Hayward earns its living the honest way — contractors and machine shops in the industrial flats, family restaurants downtown, and service businesses working every neighborhood between the hills and the bay. We build AI that answers your phone, chases every lead, and books the job while your hands are full.
24-hour audits · $0 down · no contracts
Hayward doesn't chase trends — it builds, fixes, welds, cooks, and hauls. The fabricator near the shoreline, the family restaurant downtown, the plumber serving hillside homes, the auto shop off Mission Boulevard: today they all get found the same way, with a phone and a Google search. And when your crew is mid-job and the office line rings out, that searcher doesn't leave a voicemail. They tap the next listing, and the work goes with them.
Run the math yourself: say you miss 7 calls a week at a $350 average job — that's $2,450 a week handed to whichever competitor picked up first.
Cret.ai is an AI automation agency in Pleasanton, just over the hill. We build conversion-first websites and AI systems that pick up every call, text missed callers back in seconds, work each lead until it books, and put appointments straight on your calendar. One of our clients — an HVAC company — went from zero online leads to 15+ calls a week. Your free audit shows exactly where Hayward customers are slipping past you, answered within 24 hours.
Eight systems, done for you, working together — so your business runs on autopilot while you do the actual work.
Custom, mobile-first, SEO-optimized sites built to turn Hayward searchers into booked customers.
AI chat agents, automatic SMS follow-ups, scheduling, and review requests working 24/7.
Google Business optimization, local rankings, and automated 5-star review collection.
Answers every call in your business's voice, 24/7 — qualifying callers and booking appointments.
Perfectly-timed follow-up sequences that keep working every lead until they book or buy.
Every lead ranked, routed, and tracked in one pipeline, so hot opportunities never slip through.
On-brand posts, pages, and updates generated and scheduled weekly — your marketing never goes quiet.
Plain-English weekly reports on calls, leads, and revenue — know exactly what's working.
Tell us about your business. Within 24 hours we audit your website, your Google presence, and your competition in Hayward — and hand you a custom growth roadmap with an exact, fixed quote. No obligation.
First design in 3–5 days, revision rounds, then launch — most sites go live in about 2 weeks. We connect your existing phone number, calendar, and tools; nothing to migrate, nothing new to learn.
Calls answered, leads followed up, appointments booked, reviews collected — automatically. Your AI Insights Dashboard shows you in plain English what the system did for you, every week.
Absolutely — Hayward businesses sit well inside our core East Bay service area. Cret.ai is based in Pleasanton, just over the hill, and most of the work happens remotely anyway, so distance never slows a project down. Being local means we already understand the East Bay market your customers live and search in.
Plan on roughly 2 weeks from kickoff to live for most websites. Your first design lands within 3-5 days, you shape it through revision rounds, and then we launch. Bigger builds with heavy AI automation can run 3-4 weeks. The free audit itself comes back within 24 hours — often the same day you send it.
Nothing upfront. Everything runs on a simple monthly subscription — $0 down, no long-term contracts — instead of the $5,000–$15,000 a traditional agency would bill before the work even starts. Your free audit closes with an exact, fixed quote, so you know the number before you decide anything.
Our Pleasanton HQ covers the East Bay and the Tri-Valley: Hayward, Castro Valley, Oakland, Fremont, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, Danville, and Walnut Creek. And because nearly everything we deliver is done remotely, we can work with small businesses anywhere in California.
Custom AI builds, a private assistant trained on your own playbook, back-office automation, an AI sales agent — the enterprise stack, on a monthly plan you can actually afford.
AI handles the busywork — data entry, reporting, document processing, and connecting the tools you already use — so the work flows by itself.
A secure, private ChatGPT trained on your own docs and SOPs. Instant answers for your team — and your data stays yours, never shared.
Qualifies every lead, drafts tailored proposals, and moves deals down the pipeline — so nothing stalls between "interested" and "closed."
A deep-dive into your business: exactly where AI saves you time and money, with a clear build roadmap. Credited toward your first two months — not a $5,000 audit.
Bespoke AI apps, agents, and integrations built into your existing tools. Built in weeks, owned by you — no $10k–$50k agency build fee.
AI-built, SEO-tuned landing pages for every city and service you offer — so you show up in local search across your whole area. Live in days, not months.
Start on a monthly plan from $297, cancel anytime, and you own your website and your data. The big-agency AI stack, built for a local business's budget.