Turns missed emails into booked jobs.
It answers routine questions, books people into your diary, and quotes your standard prices — then only brings you the messages that actually need a human.
7-day free trial · connect your inbox in 5 minutes · cancel anytime. From £29/month.
“Do you cover Saturday mornings, and what's your hourly rate?”
What I sent · just now
Hi Mark — yes, I cover Saturday mornings, and my rate is £45 an hour. Want me to find you a slot?
- Dawn Foster · boiler service price Sent
- Tom Hughes · “Do you cover Eastleigh?” Handled
- Alan Reed · “Are you Gas Safe registered?” Handled
A complaint — brought straight to you, never answered on its own.
Every missed email is a missed job.
Small-business owners are not slow because they do not care. They are slow because they are busy doing the actual work. Space Cake keeps the inbox moving while you are on site, driving, asleep, or with family.
For owners whose work is not done at a desk.
Space Cake is for the small businesses that big office software usually forgets: people with customers in front of them, tools in their hands, or appointments back-to-back.
Trades and maintenance
Plumbers, electricians, builders, locksmiths, gardeners
Fast answers for call-outs, estimates, availability, and follow-ups while you are driving or on site.
Salons, wellness, and clinics
Hair, beauty, aesthetics, massage, physio, dental, vets
Clear booking replies, standard prices, reminders, and calm handover for anything personal or sensitive.
Mobile and local services
Cleaners, dog groomers, tutors, driving instructors, personal trainers
A helpful first reply while you are with a client, travelling between jobs, or finished for the day.
Don’t take our word for it. Look inside.
Jump straight into a real, working copy of Space Cake, seeded with a sample business. See exactly how it drafts replies, handles the routine stuff, and knows what to leave for you.
Built by someone who lost work to slow replies.
Scott built Space Cake after running his own maintenance business and watching good enquiries go cold while he was out on the tools. This is not generic software dressed up for trades. It was built around the exact problem it is trying to solve.
Faster replies in three simple steps.
Connect your inbox
Connect your business email in about five minutes over secure encrypted IMAP.
Teach it your business
It learns your prices, hours, and tone so routine replies still sound like you wrote them.
Approve the tricky ones
Routine emails can send automatically. Anything sensitive or unusual comes to you for a quick review.
Your customer gets a helpful reply, not a software-shaped excuse.
Space Cake keeps the message warm and useful. It answers when the facts are clear, books when your diary allows it, and hands anything sensitive to you without leaving the customer wondering if you saw them.
A clear answer from your facts
Opening hours, call-out fees, service areas, standard prices, and common questions can be answered straight away in your tone.
A real slot, not vague back-and-forth
If booking is switched on, it offers times that are genuinely free and confirms the appointment when the customer picks one.
A warm handover instead of a risky guess
Complaints, refunds, money questions, personal judgement calls, and anything uncertain get passed to you, with a polite note so the customer is not left in silence.
See what you buy back
Space Cake handles or drafts about 80% of routine customer emails automatically. See how much time and value you recover.
Instead of spending late nights replying to emails, you recover 35 hours of personal time or time you can spend on billable work.
It wins you work — and knows exactly what not to touch.
Space Cake turns enquiries into booked jobs and quotes your standard prices while you are on the tools — always inside limits you set, so it never guesses.
Books customers into your diary
When someone wants an appointment, it offers real free slots from your own calendar — so it can never double-book you — and adds the confirmed booking to your diary with a reminder. It stays off until you switch it on.
Sends estimates from your price list
It can quote your standard prices straight away, always clearly marked “an estimate, not a binding quote.” Anything it cannot be sure of — an unusual job, a discount — it hands to you instead of guessing.
Complaints, refunds, and money questions are never answered on their own — not a setting you could switch off, but built in. It sends a warm “thanks, someone will be back to you personally” and passes it straight to you. It does the work that wins you jobs, and it can’t do the things that lose you customers.
Read the full list of what it will never do →If it saves one job, it has probably paid for itself.
Space Cake starts at £29/month — that's about a pound a day. A part-time receptionist is around £1,200. For most local businesses, one missed enquiry costs more than the whole plan. The point is not clever software: it is faster replies, fewer lost leads, and less evening admin.
Win more jobs
Reply in minutes instead of getting back to people late at night.
Save admin time
Let routine questions answer themselves so you stop burning evenings on inbox catch-up.
Keep full control
Auto-send when you trust it. Pause it or approve manually whenever you want.
The questions people ask before they try it.
These are the big worries: will it sound right, what if it gets something wrong, do I need a card, and how long does setup take?
Will it actually sound like me?
Yes. You teach Space Cake your tone, sign-off, prices, hours, and common answers. Replies are based on those facts, so they read like your business rather than a call centre.
What if it gets something wrong?
You stay in control. You can approve replies before they go out, pause sending at any time, and sensitive messages such as complaints, refunds, and money questions always come back to you.
Do I need a card to try it?
Yes. You add a card to start the 7-day trial, but nothing is charged during the trial. Cancel before it ends and you will not be billed.
How long does setup take?
Most owners can get the basics done in about five minutes: connect an inbox, set the voice, and add the facts customers ask for most often.
Start replying faster without hiring more admin.
Space Cake is your right hand for customers. It helps small businesses win more jobs and lose less evening time.
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