For Local Businesses · Founding Partners

New customers. And the AI concierge to answer them.

A founding partnership includes an AI concierge trained on your services and pricing, answering your customers by message 24/7 — a build agencies quote at $5,000–$15,000. Then BillChat puts you in front of people actively trying to lower the exact bill you sell.

Become a Partner See What's Included

Founding partners set their rates before we open the program broadly.

Inside Your Company

Two more places BillChat pays for itself.

Partners use BillChat to win customers. It works just as hard pointed inward — at your team's household costs, and at the billing queue eating your support hours.

Employee Benefit

A benefit your people actually use.

Most perks get announced once and forgotten. Everyone has bills, every month. Give your staff BillChat and they start catching overcharges, lowering rates, and switching providers on their own — no enrollment window, no administration, and no cost to the company.

Financial stress doesn't stay home. It shows up as distraction, as the raise conversation you can't always say yes to, as turnover. This puts real money back in your team's pockets without touching payroll.

Operational Efficiency

Billing calls, handled before they reach your team.

Billing questions, rate disputes, negotiation requests, and provider switches are the highest-volume, lowest-value work in any support queue. BillChat resolves them in the conversation — reading the bill, answering the question, running the switch — with no hold music and no callback.

The result is less headcount spent on repetitive billing work, faster resolution for the customer, and a support team aimed at the problems that genuinely need a person.

What You Get

Not a subscription. A pipeline.

Podium and Birdeye help you answer the customers you already have. BillChat brings you new ones — with the AI messaging layer built into the partnership, and no monthly software bill attached to it.

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Your custom AI concierge, built for you

We load your services, pricing, and docs into a custom AI concierge that answers your customers by message — instantly, 24/7. Built to spec, hosted by us. Agencies quote $5,000–$15,000 for this build alone.

A $5k–$15k build, included

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Customers at the moment of intent

When a BillChat user asks for a quote or is ready to switch in your category, we introduce them to you — with their consent, at the moment they're actually shopping rather than weeks later.

Higher intent than any ad click

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Featured placement in the app

Your business appears across the BillChat app and partner directory, in front of users reading bills in your category — the moment they start looking for a better option.

Included in the partnership

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AI customer messaging, included

AI messaging with your customers is part of the partnership — no monthly software line item. Platforms that do this alone bill $400–600 every month, plus paid AI add-ons.

No monthly software cost

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Quarterly market intelligence

What your market actually pays in your category, switching-intent volume, and seasonal demand — aggregated from real bills in your area. Data your competitors have never seen.

Aggregate data, never identifiable

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Founding commission rates, locked

Beyond the founding fee, you pay a commission only on customers who actually switch to you — confirmed when their next scanned bill shows the change. Your founding rate holds for as long as you're a partner.

Paid on results, not software

The Intelligence Layer

OMNIA is how businesses will run.

Most businesses are flying blind on what actually moves a customer to act. OMNIA connects every conversation to every outcome — not impressions, not clicks, real decisions — and turns that into a score that means something. Every BillChat partner runs on it.

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The full picture, finally

Every question a customer asked. Every answer that landed. What they did next, and how long they took to do it. OMNIA holds the whole record — the moments that closed the deal and the ones that quietly lost it.

Nothing estimated

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0–111. The number that tells you why.

Your influence score is total clarity on what drives your business — which services, which answers, which channels actually move people. Not a summary of what happened. The reason it happened, traceable to the exact conversations behind every point.

Why, not what

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OMNIA doesn't replace. It elevates.

Running Podium, Birdeye, or something you built yourself? OMNIA layers on top of it. Same tools, same workflows, same team — operating on evidence instead of instinct by tomorrow morning.

Smarter overnight

Compare

The market charges monthly for less.

Messaging platforms charge hundreds per month to manage conversations you generate. BillChat generates the conversations — then hands them to you.

	Podium	Birdeye	BillChat Partner
Setup / onboarding	—	$500–1,500	One-time founding fee
Monthly software cost	$399–599/mo	$299–449/mo	$0/mo
Custom AI concierge, built for you	✗	✗	✓ Included ($5k–$15k at an agency)
AI-powered replies	+$99/mo add-on	Higher tiers only	✓ Included
Brings you new customers	✗	✗	✓ Commission on verified switches
Featured placement to in-market users	✗	✗	✓ App and directory
Local market pricing data	✗	✗	✓ Quarterly report

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Competitor pricing from published 2026 plan data: Podium Core $399/mo and Pro $599/mo billed annually with AI replies as a $99/mo add-on; Birdeye Starter–Dominate $299–449/mo per location with onboarding fees of $500–1,500. Agency custom AI chatbot builds for small businesses run $5,000–$15,000 per published 2026 development-cost guides. Podium and Birdeye are trademarks of their respective owners; BillChat is not affiliated with either. They're strong products for review management — that's not what this is.

Founding Pricing

One payment. No monthly software bill.

Founding Partner

$3,999–$6,999 one-time

Priced by category · one-time build and onboarding · no monthly fees

Custom AI concierge, built for you — trained on your services, pricing, and docs ($5,000–$15,000 at an agency)
Customer introductions at the moment someone is ready to switch in your category
$750 in partnership credits — applied against your first customer commissions
AI messaging included — no monthly software cost for founding partners
Featured placement across the BillChat app and directory
Quarterly market intelligence report for your category and area
Founding commission rates locked for the life of your partnership

Become a Partner

60-day guarantee: zero customer conversations in your first 60 days and we refund your fee in full.

Questions

The fine print, in plain English.

How do customers reach me?

A BillChat user who asks for a quote or to switch providers in your category is introduced to you directly, with their consent. Conversations are never billed. You pay a commission only when a customer actually moves to you.

Why is the price a range?

The build is priced by the value of a customer in your category. Internet and phone run lower; solar, roofing, and refi run higher because the concierge has more to handle and one customer is worth thousands to you.

What do I pay after the one-time fee?

No monthly software fee — just a commission on customers who actually switch to you, confirmed when their next scanned bill shows the change. Your founding rate is locked for the life of your partnership.

What does "founding partner" get me?

Founding partners are onboarded first, help shape how the concierge works in their category, and lock in founding commission rates that won't rise as the program grows.

Is this like Podium or Birdeye?

No — those tools manage messages from customers you already have, for a monthly fee. BillChat introduces you to new customers who are actively trying to lower the exact bill you sell, and the messaging platform is part of the partnership.