A small company near Montreal that helps businesses get found online and stop losing the customers they already have.
Three ways in, for three different people: learn the system yourself, have us make your content, or put Alice on your phone. This video is about the third.
One minute forty seven. Here for one of the other two? Skip it and pick your door below.
You have more time than budget and you would rather learn it than rent it. One person with the right workflow now does what used to take a team.
You want the video made, the profile kept current and the posting handled every week, by someone else, so you can get back to the work you are actually good at.
Your phone already rings more than you can pick up. This one is for a business that is growing, not for a business that is starting.
Built and run by Aaron Wood, near Montreal, in Canada. He reads the mail and he takes the calls himself. Here he is in his own words.
Read this part only if your phone is already busy. If it rings twice a week you do not need her. If it rings while your hands are inside somebody's wall, if it rings at seven on a Sunday evening, and if the caller just dials the next name on the list when nobody picks up, that is the exact problem she was built for.
The short video at the top of this page is about her, if you skipped past it.
Alice is an AI voice sitting on your line. She answers at two in the afternoon and at two in the morning. She finds out what the caller needs, checks your calendar, and books them in while they are still on the phone. Then she sends you the details in writing.
You keep your number. You learn no software. The call arrives the way it always did, and the booking lands in the calendar you already open every morning.
Your existing number forwards to Alice when you cannot pick up, or all the time. That is your call, not ours.
Name, number, what they need, when they can come in. She answers the questions your customers actually ask, because we load her with your prices, your hours and your service area before she ever takes a call.
The appointment is booked and the details reach you in writing. Nothing to type up later, nothing to call back about.
Roughly one call in four goes unanswered at a small business. Invoca measured 20 to 27 percent across about 400,000 real calls, depending on the trade.
Between 60 and 80 percent of urgent calls happen outside business hours. We computed that ourselves from public records at Seattle Fire, NYC 311 and Chicago 311, more than 400,000 timestamped calls.
A quarter of the work goes missing, and most of the urgent part of it arrives when the office is dark. That is the gap Alice sits in.
One thing to be straight about. Alice speaks English. Not French, not Spanish, not yet. If most of your callers need another language, this is not the right fit today, and we would tell you that on the call rather than after you paid.
Three sizes, priced by how much talking your line actually does. Seven free days first, on your own number. Nothing is charged on day one and you can cancel inside the week and pay nothing at all.
Or pay for the year and get two months free.
Or pay for the year and get two months free.
Or pay for the year and get two months free.
Published AI phone answering plans in this field run from about a hundred and thirty dollars a month to nearly eight hundred. The voice company we build on will sell you a bare answering agent for twenty two dollars. You would turn that up in fifteen minutes, so we would rather hand it to you now.
What the gap buys is the part that is not software. Alice is built around your business by hand, with your prices, your hours, your service area and the questions your customers actually ask. She books into your real calendar rather than emailing you a transcript. Somebody watches the line and corrects her when she drifts.
The thing she replaces is not an app. It is a full time intake coordinator, somewhere around forty five to sixty thousand a year, covering forty hours of a week that has a hundred and sixty eight in it. Alice covers all of them.
Rather talk it through first? Book the free thirty minute call, or ask Alice yourself at the bottom of this page.
Alice holds on to the calls you already get. This is the other half: making more of them happen. Short form video produced for your business and posted daily across six platforms, so people in your area know your name before they need you. Your Google Business Profile kept current. An article a month. A landing page and an email list that stays warm instead of going cold in a spreadsheet.
It is the slower half of the work and the one that compounds. Six months is the honest horizon on it, and we say so before you buy rather than after you ask.
Before you spend anything, Alice will build you one, right here on this page. She asks about your business, your customers and what you are actually trying to grow, then writes up what she finds and hands it to you. One sitting, no card, and it is yours to keep whether you ever buy anything or not.
Nobody else in this market hands you a report written for your business inside a chat window. Go and use it.
Build my free reportThe blueprint, and the front door to the work. We research your market, your competitors and your customers, then hand you three documents: a competitor summary, a know your audience report, and a growth blueprint written for your business rather than for your industry in general.
It is the map. Plenty of people take it and run it themselves from there, and that is a perfectly good outcome. If you do go on to the monthly plan, the US$500 comes straight off your first invoice, so the blueprint pays for itself the moment you subscribe.
Get the blueprintA YouTube channel and a social feed that run without you, and a phone that always gets answered.
Every month we make four long form episodes for your channel and twenty short videos out of them, then post the lot to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook on your own accounts. You film nothing. No camera, no footage to send, no interview to sit for. We research it, write it, voice it, build it and put it out.
Alice answers your line while that runs, day and night, on your own number, four hundred minutes a month, booking straight into your calendar. Most content companies hand that part back to you.
Once a month you get one page: what went out, what it did, and every call that came in with what the caller wanted and whether it booked. At month six we re run your blueprint against your market, free.
It is built with AI, which is the only reason the volume works at this price. What you are paying for is that it happens every week without you in it.
If what you want is daily volume across six platforms with the written layer on top, Catalyst Competitive below is the better fit. No lock in on either one.
Start Catalyst GrowthEverything in Growth, then the rest of it. Daily posting across six platforms, up to twenty one posts a week out of your videos, your Google Business Profile kept current, an article a month, an evergreen newsletter, a landing page and lead magnet, and Alice on the bigger plan at a thousand minutes.
This is the one for a business that wants the growth handled rather than advised on. Six months is the horizon we build against, said up front, and you can still cancel any month you like.
Start Catalyst CompetitiveWe are far enough into the AI era that one person with the right workflow does what used to take a small team, and doing it that way saves you a great deal of money. If that sounds like you, do not hire us. Buy the system and run it.
Aaron recorded this one himself: what it actually takes to start an online business, and the exact workflow for turning one hour into two weeks of scheduled content. It is the same process we run for the clients who pay us to do it, written down so you can run it on your own.
Three steps, and you can stop at any of them. The free pack is the short version. The kit is the content workflow in full. The One Simple System is the whole business around it.
The workflow in short: which format to pick first, how to write a week of scripts in one sitting, the posting setup that runs without you, and what to skip entirely, which is most of it.
Send me the packThe whole thing written out step by step, with the videos. You get the PDF the moment you pay and access in your account any time. There is a hundred prompt add on at the checkout if you want it.
Get the kitThe course the kit leads into. The kit is the workflow for the content; this is how the whole business fits together around it, in the order you would actually build it. Aaron recorded it himself.
See the courseAaron, about six minutes, in his own words.
Clear Way Through is a department of Aaron Wood Creative, run out of the Montreal area in Quebec, Canada. The person running it is Aaron Wood.
He is a musician and an entrepreneur. Twenty years on stages and in studios, and the last stretch of it building AI systems that do real work rather than demo well. He built Alice. He reads the support mail. If you book the call, the person on the other end is him, not a sales floor and not a call center.
The video is him saying that himself. Watch it if you want to know who you are dealing with before you spend a dollar. That is a fair thing to want, and most companies in this field will not give it to you.
Clear Way Through, a department of Aaron Wood Creative
Email support@clearwaythrough.com
Toll free 1-888-514-2719
PO Box 51035, RPO Faubourg de l'Ile, Pincourt, QC J7W 3R2, Canada
A good plumber is a good plumber. A good dentist is a good dentist. Almost nobody is also great at answering a phone all day, writing the marketing and building the systems on top of that, and there are only so many hours in a week to try.
So the work walks in the door and some of it quietly walks back out, because the phone rang at the wrong moment or because nobody in the neighborhood has heard the name yet. That is not a failure of effort. It is a gap in the machinery, and machinery is the part that can be fixed.
We build the piece that catches the work you already earned, and the piece that brings more of it. Which one you need depends on where you are, and that is why there are three doors at the top of this page instead of one.
This is the same Alice that answers the phone. There are two things you can do in this window, and both of them are free.
She interviews you about your business, your customers and what you are trying to grow, then writes the report and hands it over at the end of the conversation. Set aside a few minutes and do it now.
Say: I want my free business report.
What it costs, how the free week works, whether she fits your trade, what happens when a caller is angry. She will book the free thirty minute call with Aaron right in the window if you want one.
Say: tell me about the appointment setter.
Prefer a person and a calendar? Book the free thirty minute call.