# DoubleTime AI

> DoubleTime AI is an AI automation agency for service businesses. Four services, priced in the open: an AI Front Desk that answers and books every call, database reactivation that turns dead leads into booked appointments, SEO & AI search visibility that gets you found on Google and cited by AI answer engines, and custom AI systems you own outright.

DoubleTime AI is a US-based, remote-first AI automation agency founded in 2026.
It sells four services to service businesses, with pricing published openly on
the site: The AI Front Desk (AI phone answering, missed-call text-back and
booking, $5,000 setup + $1,500/month), SEO & AI Search Visibility ($2,500 setup
+ $3,000/month), Database Reactivation ($5,000 per campaign), and Custom AI
Systems ($25,000 typical project).

Contact: hello@doubletimeai.com
Free automation audit: https://www.doubletimeai.com/#book
Area served: United States (remote-first, nationwide)

## The four services

- [The AI Front Desk](https://www.doubletimeai.com/services/ai-voice-agents): An AI receptionist that answers on the first ring, qualifies the caller, and books the job on your real calendar — plus missed-call text-back and speed-to-lead follow-up, run for you. Price: $5,000 setup + $1,500/month.
- [SEO & AI Search Visibility](https://www.doubletimeai.com/services/seo-ai-search-visibility): Technical SEO, schema, and a daily content engine run as one program — so search engines rank you and AI answer engines cite you by name. Price: $2,500 setup + $3,000/month.
- [Database Reactivation](https://www.doubletimeai.com/services/database-reactivation): An AI-run SMS campaign that wakes the dead leads sitting in your CRM, holds the conversation, and books the ones who are ready onto your calendar. No ad spend. Price: $5,000 per campaign.
- [Custom AI Systems](https://www.doubletimeai.com/services/custom-ai-systems): Booking engines, client portals, quoting tools, ops dashboards — custom-built systems delivered in weeks, not quarters. You own every line of it. Price: $25,000 typical project.

## Capabilities delivered inside those services

- [CRM & Data Entry Automation](https://www.doubletimeai.com/services/crm-data-entry-automation): Records create and update themselves across the tools you already use. (part of The AI Front Desk · Custom AI Systems)
- Lead Capture & Qualification: Instant replies, qualifying questions, hot leads booked straight onto the calendar. (part of The AI Front Desk)
- Booking & Missed-Call Recovery: Missed-call text-back plus multi-touch reminders that cut no-shows. (part of The AI Front Desk)
- Customer Support Chatbots: Assistants trained strictly on your business information, with graceful handoff. (part of The AI Front Desk)
- Content & Social Automation: Pipelines that turn one idea into scheduled, approved output across channels. (part of SEO & AI Search Visibility)
- Invoice & Document Processing: Read, validate and file any invoice, quote or contract automatically. (part of Custom AI Systems)
- Email & Inbox Automation: Triage, drafted replies, and every action item extracted automatically. (part of Custom AI Systems)
- Payment Follow-Up & Receivables: Invoices out on completion, polite escalating reminders, payments reconciled. (part of Custom AI Systems)
- Reporting & Dashboards: Live dashboards and scheduled reports that pull themselves together. (part of Custom AI Systems)

## Key facts

- Founded 2026. Every statistic published on doubletimeai.com traces to a named,
  published, linkable source — cited inline on guides and service pages, and
  listed at doubletimeai.com/#sources for the homepage. None are client results.
- Pricing is published: The AI Front Desk is $5,000 setup + $1,500/month;
  SEO & AI Search Visibility is $2,500 setup + $3,000/month; Database
  Reactivation is $5,000 per campaign; Custom AI Systems projects typically
  land at $25,000. Scope is fixed at a free audit before any commitment.
- Clients own every automation we build. No hostage systems, no lock-in.
- Automations are built on the tools a business already uses. No rip-and-replace.
- Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute automation audit.
- Humans stay in the loop: approvals gate anything that sends externally.

## Guides

### Automation Strategy
- [Workflow automation: what to automate first](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/workflow-automation-guide): Workflow automation replaces the manual handoffs between your tools. Here is what it changes, which processes to start with, and what tends to break.
- [GoHighLevel: an honest assessment](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/gohighlevel-guide): GoHighLevel bundles CRM, funnels, SMS and automation for agencies that resell it. Here is what it costs, what it does well, and who should skip it.
- [How to choose an AI automation agency](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/how-to-choose-an-ai-automation-agency): What AI automation agencies do, how engagement models differ, the questions that separate real shops from resellers, and the red flags worth walking over.
- [Zapier alternatives, by category](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/zapier-alternatives): Teams outgrow Zapier for three reasons: cost at volume, branching limits and debugging opacity. Here are the four categories of alternative, and when each fits.
- [Make vs Zapier vs n8n](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/make-vs-zapier-vs-n8n): Three automation platforms with three different billing units and three different buyers. Which one fits depends on volume, complexity and who maintains it.
- [How to calculate AI automation ROI](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-automation-roi): A working method for automation ROI: fully-loaded labor cost, time recovered, error cost, revenue from faster response, minus build and running cost.
- [Workflow automation for small business](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/workflow-automation-small-business): Where to start automating, how to sequence it, and the process-mapping step almost everyone skips — plus why you should never automate before simplifying.

### AI Search & SEO
- [What is answer engine optimization?](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/what-is-answer-engine-optimization): Answer engine optimization is the practice of structuring content so AI assistants cite it. What AEO is, how it differs from SEO, and where to start.
- [What an AI SEO agency actually does](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-seo-agency-what-to-expect): The real scope of work behind the label, what genuinely differs from a traditional SEO agency, and the claims that should make you walk away.
- [GEO vs SEO: what's actually different](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/geo-vs-seo): GEO and SEO overlap far more than vendors admit. A direct comparison of what changes, what stays identical, and where your effort actually belongs.
- [How to rank in Google AI Overviews](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/how-to-rank-in-ai-overviews): Google says no special optimization exists for AI Overviews. Here's what actually determines which pages get pulled in, and what site owners control.
- [How to get cited by ChatGPT](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt): ChatGPT cites sources it can retrieve, parse and trust. Here's how its search retrieval picks sources, and what actually makes a page quotable.
- [What llms.txt is and whether it's worth shipping](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/llms-txt-explained): llms.txt is a proposed file that tells AI agents what your site is and where the good content lives. Here is the format, who honors it, and whether to ship one.
- [Schema markup for AI search, done properly](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/schema-markup-for-ai-search): Which schema types matter for AI search, how @id graph linking beats isolated blocks, and the mistakes that quietly make your structured data useless.
- [Perplexity SEO — how it picks and cites sources](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/perplexity-seo): Perplexity retrieves, ranks and cites sources differently from ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Here is how it works and what that means for your site.
- [AI visibility tracking — how to measure citations](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-visibility-tracking): How to measure whether AI engines mention and cite your business: what to track, how to build a manual baseline, and what to do when they get you wrong.

### AI Voice & Phone
- [What an AI receptionist is and how it works](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-receptionist-guide): An AI receptionist answers your business phone using speech recognition and a language model. Here is how the technology works, and where it fails.
- [What an AI receptionist costs](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-receptionist-cost): AI receptionists are priced per minute, per call, or flat monthly. Here is what drives the number, and how it compares to a human receptionist.
- [AI answering services, explained](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-answering-service): An AI answering service handles inbound calls with software instead of staff. How it compares to a human service and an IVR, and where it falls down.
- [Missed call text back — how it works and what to send](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/missed-call-text-back): A missed call text back sends an automatic SMS to callers you don't answer. How to set one up, what the message should say, and the US SMS rules.

### Leads & CRM
- [Speed to lead: why response time decides conversion](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/speed-to-lead): Contact and qualification rates for inbound leads collapse within minutes. Here is what the research found, and how to respond in under five.
- [CRM automation: what to automate first, and what to leave alone](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/crm-automation-guide): CRM automation means the record maintains itself. What to automate first, what to automate last, and how to avoid a CRM nobody trusts.
- [How to automate data entry, step by step](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/how-to-automate-data-entry): A practical walkthrough for automating manual data entry: find the costly tasks, map the data flow, pick an approach, handle exceptions, validate.
- [Automated appointment reminders that reduce no-shows](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/automated-appointment-reminders): Reminder cadence, channel choice, message wording, one-tap confirm, and the US business-SMS rules you have to follow before sending any of it.

### Finance & Admin
- [Accounts receivable automation, end to end](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/accounts-receivable-automation): How to automate the invoice-to-cash loop: invoicing on completion, a reminder cadence that works, payment matching, and what DSO actually tells you.
- [OCR invoice processing, and what replaced it](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ocr-invoice-processing): Why template-based OCR broke on real supplier invoices, how vision and language models extract fields instead, and what accuracy you should expect.
- [Document processing automation, done properly](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/document-processing-automation): The six-stage pipeline behind automated document handling — ingest, classify, extract, validate, route, store — and how to pick which documents to automate.

### Email & Support
- [AI email assistants: triage, drafting, limits](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides/ai-email-assistant): How AI email assistants classify, prioritise and draft — plus where the draft-for-approval line should sit and why auto-send is the wrong default.

## Optional

- [All guides](https://www.doubletimeai.com/guides): full index, updated daily.
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- [Sitemap](https://www.doubletimeai.com/sitemap.xml)