Kate, founder of Hive Beauty Design, laughing while working on a laptop

Private  ·  One day  ·  You and your team

Smart Salon Method

One private day, built around your salon.

You, your team and me, for a whole day. We set up Claude or ChatGPT around your real salon, your real reports and the jobs that keep you on the laptop at night. You leave knowing how to run them.

Tell me about your salon
Behind the chair since 2005 Two salons owned and run Plain words, no jargon

Who it's for

You're fully booked. You built it on word of mouth and regulars. You're very good at hair.

Booked. And Buried.

You're also the one doing the captions, the review replies and the DMs once the chair's finally empty. You've tried to fix it. You paid a marketing person who'd never worked a Saturday. You watched the YouTube videos. You ignored the calls asking for the person in charge of marketing, because that's you.

What takes months of YouTube and guessing, or never happens at all, happens here in one day. Because we build it on your salon, not a made-up one.

How it works

Before, During, After

  1. Before the day

    I go through your salon in depth

    Your team, your software, your numbers, your marketing, and where your hours are going. By the time we start, I already know your salon. You don't spend the first hour explaining it.

  2. Then

    I plan your day around what matters most

    I pick the handful of jobs that'll make the biggest difference for you. Not a set list. No two days are the same.

  3. The day

    We build it together, on your real salon

    Online, or in person at your salon. Bring your team. We set it up, we run it on your real reports, and you practise until it's yours.

  4. After

    A follow-up session

    Once you've tried it on a real week. That's when the good questions turn up.

The day itself

What We Build

It depends on your salon. That's the point. But these are the jobs most owners want off their plate first.

Private  ·  One day  ·  You and your team

Smart Salon
Method

Made for your salon. Nobody else's.

$5,000CAD Tell me about your salon
  • Claude or ChatGPT, set up properly. It knows your services, your team, your prices, your policies and how you talk. You stop explaining your salon to a computer every time you open it.
  • Your money. We put your real reports in and find who's stopped rebooking and where the money's going.
  • The clients who drifted. A simple way to bring them back, without starting from zero.
  • Your team's empty chairs. Marketing that fills their books, not yours. Yours is already full.
  • Your posts. One photo or one service turned into a week of posts, without the blank screen.
  • The evening pile. Emails, review replies, policies and the awkward messages, written the way you'd say them.
  • You keep everything we build. Your templates, a written guide made for your salon, the recording of your day, and a plan for Monday.

Online, or in person at your salon. Travel and a place to stay are quoted separately.

Kate, founder of Hive Beauty Design

Who you'd spend the day with

Hi, I'm Kate. I'm a former salon owner teaching salons to get found and get off the computer.

I've been behind the chair since 2005, I owned and ran two salons, and I taught stylists for seven years. I'm not a coder. I run my whole business with Claude now, and everything I'd show you, I use myself every week.

  • You don't need a tech background. You need one day and your own numbers.
  • It isn't general advice with a salon photo on it. I know what your Saturday looks like.
  • You get me. Not an assistant, not a recording.

The first step

Tell Me About Your Salon

This is just the hello. The in-depth part comes later. I read every one myself and reply by email, with dates and how to book. Nothing to pay today.

Online or in person?

Questions, answered

Is it online or in person?
Either. In person, travel and a place to stay are quoted separately. Online, you need a laptop and a door that closes.
Claude or ChatGPT?
Whichever you already use. If you don't use either, I'll set you up on Claude, because it's the one I use every day. They do the same kind of job. You type, it answers.
Can my team come?
Yes. It's built for you and your team. The people who'll use it should be in the room.
I'm not techy. Is that a problem?
No. If you can text, you can do this. You type what you want in plain words, the way you'd explain it to a new front desk hire.
What about my clients' details?
We take full names and phone numbers out of your reports before we use them. I'll show you how.
Is there anything smaller to try first?
Yes. The free class is one hour, and the Two-Morning Makeover is two mornings with a group.

Last thing

Run the salon. Not the other way round.

Tell me about your salon