AI is a brilliant assistant that knows nothing about your salon.
Ask it a question cold and you get the same generic answer everyone gets. Tell it who you are, what you charge, who your clients are and how you talk, and it starts doing real work: rosters, client messages, job ads, price rise letters, number crunching. The trick is the set-up. That's what this is.
The AI Starter Kit
Everything you need to go from "I tried it once and it was a bit rubbish" to using it every day. Written for people who run salons and clinics, not people who write code.
- A step by step set-up guide: teach it your business once, properly
- A library of ready-to-use prompts for salons: client messages, team comms, socials, pricing, hiring
- Project recipes for bigger jobs, like a price rise rollout or a new-client welcome sequence
- NZ context throughout: our spelling, our employment rules, our seasons
- A privacy section: how to strip names and details out before anything goes near AI
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- Rewrite your cancellation policy so it's firm and still sounds like you
- Turn a messy month of sales figures into three things to do
- Draft the message to clients about your price rise
- Write a job ad that the right stylist actually wants to answer
- Plan four weeks of social posts around what's in the diary
Want a taste first? The free guide covers the basics.
What you get for $49
73
ready-to-copy prompts
6
step by step project recipes
What's inside
- Start here
- Set-up guide: teach it your business once
- Safety and privacy
- Five jobs to hand over this week
- The prompt library
- Project recipes
- NZ context: what AI gets wrong about us
- One-page cheat sheet
Three prompts from the library, to try tonight
No-show: first time
A client didn't turn up. It's the first time and you'd like to keep them.
A client didn't turn up for their [SERVICE] today at [TIME]. It's their first no-show and they're [A REGULAR / NEW TO US]. Our policy: [e.g. NO-SHOWS ARE CHARGED 50% / THE DEPOSIT IS KEPT] This time I'm going to: [CHARGE THE FEE / WAIVE IT AS A ONE-OFF] Write a text that: - checks they're OK - explains the policy without lecturing - says clearly what's happening with the fee - makes it easy to rebook Under 60 words. No guilt trip. No passive-aggressive tone.
Price rise: personal heads-up to a regular
Your loyal regulars should hear it from you before the general announcement.
Our prices change on [DATE]. For this client, their usual [SERVICE] goes from $[OLD PRICE] to $[NEW PRICE]. They've been coming to us for [NUMBER] years. Write a personal text from [MY FIRST NAME] that: - gives them a heads-up before we announce it to everyone - thanks them for their loyalty, briefly and genuinely - states the new price plainly - includes this, if I've filled it in: [e.g. THEY CAN BOOK THEIR NEXT 2 VISITS AT THE CURRENT PRICE BEFORE THE DATE] Under 300 characters. Confident, not apologetic.
Job ad for a junior, assistant or receptionist
For the support roles that keep the place running. (For stylists, use job 4 in the five jobs.)
Write a job ad for a [RECEPTIONIST / SALON ASSISTANT / JUNIOR STYLIST / BEAUTY THERAPIST]. Hours: [ ] Pay: [ ] What the job really involves day to day: [ ] What we offer: [e.g. TRAINING, A CLEAR PATH TO STYLIST, STAFF SERVICES] Who would suit it: [ ] How to apply: [ ] Under 200 words, honest, written to the applicant. No discriminatory wording. Add 3 short screening questions applicants should answer when they apply, so I can shortlist quickly.
Protect client and team privacy
Before you use AI, take out names and anything that could identify a client or someone on your team. Don't paste sensitive or confidential information into an AI product unless you've checked how that company stores, keeps and uses it.
The easy habit: write "Client A" or "[CLIENT NAME]", let AI draft the message, then add the name yourself in your booking system. The kit and the free guide both show you how, step by step, including the privacy settings worth switching on.
The AI Build Day
One day, one on one, online or in person. By the end, AI is set up around your business and you know how to drive it.
Build it, hand it over
We set up your AI workspace together: your business brief, your tone of voice, and working set-ups for numbers, team, pricing, marketing and client comms. You leave able to run it yourself.
- A full day, one on one
- Your business brief, written and loaded
- Workspaces for the jobs you do every week
- Two weeks of follow-up questions by email
Build it, and keep it sharp
Everything in option one, plus twelve months of monthly check-ins: I read your numbers, update your set-up as the tools change, and send you what to do next.
- The full Build Day
- A monthly numbers review for a year
- Your set-up kept current as AI tools change
- Priority answers when you get stuck
What AI won't do
It won't cut hair, read a room or know your regulars. It will confidently get things wrong if you let it, especially numbers and New Zealand law. Used well, it takes the admin off your plate so you can do the part only you can do. That's the whole pitch.