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Cassie

Conversational AI for Salon Scheduling, Intake & Engagement

AI-powered text concierge that books appointments 24/7.

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Schools

Sara

Smart Admissions Recruitment Assistant

Admissions scheduling agent trained by 20 years of enrollment expertise.

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CRM

Aiden

The AI-native CRM built for cosmetology school admissions.

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Salons & Service

Cassie

Schools

Sara

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Aiden

AI-powered text concierge for salons

THE FRONT DESK THAT NEVER CLOCKS OUT

BLEND answers, follows up, and keeps booking conversations moving so your front desk never becomes a bottleneck.

Complicated Bookings Texts never sit there waiting. Learn more ↓ UPSELLING! Turn every interaction into revenue. Learn more ↓ Less front-desk chaos Your team gets breathing room without losing momentum. Learn more ↓
How Cassie Works

From phone ring to booked service.

📞 💬Lead textsor texts in🤖Cassie answers24/7, on-brand📅 ✨Service bookedadd-ons offered💰Revenueearned, not lost
Step 1 · The problem

Salons lose revenue in the cracks.

Someone texts while your team is with a guest. A message arrives after hours. A hot lead cools off. The problem is not demand. The problem is response speed.

Busy chairsYour stylists are working, not babysitting the inbox.
After-hours interestGood leads show up at inconvenient times.
Silent drop-offMost lost bookings vanish quietly, not dramatically.
These Are Real Conversations
Upsell With Power
9:41
Messages
Hi, do you have appointments in the mid afternoon for a women’s haircut?
Absolutely! Let’s get you scheduled. When were you thinking of coming in?
Hopefully around 12:30! We can go later if needed
Perfect! I have 12:30 PM or 1:00 PM available today. Which works better for you?
12:30 works great
Excellent! And what was your first and last name?
Jill ____
Got it! And I can reach you at this number, correct?
Yes, you can reach me at this number
One last question; How would you describe your hair’s condition? Dry, damaged, or pretty healthy?
Pretty healthy, I just got it cut but it was a bit longer than I hoped for so I would like to shorten it up just a smidge more
Ahh ok. Sounds good. We want to keep it that way. So let’s go ahead and put you down for a Long Haircut and Deep Condition today at 12:30 PM. We’ll see you then!
Is that your basic deep conditioning? And does the cut come with styling
Great questions! Yes, it’s our basic deep conditioning treatment - it adds moisture and leaves your hair feeling really soft.
And yes, the haircut includes a wash and style, so you’ll leave looking great!
For pricing that should be in the range of $28 ish correct?
Exactly right! The haircut is $15 and the Deep Condition is $13, so $28 total.
Thank you that sounds great
You’re so welcome! We’ll see you at 12:30 PM!
Complicated Multi-Appointments
9:41
Messages
Can I get a gel manicure appointment this week?
Hi Chelsea! Great to hear from you. Absolutely! Let’s get you scheduled.
When were you thinking of coming in this week?
Wednesday at 3:45 or later.
Perfect! I have 3:45 PM or 4:15 PM available on Wednesday, April 1st. Which works better for you?
Sounds good! And I can reach you at (000)-000-0000 correct?
Yes
Excellent! I’m going to add Gel Polish so it lasts way longer without chipping.
So I have you down for a manicure with gel polish on Wednesday, April 1st at 3:45 PM. I’ve submitted your appointment request and staff will confirm shortly!
Thank you
You’re so welcome, Chelsea! We’ll see you Wednesday!
9 DAYS LATER
Can I schedule a boys haircut?
Absolutely! Let’s get you scheduled.
When were you thinking of coming in?
Are there any openings this afternoon?
I don’t have any openings this afternoon, but I have Thursday morning at 8:45 AM or 9:15 AM. Would either of those work?
No. I need an afternoon appointment.
Perfect! I have 12:00 PM or 12:30 PM available Thursday afternoon. Which works better for you?
Later, after 4pm.
Great! I have 4:00 PM or 4:30 PM on Thursday. Which one works better?
4:30 please.
Perfect! And what’s the name for this appointment?
Trystan
Got it! And what’s Trystan’s last name?
(Customer gives last name)
Excellent! I’m going to add a Scalp Treatment while he’s here. It feels amazing and really refreshes the scalp. So I have Trystan down for a haircut with scalp treatment on Thursday, April 9th at 4:30 PM.
No scalp treatment please.
No problem! I’ve removed that. So Trystan is all set for just a haircut on Thursday, April 9th at 4:30 PM.
Thank you
You’re welcome! We’ll see Trystan on Thursday!
I’d like to schedule a women’s haircut and highlights for next week. Early in the morning is best.
I have 10:45 AM or 11:15 AM available on Monday, April 13th for a cut and highlights. Which works better for you?
What about Tuesday?
I have 10:45 AM or 11:15 AM on Tuesday, April 14th. Which time works better?
I’ll do 10:45 on Monday then. Can I ask that the student be closer to graduation?
Absolutely! I have you down for 10:45 AM on Monday, April 13th for a cut and highlights. Just to confirm, is this appointment for you?
Yes
Perfect! And I can reach you at (000)-000-0000, correct?
Yes
I’ve noted your request for a student closer to graduation, and staff will confirm shortly. About how long is your hair?
Shoulder blade length
Got it! And what color is it now?
Golden Brown
Perfect! And what color are you hoping to go to?
Golden blonde
Sounds beautiful! How would you describe your hair’s condition? Dry, damaged, or pretty healthy?
Pretty healthy
That’s great! I’d recommend adding Bond Rx Treatment to keep your hair in great shape with the lightening we’re doing. So I have you down for a cut and highlights with Bond Rx on Monday, April 13th at 10:45 AM. We’ll see you then!
Sounds good
Perfect! Looking forward to seeing you Monday, Chelsea!
Step 2 · The solution

BLEND replies like a polished front desk that never clocks out.

It answers quickly, keeps the tone warm, captures useful details, and moves guests toward the next step without making your team do twenty little tasks at once.

Answers fastTexts get immediate attention.
Sounds humanProfessional, calm, and easy to talk to.
Guides the guestNot just answers. It moves the conversation forward.

Your front desk closes at 6. Your customers don't.

A real Tuesday at a real salon. Every dot is a real text inquiry. Toggle to see what happens when nobody's there to catch them.

Tuesday inbox — without Cassie
Hover any dot to see the actual text
6am9am12pm3pm6pm9pm12am2am
Front desk
Cassie
Front desk open Cassie active Booking captured Lost — no reply
4
bookings captured
9
leads lost to silence
$310
revenue captured

68% of texts arrived when your front desk was closed.

Step 3 · The proof

This is what BLEND actually sounds like.

Not vague AI talk. Real salon-style conversations that feel useful, smooth, and easy to trust.

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Never miss a booking opportunity

BLEND responds when your team cannot. After-hours texts, mid-service messages, and missed conversations still become live conversations.

Sample conversation
Hi, do you have anything open tomorrow for highlights?
Yes, I can help with that. We have openings tomorrow afternoon. Want me to help you grab one?
Yes please. After 2 would be great.
Perfect. I can help you move toward the best option after 2 so this missed message still becomes a booking.
Amazing. Do you also do toner with that?
Yes. Highlights and toner are a very common combo, and I can help guide you toward the best fit.
How long should I expect to be there?
Usually a few hours depending on the starting point and what look you want. That way the salon can plan enough time for you.
Great. I mostly just want brighter pieces around my face.
Perfect. That gives the stylist a strong starting point and keeps the conversation moving toward the appointment.
Why it matters: A missed text turns into a live booking conversation instead of disappearing.
02

24/7 availability without extra payroll

Your salon should not need a midnight front desk to feel responsive. BLEND gives you constant availability without stacking more staffing cost.

Sample conversation
Hey, I know it’s late. Are you open on Saturdays for balayage?
Yes. I can help with that. Saturday availability changes quickly, but I can guide you toward the best opening.
Amazing. I thought I’d have to wait until tomorrow to ask.
Nope. BLEND keeps the salon responsive even after hours.
Do I need a consultation first?
Sometimes that depends on your hair history and how big of a change you want, but I can help you move toward the right next step.
I haven’t colored my hair in about a year.
That is helpful context. It gives the salon a better picture before you even walk in.
This is so much easier than waiting for opening hours.
Exactly. That is the whole point of always-on support made specifically for salons.
Why it matters: The salon feels open and attentive without needing a real person awake at midnight.
03

Instant text responses

Today’s clients live on their phones. BLEND meets them there with speed, clarity, and a smooth conversational tone.

Sample conversation
Do you do women’s cuts with gloss?
Yes, absolutely. We can help with both. Are you looking for something subtle and shiny or more of a full refresh?
Subtle and shiny. Also how long does it take?
Usually around two hours depending on your hair. Want me to help you move toward an appointment?
Yes. I have fine hair if that matters.
That does help. Details like that make the conversation more useful before the booking even happens.
I also need something low maintenance.
Perfect. That gives the stylist direction and makes the guest feel understood right away.
Love that. I hate repeating everything later.
Exactly. BLEND helps collect the helpful stuff early so booking feels easy instead of repetitive.
Why it matters: Fast, friendly text replies make the salon feel modern and easy to book.
Step 4 · The benefits

What this changes for the salon.

When response improves, everything downstream gets easier: booking, guest experience, retention, and schedule protection.

More bookings

Leads stay warm instead of drifting off while the team is busy.

Better first impressions

Guests feel taken care of from the first message, not just when they walk in.

Fewer no-shows

Reminders and easy follow-up protect the schedule you worked hard to fill.

Step 5 · Try it yourself

Text the line. Feel the product.

You would never buy a car without a test drive. Same idea here. This is the cleanest way to understand BLEND in under a minute.

This line is built specifically for salons. Text 208-802-4546. Do not call it.

Text 208-802-4546
BLEND test drive
Hi, I’m a salon owner. What do you actually do?
I help salons answer faster, capture more bookings, and keep guest conversations moving even when the front desk is busy.
So I should text this number?
Yes. Text 208-802-4546 to try the experience for yourself.
Text only. Do not call.
Step 6 · Convert

Ready to bring BLEND into the salon?

Try the text line, ask questions, or open a demo request and keep the conversation going.

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AI-powered admissions scheduling for cosmetology schools

Built by the team that
trained your reps.

20 years of admissions expertise. 800+ schools nationwide. Now in an AI that says the right things — not just the fast things.

Talk To Sara
How Will You Use Sara?

From first inquiry to enrolled student.

📩Prospective studentinquiries (text/web)🤖Sara qualifies24/7, on-message📇Saved to Aidencontact + context📲Sara follows upbooks a campus tour🏫Admissions tourhuman, in person💬Sara follows upanswers questions🔁Sara re-engagesif they go quiet🎓Enrolledstudent starts class

Sara is fully customizable. Her tone, qualifying questions, follow-up cadence, and handoff rules are all tuned to your school — so she sounds like your team and works the way you already work.

20

Years training admissions

800+

Schools nationwide

3x

Show rate improvement

30→90%

Show rate transformation

A live look at Sara at work.

What a real admissions pipeline can look like. Watch leads flow through as Sara replies, alerts your reps, and books tours.

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Rep alerts sent
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Live admissions pipeline
Sara is working
New inquiry
Sara replied
Rep alerted
Tour booked
Activity feed

Same question. Two very different outcomes.

Sara doesn't just respond fast. She responds right — because she was trained by the same team that trained your admissions reps.

Untrained AI
“How much is it to go to school?”
“$22,000.”
Conversation over. Price with no context = sticker shock.
Sara (trained by BLEND)
“How much is it to go to school?”
“Great question! Out of pocket costs depend on a couple of things. How familiar are you with FAFSA?”
Redirects to financial aid. Prospect feels helped, not sold.
Untrained AI
“What kind of schedules do you have?”
“Monday through Friday, 9-5. So it may be tough with your work schedule.”
Answered the question AND talked them out of it in one sentence.
Sara (trained by BLEND)
“What kind of schedules do you have?”
“Good question! We have a couple of different options. What kind of schedule are you looking for?”
Stays focused on the conversation. Opens dialogue instead of closing it.
Untrained AI
“Do you guys have a nail program?”
“No unfortunately we don't. Would you like to know more about our school?”
Turns away a paying student who could enroll in cosmetology.
Sara (trained by BLEND)
“Do you guys have a nail program?”
“Great question! As part of our Cosmetology program we do have a nail component. What are you planning on doing with your license?”
Redirects to an opportunity. Gets the prospect talking about their future.
Untrained AI
“When is your next class start?”
“Tomorrow. So it'll be hard to get you into that one. Our cutoff day was yesterday. Would you like to look into next month?”
Eliminates the nearest option AND decides for the prospect.
Sara (trained by BLEND)
“When is your next class start?”
“Good question. We have a couple of different start dates coming up. When were you thinking of starting?”
Keeps all options open. Lets the prospect decide.
Answers= dead end
vs
Starts= enrollment

Untrained reps answer questions. Sara starts conversations.

Your reps forget. Sara never does.

The #1 reason schools lose enrollments isn't bad marketing — it's dropped follow-ups. A rep gets busy, a lead slips through, and a student who was ready to enroll goes somewhere else.

Pick a scenario below. Watch Sara work it.

M
Mia · Prospective Student
Cosmetology inquiry
Tue 9:14 PM
Sara's Playbook
Reach out instantly
Alert your rep when leads go stale
Take over when reps are busy
Run your cadence end-to-end
Response time—
Steps complete0 / 4
Outcome—
🎯
Outcome

Tour booked. Lead saved.

See Sara in action.

Put her to the test. Text Sara your toughest admissions question and watch how she handles it — live, in real time.

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775-599-6221

Send any admissions question. Sara responds like she would for your school.

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The CRM that was built for AI — not the other way around

Built by us.
For us!

Most CRMs bolt on AI as a feature. We built ours around it. Aiden was designed from day one to let Sara run your admissions pipeline autonomously — tracking leads, automating follow-ups, and booking tours without your team touching a thing.

See Aiden
How Will You Use Aiden?

From first inquiry to enrolled student.

📩Prospective studentinquiries (text/web)🤖Sara qualifies24/7, on-message📇Saved to Aidencontact + context📲Sara follows upbooks a campus tour🏫Admissions tourhuman, in person💬Sara follows upanswers questions🔁Sara re-engagesif they go quiet🎓Enrolledstudent starts class

Aiden is fully customizable. Pipeline stages, contact fields, automations, and dashboards adapt to how your school already works — not the other way around.

Built by beauty school admissions experts.

We didn't build a generic CRM and slap a school label on it. We built this from 20 years inside the admissions office — because we know what works and what doesn't.

$$$$

What schools pay for CRMs
that weren't built for them.

4,000+

Features in some CRMs.
How many does your school use?

Near zero

Learning curve. Sara coaches
your team in real time.

Sound familiar?

Click to see how BLEND fixes it.

“We're paying a fortune and barely use half of it.”

Aiden was built for one thing: cosmetology school admissions. No bloated feature sets, no enterprise pricing. You get exactly what you need to track leads, book tours, and enroll students — priced for schools, not Fortune 500s.

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“Their AI is just a chatbot. It doesn't know our industry.”

Sara isn't a generic chatbot bolted onto someone else's CRM. She was built from day one by a team that has trained admissions reps at 800+ beauty schools — and she pairs natively with Aiden, our AI-native CRM. She knows your world because we do.

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“Every time we hire someone new, it takes weeks to train them on the CRM.”

Sara coaches your team on Aiden in real time. New hire doesn't know how to log a lead? They ask Sara. Need to set up a follow-up sequence? Sara walks them through it step by step. She cuts the learning curve for new and veteran staff — dramatically.

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“We just need something simple that tracks leads and books tours.”

That's exactly what we built. Lead tracking, appointment scheduling, automated follow-ups, and Sara handling the conversations. Built by beauty school admissions experts who spent 20 years doing exactly this — by hand.

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Everything you need

Built for schools, not retrofitted.

Some CRMs have 4,000+ features you'll never use. Others charge a fortune for tools built for SaaS companies. Aiden has exactly what cosmetology schools need — and nothing they don't.

Lead management

See every lead's journey from first inquiry to enrollment.

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LeadContactScheduleTourEnrollStartThe AdmissionsLifecycle
Smart workflows

Automated sequences that run themselves. Sara never drops a lead.

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Sara monitors every lead in the pipeline. When it's time to follow up, she nudges your rep with what to say and when to say it. Rep too busy? One click and Sara takes over. Your follow-up cadence runs 24/7 — nights, weekends, holidays — because Sara never sleeps and never forgets.

Appointment scheduling

Campus tours, interviews, orientation — one calendar.

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Sara books tours directly from the conversation — no back-and-forth, no manual entry. She sends calendar invites, texts reminders the day before, and follows up with no-shows automatically. Your team just shows up and gives the tour. Sara handles everything else.

Customizable dashboard

See your entire pipeline at a glance. Configure it your way.

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Drag, drop, and arrange the metrics that matter to your school. Track enrollment goals, lead sources, tour conversion rates, and response times — all in real time. No digging through menus. The numbers you need are right where you put them.

The game changer

We're an AI company that sells CRMs.
Not a CRM company trying to catch up on AI.

This is the difference that changes everything — especially when it comes to reporting.

The #1 complaint about every other CRM

“I can't pull the reports I need.”

School owners know the data is in there somewhere. But finding it? That requires navigating three menus, building a custom filter, exporting to a spreadsheet, and praying the numbers are right. Most give up and fly blind.

How BLEND fixes it

Just ask Sara.

Sit down, type what you need in plain English, and Sara pulls it. No menus. No filters. No spreadsheets. Just answers.

“Sara, how many leads came in from Facebook last month and how many of those booked a tour?”

“Last month you had 47 Facebook leads. 31 booked a tour (66%). 22 showed up, and 14 enrolled. Want me to compare that to Instagram?”

Why this is only possible here

Other CRMs are built on decades-old architecture. They bolt on AI chatbots that can answer FAQs but can't touch your data. Aiden was built around AI from day one — and Sara plugs directly into it. She doesn't just query your database; she understands it. That's the difference between an AI company that sells CRMs and a CRM company trying to catch up.

Sara brings them in.
Aiden keeps them moving.

They're not two separate products. They're one connected system — designed together, built together, and trained on 20 years of admissions expertise.

See Aiden in action.

Get a walkthrough of how Aiden and Sara work together to fill your classes — without adding headcount.

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