About

I'm Kate.

I'm a former salon owner teaching salons to get found and get off the computer. Behind the chair since 2005, and I know what it costs to be the best-kept secret in town.

Kate, founder of Hive Beauty Design

I've been behind the chair since 2005. I owned two salons, and I taught new stylists for seven years. Nobody in any of those rooms ever taught the computer part. Not the profit and loss sheet, not the client records, not the posting. You were just supposed to pick it up at eleven pm.

Then I started teaching myself where salons actually show up, and where they quietly do not. On Google, on the map, and now in the answers people get when they ask an assistant for a salon near them. I worked it out on my own salon first. Then for the stylists I knew. Then I worked out how to hand the eleven pm jobs to Claude. Now I teach salon owners both.

I'm not behind the chair anymore. I teach the part nobody taught us.

What I do now comes down to one thing.

What I do now

Getting you off the computer.

I teach salon owners to hand the evening admin to Claude. Three ways in, depending on how much of me you want.

Free, one hour

The free class.

For salon owners who have never opened Claude.

I do real salon jobs with Claude while you watch, on a made-up salon so nobody sees your numbers. Come and see if it's for you.

See the next free class

Two mornings, on Zoom

The Two-Morning Makeover.

For owners who want to do it themselves.

Two mornings working on your own salon. Your money, your posts, or whatever's keeping you on the laptop at night.

See the next dates

One private day

The Smart Salon Method.

For you and your team.

A whole day, built around your salon. Claude or ChatGPT set up on your real reports, and the evening jobs handed off for good.

See how it works

Different problem? If the work is good and strangers still can't find you, that's the Salon Visibility Audit.

You don't have to become a marketing person. If you'd rather just know where you stand and what to fix first, that's what the audit is for.

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