After-Hours Receptionist

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 answers like your clinic would, books the patient in, and sends you a morning summary of every call. Your team keeps every daytime call.

Why this exists

One evening at half nine I called every number of a private hospital group, as a patient would. Several phone lines. Not one way to book anything until morning. The teams had gone home, as they should - but the patient with a credit card who calls at 9:40pm doesn't call back. They book wherever answers.

If it happens at that scale, it's happening at your clinic too. This is the fix.

What it does

The night shift, handled

  • Answers in one ring whenever your reception is closed - evenings, weekends, bank holidays
  • Sounds like your clinic: trained on your services, prices, FAQs and booking rules in a discovery session
  • Books patients straight into your diary where your system allows it - takes a proper message when it can't
  • Sends you a morning summary of every call: who rang, what they wanted, what got booked, who needs a callback
  • Hands anything urgent or clinical straight to your own escalation route, exactly as you instruct
  • Month to month, 30 days' notice - and the divert is one setting you control
What it never does

Built to be trusted

  • Never gives medical advice and never makes clinical judgements - it's administrative only
  • Never takes payments
  • Never says a word you haven't approved - you test it and sign it off before a single patient hears it
  • Never touches your daytime - your team keeps every open-hours call
  • Never removes capacity - if the system is ever down, calls simply ring as they do today

How it works

1

Reception closes, the AI picks up

Your number stays yours. 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 answered from your approved information only. Bookings made where your diary allows. Everything else captured properly: name, number, reason.

3

You read the morning summary

Every call logged and waiting in your inbox at opening - including the demand your voicemail never showed you.

And when you're ready, it grows into the full front desk: the same AI answering your daytime overflow, web chat and messages too. Start after hours; upgrade if it earns it.

What it costs

It's scoped to your clinic - your lines, call volume and booking system - with a clear, itemised quote before any work begins. Month to month, 30 days' notice, no long lock-in. For most clinics, one extra booked patient a month can cover the cost several times over - results vary, which is why we start with a free strategy call, not a contract.

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.

up to 391%
higher conversion when an enquiry gets a reply within the first minute (Velocify, ~3.5M leads)
more likely to qualify a lead when you respond within the hour (Harvard Business Review)
80%
of patients want to schedule from their phone (Experian Health, State of Patient Access 2025)

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 works with the common clinic booking systems. 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 monthly.

What does it cost?

It depends on your lines and call volume, so it's scoped on a short call and confirmed in a clear, itemised quote before any work begins - month to month, 30 days' notice. The strategy call is free and you'll leave it with a real number, not a surprise invoice.

Hear what your patients hear.

Ring your own clinic tonight, after closing. If you're happy with what answers, ignore me. If not - book a free strategy call and I'll put a number on what the night shift is costing you.

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