TurboKast Studio by TurboKast Ltd

TurboKast Studio › Salons and beauty

Don’t lose the client who rings while your hands are full.

For hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons of 1 to 15 people. We build online booking with real availability and reminders at a fixed price, and you can join our AI call answering pilot list.

or coffee on Liam in Tayside or Fife · talk to Kirsty · see prices

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  • Dundee companyTurboKast Ltd SC881077
  • Fixed pricesWritten quote first
  • Pay in stagesNo big upfront bill
  • You own your dataCode and hosting in your accounts
  • Professional indemnity and public liability insured

Sound familiar?

The phone rings while you’re mid-colour.

You can’t answer, and the caller may try the next salon.

We build: online booking so they need not ring, and a place on our AI call answering pilot list for the calls that still come.

Bookings live in a diary book, a group chat and DMs.

Nobody sees the whole week in one place.

We build: one booking page with real availability by stylist or treatment, confirming by itself.

A missed appointment is an empty chair.

Reminders depend on someone remembering to send them.

We build: reminder messages before each appointment and an optional card deposit for longer treatments.

AI call answering is a pilot list, not a live service: places open once 4 firms have signed up and nothing has started. It is for trades, salons, and fitness and wellness studios; health clinics, physio and therapy are not covered yet.

More situations to check on a first call

Booking by message only

Appointments arranged by text, WhatsApp or direct message, so the diary book and the messages have to be matched up by hand.

Treatments of different lengths

A cut, a colour and a nail treatment take different times and different people, so a simple slot picker does not fit.

Gift vouchers sold at the desk or by phone

Paid for at the till, written on paper and hard to check when someone redeems them.

Rebooking left to memory

Regular clients only come back on time if someone remembers to message them.

Where this comes from

We have not yet read the public websites of salons and barbers the way we did for trades, hospitality and clinics, so there is no survey behind this page. The situations here are common ones we would check on a first call, not findings. Treat them as questions to put to your own business.

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What we would build

Found out on our first call, built around how your firm really works.

  • Online booking with real availability

    Clients pick a treatment, a stylist and a free slot and get a confirmation at once, using your own rules for lengths, breaks and days off.

  • Reminders and an optional deposit

    A reminder message goes out before each appointment, and longer treatments can take a card deposit paid to your own payment account.

  • A rebooking list

    Who is due back, with the message ready to send, so regulars do not depend on memory.

  • AI call answering, on the pilot list

    Our AI call answering pilot is still a list: places open once 4 firms have signed up and nothing has started.

If a standard salon booking app (Fresha, Treatwell, Booksy and similar) already covers your diary, reminders and payments, use it and we will tell you so on the call.

What we have and have not built

Our one live system today is for Green Palm, a Dundee landscaping firm, not for a salon or beauty business. We have not yet built for a salon or beauty business, and we will not pretend otherwise. What carries over is the shape of the work: enquiries, a calendar, a list for the day and reminders. The first call or coffee is where we check that your case fits.

The package that fits

Fixed quotes, confirmed in writing before you commit. No per-user fees. The first call is free.

Fix One Thing
7 to 10 days
£249

A booking request form that confirms to the client and lists the request for you, on software you keep.

Pay nothing until it works (jobs booked before 30 November 2026). Not live in 10 working days? You owe nothing (conditions apply).

Single-job tool
2 to 3 weeks
from £749

Online booking with treatment lengths, stylist availability and reminders, with an optional card deposit.

A success criterion not met in the 30 days after go-live? We fix it or refund you (conditions apply).

Business hub
4 to 6 weeks
from £1,490 subject to written terms

Bookings, reminders, a rebooking list and client records joined up across several chairs, with a daily list for the front desk.

Paid in stages against milestones, with 90 days of free fixes after go-live.

First conversation
Free

A 15-minute call or a coffee, then a written fixed quote. No obligation.

Care
£29 a month

Optional: monitoring, backups checked, security updates and fixes. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.

Care+
£79 a month

Care, plus up to 2 hours of changes a month and a quarterly review. Cancel with 30 days’ notice.

Conditions and small print

Conditions apply to every refund or fix promise on this page. The clock pauses while we are waiting for something from you, and you have to claim within set windows. The conditions are in our written order terms (Scots law, for business customers only), which come with every quote; ask for a copy at any time. If this page differs from the terms, the terms win. Fix One Thing booked before 30 November 2026 is paid for only after it is live and working (invoice after go-live, payable within 7 days; if it does not work in the first 5 working days after go-live, we fix it or you owe nothing). After that date it is paid half to book and half when it is ready. Larger projects are paid in stages set out in the quote. Not VAT registered, so these prices are what you pay. Hosting and third-party fees are quoted up front.

If an accountant or bookkeeper introduced you, we may pay them 10% of the build price after you have paid in full. You do not pay it, your price is the same, and the quote names the introducer and the fee before you accept.

Questions people ask first

What does it cost?

Quick fixes to what you already have are from £99. Fix One Thing is £249. A single-job tool is from £749. A connected business hub is from £1,490, subject to written terms. All fixed price for the scope in the quote, and the first conversation is free.

The free first conversation is a 15-minute call, or a coffee if you are in Tayside or Fife. If a build makes sense, you then get a written fixed quote with a Scope and Success Criteria Schedule, at no charge. A quick fix is agreed in a one-paragraph written scope instead, and you pay after the job is done. There are no per-user fees. Hosting and third-party charges (email sending, payments, a domain) are paid by you or passed on at cost, and the quote lists them. We are not VAT registered, so the figure you see is the figure you pay. Conditions apply to every refund or fix promise: the clock pauses while we wait for you, and you must claim within set windows. They are set out in our written order terms, which come with every quote and which win over this page; ask us for a copy at any time.

Who owns the software, the code and the hosting?

You do. The code, the hosting and the domain are set up in your own accounts from day one, so we can never lock you out.

We are added to your accounts as a user, so nothing sits on our side that you cannot see or reach. When you have paid in full, and any refund window has ended, we assign you the rights we own in the custom code we wrote for you (clause 8 of our written order terms), with a signed assignation sent to you afterwards. We keep our own reusable components and licence them to you, and open-source parts keep their own licences. We build with AI coding assistants, and we do not promise that copyright exists in code an AI wrote. The terms set this out.

What if you disappear, or stop answering?

You are not stuck. Everything sits in your accounts, so any competent developer can take over without asking us.

We are one person, so we plan for that instead of promising it will not happen. Every build comes with a plain-English handover document (what it does, where it lives, how to restore it) kept in your repository, and a Business hub also gets a recorded walkthrough. We use mainstream, widely known tools rather than anything exotic. If Liam cannot continue, the written terms say you get everything in your accounts and a refund for work not yet delivered. We do not yet have a named backup developer. The optional care plan keeps backup checks and monitoring running, and you can end it with 30 days' notice.

What about data protection and privacy?

Your customer data stays in your own accounts, and we ask for the minimum access we need to do the work.

Where we handle personal data for you (for example on a care plan), you are the controller and we are your processor, under a written data-processing addendum. We build with AI coding assistants. We aim to build and test with made-up data and to keep your customers' and patients' records, passwords and secrets away from them, but we cannot promise that nothing personal is ever included, because the content you give us can contain names and contact details. If we find personal data has reached an AI tool, we tell you. If a fault can only be diagnosed with real data, we ask you in writing first. Only the people you choose can see your data.

Do you have professional indemnity insurance?

Yes. TurboKast Ltd holds professional indemnity and public liability insurance with Chiswell, through the broker Simply Business. Professional indemnity covers claims by clients about our work; public liability covers claims for injury or damage to property.

That includes mistakes in our work. The limit and the policy terms are given with every quote. It does not cover everything. We do not hold a separate cyber policy, so our own costs of responding to a data breach are not insured. If you need a higher limit, other cover, or to be named on our policy, tell us in writing before you accept a quote. If we cannot arrange it on reasonable terms, you can withdraw before work starts and we refund anything you have paid.

Is a ready-made app better for me?

Sometimes, and if so we will say so on the call.

If a standard salon booking app (Fresha, Treatwell, Booksy and similar) already covers your diary, reminders and payments, use it: it will cost less. We are worth a call when your process has a twist that those tools handle badly, or when you would rather pay once than per user per month for ever.

Is the AI call answering live?

It is a pilot list, not a live service. Pilot places open once 4 firms have signed up, nothing can be bought or started today, and we cannot give a start date.

Right now it answers only our own line, 01382 787280, so you can ring it and hear it. We have no other client businesses using it yet. Joining the list costs nothing and commits neither of us to anything. It is for trades, salons, and fitness and wellness studios; health clinics, physio and therapy are not covered yet.

What would the AI call answering pilot cost?

The first month is free, then £99 a month for 300 minutes, with no set-up fee.

Written terms and a data-processing agreement come before anything starts. It always says it is an AI in its first sentence, and it tells callers that calls are recorded. You can read the details and join the list on the AI call answering page.

Liam Humphreys, founder of TurboKast Studio, smiling in a fleece jacket

You deal with Liam

TurboKast Studio is run by Liam Humphreys, in Dundee. We build with AI coding assistants, directed by Liam and checked by automated tests on every change, which is how we can quote fixed prices below typical agency rates. You deal with one person, not an account manager, and the terms say what happens if Liam cannot continue (we do not yet have a named backup developer).

Company
TurboKast Ltd, registered in Scotland, company number SC881077
Registered office
29 Commercial Street, Dundee, DD1 3DG
Email
[email protected]
Phone
01382 787280
Answered by Kirsty, our AI assistant, who can book you a call with Liam. Calls are recorded. It is a landline, so texts do not arrive: to message us, use WhatsApp on the same number. You can also talk to her in your browser.
VAT
Not registered
Terms
Written order terms (Scots law, business customers only) come with every quote, and guarantees are subject to them (conditions apply). Ask for a copy.
Insurance
Professional indemnity and public liability insurance with Chiswell, through Simply Business (the limit and terms are given with every quote). We do not hold a separate cyber policy.

Tell us what is slow. 15 minutes, free.

We will say honestly if we can help. No pitch deck, no obligation. If a ready-made tool does the job, we will tell you.

Or email [email protected] and we will reply with times. 01382 787280 is a landline: texts do not arrive, so message us on WhatsApp on the same number.

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