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.

Ask Lucilla | A deal that brings people nearby to your door

Reach Lucilla

List your shop, photos and two deals with one text.

Send a message like this to +1 (314) 237-4046. No app, no form.

Example text

List my business. Example Barber Co, King St W, Hamilton ON. Open Tue to Sat, 9 am to 6 pm. Walk-ins and bookings. Website: [your site]. Instagram: [@yourshop]. TikTok: [@yourshop]. Photos attached: our price list and the shop. Deal 1: 15% off a first haircut for McMaster students, weekdays before 2 pm. Deal 2: regulars cut for $25, once a month, any weekday. Up to 20 people a month can claim each deal.

Attach Price list Storefront

Text this to Lucilla

Made-up shops. Swap in your name, hours, links and deals, and add photos in your messages app before you send. Lucilla reads items and prices off a menu photo and asks only for what is missing.

What customers seeExample

Barber

Example Barber Co King St W, Hamilton · Open until 6 pm

First visit15% off, McMaster students
Get code
Once a monthRegulars cut, $25
Get code

One code per person, used once at the counter.

Or use the app, or ask your AI assistant

Text it+1 (314) 237-4046

Any phone, no app. Shops list and customers ask the same way.

Open a text

Use the appCards and a map

Answers come back as tappable offers on a map. On the App Store and Google Play.

Get the app

Ask your AIClaude, ChatGPT

Connect once, then ask for deals nearby. Setup is one paste.

Connect your agent

Ways to grow

Your AI assistant that helps grow your business.

It works inside your limits, and asks you first.

Know your customers. Claims and repeat visits, no names attached.
Reward regulars. Come-back streaks and deals for people who return.
Tailor every deal. For students, regulars, lapsed customers, or one person.

Location-only dealsCashback Rolling outSeen by AI agents

Example

Make a deal for McMaster students on weekdays

Draft: 15% off weekdays before 2 pm, students only, 30 a month. Reply YES to publish.

YES

Live. Students asking nearby will see it.

Bring new people in

Three ways to get new customers through the door.

Location deals

Reach people who’ve never tried you.

Draw a zone; only people inside it can claim.

Campus deals. A deal only students near campus can claim.
Events and busy corners. Drop a deal where the crowd already is.
Cashback for visits. USDC back after the code is used. Rolling out

A claim needs a GPS fix accurate to 250 m and under 15 minutes old. An “I study or work here” membership can claim, but the code is spent only after a GPS fix.

Example

Automate it

Set the rules once. Lucilla makes the offers.

When someone nearby asks for something general, like a cheap lunch, something open late or a dish you sell, Lucilla answers with an offer from you, built inside your rules.

Your limits

Never more than 15% or $5 off
Keep at least a 40% margin
A monthly discount budget
Which items, and the lowest price for each
Which days, which customers, which streets
One offer per person every 30 days

Rules that run each morning

Asked for. Anyone nearby who asks for “shawarma” gets your plate deal in the answer, right away, from the very first person.
Regulars. After 4 visits in a month, give a free drink.
Win back. If a regular has not been back in 45 days, send 10% off.

Visits count only when a code is used at your counter or an order is fulfilled. Follow-up texts to people who asked earlier wait until at least 5 have asked, so no one is singled out.

Example

Cheap lunch near McMaster?

Example Shawarma House, 6 min walk: shawarma plate $12 until 3 pm. Want the code?

Inside your rules: weekdays, students, at least 40% margin.

Turn on what you want, pause it any time from a text or your dashboard. Nothing runs past your limits, and every code counts as one claim on your plan.

Connect your tools

Your POS, your listings, one assistant.

Your items come in; sales match the customer who claimed.

Import your catalog. Items and prices copy in from Square or Lightspeed.

Sale meets claim. The sale links to the customer’s code.

No POS needed. Staff scan, type or text the code.

Square sale $12.40 · matched to claim LUC-1234Example

SquarePOS
Lightspeed RetailPOS
CloverPOS In review
ToastPOS Coming later
WooCommerceStorefront
SquarespaceStorefront
ShopifyStorefront In review
EtsyStorefront
eBayStorefront
VagaroBookings
MindbodyBookings In review
CalendlyCalendar
Google CalendarCalendar
Outlook CalendarCalendar
Email forwardingMessages
Facebook & InstagramMessages In review
Google Business ProfileListing In review
QuickBooksAccounting
XeroAccounting
KlaviyoMarketing
GoHighLevelMarketing
CanvaMarketing
MonidData tools

“In review” tiles are not live yet.

Once connected, your assistant can:

Run your Google profile. Update hours and posts, and draft review replies you approve. In review
Post your deals. Share a new deal to Instagram and Facebook. In review
Ask for engagement. Make a follow, like or comment the step before the code.
Match sales to customers. Square and Lightspeed sales link to claims, so you see repeat visits and which deal works.
Handle bookings and email. Calendly, Google and Outlook calendars, plus forwarded orders texted to you.
Answer to any agent. Ask Claude or ChatGPT to launch a deal or check today’s claims. Muse Coming soon

Your inbox

Your inbox, handled.

Lucilla reads what you forward and texts you what matters.

Forwarded email. New bookings and orders, texted to you.
Google reviews. Drafted replies you approve. Coming soon

We never reward a review.

Example

Text from LucillaNew booking from OpenTable: 4 people, Fri 7 pm.

Google review · 5 starsComing soon

“Great coffee and kind staff.”

Draft reply: Thank you! See you next time. Reply YES to post.

3 reasons it beats buying ads.

01

They asked first.

People ask an AI agent or text for a deal nearby. Your offer is the answer.

Example

Any coffee deals near me?

Example Café: 10% off until 5 PM. Want the code?

Yes

Your code is K7M-2QX. Show it at the counter.

02

Every claim is counted.

Each claim is a one-time code, burned once at your counter.

Example

Example Café · 10% offK7M-2QXSingle use USED

03

One flat plan.

No bidding, no cost per click. At the cap, codes pause.

Example

Starter · $30 a month

Claims this monthCap 300

Cap reached. Extra charged: $0

Ads vs Ask Lucilla

Ads bill clicks. We count claims.

What each platform charges, what you pay for, and how you know someone came in
Platform	What it costs	You pay for	Did they come in?
Ask Lucilla	$0a month for 20 claims · $30 for 200 · $100 for 2,500. Hard cap, never a per-click charge	Claims. A claim is one person who asked for what you sell and got your code	A code used once at your counter
Google search ads	$66.69a lead · $5.42 a click²	Clicks, whether or not anyone comes in	Store visits are “modeled numbers”³
Google ads, restaurants	$30.57a lead · $2.05 a click²	Clicks and calls	Same modeled store visits³
Facebook & Instagram ads	$27.39a lead · $0.60 a click¹²	Clicks and form fills	Meta estimates missing conversions⁴
Groupon	20–40%of each discounted voucher, in Groupon’s own examples¹³	Redeemed vouchers, mostly deal hunters	Redemption, but the fee comes out of a sale that was already discounted
Google Local Services ads	~$60a lead¹⁴	Calls and messages	A call, not a visit
TikTok ads	$20+a day minimum per ad group¹⁶	Views and clicks	Views, not visits
Square Loyalty	CA$60–140a month, per location¹⁷	Points for customers who already buy from you	Rewards regulars, finds no one new
DoorDash & Uber Eats	15–30%of every delivery order^{18, 19}	A cut of each order	A delivery, not someone at your counter

Averages from each publisher’s own data. A lead is a call, form, chat or email, not a visit.

Why cold outreach and agencies fall short

Outreach is now automated and crowded. Of small businesses that use AI, 81% use it to write content.⁵ Only 18% of small businesses feel very confident their marketing works, down from 27% the year before.⁶

Cold email: one agency’s 2025 data shows 0.45% replies per email sent;⁷ a cold-email vendor reports 3.43%, and says rates are stable.⁸ Either way, most messages get no answer.

The rules got stricter. Since February 2024, Gmail and Yahoo require bulk senders to keep spam reports below 0.3% and to offer one-click unsubscribe.^{9, 10} LinkedIn bans bots and extensions that automate activity.¹¹

Whoever runs the campaign, an agency or you, the visit report is the platform’s. Google calls its store visits “modeled numbers”,³ and a shop needs enough foot traffic to pass its privacy thresholds before it gets one at all.³

Ask Lucilla starts from someone who already asked for what you sell. The visit is a code used once at your counter.

Pricing

One flat plan. A hard cap.

Monthly, in US dollars. A hard cap, never an overage charge.

Free$020 claims a month

Starter$30200 claims a month

Business$1002,500 claims a month

EnterpriseCustomBy contract

0% fee on deal and reward claims on every plan.

For developers and AI agents

Connect your own agent.

One paste adds Ask Lucilla to Claude Code or any MCP client. Full developer docs.

Using an agent? One paste sets it up.

See the prompt

Set up Ask Lucilla, an agent for local deals near me.
1. Add the MCP server.
   Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http ask-lucilla https://asklucilla.com/mcp
   Any other MCP client: add https://asklucilla.com/mcp as a custom connector.
2. Check it works: call ask_lucilla with "deals near me". Do not claim anything yet.
3. Suggest three things you could do for me right now with it, and ask which to try.
4. Ask me before claiming anything. Never claim a deal without my clear yes.

Someone nearby is asking right now.

List your shop free in one text. Customers who already asked, every claim counted.

Text +1 (314) 237-4046 See the map

Customers at your door, not clicks, expensive ads or cold outreach.