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After-hours · by Pikul Voice AI, scoped per practice

Your phones close at six. Your patients don’t.

An AI receptionist that answers your phone only when your reception is closed: evenings, weekends, bank holidays. It books the patient in and sends you a summary of every call. Your team keeps every daytime call. Phone answering is by Pikul Voice AI, scoped per practice on a 30-minute call with Rafal.

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What it does

The night shift, handled.

It does

  • Answers straight away whenever your reception is closed
  • Sounds like your clinic: trained on your services, prices, FAQs and booking rules
  • Books into your diary where your system allows it, and takes a proper message when it can’t
  • Sends a summary of every call: who rang, what they wanted, what got booked, who needs a callback
  • Hands anything urgent or clinical to your own escalation route, exactly as you instruct

It never

  • Gives medical advice or makes clinical judgements: it is administrative only
  • Takes card details over the phone
  • Says a word you haven’t approved: you test it and sign it off before a patient hears it
  • Touches your daytime: your team keeps every open-hours call
How it works

Three steps, and your number stays yours.

  1. Reception closes, the AI picks up

    Your phone system diverts on a schedule you control. The moment your team goes home, calls are answered instead of missed.

  2. It answers, books, or takes a message

    Questions are answered from your approved information only. Bookings are made where your diary allows. Everything else is captured properly: name, number, reason.

  3. You catch up in the morning

    Every call is logged with a summary, ready when you open, including the demand your voicemail never showed you.

Start after hours and upgrade if it earns it: the full Pikul Front Desk adds web chat and messages on the same setup. Term and notice period are in the service agreement. Hear it first on the Pikul Voice AI demo line.

Why it matters

Speed wins the booking.

Evenings and weekends are when patients finally have time to sort their appointments, exactly when nobody answers. Answering first is most of the battle.

8×higher conversion when an enquiry is contacted within five minutes, rather than later in the first 24 hours.Source: InsideSales Lead Response Study 2021, 5.7 million inbound leads across 400+ companies
7×more likely to qualify an enquiry that is answered within the hour.Source: Harvard Business Review, 1.25 million sales leads
80%of patients want to schedule appointments any time, from home or their phone.Source: Experian Health, State of Patient Access 2025
Questions

Fair questions.

What happens if someone calls with an emergency?
Every call opens with your urgent route. The exact wording is yours, whether that’s 999/111 guidance or your on-call number, agreed in writing before go-live. The AI never triages and never gives medical advice. It handles the administrative calls; humans keep everything clinical.
Will patients know it’s not a person?
Yes. It introduces itself as your clinic’s out-of-hours assistant. No pretending. What patients care about at 9pm is that someone answered, knew the prices, and booked them in.
Does it replace my reception team?
No. It starts exactly when they finish. Your daytime doesn’t change at all. It only ever competes with your voicemail.
Can it book into our booking system?
It books into its own calendar or Google Calendar, and other systems are linked where they offer an open API, scoped on the call. Where a diary can’t take direct bookings, it captures everything (name, number, requested slot) so your team confirms with one tap at opening.
How do you stop it making things up?
It answers only from information you’ve approved: your services, prices and policies. If it doesn’t know, it says so and takes a message rather than guessing. You test it and sign it off before it goes live, and we review calls together regularly.
What does it cost?
It depends on your lines and call volume, so it’s scoped on a 30-minute call with Rafal and confirmed in a clear, itemised quote before any work begins, with the term and notice period written into it. Results vary by clinic.
After-hours

Hear what your patients hear.

Ring your own clinic tonight, after closing. If you’re happy with what answers, ignore us. If not, book a 30-minute call with Rafal and he will put a number on what the night shift is costing you.

What happens next
  1. A reply from the Pikul Agency teamWith answers to your questions and the next steps.
  2. NDA and data agreement on requestSigned before you share anything sensitive.
  3. A written proposalScope, timeline, team and price, before any work begins.
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