Built for Chambers of Commerce
Your best Ambassador greets visitors, knows every member, and never misses a chance to say "let me connect you." Chamber Ambassador does that job on your website, 24 hours a day, in any language, for all of your members at once.
When someone types "I need a plumber who does weekend emergency calls" or "where can I host a holiday party for 40 people," your Ambassador knows which member businesses actually fit the request, not just which categories exist in your directory.
Live at the Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce since October 2025
Kenny · Chamber AmbassadorOnline now8:42 PMA real kind of conversation, at an hour no front desk covers.
The problem
Every chamber knows the pattern. Visitors land on your site looking for a business, an event, or a reason to join. What they find is a category dropdown and a search box. So they call, and your staff spends another afternoon answering "do you know anyone who does X?"
Meanwhile the visitor who showed up at 9 PM found nothing, and nobody will ever know they were there.
Your members pay dues to be found. Your staff has better things to do than be a human directory. Your website should be doing this job.
Meet your Ambassador
Chamber Ambassador is an AI assistant that lives on your website and represents your chamber the way your best volunteer would.
Ask in plain language. "Mexican restaurant," "basement flooding," "somewhere to host 40 people." It answers with actual matching members, with phone numbers and websites, and every dues-paying member in a category gets seen. Fairness is built in.
Upcoming events with dates, locations, pricing, and registration links, pulled fresh from GrowthZone every few hours.
It notices membership interest, shares benefits and pricing when asked, and hands warm leads to your staff with the full conversation attached.
When someone needs a human, it collects their name and contact info and emails your team instantly, with context, so nobody starts the conversation cold.
English, Spanish, French, whatever arrives. Real visitors have asked in Spanish and been answered in Spanish, and one switched mid-conversation from English to French and got the whole answer in French.
Daily and weekly digests land in your inbox: what visitors asked about, who wanted a human, and the exchanges worth reading. Board-ready, no logins required.
A true story
8:30 PM
One evening last spring, the owner of a brand-new business landed on the Kenosha Area Chamber's website after hours. The Ambassador there (his name is Kenny) greeted them, walked them through what membership includes, answered every question, and connected them with the membership director by morning.
That business joined the chamber. They also left with a list of 63 member businesses in their industry to start building relationships with.
No staff time. No missed opportunity. No "sorry, we're closed."
"He's developed way above and beyond our expectations... It's amazing us more and more every day."
Dave Strash, President & CEO, Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce, speaking at Southport AI's July office hoursThe chatbot problem
We watched a community's website chatbot get asked whether the area had a dinosaur museum. It said no. The area does, and it's a gem. Then it helpfully offered a link to a related exhibit. The link went to the waste-disposal page.
That's not a one-off. It's how typical chatbots work: they skim a website once, guess from patterns, and invent links that look right. Every wrong answer sends a visitor away, and every landfill link spends trust your organization worked years to earn.
That's the difference between a chatbot and an Ambassador.
What makes it different
Your AMS gives each member one category. That's fine for browsing. It's useless for how real people actually search.
So before your Ambassador ever answers a question, we build your Member Intelligence Database: we read every member's actual website and write a rich profile of what they really do, who they serve, and what makes them different. Members without websites get profiles too. Coverage is 100%, not "most."
Then it stays in step with your membership automatically. New members are profiled the night they join, and members who leave drop off the same night. No exports, no spreadsheets, no one lifting a finger.
This is a standalone data project most chambers would pay thousands for once. It's included. It's also why "Mexican restaurant" returns Mexican restaurants, not the burger chain that happens to share a category.
How it works
We learn your chamber: your staff, your programs, your voice. You share GrowthZone access and pick your Ambassador's name and colors.
We sync your member list, profile every member, and load your events. Then you meet your Ambassador's first draft: ask it anything, poke holes, and we tune from your feedback.
A final walkthrough and your sign-off. Then your web person pastes one snippet, your Ambassador is live, and we watch the first weeks of real conversations closely.
The whole ask: about two weeks, three conversations, a few hours of your team's time. We handle everything in between, and we're always available for additional meetings and reviews. Questions are always welcome. See current openings below.
See it live
Kenny is the Ambassador at the Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce, our founding chamber, serving real visitors right now. Open their site and ask him for a plumber, this weekend's events, or what membership costs. Or ask Amber, right here in the corner: she's the Ambassador for this very site.
Your window into it all
Your Ambassador comes with a private portal for your team. Watch real conversations as they happen, see what your community is asking, track your busiest hours, and get every captured lead with full context. Below is the real thing, from our founding chamber.
What's included
We don't sell the pieces, and there's no setup fee at any tier. The Ambassador only works whole.
Pricing
An after-hours answering service costs more and can't search your directory. A part-time hire costs ten times more and goes home at five. Your Ambassador does both jobs, all day, in every language.
$195/month
$0 setup fee
$295/month
$0 setup fee
$395/month
$0 setup fee
Pay annually, get one month free, and your bookkeeper makes one entry instead of twelve.
Your chamber already fields the whole city's questions: where to catch the best fall colors, who handles a permit, what's open this weekend. To many visitors, the chamber is the front door for the entire community. The City Ambassador answers those questions with verified information and real links, so your staff spends less time playing switchboard. And the questions nobody would ever call about, like "things to do this winter," stop ending on somebody else's blog and start ending on yours.
Month to month, always. No contract term, no exit fee: cancel any month with one email. Your first month is collected when you claim a launch window and covers your entire launch. No setup fee, ever. And for your board, a 60-day guarantee that starts the day you go live: if you're not sold after your first 60 days live, we refund every dollar you've paid, and you keep the enriched member database we built.
Every chamber launch gets a dedicated two-week window, and we take a limited number each month. Current openings: August and September. Claiming a window starts your first month, which covers your entire launch, and we fit the kickoff to your board and staff calendar.
Ready when you are
Two minutes online: pick your kickoff from our real calendar, pay your first month, and your invite lands before you close the tab.
Claim a launch windowThirty minutes with our team, or a Zoom with your whole board. Ask Amber in the corner to book it for you, or grab a time yourself.
Prefer to put it in writing? This form reaches our team directly and you'll hear back within one business day. Email works too: engage@southport.ai.
Questions chambers ask
An AI assistant built specifically for chambers of commerce. It lives on your website, answers visitor questions in plain language, helps people find your member businesses and events, and captures membership leads for your staff. It's a product of Southport AI & Automation.
Generic chatbots read your website and guess. Chamber Ambassador connects to your GrowthZone data and adds a layer no one else builds: a profile of every member based on what their business actually does, kept in sync with your membership nightly. That's the difference between "here are businesses in the Contractors category" and "here are the three members who actually handle basement flooding."
Yes, GrowthZone is our native integration: member list, categories, and both chamber and community calendars, including event pricing and registration links. Using a different AMS? Ask us. The platform is built to add integrations.
They get profiles too. We generate a searchable profile from their name, category, and available information, so 100% of your members are findable. Members without an online presence arguably benefit the most.
About two weeks from kickoff to live. Your team's part is three conversations: a kickoff interview, a testing session with your Ambassador's first draft, and a pre-launch review. A few hours total. We handle everything in between, and questions are always welcome.
$195, $295, or $395 per month based on member count, month to month. No setup fee: your first month is collected when you claim a launch window and covers your entire launch. Prefer one entry for your bookkeeper? Pay annually and get one month free. The Board Meeting Guarantee refunds everything you've paid if your board isn't sold after your first 60 days live. Full details in the pricing section above; we don't hide numbers behind a sales call.
No. The only technical step is pasting one snippet into your website, which takes your web person about five minutes. We handle everything else.
Yes. When a visitor wants a human, your Ambassador collects their name and contact info and emails your team immediately with the full conversation, so your staff follows up warm, not cold.
Your member data is used to serve your visitors, full stop. It runs on private infrastructure, it isn't sold or shared, and if you leave, you keep the enriched member database we built.
Southport AI & Automation, a Kenosha-based team of chamber members with backgrounds across business operations, IT and cybersecurity, and marketing, including decades spent running companies in this community. Chamber Ambassador grew out of Kenny, the assistant we built for the Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce, where it serves real visitors every day. We're chamber members ourselves. We built the tool we wanted our own chamber to have.