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IT/AI — AI booking & reception

Stop losing bookings to a busy line.

An enquiry arrives at 9pm on WhatsApp. Nobody answers until morning. By then they have booked somewhere else. That is the problem this solves — not a chatbot for its own sake, but the front door of an appointment business answering reliably at the times it currently doesn't.

PRB/ — The actual problem

Where appointment businesses lose money.

Almost none of it is dramatic. It is a receptionist who is with a patient when the phone rings, a WhatsApp message that arrives on Sunday, an enquiry that needed one answer about parking, and a patient who forgot they had an appointment at all.

Each is small. Together they are a meaningful share of a week's revenue, and unlike most business problems they are measurable — you can count missed calls and no-shows before and after, which makes it obvious fairly quickly whether this was worth doing.

What gets handled

  • Booking and rescheduling — written into your calendar, not a message somebody retypes
  • Appointment reminders with one-tap confirm or reschedule
  • The repetitive questions — hours, address, parking, what to bring, price lists you approve
  • Out-of-hours enquiries, answered rather than queued until morning
  • New enquiry capture — qualified and passed on with a summary
  • Reactivation — customers who have not been back in a while

WA/ — Why WhatsApp first

The channel people actually reply on.

Your customers will not install an app or read a marketing email. They will reply to a WhatsApp message within minutes. For an Indian small business that is not a preference, it is the whole difference between a reminder that works and one that doesn't.

Official API, not automation hacks
Built on the WhatsApp Business Platform, so your number is verified and legitimate. Tools that drive the consumer app unofficially get numbers banned, usually at the least convenient moment.
We handle the onboarding
Business verification, number provisioning, and getting your message templates approved. It is genuinely fiddly and it has waiting periods; you should not have to learn it.
Your rules, not ours
What it may say about pricing, which questions always go to a human, tone, languages, opening hours. Written down and agreed before it talks to a customer.
Everything else too
The same assistant handles the website enquiry form and, where it makes sense, a call-overflow number — so all of it lands in one place with one history.
Costs you can see
Meta charges per conversation and model providers charge per use. We set usage limits and show you the running cost, so the bill is never the way you discover a busy month.

WHO/ — Who this suits

Built for appointment businesses.

A good fit

  • Clinics — dental, physio, diagnostics, veterinary, specialist practices
  • Salons and studios — where a missed call is a missed slot
  • Tutors and training centres with enquiry-heavy admission cycles
  • Service businesses — repairs, servicing, home visits, inspections
  • Anyone with a no-show problem they have never systematically chased

A poor fit

  • You are already fully booked and turning work away
  • Every enquiry is genuinely bespoke and needs an expert from the first message
  • Your booking system has no integration path — the assistant would be writing into nothing
  • You want it to give clinical or regulated advice. It won't, and shouldn't

SAF/ — Guardrails

What it will never do.

Improvise on price
It quotes from a list you approve, or it hands over. A confidently invented price is a commitment you did not make and a conversation you have to unwind.
Give regulated advice
Clinical, legal and financial questions route to a human, always. This is scoped at design time rather than left to the model's judgement.
Pretend to be a person
It identifies itself as an assistant in the first message, and offers a human at any point.
Hoard data it doesn't need
What is collected, where it is stored and how long it is kept are decided deliberately, with India's data protection obligations in mind. Health enquiries in particular deserve care.
Fail silently
If it breaks, or the platform has an outage, you are told and enquiries fall back to your existing process rather than disappearing.

FAQ/ — Common questions

Questions we get asked.

Will customers know they are talking to a bot?

Yes, because we say so in the first message. Pretending otherwise is both dishonest and counterproductive — people are far more patient with an assistant that says what it is and hands over cleanly than with one caught impersonating a person. The goal is a booking, not a Turing test.

What happens when it cannot answer?

It hands over. Every flow has a defined escape to a human, and the assistant is explicitly scoped so it does not improvise on prices, clinical questions or anything it has not been given. A handover is a success state, not a failure — the alternative is a confident wrong answer, which costs you more than a missed one.

Does it work in Kannada, Hindi or Tamil?

Text handles Indian languages well, including the mixed English-and-regional messaging people actually write. Voice is harder — accents and code-switching mid-sentence are where automated speech still struggles — which is why we start with messaging and treat voice as a separate decision rather than a bundled promise.

How long does it take to set up?

The assistant itself is quick. The slow part is WhatsApp: Meta requires business verification, a dedicated phone number, and approval of the message templates used for anything you send first, such as reminders. That is a matter of weeks and largely out of our hands, so it is worth starting early. Web and existing-channel handling can go live while it is pending.

Can it write into our existing system?

That is the part worth paying for, and the answer depends on your software. Anything with a usable API or a common integration platform — most modern practice management, CRM and calendar systems — yes. Older desktop-only software with no integration path, no. We establish this before quoting, because an assistant that cannot write to your calendar is a toy.

What if we are already busy enough?

Then this may be the wrong purchase, and we will say so. The value is concentrated in businesses losing enquiries to a busy line, an unanswered evening message, or no-shows nobody chased. If your bookings are full and your no-show rate is low, spend the money elsewhere.

RD/ — Worth reading first

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CTA/ — Booking & reception

How many enquiries went unanswered last week?

Most businesses do not know, which is itself the answer. Tell us what you run, what you book with, and where enquiries arrive — you'll get a straight view of whether this would pay for itself.

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