Accessible AI for pet groomers and salons

Automate grooming bookings, add-ons, and questions.

Type your line of work for a version tuned to you — or read on.

Appointment requests, breed and coat questions, add-ons, and the vaccination rules you explain all day. DocsHound spins up an AI agent that handles it, on your site or by text.

Grooming appointmentBreed and coat questionAdd-on and upgradeVaccination policyPricing by sizeHours and locationNail and dental
No setup call, no credit card, and no AI experience needed.
DocsHound for Pet grooming
Your way into AI

The simple way to bring your business into the AI era.

Everyone says you need AI in your business. Nobody tells you how without hiring an engineer, wiring up ten tools, or disappearing down a rabbit hole for six months. DocsHound is the simple way in: you describe what you want in plain English, and it becomes the AI employee that handles it, so you get the upside of AI without the madness.

  • No engineers to hire. If you can describe the job, you can set it up.
  • No AI rabbit holes. One friendly tool, not a stack you have to learn.
  • Up and running in an afternoon. Not a six-month project.
Meet your hounds

What your hounds can do for you

Most pet groomers start with one of these three.

A hound running a process and sending an email

Automate a process

Turn the booking back-and-forth into a clean appointment without pulling a groomer off the table.

  • Appointment requests — take the pet's breed, weight, and the service, then offer open slots
  • Vaccination check — ask for current rabies and bordetella records before the first visit
  • Add-on upsells — offer de-shedding, teeth brushing, and nail grinding while booking
  • Reminders and confirmations — text the drop-off window and nudge before the appointment
  • Rebooking — set up the next groom on your usual 6 or 8 week cycle

A fuller book and less phone tag, so your groomers stay on the table.

A hound answering a customer

Serve your customers

Answer the questions pet parents ask over and over, day or night, in your voice.

  • Pricing by breed, coat, and size, and what a full groom versus a bath includes
  • How long a groom takes and whether it is a wait or a drop-off
  • Which vaccinations you require and how to send the records
  • Whether you handle matting, senior dogs, cats, or anxious pups
  • Hours, parking, and your late-pickup and cancellation policy

Pet parents get a straight answer in seconds, even after you close.

A hound handing a teammate an answer

Support your team

Give your bathers, groomers, and front desk one place to check instead of asking you.

  • Look up a pet's groom history, coat notes, and last haircut length
  • Breed-specific cut standards and how long to block on the schedule
  • Which pets are flagged for matting, allergies, or handling notes
  • Opening and closing steps, tub sanitizing, and dryer safety
  • How to handle a no-show, a late pickup, or a pup that needs a vet referral

Your crew finds the answer themselves and stops interrupting you between dogs.

Run something else the same way every time? Tell us and we’ll point you to the right hound.

Build your first hound

Today a hound can ask, answer, send an email, and create a link. Sheets and Zapier are coming.

Get a running start

Tell us what you want to automate

Tell us what kind of business you run and we will show you what DocsHound can take off your plate first. You can change all of it later.

1 What you do 2 Recommended Hounds

What do you do?

What DocsHound can automate for your business

Based on your business, here is what we would set up first. Each one gathers what you need and takes the next step for you. Create them now or tweak later.

You are all set.

We are putting your Hounds together. Check your inbox for a link to start adding what your business knows.

See it in action

Simple to set up. Here is what you get.

No project, no jargon. Describe what you want in plain words and your business starts getting this back:

Anyone can set one up

No IT person, no setup project, no training. If you can describe the job, you can build the hound.

Save hours every week

The asking, collecting, and replying you do by hand all day runs itself, so you win the time back.

Open while you sleep

Customers get answered and jobs get booked at 2am, not just nine to five.

One business, a pack of hounds.

You do not run your whole business out of one inbox, so your AI should not either. A Hound handles one job, whether that is a process, a client, or one part of your world, and does it the same way every time.

Put one hound on staff questions, one on each property you manage, one on quotes for the field crew, one per client. Each stays in its lane, so the work stays clean and nothing gets crossed.

For your staff
Answers HR, PTO, and policy questions so the office does not have to.
One per property
Takes maintenance requests and resident questions, and routes them.
One per client
Runs their intake and onboarding, their way, every time.
For the field crew
Answers manual and SOP questions from a phone on the job.

Take one for a walk.

Meet Waggle and Wash, a grooming salon we made up so you can see how this feels. Ask a question, or request a grooming appointment.

What this hound handles
a small business
Ask the Hound
Ask me a question, or say you need a quote or a callback and watch me take the details and hand them off.

Start by using it yourself. Share it when you are ready.

Use it yourself

Keep it private and get your own answers first. Nobody else has to know it exists yet.

Give it to your team

Invite employees so the person who used to get asked everything stops being the bottleneck.

Put it on your website

Let customers ask the same questions your staff already answers twenty times a day.

Connect it to your tools

When integrations land, your hound can push what it collects into the software you already use.

What would you put in yours?

Not sure what goes in first? Here is what three very different people would start with.

Joe the Plumber

Joe the Plumber

Quote intake, plus warranty and pricing answers, so every tech in a truck gets a straight answer without calling the office.

Bob the Bookkeeper

Bob the Bookkeeper

One per client, handling new-client intake and answering “how does this one close their books?” before he even opens the file.

Any small business

Any small business

The stuff that always lives in one person’s head, so the whole team can get an answer on day one instead of waiting for the person who knows.

Your first Hound is free

Put a hound on the busywork.

Pick one job you do over and over, like customer intake, quotes, or the questions your team fields all day, and let your first hound handle it. Set up in minutes, free to start.

Create mine free No credit card required.