The Lumina Sales blog
Updates, ideas, and practical notes from Lumina Sales on building and selling AI software.
Follow via RSSBroccoli raised $52 million to sell AI call answering to plumbers, HVAC and electrical shops. Here is what the raise says, who it is probably aimed at, and where a one-to-ten person AI agency can still win.
Synthflow's white label is sold as an annual enterprise agreement with no published price. Lumina Sales is $49 a month with builds at wholesale. Here is how they differ and who should pick which.
An AI phone system keeps running, keeps metering, and keeps talking to the public long after you invoice. Here are the nine things your client agreement has to answer, from scope and voice-minute overage to disclosure duties, liability caps, and the exit.
Tax firms have two windows a year when they will take your call, and November is one of them. A full playbook for selling AI phone and intake systems into accounting and tax practices, including the section 7216 question every generic vendor gets wrong.
A prospect who says their last chatbot was awful is rejecting one specific failure, not AI. Here is how to find out which one, what to ask first, and when to walk away.
Clients get nervous after signing because they see nothing happen. Here is the four-line weekly update that fixes it, how to explain waits nobody controls, and when the approach breaks down.
Septic owners miss calls because they are on a lid with a hose in a tank. Here is how to demo the recovered call, price against a $420 average pump-out, and where this pitch does not fit.
Raising prices on AI clients works when you give 30 to 60 days of notice, keep the first move modest, and fix delivery first. Here is the sequence, the message, and the margin math on a wholesale stack.
Jobber, Weave and Dental Intelligence all sell some version of an AI that answers the phone. Here is what each one actually ships, where each stops, and how to adjust your pitch.
A white-label AI demo takes four branding fields: logo, colors, subdomain and booking link. Here is what to put in each, how to pick colors that pass contrast, and where the branding stops.
Charge for the pilot. A free live deployment costs you wholesale fees and minutes, and the data we found points to paid pilots closing better. Here is the 30-day structure, the math, and the two times free is fine.
No API key, phone number or voice setup is needed to run demos on Lumina Sales. Here is what a DIY voice stack requires, what client builds add, and what you give up.
