Oakland is the East Bay's biggest stage — restaurants, trades, and service businesses spread across distinct neighborhoods from Temescal to Rockridge to Fruitvale, each with its own customer base to win. We build AI systems that answer every call, follow up with every lead, and book the job — 24/7.
24-hour audits · $0 down · no contracts
Oakland isn't one market — it's dozens. The taqueria on International Boulevard, the contractor working Rockridge remodels, the salon in Temescal, the auto shop near Fruitvale: each lives or dies on a different block, with different customers. But they all get found the exact same way — someone pulls out a phone, searches Google, and taps whichever result looks alive and responds. In a city with this much competition, that customer expects a fast site and a quick reply, and decides in minutes.
For Oakland that means an AI receptionist that answers and books for the Rockridge contractor while they're up a ladder, a scheduling agent that keeps the Temescal salon's calendar full and handles the reschedules, and a sales agent that replies to the Fruitvale auto shop's quote requests and follows up until the car is booked in. A Pleasanton team builds and runs them for you, on published monthly prices, with no long-term contract.
Cret.ai is an AI automation agency in Pleasanton, a straight shot down I-580. We build and run AI agents that answer every call, text callers back in seconds, qualify and follow up with every lead, and book appointments straight into your calendar, while you finish the job in front of you. Reviews matter in Oakland — one of our clients went from a 3.8-star rating to 4.9. Your free audit shows where Oakland customers are leaking out of your funnel, 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 Oakland 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 Oakland — 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. Oakland is a core part of the East Bay territory we cover from our Pleasanton HQ, a straight shot down I-580. Nearly everything we do happens remotely anyway — what matters is that we know how Bay Area customers search, compare, and choose, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Around 2 weeks for most websites, start to live. A first design lands in your inbox within 3-5 days, you give feedback 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.
Everything runs on a flat monthly subscription: $0 down, cancel anytime, no long-term contracts. Compare that to the $5,000–$15,000 a traditional agency wants upfront before anything ships. After your free audit you get an exact, fixed quote — no surprises later.
Our Pleasanton HQ covers the East Bay and Tri-Valley end to end: Oakland, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, Danville, Castro Valley, Fremont, Walnut Creek, and Hayward. And since the work is largely remote, any California small business is fair game.
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.