Your website finally talks back.

Meet Dave, your Digital Autonomous Virtual Employee. Not just another scripted chatbot, but a human-like AI chatbot and virtual receptionist for small businesses, powered by Claude. He answers your customers on his own around the clock, and as you move up the plans he books appointments and even quotes shipping — turning missed calls and after-hours enquiries into paying customers. On duty 24/7.

Takes about a minute. Or .

24/7Always on duty
HoursSet up & live
1 lineOf code to install

Paste one line into your website — or we’ll install Dave for you, free.

Dave
Dave On duty · Digital Autonomous Virtual Employee
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Built for the businesses that keep towns running

🦷 Dental clinics💇 Salons🔧 Auto garages🏪 Local shops📦 Parts & e-commerce🏋️ Gyms & studios⚖️ Small practices
Where the week actually goes

Most of your day isn't the work. It's the questions.

Allergens, parking, deposits, opening hours — the same handful, over and over, always at the worst moment. None of them are difficult. Together they quietly cost you your week.

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Where it goes today ⏱ Time you get back £ What it protects What that looks like
The same questions, all dayallergens, parking, deposits, hoursEvery plan Answered the second they're asked, from your own words and documents — in any language, without interrupting you once. No hour a day spent repeating yourself, and no enquiry drifting off while you're mid-service. “Is the pasta gluten-free?” — answered at 21:40 from your allergen sheet, quoted word for word.
Enquiries after you closeevenings, Sundays, bank holidaysEvery plan Monday doesn't start with a backlog. It was handled while you slept. The customer stays with you instead of the business that happened to answer first. An 11pm wedding-cake enquiry answered in full, the whole brief in your inbox before you're up.
Booking by phone tagcall, diary, callback, confirmDave Pro No call, no flicking through the diary, no confirmation to type out. Fewer no-shows — every booking is confirmed in writing — and never a double booking. “Friday morning?” → 9:20 offered, clash-checked against your calendar → booked → confirmed. You did none of it.
The review you never ask foryou're already onto the next jobDave Pro You never have to remember. It happens either way. More reviews means more people choosing you — and the same email offers a private reply, so problems reach you first. About two hours after the appointment: one email, one link, never a chase.
Stock, delivery and “where's my order?”the questions that need a system openDave Max No walking to the shelf, no rate table, no logging into the order system at 11pm. The quote lands while they still want it — and support hours come back to you. Brake pads for a 2014 Golf: £34.90, 14 in stock, £4.90 to Leeds, arriving Thursday — one reply.

Write each answer once — Dave handles the rest. Free for 7 days, no card, live on your site in hours.

How it works

Dave's on your site in hours, not days

No developers needed on your side. We handle everything.

1

We scan your website

Our engine reads every page — services, prices, opening hours, policies — plus anything you upload or type in yourself, and builds Dave a knowledge brain unique to your business.

2

We shape the personality

We tune his tone to match your business — warm, professional or playful — and on Dave Pro you can change it, plus his name and greeting, yourself any time. Dave greets people the way you would, never with robotic yes/no answers.

3

One line of code, done

We give you a single snippet (or install it for you). The chat bubble appears on your site and Dave starts helping customers immediately.

Under the hood

What happens when a customer presses send

Follow one real message through the system — the whole journey takes about two seconds. Pick a scenario, watch it live, and click any part to see what it does.

Watch Dave handle
D Dave on yourbusiness.co.uk live
Hi! Could I book a check-up on Friday morning?
Of course! Friday morning I have 9:20 or 10:40 free — which would suit you best?
9:20 please! Sarah Willis — sarah.w@example.com
All booked, Sarah — Friday at 9:20 ✅ Your confirmation has just landed in your inbox. See you then!
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Secure gatewayencrypted in transit
Your knowledgewebsite · docs · prices
Claude AI brainreasons & decides
Live calendarreal free slotsFri 09:20 ✓ booked
Emailconfirmations sentConfirmation sent ✓
Stock & orderslive lookups
Shippingcost & ETA quoted

💡 Every part of the system explains itself — click any node.

Every message makes this exact journey — in about two seconds.

  1. Visitor asks
  2. Encrypted route
  3. AI reasoning
  4. Your knowledge
  5. Real action
  6. Answer in ~2s
⏱️ ~2 s typical reply 🔐 Encrypted in transit 🎯 Answers from your data only — never from guesswork 🌙 Runs 24/7
Three ways to hire Dave

Start simple. Promote him any time.

Every business is different, so pick the Dave that matches yours and upgrade whenever you're ready.

Front Desk

Dave

The instant-answer assistant

  • Scans your entire website automatically
  • Answers questions about services, prices & hours
  • Natural, human-like conversation, not canned replies
  • Answers from your documents too — menus, allergen sheets, price lists, policies
  • Your own answers to your most-asked questions, in your words
  • Captures leads when he can't answer
  • Weekly re-scan keeps his knowledge fresh
  • Speaks 30+ languages automatically
💬 "Are you open on Saturdays?" Answered instantly, at 11pm.
Reception · Most popular

Dave Pro

The Dave that takes action

  • Everything in Dave
  • Books appointments around your real calendar
  • Sends emails: confirmations, enquiries, follow-ups
  • Reschedules & cancels bookings politely
  • Collects intake forms before visits
  • Make him yours: custom name, greeting, style, colours & face (four to choose from — your own photo on Dave Max)
🦷 A dentist's patient books a Tuesday cleaning at midnight. Confirmation email already sent.
Concierge

Dave Max

The full digital employee

  • Everything in Dave Pro
  • Searches your live inventory for parts & products
  • Calculates shipping cost and delivery time on the spot
  • Order status, returns & custom workflows
  • Connects to your CRM, stock system & APIs
🔧 "Do you have a brake caliper for a 2014 Golf?" Found in stock, shipping quoted: £12.40, arrives Thursday.
Zero-hassle setup

What we need from you, per plan

Never your passwords. Any access is created by you, read-only where possible, and revocable at any time.

1

Dave

Just your website address, nothing else. We scan it and Dave builds himself. Create a free account, paste your web address, and try your own Dave within minutes. No documents required, no access, nothing to prepare. Later on you can upload your menu, allergen sheet or policies and answer the questions your trade gets most — but none of that is needed to start.

2

Dave Pro

Everything above, plus three things you know by heart: your services & how long each takes, your opening hours, and the email address where bookings should land. Optional: connect your Google/Outlook/Calendly calendar yourself with its read-only iCal link (2 minutes, in your dashboard), or we do it with you on a free setup call.

3

Dave Max

Everything above, plus your stock list (a simple CSV/Excel export, or a read-only Shopify/WooCommerce key we help you create in 5 minutes), your shipping price table, and optionally order exports for tracking.

Preparing for Dave Max? Download the one-page checklist (PDF). Most owners fill it in over a coffee.

Why Dave beats ordinary chatbots

Feels human. Works like a machine.

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Actually conversational

Context memory, follow-up understanding, typo tolerance. He remembers what you said three messages ago.

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Never off duty

Most enquiries arrive after closing time. Dave answers at 2am with the same energy as 2pm.

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Speaks your customer's language

A visitor writes in Polish, Dave answers in Polish — 30+ languages, automatically, on every plan. Nothing to switch on and no flows to translate.

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Trained only on you

He answers from your website and data — and when it isn't in there, he's built to say so and hand it to you rather than guess.

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Private & GDPR-ready

Your data stays yours. Conversations are encrypted and never used to train other bots.

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Insights dashboard

Daily activity charts, most-asked questions and visitor ratings — free market research, every single day.

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Human handoff

When someone needs a person, Dave hands over gracefully: he captures the details, emails your team on the spot, and tells the visitor when to expect a reply.

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WhatsApp & Messenger (coming soon)

The same Dave, more doors: soon he'll answer your WhatsApp and Facebook messages too — same knowledge, same bookings, one inbox.

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Asks for the review you'd forget

After a confirmed booking Dave emails every customer once — a review link, plus the option to reply to you privately instead. Dave Pro and up.

Your dashboard

See exactly what Dave does for you

Every plan includes a live owner dashboard. No spreadsheets, no guesswork — just what happened, what customers want, and how happy they are.

  • Daily activity chart — conversations, leads, bookings and enquiries, day by day
  • What visitors ask most — free market research from real conversations
  • Visitor ratings — customers rate Dave's answers 👍/👎 right in the chat
  • Full transcripts — read any conversation, any time
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Overview — your business
128
Conversations
23
Leads
17
Bookings
9
Enquiries
2 weeks agotoday
“Are you open on Saturdays?”14×
“How much is a full service?”11×
😊 94% of visitors rated Dave's answers helpful

Illustrative preview — your dashboard fills with your own visitors' numbers.

After the visit

The review you never got round to asking for

You know reviews matter. You also know you never ask — because by the time the customer's out the door you're already onto the next one.

  • Dave asks for you. About two hours after the appointment, once per booking, by email. Never a chase, never a second one.
  • Every customer gets the same email. One tap straight through to your Google review form, no hunting for the button.
  • A private line, in that same email. Anyone who wasn't delighted is invited to reply to you directly. You hear it before the internet does.
  • You set it up once. Paste your review link, send yourself a test to check it really works, then forget about it.

Dave asks off the back of a confirmed booking, so automatic asks come with Dave Pro and Dave Max. On any plan you can send one by hand from your inbox — one click per customer. Customers can opt out of the email, and you can switch the whole thing off just as easily.

How did we do? — your customer's inbox
Hi Sam,

Thanks for coming in for your appointment — we hope everything was spot on.

If you have 30 seconds, a quick review would mean a lot to us (it genuinely helps a small business like ours).
Leave a review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
And if anything wasn't right, just reply to this email instead — it comes straight to us, and we'd much rather hear it from you than read it later.
1 ask per booking · never a chase
The honest comparison

Same question. Four ways to handle it. Only one keeps the customer.

From the first question to a booked, confirmed, logged customer, here's what each option actually does in the moments that matter, and the systems only a real digital employee plugs into.

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Daveyour digital employeeKeeps the customer Scripted chatbotbutton-tree widget Answering serviceor a receptionist Contact formthe "we'll get back to you"
A visitor has a question9pm on a Sunday ✓Instant, human-sounding answer ~Canned menu reply, or "I didn't understand that" ✗Closed, straight to voicemail ✗Sits unread until morning
They're ready to bookthe moment that pays your bills ✓Booked & confirmed by email on the spot ~Sends them to a booking page ✓Booked by a person, in office hours ✗They wait for a callback that may not come
"In stock? What's the postage?"the buying question ✓Checks live stock, quotes shipping & delivery date ✗Not unless someone built it a stock integration ~Can check, then call you back ✗—
The visitor speaks Polishor French, or Urdu ✓Replies fluently in 30+ languages ~Only the languages someone translated the flows into ~Only if your staff happen to ✗—
When it genuinely can't helpthe honest bit ✓Captures the lead and emails you instantly ✓Can capture an email, if set up ✓Takes a message, in staffed hours ✓Fair: capturing details is all it does
The digital-employee superpowers
Books real appointmentsa real booking system ✓Reads your Google/Outlook calendar so he never double-books you, then books, reschedules & emails confirmations automatically ✗Links out to a booking page, at best ~Booked by hand, only when staffed ✗—
Connects to your systemsCRM, stock & APIs, no developer needed ✓One-click, self-serve connections to Shopify, WooCommerce, stock feeds & your CRM — unusual systems connected for you ~Varies by product; usually a developer job to wire up ✗— ✗—
Runs your custom workflowsreturns, order status, bespoke jobs ✓Automates your own workflows end-to-end, your rules ✗Only the paths someone built in advance ~Only what the script covers ✗—
Handles the admin for youemails, confirmations, alerts ✓Sends every email automatically: confirmations & follow-ups out, instant alerts to you ✗— ~Hands you a message to action yourself ✗You do it all by hand
What it costs you from £29/mocancel anytime £20–80/mosimilar price, narrower job £1,500+/moin wages, part-time cover "free"paid for in lost enquiries
Live and helping in hourswe build & install him days–weeksof building flows yourself days–weeksto hire & train already liveand quietly losing you sales

These are the four categories a small business actually chooses between, not named products — and we've deliberately not stacked the deck: there are sophisticated chatbot products out there, some of which do several of these things well, and the middle columns reflect that. What we're claiming is that doing all of it, on one flat bill, without a developer, is a different job. Don't take our word for it — and judge for real.

Use cases

Imagine Dave on your website

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Dental clinic

"Do you do emergency appointments?" → checks availability, books the slot, sends the confirmation and the pre-visit form.

AI chatbot for dentists →
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Parts & e-commerce

"Got an alternator for a 2016 Focus?" → searches live stock, quotes the price, calculates postage cost and delivery date.

AI chatbot for garages →
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Salon & studio

"Any free slot on Friday?" → offers real times, takes the slot and emails the confirmation on the spot.

AI chatbot for salons →
Pricing

Simple plans, no surprises

7-day free trial on every plan. Generous conversation allowances, with no per-chat fees and no surprise bills, and you approve any top-up. Cancel any time, no contracts.

Dave

£29/mo

Instant answers from your website, your documents and your own words, 24/7.

150 AI conversations / month

Start free trial
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Dave Pro

£59/mo

Bookings, emails and forms, all handled for you.

300 AI conversations / month

Start free trial

Dave Max

from £119/mo

Inventory, shipping quotes & custom integrations.

600 AI conversations / month

Start free trial

How the free trial bills — in full

  • Start free. No card, no payment details, nothing to cancel.
  • Happy with him? Pick a plan whenever you like — even on day one. The rest of your trial still runs free and your first payment falls on the day the trial ends.
  • Don't pick one, and you're not charged. We hold no card, so nothing can be taken. Dave simply pauses and your setup waits for you.
🧠 Powered by Claude by Anthropic 💬 No surprise bills, you approve every top-up 🔒 Encrypted & GDPR-ready 🚫 Your data never trains other bots

Need something custom? , he'll sort you out.

Beyond the chatbot

More than just a chatbot. We also build:

Dave is the star of the show — but the same team behind him takes on hand-picked custom projects.

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Websites that convert

Modern, fast, and built to bring results — with Dave installed from day one.

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Smart chat agents

Bespoke AI conversations that turn visitors into customers — beyond the standard plans.

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Custom AI systems

Tailored automations for your unique workflows — document handling, internal copilots, and more.

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CRM & API integrations

Connect the tools you already use, and automate the busywork between them.

No price list here on purpose: every project is custom, so every quote is custom. Tell Dave what you need, he'll scope it properly and give you an indicative figure right in the chat — and he can apply introductory rates within limits we've set him, so it's worth discussing your budget honestly with him.
Every custom quote is reviewed and confirmed by a person before any work begins — nothing is binding until then. This applies to bespoke projects only: the £29, £59 and £119 subscriptions are fixed prices and are not negotiated. Prefer email? support@daveonduty.co.uk

FAQ

Questions? Dave has answers.

Here are the short versions. Ask him for the long ones.

Is Dave just another website chatbot?

No. Most website chatbots are button trees with canned replies. Dave is a conversational AI chatbot trained only on your business: he remembers context, books real appointments, checks live stock and hands over to a human when it matters.

Do I need any technical skills?

None at all. We scan your site, build Dave and install him for you. You just approve the personality and go live.

How long does setup take?

Dave is usually live within hours: we scan your site, build him and switch him on the same day. Dave Pro and Dave Max take a few days, depending on your calendar and stock systems.

What if Dave doesn't know an answer?

Dave is built to answer only from the information you have given him. When the answer isn't there, he is designed to say he doesn't know rather than guess, capture the visitor's contact details and forward the question to you. No AI can be guaranteed perfect, which is exactly why he is instructed to hand over instead of improvise, and why every conversation is logged for you to read.

Is there a limit on conversations?

Every plan includes a generous monthly allowance: 150 AI conversations on Dave, 300 on Dave Pro and 600 on Dave Max, several times more than most tools include for the price. The free trial includes 30 — plenty to judge him on a real website — and choosing a plan lifts it to the full allowance straight away. If you ever use yours up, Dave doesn't go dark like other chatbots: he switches to essentials mode, still greeting visitors, sharing your details and taking messages, until you add a £15 top-up (100 extra conversations), upgrade, or the month resets. Nothing is ever charged automatically.

Can I upgrade or downgrade plans?

Any time, with one click or one message. Dave keeps all his knowledge when you switch.

Which tools do you integrate with?

Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Shopify, WooCommerce — plus Zapier and Make webhooks that connect Dave to 6,000+ apps and any CRM. WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger are next on the roadmap. If it's unusual, we build the connector.

Is my customers' data safe?

Everything travels over HTTPS/TLS and is held on encrypted-at-rest infrastructure. Each business's data is kept separately, card details never reach our servers, and nothing is ever used to train any AI model. A connected calendar is read-only — Dave never writes to it — and he can only email you and the customer in the conversation, nobody else. The full technical detail, including an honest list of what we don't have yet, is on our Security & data page.

Can Dave answer from my menu, allergen sheet or policy documents?

Yes, on every plan. Upload a PDF or text file in your dashboard — menus, price lists, allergen matrices, hygiene certificates, booking and cancellation policies — and Dave answers from them straight away. You can also type answers to your trade's most-asked questions and he'll use your exact wording. For allergen and safety questions he quotes your document word for word and always tells the customer to check with your team before ordering. He never guesses.

Will Dave pester my customers for reviews?

No. One email per booking, later the same day after the appointment, and never a second one. Every customer gets the same email: a review link, plus an invitation to reply to you privately if something wasn't right. Every email has an opt-out, and you can switch the feature off in one click. Automatic asks need Dave Pro (they're triggered by a booking); on any plan you can send one by hand.

Who's behind it

“Hi, I'm Rob. I built Dave on Duty in Hertfordshire, and I'm the person who reads support@daveonduty.co.uk. If Dave can't help you, email me — a real person answers, usually the same day, and it's the person who can change the code.”

We started in 2026, so you won't find a wall of five-star reviews here yet. We're not going to invent any either — what we'd rather you do is spend ten minutes with the bot in the corner, or on eight demo businesses, and judge the product directly. Seven free days after that, with no card, and nothing charged unless you decide to stay.

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Every visitor who leaves with an unanswered question
was a customer.

Talk to Dave right now. He's the exact technology your customers would get.