supplies watched, with reorders proposed
Finance
- Invoices and deposits tracked to each customer
- Open invoices chased on a schedule
- A weekly one-pager of revenue by service
People
- Licenses, permits and insurance watched before they lapse
- Onboarding checklists that actually run
- Who is working when, every morning
Questions
Before you ask.
Is Ownbox ready for a local business today?
Yes. Your Ownbox arrives running on its own server, with the Shared Company Brain, a dashboard and phone app, and the Morning Review. Ownbox Core adds your choice of the Unified Inbox, which drafts a reply to every customer message for your OK, or the SEO Machine, which answers your customers' questions on your own website. Ownbox Pro comes with both. It's $799 once, with your login by email about five minutes after you pay. Managed Support (hosting, updates and backups) is free for 90 days, then $99 a month.
Does it answer my phone?
Not today. The Unified Inbox answers email, Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and every reply waits for your OK until you tell it otherwise. If your phone system has an API, a custom machine can connect it to your Ownbox.
Can a local business have a Business Agent in ChatGPT?
Not inside ChatGPT yet: ChatGPT's Business Agents opened to US online and ecommerce businesses first, and a local business can claim its existing listing there. The Business Agent in your Ownbox works for a local business today. ChatGPT and other AI apps can read the documents you approve and answer from them.
Can we build our own machines?
Yes. A custom machine adds one job to your Ownbox, such as booking reminders or review requests. Your developer or agency writes it, you approve it twice, once to test and once to install, and it runs in a locked space that can do only what you allowed.
Where does my customers' information live?
On your Ownbox, its own server that no other business shares. The data is yours, the software comes with a perpetual license, and you can move your Ownbox to your own DigitalOcean account any time from 30 days after you buy.
Can my agency build machines for us?
Yes. Agencies build custom machines with the free SDK, and approved agencies can join the 40% Partner tier of Earn with Ownbox.
Does my local business get a Business Agent?
Yes. Every Ownbox ships with one. The documents you approve into your Shared Company Brain's Public folder, like your services, prices and policies, become your Business Agent. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI apps can read them and answer questions about your local business from them. Nothing is served until you say yes.
$799 once · yours to keep
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