For restaurants, shops, salons, clinics, and every counter in between

Your front desk, awake at 2am and never too busy to answer.

Customers ask what you charge, when you're open, and whether you can fit them in — on Messenger, Instagram, and your website, usually while you're serving someone else. Hosto answers instantly from your own prices and policies, takes the booking, and makes sure ChatGPT and Google's AI recommend you when someone asks for the "best lechon near me" or a laundry that does same-day.

Pick a real business in the sandbox and interrogate it. No signup, no card, nothing saved.

< 3 sec
average reply, 24/7
Taglish
answers the way customers actually type
Your data only
no invented prices or promises
Same-day
setup, self-serve

Four jobs, one system

Everything here is aimed at one problem every counter business has: the gap between a customer asking and someone on your team being free to answer.

Answers that never guess

You enter your prices, hours, and house rules once — a menu, a service list, a rate card, whichever fits. The assistant answers only from that: figures quoted exactly, and an honest "let me check with the team" when something isn't covered.

  • Website widget, Messenger, Instagram DMs, Viber, WhatsApp
  • English, Filipino, and the Taglish mix in between
  • Speaks your trade — a price list is a price list, not a menu

Bookings and appointments

A table for eight, a Tuesday haircut, a same-day laundry pickup — captured in the conversation where the customer already is, then pushed to your book instead of a screenshot someone has to re-type at close.

  • Knows your capacity, cut-off times, and deposit rules
  • Confirmations and reminders that cut no-shows
  • Hands off to a human the moment someone asks for one

Reviews and reputation

New Google and Facebook reviews land in one queue with a drafted reply in your voice. You approve, it posts. Bad days get answered in hours, not next week.

  • Draft replies grounded in what actually happened
  • Nudges happy customers to review while it's still fresh
  • Themes surfaced monthly — what people keep praising and complaining about

AI visibility for local search

People have stopped scrolling ten blue links. They ask an assistant "where should we eat in BGC tonight?" or "who does dry cleaning near Kapitolyo?" and take the three names it gives back. We make sure yours is one of them.

  • Structured pricing, location, and hours data that answer engines can parse
  • Monthly tracking of how ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews describe you
  • Fixes for the wrong hours and dead listings that models keep repeating

Software you own, not a retainer you rent

The usual way to get this is to hire an agency: a five-figure setup fee, a monthly retainer, and a chatbot you can't touch without filing a request. We think a business should just own the thing.

The agency route

  • Large setup fee before anything goes live
  • Monthly retainer that never ends
  • Price change? Email your account manager and wait
  • Generic bot framework bent to fit your trade
  • Weeks of onboarding calls and discovery decks
  • They own the build; leaving means starting over

Hosto

  • Self-serve — paste your price list and go live the same day
  • Flat monthly price, published, cancel whenever
  • Price change? Edit it yourself, live in seconds
  • Tuned per trade — allergens for kitchens, fabrics for laundries
  • Try the whole thing before you talk to anyone
  • Your data and content stay yours, exportable

See it answer questions about your own business.

Open the sandbox, pick the restaurant or the laundry, and try to trip it up. Ask something their data doesn't cover and watch it admit it doesn't know — that part matters more than the answers it gets right.

Try the live demo