Barber Copilot

Inspiration

Help barbers single shop barbers, who needs to fill chairs understand find remind customers.Imagine you have a lost customer due to forgot appointment . Instead of manually searching through customer lists, one way to help barbers is AI agent can remind customers the last visit was 30 days ago in natural language and receive answers .

What it does

The barber shop agent records customers and appointments Customer name and phone number, Preferred barber, Preferred haircut or service ,Visit history. supported by a remote barber agent as its source, it does the work and send one text to customer that hasnt booked in 30 days.Lowers the barrier to entry. A 22-year-old with scissors and a dream doesn't need an MBA

Product details

Our team uses AI every day as a practical business assistant, while humans remain responsible for the product strategy, agent design, brand voice, integration partnerships (Brunos ), decisions, and hands-on work that make a barbershop success. The AI is used primarily to automate customer retention. It analyzes appointment and customer history to identify people who may be due for another haircut. For example, if a customer normally visits every four weeks but has not returned after six weeks, the AI can identify that customer as a potential returning customer. It can then generate a personalized reminder based on the customer's name, haircut, and previous visits. AI also helps us analyze the results of those interactions. The system can track reminders, and appointments generated from AI outreach. This information is presented through a dashboard so the barber or shop owner can understand which customers need attention and whether the AI is actually generating more business. Humans control the operation. Barbers provide the actual haircut and personal service, build relationships with customers, decide how they want their business to operate, and can review or approve AI-generated communications. Our team designs the product, manages the business, improves the AI workflows, supports customers, and makes decisions about the direction of the company. AI handles repetitive tasks and analysis so people can spend more time on higher-value work. The economic opportunity extends beyond our founding team. Our goal is to help independent barbers and small barbershops become stronger businesses. By helping them recover former customers and generate repeat appointments, the platform can increase revenue and make it easier for a shop to afford additional staff, open more chairs, or expand to another location. This creates opportunities for barbers, receptionists, shop managers, marketers, and other workers in the local beauty and grooming economy. There is also an entrepreneurship opportunity. A skilled barber does not necessarily have to be an expert in marketing, customer analytics, or software to operate a growing business. Our AI agent provides some of those capabilities as an affordable service, allowing independent barbers to compete more effectively with larger businesses. Ultimately, we are not trying to replace barbers with AI. We are using AI to strengthen the people and small businesses behind the service. A barber still creates the haircut, the customer experience, and the relationship. The AI helps make sure fewer customers are forgotten and more opportunities to return . Theres also potential for adjacent opportunities: Local “AI ops” contractors: as the footprint grows, regional operators could manage onboarding and success for clusters of shops, acting as franchise-like partners who implement and optimize the system locally. Our vision is to turn AI into an accessible business assistant for entrepreneurs who traditionally could not afford dedicated marketing or customer-retention staff, helping them grow their businesses, create jobs, and provide customers with services that help them look and feel good. At Barber copilot, the day-to-day grind is built around a small, focus human team that designs, monitors, and continuously improves a fleet of specialized AI “agents” that run the repetitive, revenue-critical work for barbershops.

How we built it

Created Backend Agent in google Cloud run

• Barber agents: - . Used Gemini, and the tools available from the scheduling MCP server .
• SMS agent - assistant to send text Deploy in Google Cloud Run
• Host agent on cloud run
• deploy agent docker image to endpoint

Challenges we ran into

Turn away excess barbers who could not afford subscription. turning first timer customer into regulars.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

turning first timer customer into regulars.

What we learned

Gemini flash , Creating agent

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Built With

• aistudio
• cloud-run
• google-adk
• python