We're building the operating system for local business.
Local businesses are the backbone of every community — yet they're left stitching together a website they can't edit, a register that doesn't know what the website sells, a delivery app that takes a cut of every ticket, and a phone nobody is free to answer. LOKAL puts the website, the register, commission-free online ordering and an AI that picks up the phone in one place, so owners can spend less time on software and more time on the work that matters.
The principles behind everything we build
Four commitments that shape every decision, from the smallest button to our biggest bets.
Radically simple
Software shouldn't need a manual. Your menu, your hours, your prices and your website all live in the same place you run the day — and a new hire should be able to take an order without a training week.
Fewer moving parts
We would rather remove a failure point than promise perfection. One catalog powers your register, your website and your QR menus, and phone, web and table orders all land in the same kitchen queue — so there is nothing to reconcile by hand at close.
Your customers stay yours
Orders come through your own site and your own phone line, so the customer, their details and the whole ticket belong to you — not to a marketplace that rents them back. Card payments settle into your own Square account, and we take no commission on your sales.
Built for the counter
Your menu, your photos and your prices are editable from the phone already in your pocket, and the register runs on the tablet at your counter. It is designed for people mid-shift with one hand free, not for someone sitting at a desk.
Started in a back office, built for everyone's.
LOKAL began with a simple frustration: a small restaurant was paying for a website it couldn't edit, a delivery app that took a cut of every ticket, a register that didn't know what the website sold, and a phone that rang right through dinner service with nobody free to answer it. The tools meant to help were quietly eating the day.
So we set out to build the one platform we wished existed — a website, a register, commission-free ordering and an AI that answers the phone, all sharing a single menu. Today it runs a handful of restaurants and liquor stores around Houston, and we're just getting started. Our north star hasn't changed: give local businesses the same caliber of software the biggest companies take for granted.
Run your business on one platform
Your website, your register, your online ordering and your phone line, on one login. Your first month is $1, then $99.99 a month plus AI receptionist minutes at about $0.10 each, plus tax. Cancel anytime — there's no contract.