Yurii

Building @solwees. Fixing the AI reliability gap with deterministic logic. I post blueprints and architectural deep-dives here.

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Let's talk honestly about the AI voice space in 2026.

Vapi and Retell are infrastructure. Brilliant infrastructure. But they're plumbing, not a product. You still need to build everything on top.

Slang is a product, but it's a phone tree with better voice. It doesn't book - it routes.

Solwees AI is the layer in between: a real product, vertical for restaurants, salons, and clinics, that actually writes the booking into Fresha, Altegio, Booksy, SevenRooms, or CoverManager - and won't hallucinate a reservation that doesn't exist.

Pick the right tool for the job:

→ Building a custom voice app? Vapi.
→ Routing calls smarter? Slang.
→ Replacing your receptionist? Solwees.

→ https://t.co/mM09lT08Lf

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

The fastest AI receptionist in service business 2026:

→ Responds in under 800ms - faster than human thought
→ Speaks 50+ languages and dialects, switches mid-call automatically
→ 99.4% intent accuracy in production
→ Writes bookings directly into Booksy, Altegio, Fresha, SevenRooms, OpenTable, CoverManager

Not a Vapi wrapper. Not a demo.

A phone agent that's been answering calls for real restaurants and salons across Europe - without missing one.

→ https://t.co/LlfvomJJwt

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

This isn't a marketing tool bolted onto an AI receptionist.

It's the same AI that answers the phone, handling retention while it does it.

One brain. Phone, WhatsApp, reviews, promotions - all connected.

Built for restaurants, salons, clinics, and service businesses across Europe and the US.

→ https://t.co/2wdtzTjd5H

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Marketing for service businesses is broken in 2026.

Owners spend €500-2000/month on ads to acquire new clients - while their existing client database sits cold, no-shows kill their schedule, and Google reviews trickle in at 1 per month.

https://t.co/NIQ9pgZaUS

The fix isn't more ads. It's automated retention.

Here's how it works 👇

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

The Google review one alone is worth the price.

Most businesses ask manually, get 1 review per month, and never reach the 4.5★ threshold that converts new clients.

Solwees sends a personalized WhatsApp after each visit. Happy clients get the Google Maps link. Unhappy ones get a private follow-up - never a public 1-star.

Result: 5x more reviews in 60 days.

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Nobody talks about the worst job in a restaurant.

It's not the dishwasher. Not the line cook at midnight. Not the manager firing someone on a Sunday.

It's whoever answers the phone.

200 calls a day. Half of them at the same 3 hours. People who don't speak the menu language. People who want to book for "next Friday at 8 maybe 9." People asking if the gluten-free pasta is also dairy-free. People hanging up before you finish saying hello.

That job is now done by software.

Solwees AI answers every call. In 12 languages. At 2pm on Saturday and 11pm on Tuesday. Without sighing, without forgetting, without quitting in August.

The restaurant owner stops losing reservations to busy signals.
The hostess stops being interrupted mid-service.
The customer stops getting voicemail.

This isn't science fiction. It's running in salons in Marbella, restaurants in London, barbershops in Madrid, right now.

The phone was the last manual process in service businesses.

We just automated it.

→ https://t.co/mM09lT08Lf

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

The AI receptionist market in 2026 has 3 layers:

→ Infrastructure: Vapi, Retell
→ Horizontal tools: Bland, PolyAI
→ Vertical products: Solwees AI, https://t.co/NDkxpMJcsq, Numa

The winners are vertical.

Generic AI doesn't close deals with restaurant or salon owners. Specialists do.

→ https://t.co/mM09lT08Lf

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Every salon owner knows this lie:

Client: "Just a quick trim."
*Sends photo of full color, balayage, and 8 inches off*

We built Vision AI for exactly this.

Client sends a Pinterest screenshot to WhatsApp.
Solwees scans the photo, understands the actual service, books the correct time slot in your CRM.

No more 4-hour transformations crammed into 30-minute slots.

→ https://t.co/aroh9xHtUh

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Unpopular opinion:

If you're an AI startup obsessed with brand awareness, you're playing the wrong game.

The companies winning B2B AI right now don't care if you know their name. They sit invisible behind 100 agency brands, taking 30% of every contract.

That's our model.

Solwees AI is now white-label. Agencies, platforms, country leads - put your logo on our stack and sell it tomorrow.

We don't need to be famous. We need to be everywhere.

→ https://t.co/UT8qTZujMl

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Hot take for AI founders:

If you're spending 6 months building voice agent infrastructure from scratch, you're already late.

We license our entire stack white-label. Your brand, our engineering.

Hospitality. Beauty. Wellness.

→ https://t.co/qoicSURRfl

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

The €40,000 problem every beauty salon owner ignores.

A salon owner in Dubai showed me her booking calendar last month.

Fully booked. Every chair, every hour, six days a week.

Then she showed me her phone log.

68 missed calls in 30 days.

Some were existing clients trying to reschedule. Some were new clients ready to book their first appointment. Some were wedding parties asking about group rates.

She called a few back the next morning. Most didn't pick up. The ones who did had already booked somewhere else.

This is the quiet killer of the beauty industry.

Not bad stylists. Not expensive rent. Not Instagram algorithms.

It's the phone.

The math is brutal. The average beauty salon in Europe misses 25-40% of incoming calls during peak hours. Each missed call is a lost booking. Each lost booking is a client who walks into the salon two streets down instead.

Multiply that by a year and you understand why so many great salons close while mediocre ones thrive - the mediocre ones answer their phone.

Here's what's changed in 2026.

You no longer need a receptionist to answer every call. You need Solwees AI.

Solwees AI is an AI receptionist built specifically for beauty salons, hair studios, and wellness brands. It answers every call within two rings, 24 hours a day, in whatever language your client speaks - English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic.

It books appointments directly into the systems salons already use - Fresha, Altegio, Booksy. No new software. No migration. No staff retraining.

It takes Stripe deposits at the moment of booking, which is the single biggest weapon against no-shows. Salons that switch to deposit-based bookings see their no-show rate drop by 70-80% in the first month.

It handles the awkward calls humans hate - rescheduling, cancellation policies, gift card questions, group bookings.

And it never has a bad day. It doesn't get sick. It doesn't quit during high season. It doesn't get annoyed at the client who calls three times to change her appointment.

What this means for a salon owner:

→ Every call answered, day or night
→ Every client booked, without staff interruption
→ Every no-show prevented with a Stripe deposit
→ Every regular client retained with instant callbacks
→ Every walk-in opportunity captured because the phone never rings out

We're working with independent salons, multi-location chains, and wellness brands across Europe. Most see a measurable revenue increase within the first 60 days - not because they raised prices, but because they stopped losing the bookings they already had.

The beauty industry runs on relationships. Relationships start with answering the phone.

If you own a salon and you've ever looked at your missed-call log and felt sick - Solwees AI is the fix.

→ See how Solwees AI works for beauty salons: https://t.co/w7QfQV4alu

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Solwees AI is looking for partners across Europe, the US, the Middle East, and LATAM.

We're an AI receptionist platform for restaurants, beauty salons, and barbershops.

The product books reservations, captures missed calls, takes Stripe deposits, and integrates with the tools service businesses already use - Fresha, Altegio, SevenRooms, CoverManager, Booksy.

We're live in multiple European countries with zero churn over the last 60 days.

Now we're scaling - and we'd rather grow through partners than hire a global sales team.

We work with three types of partners:

→ Resellers and agencies who already sell to restaurants, salons, or hospitality groups — you bring the relationship, we close, you keep a share of every account for as long as it pays
→ Integration partners - booking systems, POS providers, CRMs that want to add an AI voice layer to their offering without building it from scratch
→ Country leads - operators who know a local market (US, UK, UAE, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, France) and want to run Solwees in their region as a co-branded or white-label product

What we offer partners:

→ A product that already works - no vaporware, no "coming soon"
→ Full white-label option for serious partners
→ Recurring revenue share, not one-time commissions
→ Co-marketing, technical onboarding, and direct founder access
→ Multi-language support out of the box - English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, and more

The AI receptionist category is exploding. Most players sell infrastructure. We sell a working product to service businesses that pay every month.

If you have relationships with restaurants, salons, hotels, or wellness brands anywhere in the world - let's talk.

→ Partner with Solwees AI: https://t.co/ayy8iN8wYB

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

The most underrated business in 2026: the independent barbershop.

One chair. One barber. Loyal regulars who come back every 3 weeks.

But here's what kills him:

→ He can't answer the phone while the clippers are running
→ Walk-ins leave because nobody picks up
→ Regulars switch to the next shop on the street after 2 unreturned callbacks
→ Saturdays are chaos - calls stack up while he's mid-fade

A barber's revenue isn't limited by skill.

It's limited by how many calls he misses while doing the job he's paid for.

That's the problem we solved.

Solwees AI answers every call for barbershops - 24/7, in any language the customer speaks.

It books appointments directly into the calendar.
It takes deposits through Stripe so no-shows stop costing money.
It reschedules automatically when the barber runs late.
It works with the booking systems barbershops already use - Fresha, Altegio, Booksy.

No app to install. No new system to learn. The phone just starts working harder.

If you run a barbershop in Spain, the UK, or anywhere in Europe - your competition is already piloting this.

Don't be the shop that loses regulars to a missed call.

→ See how Solwees AI works for barbershops: https://t.co/njgZp4SH9I

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

A VC asked me yesterday:

"What happens to Solwees when OpenAI ships voice agents for restaurants?"

I asked him: "What happens to Stripe now that OpenAI can write payment code?"

He laughed.

Then I said: "Exactly. The model is not the product."

The product is:

→ Knowing that Tuesday night in Marbella, half the calls are German tourists who switch to English mid-sentence
→ Knowing which booking platforms to integrate with - Fresha, Altegio, CoverManager, SevenRooms - and which to skip
→ Knowing a salon owner cares about no-show deposits via Stripe, but a restaurant cares about table turn time
→ Knowing the 200 edge cases that make a customer trust you with their phone line

OpenAI ships horizontal infrastructure.

We ship 3 years of conversations with people who answer phones for a living.

→ How premium restaurants capture €14,280/month in missed calls: https://t.co/Ok4BCWzlTM

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Founders ask me how we got our first 50 paying customers without ads.

The boring answer:

I sat in restaurants.

Not "did customer discovery." Not "ran a survey." Not "joined a Slack community."

I sat at the bar from 7pm to midnight, 4 nights a week, in Marbella.

Watched the host miss calls during dinner rush.

Counted how many times the phone rang and nobody answered.

Bought the owner a drink at closing and asked one question:

"How much money do you think you lost tonight from missed calls?"

Nobody knew the number. Everybody wanted to know it.

That's how we got the first 50.

Not growth hacks. Not cold emails. Not a Product Hunt launch.

A bar stool and a question nobody had asked them before.

Now we answer that question for 200+ venues across Europe → https://t.co/mM09lT08Lf

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

A VC asked me yesterday:

"What happens to Solwees when OpenAI ships voice agents for restaurants?"

I asked him: "What happens to Stripe now that OpenAI can write payment code?"

He laughed.

Then I said: "Exactly. The model is not the product."

The product is:

→ Knowing that Tuesday night in Marbella, half the calls are German tourists who switch to English mid-sentence
→ Knowing which 7 Spanish POS systems to integrate with - and which 4 to skip
→ Knowing that a salon owner cares about no-show deposits, but a restaurant cares about table turn time
→ Knowing the 200 edge cases that make a customer trust you with their phone line

OpenAI ships horizontal infrastructure.

We ship 3 years of conversations with people who answer phones for a living.

That's not a moat OpenAI can copy. It's a moat OpenAI doesn't want.

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

A restaurant owner told me last week:

"I tried 3 AI receptionists. They all sounded smart. None of them worked."

I asked what "didn't work" meant.

His answer was a list:

→ Booked a party of 8 when the customer said 4
→ Promised a table at a time the restaurant is closed
→ Couldn't understand a regular customer with a thick accent
→ Sent confirmation SMS in English to French-speaking guests
→ Never logged the call anywhere - owner found out from angry customers

Every single one is an LLM hallucination problem.

And every single one is solved not by a better model, but by removing the model from decisions it shouldn't make.

The LLM should listen. It should extract intent.

It should never be the thing deciding whether a reservation exists.

That's what "AI reliability" actually means. Not bigger context windows. Not GPT-5.

Boring rules around a smart model.

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Every week someone DMs me:

"I built an AI receptionist on Vapi in a weekend."

Cool. Now call it 500 times.

Watch it book a table for "tomorrow" when the customer said "next Tuesday."

Watch it confirm reservations that don't exist.

Watch it hang up mid-sentence when two people talk over each other.

Watch it speak fluent English to a grandma who only speaks Spanish.

Vapi and Retell are great infrastructure.

They are not a product.

The gap between "demo works" and "a restaurant trusts it with their revenue" is 18 months of boring engineering - deterministic logic, fallback flows, edge cases nobody talks about on Twitter.

If your moat is a Vapi account, you don't have a moat.

You have a weekend project.

[Yurii @YuriiSolwees]

Every voice AI demo works.

Every voice AI in production fails.

Why? LLMs hallucinate when a customer asks "table for 4 at 8pm, but my friend is gluten-free and we need a high chair."

We don't ask the LLM to handle that. We ask it to extract intent - then deterministic logic does the booking.

Reliability isn't a model problem. It's an architecture problem.