Agentic AI Built For Your Business.
Custom AI receptionists, missed-call recovery, and back-office automation for owner-operated businesses — built founder-to-founder, receptionist live in ~48 hours, backed by a 30-day fit guarantee.
- Talk to a founder, not a sales rep
- Live in ~48 hours
- 30-day fit guarantee
Built by the two people you'll work with.
Kadin Nestler
Co-founder · Build + AI craft
Built a $500k/yr drop shipping store in 2014. Founded a technology consulting company in 2017. Then worked for Google, Dell, & now Wayfair. Providence College — Applied Mathematics major + Marketing minor.
Jaiden Lawlor
Co-founder · Commercial + ops
Serial entrepreneur who has built and scaled six-figure businesses with a strong background in E-commerce. Babson College and the London School of Economics — Finance + Economics major.
The problem
Every missed call and cold lead is money walking out the door.
Owner-operated businesses don’t lose to bad work — they lose to the calls they couldn’t pick up and the follow-ups that never happened. The growth ceiling isn’t demand. It’s the hours in your day.
The phone rings while you’re on a job
You can’t answer mid-install, mid-appointment, mid-anything. The caller doesn’t leave a voicemail — they call the next name on the list. That was a booked job.
Leads go cold before you follow up
The quote you meant to send, the estimate sitting in your inbox, the warm lead from last week. By the time you circle back, they’ve already hired someone else.
You’re the receptionist, the scheduler, and the admin
Nights and weekends disappear into busywork that doesn’t grow the business — chasing confirmations, retyping the same info, answering the same questions.
Hiring help is expensive and slow
A full-time receptionist is $40k+ and weeks to train. A big AI vendor wants a year-long contract and an IT team you don’t have. So nothing changes.
The solution
We build the AI team you’d hire if you had the time and the budget.
Not another app to learn. Ascero builds custom AI agents around how your business actually runs — wired into your phone, your calendar, and your tools — and has the first one live in about 48 hours.
The Reception
Every call answered. Every lead qualified.
A custom AI voice agent picks up on the first ring — day, night, weekend — qualifies the caller in your own script, books straight into your calendar, and texts a confirmation in under 60 seconds.
The Workflow
Follow-up and busywork on autopilot.
Multi-touch follow-up sequences work every lead until they book or opt out. Reviews get requested, confirmations get sent, the same data stops getting retyped — the admin that ate your nights just runs itself.
The Command
One dashboard. Full oversight.
See every call, lead, and automation in one place. The agents act in your voice and escalate the real decisions to you — you stay in control without doing the grunt work.
built on enterprise rails
The same frontier models the Fortune 500 deploys. Priced for a small business.
Anthropic
NVIDIAWhat we build
Agents we've shipped.
Custom agents, not a SaaS subscription. Four of the patterns we ship most.
Intake Agent
Answers every inbound call, qualifies the lead, books the calendar, and texts a confirmation in under 60 seconds.
Recent build
A trades co. wanted every after-hours call captured. We shipped a voice agent that mirrors their dispatcher's qualifying script and writes back to ServiceTitan.
Follow-Up Agent
Runs multi-touch follow-up sequences for prospects that didn't book the first time. Reply triage escalates real responses to your inbox.
Recent build
An accountant's warm-lead bucket sat in HubSpot un-nurtured for years. The follow-up agent re-engages every 14 days, hands hot replies to the partner.
Review Agent
Requests reviews after every closed job, posts them where it counts, responds to incoming reviews — good and bad — in your voice.
Recent build
A roofer wanted Google reviews but never asked. The agent SMS-asks 30 min after job close, drafts the response copy, founder approves with one tap.
Cyber Agent
Continuous monitoring of every AI workflow + domain controls. Flags renewal-time gaps. Delivers a carrier-ready affidavit in 14 days. (Ascero Watch.)
Recent build
An insurance broker needed SOC-2-lite controls for her cyber renewal. The cyber agent scanned, remediated 9 of 12 controls, shipped the PDF.
Why Ascero
The big-company AI stack, built and run for you — without the big-company anything.
Most owners try to duct-tape tools together, hire a body, or get quoted by an agency built for enterprises. Here’s why none of those beat a custom build you don’t have to babysit.
Ascero AI
Custom agents, founder-built
- First agent live in ~48 hours
- Built around how YOUR business runs
- You work directly with the two founders
- Enterprise-grade models, SMB pricing
- 30-day fit guarantee — not a fit, you don’t pay
DIY tools
Zapier, ChatGPT, point apps
- Weeks of your time to wire up
- Breaks when an edge case hits
- You’re the one maintaining it
- No one to call when it fails
Hire in-house
Receptionist / ops hire
- $40k+/yr, weeks to train
- Out sick, on vacation, quits
- Still only covers business hours
- One person, one set of hands
Big AI agency
Enterprise vendors
- Year-long contracts
- Needs an IT team you don’t have
- You’re account #4,000
- Built for the Fortune 500, priced for it
Fifteen minutes with a founder. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you.
60-second quiz
Not sure where to start with AI?
Six quick questions. We'll recommend the highest-leverage agent for your business and tell you what the payback looks like.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
See what one AI agent would do for your business.
Fifteen minutes, founder-to-founder. We'll map your biggest time-sink and show you exactly what we'd build — no slides, no pressure.
Book a free 15-min call →Talk to a founder · Live in ~48 hours · 30-day fit guarantee
engagement model
Contact Us For Pricing
Custom build, not a SaaS subscription. Every engagement is scoped to your business and quoted on a quick call — no two builds are priced the same.
Contact UsFree · 28 prompts · read online or PDF
The Prompt Jungle: 28 AI prompts that actually work.
A field guide of copy-paste prompts pulled from a year of real builds — every one traceable to an actual workflow we ship. Free, no fluff.
- —28 verified prompts across 7 habitats — identity, agents, verification, research, output, briefs, outreach
- —Each one battle-tested in a real build, not invented for a listicle
- —Copy-paste ready — drop them straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- —Read it online or grab the PDF — yours to keep
newsletter
AI is moving fast. The newsletter breaks down the biggest changes every week.
New models, new tools, and what they actually mean for your business — in plain English.
partner program
Earn 20–30% commissions sending owners to Ascero AI.
Real dashboard. Real payouts. Approved partners get paid on every renewal.
- 20%Monthly subscriptions (recurring 12 mo)
- 30%Digital products (one-time)
- 15%Agent Pack setup + AI Audit / Sprint
- 10%Agent Pack monthly (lifetime recurring)