MekkanToday we're launching Mekkan — AI business operations for studios, salons, gyms, clinics, and shops.
Rolling out first: barbershops, hair salons, beauty studios. Coming next: gyms, clinics, pet grooming, restaurants — every appointment-driven business where one owner is doing the work of three. Mekkan is an AI operations company: booking is one feature inside it, not the product. The product is an AI coworker — Leon— who runs the parts of the business that quietly eat an owner's day, so you can stay where you belong: with customers, on the floor.
Leon answers the phone when you can't, books appointments, talks to your customers, reads every review, forecasts your week, and tells you what to do about the third “long wait time” complaint before the fourth one shows up. Chat with him, or speak out loud. Same brain.
Why we built this
Mekkan was not designed in a boardroom. It was built behind the chair. I started cutting hair young, spent a decade on the floor in London — Mayfair, Covent Garden, Canary Wharf — and the chair turned out to be a business school. The clients were restaurant owners, clinic owners, traders. Years of cutting their hair meant years of learning how they ran — and quietly mishandled — their businesses.
The pattern was always the same. The people who knew the floor couldn't read the data. The people who read the data had never worked the floor. Mekkan does both.
The first studio Mekkan ships to is my own — Mekkan Beauty Studioin London. If a feature doesn't work for us, it doesn't ship to anyone.
What ships today
Seven capabilities, one voice, your shop's data:
- Receptionist — picks up when you can't, speaks like a person, 24/7
- Talk to Leon — chat or voice, answers from your real numbers
- EOD Report — a daily summary delivered when you close
- Forecast — predicts revenue and no-show risk 7 days out
- Review Insights — sentiment, service, complaint patterns
- Marketplace — new customers find you in the Mekkan app
- Membership — customers prepay, you get cash today
All of it runs on infrastructure we host ourselves in the UK. The models behind the review and demand work are ones we trained on real industry data — built for this job.
How we charge
One simple plan with AI built in, at £39 / month, plus optional add-ons (Talk to Leon, AI Receptionist). Full pricing here.
The principle behind the model: we're paid when we deliver, not for thin air. Direct bookings — walk-ins, owner or staff entries — stay free for life. Card payments you choose to run through us, the AI Receptionist add-on, new customers we bring you through the marketplace, and memberships each carry a small, transparent fee tied to the value we actually delivered. No per-seat trickery, no surprise charges.
Where we're going
The pilot is rolling out across London (Hornchurch) and Ipswich, in hair and beauty first. Coming next — pet grooming, gyms, clinics, medspas, and restaurants. Every appointment-driven business where one person is wearing five hats. Same platform, same Leon, scaled sideways.
Mekkan is an operating system for appointment-driven businesses — a labour multiplier for the owner. Leon is the first AI coworker we've shipped; more are coming, each taking a job that used to need a person, all sharing one brain and one memory of your business.
If you run an appointment-driven business in the UK and you're tired of stitching together a booking calendar, a phone, a marketing tool, and a spreadsheet, join the waitlist. Or email me directly — emre.yildiz@mekkan.ai.
— Emre Yildiz, Founder & CEO, Mekkan