~£39
the average cost to a UK barbershop or salon of a single no-show
Algonix
Your calls answered.
Your bookings kept. Your evenings back.
Algonix installs AI that answers your phone and DMs, books with deposits, chases no-shows, and files the paperwork — for London barbershops, cafés and restaurants. Built by the team that runs a five-site gym and sauna company in London. Your first build is free.
Teams our founders have built with, and clients we ship for
Three doors
Pick the shop you actually run.
Barbers
The chair sits empty because the DM and the missed call went to the shop down the road.
Front Desk + No-Show Shield
See howCafés
The lunch line is ringing out while you make the coffee.
Phones On
See howRestaurants
Friday night, the pass is full, and the phone will not stop.
Phones On + No-Show Shield
See howHow it works
Three steps. Then it is your decision.
No contract. Cancel anytime.
01
We research your shop
How the diary, the phone and the DMs actually run this week — not a generic pitch.
The one automation worth building
02
We build one automation free
Configured from a template, working in 5–7 days, on the tools you already use.
Live on your number and diary
03
Keep it, or we switch it off
You run it free for 30 days, then keep it at the listed price or we switch it off. No contract, cancel anytime.
Your decision, in writing
The case we can prove
We automated our own five-site gym and sauna company in London first.
Five sites, real members, real bookings, real refunds. Before we sold an AI front desk to anyone else, we ran one on our own business — and we still do. These are our numbers, not a client’s.
~76%
of member conversations now involve AI
94.7%
customer experience score
Five
London sites, live deposits and WhatsApp flows
Members message the way they already do; the AI handles enquiry, booking and rescheduling.
Deposits are taken at booking, with the refund and rollover rules that stop disputes.
Anything sensitive — complaints, refunds, edge cases — goes to a human, by design.
Same team, same playbook, same code. If it is not good enough for our own sites, we do not install it for you.
Founding builds
Founding builds in progress.
Named cases go here as day-30s convert, and only with consent. Until then this list is the work underway — not invented results.
- ShoreditchBarbershop
- IslingtonCafé
- SohoRestaurant
Watch a busy day get handled
Stop running your week on interruptions.
An illustrative walkthrough of the messy job becoming a quiet system — landing where your team already works. No new app for your customers.
Illustrative demo
Step 01 of 04
Saturday cut enquiry in the DMs.
You are mid-cut. The thread sits unread for two hours.
Lands in
WhatsAppDiaryReminders
Sunday BooksAdd-on: supplier invoices and card takings capture themselves and land in Xero, so your Sunday night stops belonging to a spreadsheet.
Bookings take a deposit, remind themselves, and actually show up.
“In two years, every barbershop will run this way — the only question is whether you were early.”
Saturday cut enquiry in the DMs.
WhatsApp
Hi! Any chance of a cut Sat 11?
Also do you have space for a balayage?
Walkthroughs are an illustrative demo — not a client result.
Industry data, not our claims
What barbershops, cafés and restaurants lose to an unanswered phone.
40%
of booking attempts happen outside opening hours
Up to ⅔
the reduction in no-shows when a deposit is taken
1 in 20
restaurant bookings ends as a no-show
~£1,325
lost per restaurant per two months to no-shows, in sampled UK data
Figures are published UK hospitality and hair-and-beauty industry data, rounded and quoted as ranges. They describe the sector, not Algonix results.
Day-30 price
Build: free. First 30 days: free. Then the number below — or we switch it off, no hard feelings.
Barbershop
£129/mo
per site · month-to-month · cancel anytime
Café
£179/mo
per site · month-to-month · cancel anytime
Restaurant
£249/mo
per site · month-to-month · cancel anytime
Sunday Books add-on £99/mo. Not a fourth plan.
Build slots
Claim a build slotWe run 5–10 builds at a time so every install gets the founders' attention.
5 of 5 open now. Next start 18 August 2026. Join the waitlist and we research your shop.
Fair questions
Six things owners ask before they ring.
Will callers know it’s AI?
Yes. It discloses that it is an assistant when it answers, and it never pretends to be a member of your team. Anything sensitive — a complaint, a refund, an allergen question, or anything it is not confident about — is handed to a human instead of guessed at.
What if it books something wrong?
It books from your live diary, not a guess. If something still goes wrong, a human on your team can change it, and we are on the hook to fix the automation. Sensitive or unusual requests never get invented — they go to a person.
What does it plug into?
The tools you already run: Booksy, Fresha or another diary; your POS or a kitchen printer; Xero for Sunday Books. Customers keep using your existing number, WhatsApp and Instagram. Nobody downloads a new app.
Why is the first build free?
Because working proof beats promises. We research your shop, build one automation, and run it free for 30 days. We would rather you hear it work than take our word for it.
What happens at day 30?
You keep it at the listed monthly price — £129 for a barbershop, £179 for a café, £249 for a restaurant, per site, month-to-month — or we switch it off. No contract, no hard feelings, cancel anytime.
Is my customers’ data safe?
Your customers’ data stays in the systems you already use: your diary and your card processor. We minimise what we hold, we can provide a data-processing agreement, and if you switch us off we delete what we hold. The full picture is on the how-it-works page.