Hair & barber

An AI receptionist for hair salons that knows who does what

You are mid-colour with foils in your hands and the phone is going. This picks it up, knows that a perm with Tony runs three hours and a trim is thirty minutes, knows Lisa does not do perms at all, and books into the gap that actually exists — then texts the client a code.

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No sign-up, a real confirmation text at the end. Here is exactly how this one is set up, so you know what to ask for.

Call +1 (631) 353-6446, then enter the three-digit code.

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Hair salon

Bloom Hair Studio

Call · 102

Appointments with a named stylist, where a colour blocks far more of the day than a cut.

Services

haircut · 30 min · $68
Colour · 2 h · $300

Staff and space

Tony · stylist
Lisa · stylist

Open (Eastern time)

Every day, 7 am – 11 pm

On the call it can

Check which times are open
Book it and text you a confirmation code
Cancel the booking
Tell you who works there
Move the booking to another time
Take a message for the owner when it can’t answer something

It will ask for

Your name and phone number
Who you’d like (or “anyone”)

Try saying

“A haircut with Lisa tomorrow afternoon.”
“How long does colour take, and how much is it?”

See all 17 sample businesses and the call rules

What it does on the call

It knows who does what, and how long it really takes.

A perm with Tony is three hours; a trim is thirty minutes. Durations are set per stylist, not per service, because they genuinely differ.

If the stylist a caller asks for does not do that service, it says so and offers the ones who do — instead of booking a slot that cannot be worked.

A day off, a late start, one stylist finishing early: it reads the schedule you described.

Nobody gets double-booked, even when two callers are on the line at the same second.

Hair & barberBloom Hair StudioENESFRZH1:45A husband and wife, one language each, and a second stylist found for the same afternoon slot.

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Booked4 live lookups against the diary · 4 language changes · code B5NE8P read back on the call

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Your customers’ languages

Over twenty languages, recognised as the caller speaks — no key presses, nobody has to ask.

A book you can actually read

Today’s list, a calendar, and the written transcript behind every row.

Change it in a sentence

New hours, a day off, a new service — write it the way you would say it. No settings screen to hunt through.

Your customers cancel by text

The confirmation text is also the way out: they reply, the slot goes back into your book, and you are told if it was for today.

Your side is in your language too

The dashboard is in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese — dates and durations included, so you never run your book in your second language.

A person, when they ask for one

Confirm your mobile and “can I speak to someone?” rings it. Until then it never offers a transfer it cannot make — it takes a message instead.

The hair & barber call on this page runs 1:45 start to finish, nothing cut — the same software that would answer your line.

Questions

Hair & barber: the things people ask first

Can it book with a specific stylist?

Yes, and it checks that the stylist actually does that service first. If a caller asks for a perm with someone who only does cuts and colour, it says so plainly and offers the stylists who do perms, instead of writing a booking nobody can work.

Different stylists take different times for the same service. Does it cope?

That is set per stylist, not per service, because the difference is real. A senior stylist’s colour and a junior’s can be an hour apart, and whichever one is booked is the length that gets held in the book.

What about a day off or someone finishing early?

It reads whatever you described — a late start on Mondays, one stylist finishing at three on Thursdays, a week off. You change it by writing a sentence, not by hunting through a rota screen.

Two people in the same family, two languages. Does that confuse it?

No — and you can hear it on this page. In the recording a husband and wife book together in different languages, and it follows each of them without anybody asking it to switch. It also finds a second stylist so both fit the same afternoon.

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These work the same way underneath — and if none of them is you, the last card is.

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Every other trade

Describe your business and your booking rules get written from that paragraph. There is no waiting list, and you can hear one of those on the page.

How that works

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