Your bike shop can have a selling agent in 15 days
Most bike shop owners we meet run the business out of their own WhatsApp. Wheel quotes in the afternoon, photos of a drivetrain that's grinding, "do you have the gravel bike in a medium?", service appointments, deposits. It all goes through one person, and when that person is building a bike or closing the shop, the messages wait. Every message that isn't answered in time is a customer walking into the shop next door.
At Catalizadora we solve this with an AI agent that sells over WhatsApp, in your shop's voice, and we deliver it in 15 days for $4,500 USD. This post explains exactly how that process works.
What the agent actually does
It's not a "press 1 for sales" chatbot. It's an agent that has a conversation and gets things done:
- Answers 24/7 questions about models, sizes, prices, and availability, using your inventory and your tone.
- Qualifies the customer: tells the one shopping for a new bike apart from the one who just needs a tube, and prioritizes.
- Books the service bay: offers real maintenance slots and reserves them.
- Sends the payment link for deposits, services, or accessories, inside the same chat.
- Logs everything to the CRM: every conversation, every lead, every appointment is recorded so you can follow up.
The customer feels like they're talking to someone who knows the shop. You get back the hours you spend today typing the same thing twenty times a day.
The MAGIA process: how it's built in 15 days
We work with a five-step methodology. Each letter is a real phase, not a slogan.
M — Mapping (days 1-3)
We sit down with you to understand your shop: what you sell, what customers ask most, how you quote, how you collect, how you book the service bay. We pull out the 30 or 40 questions that repeat and the exact way you answer them. That's the raw material for the agent.
A — Architecture (days 3-6)
We design the flow: how it greets, when it qualifies, when it books, when it sends to payment, and when it hands the conversation to you because the customer wants a human. We define the voice: if your shop is relaxed and friendly or technical and precise, the agent talks like that.
G — Generation (days 6-10)
We build the agent, load it with your inventory and your answers, and connect WhatsApp and the CRM. This is where the agent starts to actually sound like your shop.
I — Implementation (days 10-13)
We test the agent with real conversations, tune the tone, fix anything that sounds off, and connect it to your final number. You see it working before it goes live.
A — Autonomy (days 13-15)
We hand everything over and teach you to run it. Here's the key difference: the agent, the code, the data, and the infrastructure are all in your name. You can walk away whenever you want and it all stays yours.
What $4,500 USD includes, exactly
| Included | Not included |
|---|---|
| AI agent on WhatsApp in your voice | Monthly retainer (there isn't one) |
| Connection to your inventory and answers | A license that switches off if you stop paying |
| Service booking and payment links | Hidden markup on operations |
| CRM with every conversation | Generic cases from another industry |
| Delivered in 15 days, working |
The only recurring cost is the real cost of running it, hosting plus messages, around $200 to $400 USD a month, with no markup from us. It's what it would cost even if you set it up yourself.
$4,500 once vs. a subscription chatbot platform
A typical chatbot platform charges a monthly subscription, hands you generic templates, and keeps your data on its server. The day you cancel, you lose the agent and the customer base. With us you pay once, the agent is built specifically for your bike shop, and everything stays yours forever. If a $150-a-month subscription adds up to $1,800 in a year and you still own nothing, the math explains itself.
When MAGIA Solo is the right fit, and when it isn't
MAGIA Solo, the $4,500 plan, is for a shop that wants an agent to sell, book, and collect over WhatsApp. If later you want something bigger, multiple locations, deep integrations with your point-of-sale system, we have larger plans (MAGIA Core at $15,000 and Forge at $20,000), but most bike shops start and solve it with Solo.
What happens after the 15 days
A common worry: "what if something breaks once you're gone?" The agent is left running and documented, and because the code and infrastructure are yours, any future change can be made by you, by your team, or by us if you prefer. You're not tied to one person or to a platform only the vendor understands. That's the difference between buying an asset and renting a dependency.
It also helps to know what isn't realistic in 15 days. We don't replace your point-of-sale system or rewrite your entire inventory from scratch; we connect the agent to what you already have. If your inventory lives in a spreadsheet, we work with that spreadsheet. If it lives in a system, we connect to it. The scope of MAGIA Solo is the agent that sells, books, and collects, done well, not an endless software project.
How to start today
The first step is a 20-minute conversation. You can try our own WhatsApp agent from catalizadora.ai (it's the same kind of agent we'd build for your shop) or book directly with us at https://cal.com/pablo-estrada-hlqaql. We'll tell you straight whether your shop is a good fit, and if it is, you'll have it running in 15 days.