Food photography clients come from three distinct lanes: restaurants needing menu shots, packaged-food brands needing hero and packaging photography, and cookbook publishers or editorial clients needing recipe-based feature work. Each has different pricing, turnaround, and styling logistics. SleekAI reads your shoot pages from WordPress and routes each inquiry accordingly. Menu shoots at $185 per dish with food provided by the restaurant, packaging shoots at $650 per hero with included food styling, cookbook days at $1,800 per shoot day covering 4-6 recipes.

Food styling is where this gets specific. Hero shots for a packaged-food brand need a food stylist who knows how to make a frozen pizza look ovenbaked-perfect for 90 minutes under lights. Restaurant menu shots can use the actual menu food prepared by the chef. Cookbook days need the author or test cook on-site. The bot reads your styling rates and routes accordingly - included for cookbook day rates, $850 add-on for packaging hero, not needed for restaurant menu (chef provides). Restaurants confused about whether they need a stylist get the right answer in the first message.

Licensing varies by client type. Restaurants typically need unlimited use on their own site, social, and delivery apps (standard license covers it). Packaged-food brands need advertising license for national campaigns. Cookbook publishers need print-rights with optional digital companion. SleekAI reads your real licensing terms and quotes the right tier, so a packaged-food brand planning a Whole Foods endcap doesn't book the menu-shoot rate and then realize they need a packaging-license upgrade.

Food photography is three different businesses under one umbrella: restaurant menu work, packaged-food brand campaigns, and cookbook or editorial features. The conversations look completely different. A restaurant manager asking about a 22-dish menu refresh needs to know per-dish pricing, on-location logistics, and whether the chef provides the food (yes).

A packaged-food brand asking about a Whole Foods endcap launch needs to know per-hero pricing, included food styling, and packaging-rights licensing. A cookbook publisher needs per-day rates and author scheduling for a 60-recipe book that splits across 12 shoot days. A generic chatbot that quotes 'food photography $200 per shot' loses all three.

SleekAI reads each shoot type as a separate WordPress post and quotes accurately. Menu Shoot at $185 per dish with chef-provided food and 5-day turnaround. Packaging Hero at $650 per setup with included food styling and advertising-license upgrade available.

Cookbook Day at $1,800 per shoot day with 4-6 recipes and test-cook coordination. Food styling is the differentiator. Restaurants asking about a stylist save money when the bot explains that chef-prepared food is the standard for menu work.

Packaging brands asking about styling get the right add-on rate or included-tier explanation, so the proposal doesn't surprise them at invoicing. Backgrounds, props, and on-location logistics get accurate answers from your real services page (4 standard surfaces included, custom quoted, on-location free within 15 miles). Licensing varies more here than in most photography categories.

Restaurants typically need unlimited use on their own site, social, and delivery apps (standard license covers it). Packaged-food brands need packaging rights and often advertising license for national campaigns. The bot routes correctly so the brand planning a national rollout doesn't book the menu-shoot license tier.

Multibot lets the /restaurants URL run a different bot from the /brands or /publishers URL, with display conditions scoping each. The studio principal opens each booking already knowing it's a 22-dish menu refresh on Tuesday on-location at the restaurant with chef-provided food, standard license, 5-day turnaround. The confirmation email is automated.