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The sample went home. The follow-up went with it.

Showroom buyers take samples home, measure twice, talk it over at the kitchen table and come back weeks later, if you are lucky. We build AI into your CRM, design software and inbox so every walk-in and web inquiry turns into a booked design appointment, every quote gets patient follow-up, and every order gets updates until the install crew pulls into the driveway.

Free video call. Nothing gets quoted unless it can return 300% in the first year.

What happens after the buyer leaves the showroom

Walk-ins who leave with only a card

A couple browses for forty minutes, takes a few door samples or flooring swatches and leaves without giving a phone number. With no record of what they liked and no way to reach them, you paid for the displays and the designer's time, and the sale walks down the street.

Quotes that drift for weeks

Kitchens and whole-house flooring are big decisions bought slowly. Designers send a quote, follow up once, then get pulled into the next appointment. Many open quotes are never closed out either way, and a buyer who hears nothing assumes you were not that interested in the job.

Order calls that eat design time

Once cabinets or special-order flooring are on order, customers call about delivery dates, backorders and install scheduling. Designers who should be laying out the next kitchen end up on hold with a manufacturer or digging through acknowledgments to answer the same question again.

Remeasures, reorders and install delays

A wrong measurement, a missing filler strip or a transition piece left off the order means a second trip, a reorder and an unhappy customer. Each one eats margin on a job you already sold and pushes back the next install on a calendar that was already full.

$36,000a month from quotes that stop going quiet
  • Example: 40 open quotes a month after design appointments
  • 2 more of them closed through steady follow-up
  • $18,000 average cabinet or flooring project

These numbers are only an example, and on the free call we work from your real quote volume, close rate and average project.

Two ways AI pays for Flooring, cabinet and design showrooms. We build both.

Grow revenue

Online Booking

Design consults booked from the website

Instead of a contact form, buyers pick a design consult time that fits your designers' calendars, and AI asks the questions that make the meeting productive: room, rough size, style, budget range and timeline. Designers walk in prepared, and fewer appointments get spent on someone who was only browsing on a rainy Saturday.

Quote Follow-Up

Patient follow-up on big projects

AI follows each open quote over several weeks with messages suited to a slow decision: photos of a similar finished kitchen, a note on current cabinet lead times, an invitation to see the actual slab or door in person. When a buyer replies, the designer hears about it at once, with the whole conversation attached.

Speed to Lead

Capture walk-ins and calls

A tablet sign-in or a quick text at the door gets walk-ins into your CRM along with what they looked at. AI sends a same-day thank-you with photos of those products, answers questions that evening and offers a design appointment, so browsers become booked consults instead of names that were never written down.

Grow margins

Customer Service Assistant

Order updates without a designer

AI reads order acknowledgments and ship dates from vendor emails and your system, then answers delivery and backorder questions directly and sends updates when a date changes. Customers feel looked after, and designers stop spending afternoons on hold with manufacturers to answer a question whose answer was already sitting in the inbox.

Customer Documentation

Project packets that prevent mistakes

AI pulls the selections, measurements, drawings and install notes into a branded project packet for each customer, with what happens next and what they need to prepare at home. Fewer misunderstandings mean fewer remeasures and fewer arguments on install day, and your showroom looks as organized as any big-box design center.

SOP and Process System

One way to run every project

From first visit to final walkthrough, every showroom has steps that get skipped when it is busy: confirming field measurements, checking acknowledgments, scheduling the countertop template. We turn those steps into a process your team follows and AI checks, so details stop slipping on the jobs you have already sold and paid commission on.

Why showrooms bring Black Glove in

Built for long decisions

Showroom sales take weeks or months, with several visits and plenty of second thoughts. We design follow-up that respects that pace, useful and well timed, so buyers keep coming back to you without feeling chased, and designers always know which projects are warm.

Designers get to design

The most valuable people in a showroom are the ones who can turn a cramped kitchen into a plan. Our systems take order chasing, scheduling and repeat questions off their desks, so they spend more hours with buyers and finish more designs each week.

As polished as your displays

Buyers judge a showroom by its details. Every message, packet and update we build carries your brand and sounds like your team rather than a generic system, so the experience after the visit matches the one they had standing in front of your displays.

Showroom traffic through the year

Traffic picks up after the new year as people commit to projects, swells in spring with home shows and listing season, and holds through summer as remodels get scheduled. Fall brings buyers racing to finish a kitchen or new floors before the holidays, followed by a December lull once install calendars fill. Online Booking and Speed to Lead handle the spring rush, and Quote Follow-Up keeps long projects moving through the slower stretches so the install calendar never runs dry.

Inside the software you already run.

Cabinet layouts come out of 2020 Design Live or Cabinet Vision, flooring estimates and orders run through RFMS, QFloors or Measure Square, leads often sit in HubSpot and the books in QuickBooks, and we build inside those.

Every system lives in your own accounts. We never host or store your customer data.

Where we usually start.

Booked consults start the sale, follow-up closes it, and order updates protect designer time once it is sold. Planned together, these three cover the whole showroom journey from first click to install day, and they share the same customer records, which keeps setup lean.

3systems in one Operating Build

Planned together, priced together, fixed in writing.

Find out what you're leaving on the table.

Twenty minutes. We trace how a lead and the work move through your business and show you where the money leaks. No slides. No pitch.

  • You walk us through how leads come in and who handles them.
  • We name the one or two leaks costing you the most.
  • If a build makes sense, you get a fixed quote in writing. If not, you leave with the advice anyway.

Free video call. No pitch. We reply with times to talk.

Showrooms owners ask.

What if our design software does not connect to anything?

That is common with design tools like 2020 or Cabinet Vision. Where a program allows connections or exports, AI reads selections, quotes and order details. Where it is closed, we work from your CRM, your inbox and the documents it produces, with every record kept in your own accounts.

Can AI design a kitchen?

No, and it should not. Design needs your designer's eye and measurements taken in person. AI helps before and after: collecting photos, sizes and style preferences before the consult, then following up, answering order questions and building the project packet once the design is done.

How do you capture walk-in buyers?

Usually with a simple sign-in at the design desk or a QR code beside the samples, tied to your CRM. AI sends a same-day follow-up with the products they looked at and an offer to book a design appointment. Only buyers who opt in hear from you.

Will buyers feel pushed by automated follow-up?

Not if it is done well. We pace messages for a slow decision, make each one useful and stop the moment someone books, buys or asks for a pause. Your designers approve the tone before anything goes live, so it reads like your showroom on its best day.

Can it handle trade customers like builders and designers?

Yes. Trade accounts get their own flow: quick pricing answers, order and delivery updates and reminders tied to their job schedules. A builder juggling several homes values a showroom that flags a backorder before the installer is standing in an empty kitchen waiting on cabinets.

What does it cost?

Every build starts at $5,000 and comes with a fixed price, scope and timeline in writing. A single booking or follow-up system sits at the lower end. The price guide lists the ranges, and the free call estimates your return against real quote volume and average project size.