An AI front desk for your web design studio
See how Exydio could help a web design studio answer scope and budget questions while you are heads-down in a build, qualify a brief before it reaches your calendar, and book only the calls worth taking.
The three words that waste a studio's week
Almost every web enquiry begins "how much for a website", and it is genuinely unanswerable. A brochure site and a bespoke ecommerce build differ by an order of magnitude, so the honest reply is a set of questions, and asking them properly takes fifteen minutes you do not have while you are deep in a build.
So studios do one of two things. They fire back a rough number that turns out to be wrong, or they leave it two days and reply when they surface, by which point the enquiry has gone cold. Both routes lose the projects that were real and keep the ones that were never going anywhere.
Designers assume scoping cannot be delegated because it requires taste. Taste decides the design. It does not decide how many pages there are, what platform they are already on, when they need it live, or whether they have any copy yet, and those four answers are what separate a project from a daydream.
Exydio gathers them the moment the enquiry lands, at eleven at night if that is when it arrives, and only books a call for work you actually take on. Anything under the minimum you set gets an honest answer instead of a meeting. You go into every call with the brief already in hand.
What one missed call costs you
"How much for a website?" is unanswerable and unavoidable. Answering it properly takes fifteen minutes you do not have mid-build, and ignoring it loses the projects that were real.
What Exydio handles for a web design studio
- Answers scope and budget questions while you are heads-down
- Qualifies a brief on pages, timeline and budget before your call
- Books discovery calls only for work you actually take on
- Chases proposals and follows up on quiet leads
The calls it answers
Real questions web designers get, handled without anyone stopping what they are doing.
- “How much for a website?”
- “Do you build on Shopify or WordPress?”
- “How long does a build take?”
- “Do you do the copy as well?”
What it captures on every call
So the job arrives ready to work, not as a name and a number to call back.
- Roughly how many pages, and what they do
- Platform, if they already have one
- Budget range and deadline
- Whether content and copy exist yet
One inquiry, start to finish
Follow a single customer from the call you missed to the one who comes back. This is an example scenario.
- 01
The lead that got away
An enquiry lands mid-build saying only "how much for a website?". You reply two days later and they have gone quiet.
- 02
You describe the business
The work you take on, your starting budget, your timelines, and what you need to know before quoting.
- 03
Your front desk goes live
Your site is live and enquiries get a real reply while you are still in the editor.
- 04
The first one it books
A prospect asks about an ecommerce build. The agent asks about pages, timeline and budget, then books the call.
- 05
The follow-up runs itself
Proposals get chased, quiet leads get a nudge, and every brief stays attached to the client record.
Questions web designers ask
- Can it answer "how much for a website?"
- It turns the question around the way you would: how many pages, what has to work, what the budget is. Then it either gives your published range or books the call.
- Will it protect my calendar from tyre-kickers?
- You set a minimum project size. Enquiries under it get a straight answer rather than a call that was never going anywhere.
- Does it work for enquiries that come by form, not phone?
- Yes. The point is speed of reply, and a form filled at 11pm gets the same immediate response as a call at 11am.
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Stop losing the calls you cannot take
Describe your web design studio once. Exydio builds the site, answers the phone, books the work, and handles the follow-up from there.
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