Straight answers
What practices ask us.
Grouped by where you probably are. Anything missing — the email in the footer reaches a human.
Understanding it
Do patients actually want to book online? Ours seem to like calling.
The ones who like calling are the ones you still have — the online-preferrers already bounced to practices where they could book at 9pm, so your phone survey has a survivorship problem. In a live practice we measure, after-hours arrivals reached bookings at a third of the daytime rate; that gap IS the preference, measured. The free score takes three minutes.
Won't online booking wreck our schedule with bad bookings?
Unscoped, it can — that's the classic first-attempt scar. Scoped, it can't: only the visit types you choose are self-bookable, buffer and prep rules ride along, and the complex cases still route to your front desk. The build decision isn't on/off; it's the menu.
Our front desk handles booking great. Is this really a leak?
During staffed hours, when the line isn't busy, for callers willing to hold — probably. The score measures everything outside that sentence: the night deciders, the peak busy signals, the abandoned holds, the phone-tag threads. Great front desks and locked doors coexist all the time.
How is this different from the no-show or missed-call services in your network?
Sister doors, one machine: While With Patients covers the calls you physically can't take; No-Shows 63 defends booked appointments. This door is the step before both — whether a ready person can get ON the calendar at all.
Is my practice a fit?
Who is this for?
Practices whose booking runs through the phone: dental, medical, med spa, therapy, veterinary — anywhere "call us to schedule" is the real front door and the after-hours decider has nothing to press.
We're at capacity — why open the door wider?
Access isn't just volume; it's selection and load. Self-booking moves your routine volume off the phone, which shortens holds for everyone else and frees staff hours daily. And "at capacity" practices still lose their PREFERRED patients to friction while the persistent fill the book. Full is not the same as full of the right patients, booked cheaply.
Our PMS is ancient — can our calendar even do this?
That's a baseline question, and the answer is measured rather than assumed: many "ancient" systems have unused scheduling interfaces, and where they truly don't, a scoped booking layer can sit in front. What we won't do is quote a build before knowing which case you are.
Does this involve patient data or PHI?
No. Test booking attempts use personas we control, never hold real slots for real hours, and we measure your access flow — never your patients. The assessment asks about operations only.
How it works
What's in the free assessment?
Ten questions: practice type, inquiry volume, real booking channels, what the 9pm decider can actually do, booking speed and peak-line reality, failed-attempt recovery, ownership, patient value. You get a 0–100 score, four axis scores worst-first, and a written report with a monthly locked-door estimate from your own numbers.
Who writes the report?
The written analysis is produced by Claude, an AI model, from your answers and computed scores only — every claim traces to something you said. The scoring is published, deterministic math. We name the AI because it's true.
What does the $500 first fix actually involve?
One week, three parts. Days one and two: your booking access baselined — timed attempts through your real channels, phone at peak hours, web at night, per your written permission, every outcome timestamped. Days three and four: ONE fix from the menu built and running — the scoped booking link, the hold-recovery text, or the attempt-recovery ladder, whichever your worst axis picked. Day five: the before/after in writing, with a 30-day re-check included.
Will test attempts tie up our phone line?
A handful of brief, ordinary-sounding calls spread across the baseline days — the kind your line already handles hourly. Nothing holds real slots, and every probe is identified to you after the window closes.
Money, after, and objections
Why pay $500 when scheduling vendors demo free?
A vendor's demo concludes you need the vendor. The $500 buys a week that ends with something running — baselined, built, and proven by a party with no scheduling product to sell. If your access is genuinely open, "confirmed, here's proof" is a deliverable we can afford to hand you, and the engagement can end there.
What do fixes cost?
The first fix is $500, flat, from the published menu. Full builds start at $2,500, quoted in writing from your first fix's before/after, scoped to your actual friction — which sometimes means turning on and scoping what your existing system already contains. The floor is published because hidden prices waste everyone's time.
What happens after I get my score?
You have the report and the estimate. Strong score — keep it, you're done. Leaking score — the report's next step is the $500 first fix, booked and prepaid online in one step. No sales sequence beyond three emails that end on schedule.
How do I know you won't inflate findings to sell a build?
The first fix leaves something installed either way, so "your door is open" is a finding we can afford to hand you. Every finding carries timestamps you can check. Estimates and measurements are labeled separately in writing — padding would show.
Never heard of you. Why trust you?
Don't — verify. The score is free and shows its work. The $500 first fix is measured against timestamps you can inspect — baseline and after. Every step is sized so you're never trusting us past the evidence in hand. Who we are: about page.
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