Pricing & Plans | Cortex by My AI Sidekick
We set it all up. You just use it. No contracts, no learning curve, no tech headaches. If you have been burned by an agency before, this is built differently.
Founding Five Offer | Live Right Now
The first five tradies pay just 1% of the setup fee.
That is $10, $20, or $30 depending on tier, saving between $990 and $2,970. Monthly rate locked permanently. Once those five spots are filled, setup fees return to standard and the locked rate is gone.
Three plans. One setup. Done for you.
Starter
We handle the setup. You just show up.
$125/month
+ $1,000 setup.
$10 for Founding Five.
4 page professional website. Done for you in 14 days.
Reflex. Missed call text back. Every missed call gets an instant SMS so the caller knows you received it.
The Pulse. Every message from every channel: SMS, email, Facebook, Instagram, phone. Every message lands in one inbox. No more jobs lost in a Facebook DM you did not know existed. Full customer record behind every conversation. Desktop and mobile.
The Line. Cloud business phone. Stop using your personal mobile for work calls.
The Door. Enquiry capture forms into The Pulse. Every enquiry tracked from the moment it lands.
Halo. Automatic Google review requests after every completed job. Follows up until the customer leaves a review or opts out.
For whoever is at the kitchen table at 9pm: the scramble stops. Every missed call gets an instant SMS, every enquiry lands in one place, and the Google review requests go out in a few taps.
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Growth
Quotes follow themselves up. Customers book themselves in.
$297/month
+ $2,000 setup.
$20 for Founding Five.
Everything in Starter, plus:
8 page professional website.
The Diary. Online booking with automatic reminders. Customers book themselves in without calling you.
The Chase. Automatic follow up on unsigned quotes. Chases until they sign or say no.
Back end integration with ServiceM8, Tradify, Fergus, and your existing software. Cortex connects at the front to capture the job, and at the back to request the review once it is done.
2 website updates per month.
For whoever is at the kitchen table at 9pm: quotes follow themselves up. Customers book themselves in. The kitchen table is a dinner table again.
Elite
One that runs when you do not.
$697/month
+ $3,000 setup.
$30 for Founding Five.
Everything in Growth, plus:
Tilly. Your AI receptionist. Answers calls and chat 24/7. Qualifies callers, books jobs, handles FAQs.
12 page website. Enterprise build. Suburb pages chosen by My AI Sidekick based on local search volume.
Beacon. Local SEO setup. Suburb pages and Google Business Profile. Get found where you work.
Proof. Reporting dashboard. See what is working in 30 seconds.
5 website updates per month.
Full automation audit and written process documentation.
For whoever is at the kitchen table at 9pm: Tilly answers every call, day or night, so you do not. The business runs when you are asleep, on holiday, or at a school assembly.
Each plan includes a monthly usage credit allowance covering calls, SMS, and emails. Usage above that allowance draws from prepaid credits at standard rates. Full usage rates →
Not sure which plan is right?
The free Tradie Business Audit takes 3 minutes. You answer 15 honest questions about how your business currently handles calls, enquiries, quotes, and reviews. At the end you get a personalised report showing exactly where the leaks are and what each one is costing you every year.
No sales pitch. No obligation. Most tradies find out the number is bigger than they expected. The audit tells you which parts of Cortex will move the needle fastest for your specific business, so you are not guessing when you choose a plan.
Start the free 3 minute audit →The Founding Five offer
01. Founding Five pricing, locked in.
The first five tradies who sign up pay just 1% of the standard setup fee. $10, $20, or $30 depending on tier. That saves between $990 and $2,970. Their monthly rate is locked permanently while standard pricing moves up. Once those five spots are gone, the offer closes.
02. 60 day full refund. One condition.
Use Cortex for 60 days. If it is not doing what we said it would: booking jobs, capturing missed calls, freeing up your evenings, you get every cent back. The only condition is that you actually use it. Cortex tracks every automation the system runs, so we will both see whether it did its job. If it did not, we refund. Simple.
03. If something breaks, you call me.
Every promise on this page is signed by Amanda Coldwell. Townsville based. If something needs fixing, you call me directly. Not a support ticket. Not a chatbot. Not a faceless agency. Me, picking up. That is part of what you are paying for.
How Cortex fits in
ServiceM8, Tradify, and Fergus are good at managing jobs that already exist. Your existing software handles your invoicing. Neither of them capture a new enquiry while you are on the tools, or send a review request once the invoice is paid.
Cortex sits at the front and the back. The phone rings, Cortex captures it. The job is done and the invoice is paid, Cortex asks for the Google review. In between, your existing tools do exactly what they already do. Nothing changes in the middle.
Cortex
captures the call
→
Your tools
quote, job, invoice
→
Cortex
gets the review
Cortex is built on infrastructure ranked in the global Top 100 by G2, named Best Enterprise CRM Solution at the 2025 MarTech Breakthrough Awards, and recognised by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. More than two million businesses run on it worldwide. The plumbing underneath your system is solid, tested at scale, and not going anywhere.
Why we chose this platform →Founding Five spots are limited. Once they are gone, setup fees return to standard.
See the plans and get started →The boring bits
Fourteen days. Sometimes faster. You join a one hour onboarding call, supply your business details, and we build the whole system. You do not touch the tech at any point. The system is tested before it goes live.
Cortex plans start at $125 per month for Starter and go to $297 per month for Growth and $697 per month for Elite. Setup fees run from $1,000 to $3,000 depending on tier, but the first five tradies under the Founding Five offer pay just $10, $20, or $30 to get started. Each plan includes a monthly usage credit allowance covering calls, SMS, and emails. Usage above that allowance draws from prepaid credits at standard rates. For context, an average sparky missing four calls a week loses around $48,000 a year in unbooked work. Most tradies on the Growth tier at $297 per month recover that cost inside two months.
The first five trade businesses to sign up pay just 1% of the standard setup fee to reserve their spot. That is $10 for Starter, $20 for Growth, or $30 for Elite, saving between $990 and $2,970. Their monthly rate is locked at the launch price for as long as they stay. Once those five spots are filled, setup fees return to standard and the locked rate is no longer available.
You get a 30 day free trial from the day your system goes live, plus a 60 day full money back guarantee running from the same date. If Cortex is not doing what we said it would at any point inside those 60 days, you get every cent back. The only condition is that you actually used it. Cortex tracks every automation the system runs, so we will both see exactly what it did or did not do.
No. Cortex sits at the front and back of your existing tools. At the front it captures enquiries and books jobs before they reach your job management software. In the middle, your existing tools handle quoting, scheduling, and field work. Your existing software handles the invoicing. At the back, Cortex comes in automatically to request the Google review once the job is done. Nothing changes in the middle. You keep using the tools you already use.
Yes, and most of the time they are the one who actually uses it most. If your partner is doing the admin at 9pm, this whole thing is built to take that off their plate. The onboarding call at the start is for both of you.
The free audit is a 3 minute set of questions about how your trade business currently handles calls, enquiries, quotes, and reviews. At the end you get a personalised report showing where the leaks are and what each one is costing you annually. No sales pitch. No obligation. It is a useful thing to do before choosing a plan because it tells you which parts of Cortex will move the needle fastest for your specific business.
Right, here's the thing
The free audit takes 3 minutes and gives you a personalised report on exactly where the leaks are. If the number surprises you, the Founding Five offer is the lowest risk way to fix it. Five spots. Once they are gone, they are gone.
Start the free audit →