An AI receptionist for photographers that books the right session
You are behind a camera with a family of six in front of you and the phone is on silent. This answers it, offers the photographers who are actually free on Sunday, holds the length that session really runs — and when it does not know where the shoot is happening, it says so and takes a number instead of assuming.
It will not guess where the shoot happens — it takes a number instead.
Where a session happens is not something to infer. When it has not been told, it takes the caller’s number and their exact words rather than assuming your studio.
A family portrait and a full wedding day are not the same booking, and each holds the length you gave it.
Callers get named photographers to choose between, so “who is shooting this” is settled on the call.
Weekend-heavy weeks are ordinary here, and each photographer’s own days are respected.
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True in every trade
Your customers’ languages
Over twenty, recognised as the caller speaks. Nobody presses a key and nobody has to ask.
A book you can actually read
Today’s list, a calendar, and the written transcript of the call behind every single row.
Change it in a sentence
New service, new hours, a day off — write it the way you would say it. There is no settings screen to hunt through.
Your customers cancel by text
The confirmation text is also how they get out of it. They reply, the slot goes back into your book, and you are told if it was for today — no queue, no app, and nobody has to phone you back to cancel.
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. You should not have to work in your second language to run your own book.
A person, when they ask for one
Add and confirm your mobile and “can I speak to someone?” rings it. Until you confirm it, the receptionist never offers a transfer it cannot make — it takes a message instead.
Photographers: the things people ask first
Location changes everything for us. Does it just assume the studio?
It does not assume anything it was not told. In the recording on this page it declines to settle where the shoot happens and takes the caller’s number instead — because a photographer arriving at a studio when the family is waiting in a park is a lost booking and a lost Sunday.
A portrait sitting and a wedding are not remotely the same length.
They are separate services with their own lengths and prices, and the one held is the one booked. An hour written where a full day belongs does not become obvious until you have already taken a second booking that afternoon.
Can the caller choose who shoots?
Yes — it offers the photographers who are genuinely free at that time by name, which is what happens in the recording. Two names and a time is a decision somebody can make on the phone; “we will let you know who” is one they postpone.
Most of our enquiries come in the evening, after we have stopped.
Which is why they go unanswered. The line does not stop when you do, and an enquiry answered at nine in the evening is one your competitor is answering at nine the next morning.
Not quite what you run?
These work the same way underneath — and if none of them is you, the last card is.
Tattoo studios
It books the consultation, not a guess at how long the piece takes.
Driving schools
The person booking is usually not the person driving.
Hair & barber
It knows who does what, and how long it really takes.
AI phone answering service
A traditional answering service picks up and writes down what the caller said.
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.