What do AI agents for gyms and fitness studios actually do?
They answer the enquiries a front desk cannot get to and book the visit. Connect one agent per location to Instagram, Messenger, the website chat widget and your phone number, give it the membership prices, the class timetable, the trial offer and your answers to the usual questions, and it replies in seconds on whichever channel the enquiry arrived on. It offers real open trial and tour slots from your connected calendar and books the one the person picks. It then follows up the no-shows by text, works the trials that did not join, and runs win-back campaigns at lapsed members, all on a schedule inside the hours you set, stopping the moment someone replies, books or opts out.
Can it book a trial class or a tour straight into my calendar?
Yes, and it books rather than sending a link. Connect Google Calendar, Acuity Scheduling, Square Appointments or Calendly and the agent is given the slots that are genuinely free for the week ahead. It offers a few of them in the reply, and when the person picks one it checks that the choice was among the slots it offered, writes the appointment to the calendar and confirms it in the same thread. It cannot book a time that was not free, it cannot invent one, and it cannot cancel an appointment it was not shown. The booking is logged against the contact so the desk can see it before the person walks in.
Does it answer Instagram DMs and Messenger?
Yes. Instagram and Messenger are two of the eleven DM platforms an agent can be connected to, each with your own app credentials, alongside WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit and X. Replies go out inside each platform's own reply window, from the same knowledge base the agent uses on web chat and text, so the answer to "how much is a membership?" is the same everywhere. Every DM conversation lands in the inbox alongside your texts and calls, tagged with the platform it came from, and the handle is attached to the contact so a later email or call from the same person is recognised.
Can it sign someone up or take a payment?
No. The agent does not take card details and does not process a membership. It links to the sign-up page on your own website that you allowed it to link to, answers questions about the tiers and the joining fee from your data points, and tells you in the inbox when someone says they have joined. Marking a membership sold is done by you, as a goal with a dollar value, or by whatever system already handles your payments. That keeps the money where it belongs and keeps the agent to the job it is good at: getting the person from the question to the visit.
How does it follow up a no-show?
On a schedule you write, from your own number. Put the no-shows on a list, and build a short text sequence: a friendly note the morning after offering another slot, a second text on day three, and a call on day six if you want one. Each step carries the sending window, the texts-per-hour pace for the number and the Reply STOP line. Replies are worked by the agent, so "can I come Saturday instead?" gets real open slots and a booking. A reply, a booking or STOP on any channel ends the sequence and cancels anything still queued to that person, and the whole plan is shown on a review screen before it starts.
Can I run win-back campaigns to members who have lapsed?
Yes, and it is usually the cheapest membership a studio sells. Export the members who have not been in for ninety days as a CSV, or pull a segment from a connected CRM such as HubSpot or GoHighLevel, and run a sequence at them: an email with the offer you wrote, a text a few days later for the people who opened and did not reply, a call for the ones who clicked. The agent answers the replies from your material and books the return visit. Every campaign email carries a one-click unsubscribe, an opt-out on one channel stops the sequence on all of them, and a goal with the membership value tells you what the run brought in.
I have three locations. Do I need three accounts?
No, you need three agents on one account, and agents are unlimited. Each location gets its own agent with its own Instagram and Messenger connection, its own number, its own calendar, its own timetable and prices, and its own inbox and funnel, and nothing is shared between them. Invite a site manager by email and they get their own login onto that one agent: its conversations, its numbers and its analytics, with no sight of the other locations, your API keys, your settings or your billing. The plan is one price for the account however many locations sit on it.
What do AI agents for gyms and fitness studios cost, and what about the texts?
The plan is $25 a month or $200 a year for the whole account, with a 7-day free trial, unlimited agents and unlimited contacts. There is no per-location, per-seat, per-conversation or per-message charge from us. Texts and calls go through your own carrier account, Twilio or one of the other eight, at the carrier's rates, and the AI runs on your own key with one of sixteen providers, billed to you directly at cost, which for a busy studio agent is usually a few dollars a month. Nothing is metered, marked up or sold as credits.