An AI agent that finds deals on food, products and services from local businesses. Text or WhatsApp what you want, claim a deal with a reply, and show the code at the counter.

Do I need the app to use Ask Lucilla?

No. You can also text or WhatsApp +1 (314) 237-4046 and ask the same way.

How does a business get listed on Ask Lucilla?

By texting +1 (314) 237-4046 — tell the agent what you sell and where, or send a photo of your menu. You need a business name, a category, how you serve customers (in person, mobile or online), a line about what you offer, and your address (in person) or service area (mobile). If you have hours and a website, share them: they are not required, but the agent reads them to build a fuller listing. Photos and socials can be added afterwards. The business shows on the map and in the agent's results once it has a live deal or reward. Listing costs nothing.

For cafes, barbers, caterers and local shops

People nearby are deciding where to go. Make it your door.

Draw a zone around the blocks you can serve: a campus, a busy corner, a venue. People there who ask Lucilla for what you sell get your deal and a one-time code to use at your counter. You pay one flat monthly plan.

Text to list your shop List on WhatsApp Open the map

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Text or WhatsApp +1 (314) 237-4046

Text to listSMS

hey how can I list my business?

Easy, a couple of texts. Send me your business name, what you sell in one line, your address or the towns you cover, and a website or phone.

MiAmor Tortillas, protein dessert wraps and catering, Hamilton, miamortortillas.ca

Listed in Hamilton. One thing left before anyone finds you: a deal. No deal, no pin on the map. Something small works, like 10% off a first visit.

+1 (314) 237-4046 · no app, no install · example

Target a zone anywhereExample

Claim in the zone Use it at your shop or the door

Claim codeOne-time

LUC-1234

Show it at the counter or enter at checkout

ClaimedShownRedeemed

Used once, at your counter, on your store or on the job.

Inside AI assistantsExample

ChatGPTClaude

Protein wraps near McMaster, any deal?

MiAmor Tortillas, 15% off the 4-packClaim it: one-time code LUC-1234 at the counter

Example. The customer asks ChatGPT or Claude; the deal and the code come from Ask Lucilla.

At the counterUsed once

REDEEM LUC-1234

Visit counted10% off the 4-pack · code used once, 2:14 pm

Example. What your staff see after they scan, type or text a code.

You choose what to ask for

PhotoVideoPollQR scanCheck-in

One-question poll

Asked an AI

Walked past

Example. No rewards for reviews.

A plated dessert wrap from MiAmor Tortillas

Example offer

MiAmor Tortillas

10% off the 4-packClaim

From the appReal screen

The Ask Lucilla app listing what a shop can text: DEAL, DEMAND, STATS, AREA, REDEEM and HELP

What Lucilla texts a shop after its menu photo.

ConnectorsRolling out

Your tools

Start with email forwarding. Your booking and order emails become things Lucilla can act on.

Weekly report Sample layout

Claims

Visits

Location-exclusive deals

A deal that only works on your blocks, in your hour.

Pick the ground and the hour. Only someone inside the zone at that moment can claim it, and the code is used once: at your counter, on the job or at the door.

Example, not live data

01Students near McMaster

A promo zone around the campus for your slow afternoon. Students there claim it, walk to your shop and the code is used at the counter.

02Cashback on a busy corner

A cashback zone on the corner people already pass. They claim there and are pulled to your door.

03An event, used at the door

A zone around the venue. People claim around it and the code is used at the door.

Set it from your phone or by text, in a sentence: “students near McMaster, 900 m”. The circle is drawn for you.

Ask for something first if you want: a one-question poll, a follow, a photo. The code unlocks after, and you see the answers.

Dropping a location-exclusive deal30 seconds, recorded in the app

Works with

Connect the tools you already run.

Connect the till, store or calendar you already use and Lucilla works inside it: a deal rings up at the register, a one-time code works at your online checkout, bookings stay in step. Tiles marked “in review” are waiting on their platform, not on us.

The story

Local shops are invisible to the new way people shop.

$30.57

Ads charge for attention, not customers.

One US restaurant search-ad lead in 2026; $66.69 across all industries. A lead is a click, a call or a form. Nobody tells you if that person walked in.

No feed

AI assistants have nothing live to send people to.

They read reviews and websites. They cannot see today's offer, hand someone a code, or tell you someone nearby just asked for what you sell.

Scattered

The work still lands on you.

Bookings, order emails, review replies, hours and messages each live in a different app.

One answer

We don't sell attention. We count visits.

People ask by text, in the app, or from ChatGPT and Claude
Lucilla answers with the business that has it, and a live deal
They claim a one-time code, used once at your counter, on your store or on the job
You run the rest of your day by text

US figures. $30.57 and $66.69: LocaliQ / WordStream 2026 search advertising benchmarks (Google and Microsoft Ads), June 2026.

The edge

Other channels infer what a customer wants. Here, the customer says it.

Who	How they know what the customer wants	Where it is counted	Where it works	What you pay for
Google Ads	Inferred: a search, and the clicks after it.	Clicks and impressions.	Everywhere the search happens.	Each click.
Instagram and Facebook ads	Inferred: who scrolled, liked or watched.	Impressions, views and link clicks.	Everyone the targeting reaches.	Impressions and clicks.
Groupon-style deal sites	Inferred: browsing the deals, or walking past the door.	A voucher sold or saved.	Anyone browsing the site.	Per voucher sold.
Yelp-type directories	Inferred: reviews read and listings opened.	Profile views and clicks.	Everywhere the listing shows.	Placement and clicks.
Ask Lucilla	Stated: the person asked for what you sell, in words, before any offer existed. By text, app, ChatGPT or Claude.	A one-time code used at your counter, on the job or at checkout.	Only in the blocks and the hour you choose.	A flat month, sized in claims.

“Inferred” is our reading of those platforms’ own descriptions. Local deals are a live category; we do not claim to be the only one.

How it grows your business

From what people want to who walked in.

01Hear what people want

People text, chat or ask an AI for "dinner tonight" or "a haircut", and post on Pulse. You see the real demand near you.

02Answer with the right deal

Lucilla writes the offer inside your rules: a promo, cashback, an event, a Quick Deal, or a deal only people in a zone you draw on the map can claim. Draw a zone across town to test a new audience.

03Bring people in

Customers share your deal by text, WhatsApp, email or social with their own code. Friends and local creators earn only when someone they sent actually comes in. You set the amount per visit and a monthly cap.

04Count the visit

A code is used once: scanned or typed by your staff, your counter QR, your register, a paid online order, or confirmed on the job. Customer check-ins are shown separately. If a friend or creator referred the visit, you can dispute it for 7 days before you pay them.

05See what happened

Claims and confirmed visits by deal, hour and zone, every week.

In storeShops and restaurants

The code is used at your counter.

On the jobMobile, delivery and catering

Cleaners, mechanics, caterers and delivery confirm the code when they do the job.

OnlineOnline stores

A one-time discount code at your online checkout, such as WooCommerce. The paid order is the visit.

Referral and creator payouts go from your card to the referrer through Stripe. We never hold the money. Payouts are rolling out shop by shop.

List by talking

Say "list my business". Lucilla does the rest.

hey how can I list my business?

Easy, a couple of texts. Send me:

your business name
what you sell, one line
your address, or the towns you cover
a website or phone

Photos any time: menu, your work, your space.

MiAmor Tortillas. Protein dessert wraps and catering, Hamilton. miamortortillas.ca

Listed in Hamilton: MiAmor Tortillas, protein dessert wraps and catering. I read your site and pulled the menu. A street address and a tray photo would make it stronger.

One thing left before anyone finds you: a deal. No deal, no pin on the map.

what deal should I run?

Three that fit what you sell:

15% off the 4-pack, students near McMaster, Tuesday 2 to 5. Why: your slow afternoon, and a campus that can walk over.
$5 off a catering tray, first-time customers. Why: your biggest item, so dollars off reads better than a percent.
Free wrap after 3 visits this month, returning customers. Why: brings regulars back.

Any of them can carry rules: first-time or returning, days and hours, a zone from 50 m to 20 km, a cap like “first 50”, an end date, a one-question poll before the code. Reply YES, YES 2 or YES 3, or change anything.

YES, make the zone 1 km

Live: 15% off the 4-pack for students near McMaster, 1 km, Tuesday 2 to 5. You're on the map. Each claim is a one-time code: staff scan it at your counter QR, or text REDEEM and the code. Text STATS any time.

Wherever you already talk

The same conversation works by text, WhatsApp, in the app, or from ChatGPT and Claude.

SMSWhatsAppAppChatGPTClaude

It reads what you have

Your website, Google listing, socials and a menu photo become your listing. It only asks for what is missing.

Then it runs by message

Once your profile and listing are set, day to day is a text: a new deal, "close today", a customer's code, "how am I doing?"

Example conversation.

The app

A full app when you want to see everything.

Set up your profile, listings, deals and connected tools in the app or on the web. After that, the agent, a text or your AI assistant handles the day.

The Ask Lucilla app: someone asked for a protein wrap nearby and got MiAmorTortillas, 0.2 km away, with 10% off the 4-pack — A real screen: someone asked for a protein wrap nearby and got the shop that has it, with its deal.

A real screen from the app.

Every capability

Everything a front desk, a marketer and an assistant would do.

Pricing

Free to start. One flat monthly plan, sized in claims.

Prices in US dollars, billed monthly. A claim is one person getting one code. At your number, new codes pause until next month; nothing is charged on top.

Free$0USD50 claims a month · no card to start

Starter$30USD300 claims a month

Business$100USD2,500 claims a month

EnterpriseTalk to usMany locations

No cut of the reward. Friend and creator bonuses are separate, and only ever go to visits confirmed at your shop. Stop texts any time by texting CANCEL; a paid plan is cancelled from Plan & billing in your dashboard. Every plan and the FAQ

We’re opening in Hamilton and Toronto now. Early shops get set up by hand.

What changed

People stopped scrolling. They ask.

45%

of US consumers used ChatGPT or another AI tool for local business recommendations, up from 6% a year earlier.

BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (US)

In person

What a listing cannot do: carry today's offer, hand one person a single-use code, and show the shop it was redeemed at the counter.

Ask Lucilla product

What you control

Your blocks, your hour, your deal.

01Your blocks

Draw the zone a deal can be claimed in: your street, a campus, a venue across town.

02Your hour

Set your hours, close for the day, or schedule a keyword deal so it ends on its own.

03Your deal

Percent off, dollars off, something free, cashback or a ticket. Lucilla writes it inside the rules you set.

04A monthly cap on friend and creator bonuses

You set the amount per visit and a shop-wide monthly cap. Nothing is paid past it.

057 days to dispute a referred visit

A friend or creator is paid only for a visit your shop confirmed, and only after your 7-day window.

06Pause or stop by text

Pause a deal, close for the day, or text CANCEL to stop texts. A paid plan is cancelled from your dashboard.

07Nothing billed per claim

One flat month, sized in claims. At your number new codes pause; nothing is charged on top.

Go deeper

Pick your door.

For businesses

The full walk-through: listing, offers, codes, connectors.

Open 02

For customers

Ask by text, in the app, or from ChatGPT and Claude.

Open 03

The map

How a zone drop works, and what the map shows today.

Open 04

The directory

Search the shops listed so far.

Open

Built with

The cloud, network and programs we build with.

Owner FAQ

The questions shop owners ask first.

What if nobody asks?

You pay nothing on Free, and your listing stays up. Claims only count when someone picks your deal.

What does my staff do?

When a customer shows a code, your staff scan it with the app, type it in, or text REDEEM and the code to Lucilla. That marks it used, once. You can add team members so they do it from their own phone.

What do I pay if I get zero claims?

Your plan price and nothing else: on Free that is $0 USD. No plan bills per claim, and there is no fee on reward claims.

Who pays the friend bonus, and when?

You do, from your card, and only for a visit your shop confirmed at the counter. You set the amount per visit and a monthly cap for the whole shop. You have 7 days to dispute a referred visit before it is paid. The payout goes through Stripe to the friend or creator; Lucilla never holds the money.

Does it work with my POS?

Square and Lightspeed connect today, so a deal can ring up at the till. Clover and Toast are in review with their platforms. You don’t need a POS at all: staff scan or type the code, or text REDEEM and the code.

Do I need the app?

There’s an app if you want it. You don’t need it. Listing, deals, codes and your weekly numbers all work by text or WhatsApp.

I’m SB. I’m building Ask Lucilla in Hamilton and listing the first shops myself. Text me and you’ll get me, not a sales team.

Launch incubator alumni · +1 (314) 237-4046

Text to list your shop.

One text. Lucilla reads your website and Google listing and asks only for what is missing.

+1 (314) 237-4046 Text to list your shop

Text CANCEL to stop texts. · Or on WhatsApp