Save room for the booking.
A request for a table on Saturday gets a real yes or a real alternative, decided the way you would have decided it, rather than a phone number and a suggestion to try again later.
Selfe connects your tables to the AI agents people increasingly use to choose and buy.
Casa Bella
Fellpack
Everything about you is reachable except the table.
AI knows you well. The menu is up, the reviews are plentiful, and between them they say enough for it to tell somebody what a Friday night in there is like.
Then they ask for four at eight on Saturday. That answer sits behind a booking widget nothing can operate, or in a diary behind the bar, and neither of those is something an agent can be handed.
So the recommendation ends on giving you a ring, which is where a booking stops being a booking and turns into something to get round to. Some of them will. Most of them will eat somewhere that could answer.
The table, and everything around it.
A table is not a slot, and most of what decides a booking is the part around it.
Availability by party size and time.
Not whether a table exists, but whether six at half seven works against your turn times.
Your place, your rules.
The round one for a birthday, the quiet end away from the door, the corner with room for a pushchair.
What comes out of the kitchen.
Allergens, the children's menu, the roast that stops at four, the kitchen closing before the bar.
Straight into your diary.
The table goes into whatever you use today, with deposits and no-show terms where you want them.
It settles the week and asks about the rest
Fourteen mentions picked up, eight claims backed, nine questions answered, none of which needed you. The handful it will not guess at (the dog policy two of your pages disagree on) come to you, and one press puts it back to work.
Most of the week it simply gets on with things. Now and then two sources disagree, or a claim turns up that nothing backs — and rather than guess, it puts the question in front of you.
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The foundational question, answered plainly: what has to be true before an AI agent can complete a booking rather than just mention you.
Being found is not the same as being bought from.
An AI agent can mention your business and still never send it a booking. What closes that gap, and where most of the work actually happens.
Your booking button is not the point.
A link back to your site is not something an agent can act on. What it actually needs to make the booking happen itself.
You get picked for whatever makes you particular.
Six tables and a wood fired oven. The only kitchen for miles doing vegetarian food worth the drive. A garden that takes dogs, and a Sunday that runs until four. Each of those is a reason somebody picks you, and each is a fact your Selfe can be asked for directly.
So the people who wanted precisely that turn up, and they turn up knowing the high chair is there and the kitchen is still on at nine, which is the quiet half of a good evening.
Covers booked by people who came for what you are rather than for what was nearest tend to spend more and complain less.
Three easy ways to get started, take your pick.
Whether you just want to get on with it or learn more about agentic commerce, there is a route to get started with Selfe that's just right for you. All you need to do is click.
- Get started
- Website
- Booking system
- Payment details
from £129/month
Self
Simple. Free readiness check first, then sign yourself up, nothing on our side to wait for.
Get started - Let's talk it through.
- Multi-site pricing
- Custom booking rules
- Payment routing
from £549/month
Assisted
For larger or more complex places. Talk to us first, there's usually setup work a conversation surfaces before you're ready to go live.
Get started - The cohort
A dedicated milestone every week, until you're live.
Week 1 of 10
from £5,000
Guided
Ten weeks with us, learning agentic commerce properly as you build it. Built for enterprise and large curators, private deployment if you need it, and open to anyone who wants that route.
Guided
Will it give away a table we have not got?
It cannot offer what your diary does not have. Covers, sittings and the hours the kitchen is open are read out of your own system at the moment of asking, and a table it agrees to is held there exactly as one taken over the phone is. Anything your rules do not cover stops and comes to you.
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