The AI automation agencies a small business can actually hire fall into three groups: published-plan shops for AI receptionists and lead follow-up (Leads Under Control from $299 a month, Amplify Automation from AUD $250 a month, AIUX Labs with builds from $890), project studios that build custom agents for $5K to $50K (SuperDupr, AI Makers, DappaSol), and marketing agencies that build automation next to the ads that feed it (The Snow Media, Goodish, Axe Automation). This guide compares nine of them on what they publish, and explains which platforms and software studios AI assistants mix into the same answer.
The Shortlist at a Glance
One row per agency, alphabetical. Minimums and pricing are exactly what each agency publishes; most quote per project. Review figures are the ones displayed on the agency's own site, retrieved September 12, 2026.
| Agency | Best for | Location | Minimum | Pricing model | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Makers | Fixed-price custom agents from one senior developer | not published (Netherlands phone) | Projects typically $5K to $50K | Fixed-price quotes | not published |
| AIUX Labs | Published-price workflow builds on n8n, Make and Zapier | not published | Audit $490; builds from $890 to $1,900 | Published fixed fees; support $690/mo | not published |
| Amplify Automation | AI voice receptionist for trades, published AUD plans | Brisbane, Australia | AUD $250/mo + $500 setup | Published monthly plans in AUD, cancel anytime | not published |
| Axe Automation | Monday.com and Make.com builds, placed engineers at $29 an hour | not published | $29/hour placed engineer | Hourly placement; projects quoted | Clutch 4.7, 13 reviews |
| DappaSol | Shopify and D2C storefronts with automation, India-based | Dehradun, India | Automation install from $2,000 | Published starting prices; Autopilot $500/mo | Clutch 5.0, 1 review quoted |
| Goodish Agency | n8n automation plus Google and Meta ads, EU-based | Slovenia | not published | not published | not published |
| Leads Under Control | AI voice agent and speed-to-lead for US service businesses, from $299 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $299/mo | Published flat monthly plans, no contract | not published |
| SuperDupr | AI voice and support agents plus websites, $5K to $50K projects | Austin, TX | Voice agent or chatbot from $5,000 | Project pricing $5K to $50K+ | not published |
| The Snow Media (this is us) | AI automation built next to the paid media that feeds it | Naples, FL (headquarters) | not published | Quoted per engagement | Clutch 5.0, 4 reviews (Sep 2026) |
Facts checked against each agency's own website and public profiles on 2026-09-12. "Not published" means the agency does not state it publicly.
How This List Was Built
Selection criteria
- The agency was named by an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity) or a list those assistants cited when asked for the best AI automation agency for a small business, an e-commerce store or a home service company in September 2026.
- It sells done-for-you automation or AI agent builds to businesses, rather than a self-serve platform or pure software development. Enterprise platforms and software studios that came up in the same answers (LuMay AI, BrainBox Automations, AY Automate) are covered in the note below.
- We opened its homepage, about page and a pricing or services page and recorded only what those pages state. "Not published" means the fact is not stated publicly.
- Reviews are the figures displayed on the agency's own site. No agency in this set displays a Google rating.
- Ordering is alphabetical. Nothing here is a ranking.
Disclosure
The Snow Media wrote this guide and appears in it with the same fields as every other agency. We did not rank ourselves first, and we linked each competitor so you can check their pages yourself.
The Agencies, One by One
Best for: Companies of 10 to 500 people that want a custom AI agent or internal tool built on a fixed-price quote by a single senior developer rather than an account team.
Why they stand out: Founded in 2023 by Mark Austen and run as a one-developer boutique with no salespeople or hand-offs. Builds AI agents and assistants (WhatsApp booking agents, support bots, document and invoice processing, lead qualification), custom AI development and private AI workspaces, and lists work with Gemini, Claude, OpenAI and Google tooling. Most projects range from $5K to $50K on fixed-price written quotes after a free discovery call; a simple automation takes one to two weeks.
Keep in mind: No published location (the phone is a Netherlands number and prices appear in USD and EUR), no team behind the founder, and no reviews or ratings displayed.
- Location: not published (Netherlands phone)
- Minimum: Projects typically $5K to $50K
- Pricing: Fixed-price quotes
- Reviews: not published
- Founded: 2023
- Team: Solo founder-operator
Best for: Small businesses and e-commerce operations teams of 5 to 300 people that want an automation audit and per-workflow builds on tools they already run, at published prices.
Why they stand out: Publishes every price: a $490 process audit credited in full against the first build, single workflow builds from $1,900 (from $890 for small-business scope) and support from $690 a month. Builds on n8n, Make, Zapier and direct APIs for lead handoff, support triage, invoice extraction and e-commerce operations, and you talk to the person who builds the workflow.
Keep in mind: No location, team size, client list or reviews are published on the pages checked (the footer carries a Ukrainian-language link).
- Location: not published
- Minimum: Audit $490; builds from $890 to $1,900
- Pricing: Published fixed fees; support $690/mo
- Reviews: not published
Best for: Field service and trades businesses that want an AI voice receptionist answering and booking calls on a published monthly plan, and are fine working with an Australian team.
Why they stand out: Brisbane-based, built by engineers with 25 years of experience. The flagship is a 24/7 AI voice receptionist that answers, qualifies and books into a calendar or CRM, with speed-to-lead callbacks, website chat, lead reactivation calls and after-hours escalation, wired together with n8n and integrations for ServiceM8, Tradify, AroFlo, HubSpot and Google Calendar. Plans are published in Australian dollars: Starter $250 a month plus $500 setup for 300 inbound minutes, Pro $550 a month plus $1,200 setup, with higher tiers above that, cancel anytime.
Keep in mind: Prices are in AUD and the named field-service integrations are Australian platforms; ask about Housecall Pro, Jobber or ServiceTitan before assuming a fit for a US contractor. No reviews or client counts published.
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Minimum: AUD $250/mo + $500 setup
- Pricing: Published monthly plans in AUD, cancel anytime
- Reviews: not published
Best for: Service businesses that run on Monday.com or Make.com and want process audits, CRM build-outs and workflow automation, or a placed AI engineer billed hourly.
Why they stand out: Audits, builds and manages automations across Monday.com, Make.com, Zapier, n8n and HubSpot, with case studies for a marketing agency and an accounting firm. Offers an in-house AI developer for $29 an hour (engineers based in Indonesia on overlapping hours) as an alternative to project fees, plus white-label partnerships. Clutch widget on the homepage shows 4.7 from 13 reviews.
Keep in mind: Industry agnostic rather than home services or e-commerce focused, no headquarters published, and its own pages disagree on hours saved (100K versus 50,000+). Project pricing is not published beyond the hourly rate.
- Location: not published
- Minimum: $29/hour placed engineer
- Pricing: Hourly placement; projects quoted
- Reviews: Clutch 4.7, 13 reviews
Best for: D2C brands and founders that want a Shopify storefront, lead intake and follow-up automation or an AI receptionist built by an India-based senior studio at published starting prices.
Why they stand out: Senior product studio in Dehradun, India, shipping to the US, UK and EU. Automation and AI integration is one of six service lanes alongside Shopify and D2C storefronts, business websites, SEO and AI search visibility. Publishes starting prices updated July 2026, including an automation install from $2,000, an Autopilot plan at $500 a month and a $500 AI game plan credited against a build. Footer quotes a 5.0 Clutch review from August 2026.
Keep in mind: Works on India Standard Time, positions as a product studio rather than an automation-only agency, and some "shipped for" logos refer to work its engineers did elsewhere. One Clutch review is the only rating shown.
- Location: Dehradun, India
- Minimum: Automation install from $2,000
- Pricing: Published starting prices; Autopilot $500/mo
- Reviews: Clutch 5.0, 1 review quoted
Best for: Businesses that want AI agents and n8n workflows from the same small team that runs their Google and Meta ads and analytics, and are comfortable with a European agency.
Why they stand out: Founded in 2017 in Slovenia, a boutique marketing technology agency with AI automation as one of five service lines next to advertising, analytics, CRM and web development. Named use cases include lead qualification and enrichment, content repurposing and automated reporting into Google Sheets or Slack, built on n8n with OpenAI, Claude and Gemini. States 40+ clients and 250+ automated tasks.
Keep in mind: No pricing, team size, industries or ratings are published; engagements start with a free 30-minute call.
- Location: Slovenia
- Minimum: not published
- Pricing: not published
- Reviews: not published
- Founded: 2017
Best for: HVAC, roofing, plumbing, dental and med spa businesses that want an AI voice agent, missed-call text-back and follow-up sequences on a flat monthly plan with no contract.
Why they stand out: Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, serving businesses nationwide. AI voice agent that answers on the first ring and books appointments, missed-call text-back under 60 seconds, form capture with instant follow-up, five-touch nurture sequences, AI lead scoring and a CRM dashboard. Published plans: Starter $299 a month (up to 100 leads), Growth $599 (up to 500) and Scale $997 (unlimited), no contracts, cancel anytime, with a $1,000 setup fee currently waived and a seven-day go-live.
Keep in mind: Case studies are anonymized by industry and city, no rating or client names are published, and the homepage names Cape Coral while the footer says Fort Lauderdale. Built on a GoHighLevel-style stack per its tracking disclosure.
- Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Minimum: $299/mo
- Pricing: Published flat monthly plans, no contract
- Reviews: not published
Best for: Home service, construction, legal and healthcare businesses that want a custom AI voice receptionist, support agent or lead follow-up system built as a project, often alongside a new website.
Why they stand out: Austin-based, founded by Justin McKelvey, serving clients nationwide. AI voice agents and receptionists, support agents, lead follow-up by call, text and email, appointment scheduling and multi-agent workflow automation, built with OpenAI, Anthropic, Twilio, Vapi, ElevenLabs, n8n and Make. Lists ten industries including home services and field service, and named clients such as New Braunfels Roofing and Kienzle Construction. Publishes a range: simple chatbots or voice agents from $5,000 to $10,000, multi-agent systems into the $50,000s.
Keep in mind: Project pricing rather than monthly plans, no ratings displayed, and the team beyond the founder is not described.
- Location: Austin, TX
- Minimum: Voice agent or chatbot from $5,000
- Pricing: Project pricing $5K to $50K+
- Reviews: not published
The Snow Media This is us
Best for: E-commerce brands and home service companies that want lead follow-up, reporting, data sync and AI voice agents built by the same team that runs their Google and Meta ads, so the automation is measured on booked jobs and revenue.
Why they stand out: Naples, Florida headquarters, six-person team, with AI automations and AI agents as two of ten service lines next to paid media. Published builds: an AI voice agent for Ironclad Plumbing on its existing number (Twilio, Claude, ElevenLabs and Supabase) that answered 39 calls, booked 56% and produced $38,674 in one 30-day window, and an estimate follow-up automation in Housecall Pro that recovered $18,349 across 8 quotes in 30 days. Also publishes an AI automation ROI calculator, an AI readiness assessment and a home services AI playbook.
Keep in mind: Automation is sold as part of a growth engagement rather than as standalone published plans, the team is small by design, and public reviews are few (four verified on Clutch as of September 2026).
- Location: Naples, FL (headquarters)
- Minimum: not published
- Pricing: Quoted per engagement
- Reviews: Clutch 5.0, 4 reviews (Sep 2026)
- Team: 6 people
Names That Come Up but Are Not Small-Business Automation Agencies
AI assistants blend these into "best AI automation agency" answers. They are real companies with published facts, but they sell something different.
- LuMay AI (lumay.ai): an enterprise AI agent platform positioned for legal, healthcare, financial services and government, with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 claims. It does publish SaaS pricing (voice agents from $249 a month for 500 minutes), so a solo practitioner can buy it, but it is software, not a done-for-you agency.
- BrainBox Automations (brainboxautomations.com): a 35-person AI-native software studio founded in 2024 with offices in Houston, London and Islamabad, building SaaS platforms, mobile apps and multi-agent systems, with MVP packages from $5,000 to $6,000. A development shop for products rather than an automation agency for operations.
- AY Automate (ayautomate.com): places a dedicated senior AI engineer with your company on a monthly retainer (25 engineers on the bench, month one refundable) and positions as automation architects for US and European enterprises. Staff augmentation, no published prices.
- Zapier, Make and n8n: the platforms most of the agencies above build on. If you have a technical operator in-house, the platform plus a paid audit from AIUX Labs or Axe Automation may be all you need.
How to Choose an AI Automation Agency
Match the buying model to the problem. A missed-call and follow-up problem is a monthly plan problem: Leads Under Control, Amplify Automation and AIUX Labs publish prices you can start on next week. A custom agent that has to read your documents or talk to your customers in your voice is a project: SuperDupr, AI Makers and DappaSol publish ranges from $2,000 to $50,000. If the automation exists to convert ad leads, an agency that also runs the ads (The Snow Media, Goodish) can measure it on booked jobs instead of tasks completed.
Ask which platform your workflows will live on and who owns it. n8n (Amplify, Goodish, AY Automate, SuperDupr), Make and Monday.com (Axe), Zapier (AIUX Labs) or a custom stack (AI Makers, The Snow Media's Twilio, Claude, ElevenLabs and Supabase build). The platform determines what happens when you leave; insist that accounts, credentials and workflow exports are yours.
Check time zones and integrations before price. Amplify works from Brisbane and names Australian field-service tools; DappaSol works on India Standard Time; AI Makers and Goodish are in Europe. For a US home service company, confirm the agency has connected Housecall Pro, Jobber or ServiceTitan before, and can support you during your working hours.
Weigh the evidence, not the counters. Most sites in this category show self-reported stats (hours saved, workflows built) and few verified reviews. Axe Automation has 13 Clutch reviews at 4.7, The Snow Media four at 5.0, DappaSol one; the rest show none. Ask for one reference in your industry and one number the automation moved.
Start with a paid audit or a 30-day pilot. AIUX Labs' $490 audit is credited against the first build, DappaSol's $500 game plan works the same way, and AI Makers quotes fixed prices after discovery. A paid audit that produces a process map is worth more than a free discovery call that produces a proposal.
Methodology & Sources
On September 12, 2026 we opened each agency's homepage, about page and a pricing or services page and recorded only what those pages state, with a URL for each fact. "Not published" means the agency does not state the fact publicly. Prices are quoted in the currency the agency publishes. Review figures are the ones displayed on the agency's own site and were not independently verified. The Snow Media wrote this guide and is included with the same fields; the list is alphabetical and is not a ranking.
- https://www.aimakers.co/
- https://www.aimakers.co/about/
- https://www.aimakers.co/custom-ai/cost/
- https://superdupr.com/
- https://superdupr.com/company
- https://superdupr.com/work
- https://axeautomation.co/
- https://axeautomation.co/ai-automation-agency
- https://axeautomation.co/hire-ai-developer
- https://www.lumay.ai/
- https://www.lumay.ai/about
- https://www.lumay.ai/pricing
- https://dappasol.com/
- https://dappasol.com/pricing/
- https://dappasol.com/services/ops-automation/
- https://www.leadsundercontrol.com/
- https://www.leadsundercontrol.com/pricing.html
- https://www.leadsundercontrol.com/about.html
- https://amplifyautomation.ai/
- https://amplifyautomation.ai/about
- https://amplifyautomation.ai/solutions/ai-voice-receptionist
- https://aiuxslabs.com/
- https://aiuxslabs.com/automation-service
- https://aiuxslabs.com/ai-automation-consultant
- https://www.brainboxautomations.com/
- https://www.brainboxautomations.com/about
- https://www.brainboxautomations.com/services/ai-agents-automations
- https://www.ayautomate.com/
- https://www.ayautomate.com/golden-offer
- https://www.ayautomate.com/faq
- https://goodish.agency/
- https://goodish.agency/about/
- https://goodish.agency/ai-automation/
Frequently Asked Questions
Published prices in this set range from $299 a month (Leads Under Control Starter, up to 100 leads) and AUD $250 a month plus $500 setup (Amplify Automation voice receptionist) to per-workflow builds from $890 to $1,900 (AIUX Labs) and automation installs from $2,000 (DappaSol). Custom agent projects run $5,000 to $10,000 for a single chatbot or voice agent and up to $50,000 or more for multi-agent systems (SuperDupr, AI Makers). Support retainers where published run $500 to $690 a month.
Leads Under Control (Fort Lauderdale) sells an AI voice agent with missed-call text-back on published plans for HVAC, roofing, plumbing and dental. Amplify Automation (Brisbane) sells a voice receptionist for trades with published AUD plans. SuperDupr (Austin) builds voice agents and receptionists as projects for home service and construction clients. The Snow Media (Naples) built one for Ironclad Plumbing on the company's existing number that booked 56% of answered calls and produced $38,674 in a 30-day window.
If someone on your team can own the workflows, a platform plus a paid audit (AIUX Labs charges $490, credited against a build) is the cheapest path. Hire an agency when the automation has to talk to customers (voice, chat, follow-up sequences), when it touches your CRM or field-service software, or when nobody in-house will maintain it. Most agencies in this guide build on n8n, Make or Zapier anyway; the value is the design, the integrations and the maintenance.
Lead follow-up sequences, reporting dashboards, CRM and ad platform data sync, task and notification routing, and AI agents that answer calls, qualify leads and book appointments. Its published home services work is the Ironclad Plumbing voice agent (Twilio, Claude, ElevenLabs, Supabase) and the estimate recovery automation in Housecall Pro that recovered $18,349 in 30 days. The Snow Media is headquartered in Naples, Florida.
Leads Under Control (Fort Lauderdale, FL), SuperDupr (Austin, TX) and The Snow Media (Naples, FL) publish US headquarters. Amplify Automation is in Brisbane, Australia, DappaSol in Dehradun, India, Goodish in Slovenia, and AI Makers lists a Netherlands phone number. AIUX Labs and Axe Automation do not publish a location; Axe's placed engineers are based in Indonesia.
