Front-desk assistant
Answers the same forty questions your reception answers every day — hours, location, parking, insurance accepted, what a service involves, roughly what it costs.
Replaces: repetitive phone calls
Follows a script you drew. Cheap, completely predictable, and it never says anything you didn't approve. The moment someone types a question outside the script, it dead-ends.
Understands almost anything and answers naturally. It will also, occasionally and confidently, make something up — which is a problem when the topic is your pricing, your policy or someone's health.
AI reads what the person meant; hard rules control what actually happens. Booking, pricing, eligibility and anything regulated run on fixed logic. Anything outside its knowledge escalates to a human rather than being guessed at.
Answers the same forty questions your reception answers every day — hours, location, parking, insurance accepted, what a service involves, roughly what it costs.
Replaces: repetitive phone callsCarries someone from “do you do X?” to a confirmed slot in your live calendar, then handles the reminder and the reschedule.
Replaces: phone tag over a diaryAsks the questions you'd ask before booking a call — budget, timeline, location, fit — then routes only the ones worth your time straight to a person.
Replaces: sifting bad enquiriesThe second a form or ad lead lands, it texts them. Not in an hour, not tomorrow morning — in seconds, while they're still on your page comparing you with two competitors.
Usually the highest-return oneWorks your dormant list by text — old enquiries, lapsed customers, people who went quiet — and reopens the ones still interested.
Revenue from a list you already ownDrafts replies to incoming reviews in your voice, publishes the routine ones, and escalates anything negative to a human before it's answered.
Replaces: reviews nobody replies toHandles “where is my order,” “how do I reset it,” “what's your policy” — so your team gets the conversations that actually need a person.
Replaces: ticket volumeAnswers the phone when nobody can, handles routine questions out loud, books the appointment or takes a proper message with the caller's details.
For the calls that currently ring out
It's labelled as an assistant, and handing over to a person is one tap away. Some states now require that disclosure, and trust evaporates the second someone works out they were fooled.
Where it isn't confident it says so and escalates with the full transcript attached. A confident wrong answer costs more than a slow right one.
For practices and advisory firms we scope exactly what it may discuss — hours, insurance, services, booking — and what it must never touch. That gets agreed with your compliance lead before launch, not after an incident.
We’ve deliberately left out the usual chatbot statistics. The ones still circulating are mostly from 2017–2018, and one widely quoted figure projects forward to 2022 — four years ago. We’d rather show you the assistant working on your own site than quote someone else’s decade-old survey.