Nobody buys from a demo.
They buy from their own Tuesday.
So here is the same product doing the same job in eight of the twenty-five trades that have a pack. Each in full: the inquiry that arrives, the exact words back, and what it left behind — a slot held, a quote priced off the owner's list, a customer filed with the next action set.
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Eight are written out here end to end. The other seventeen have the same thing on their own page — the fields, the rules, the refusals and a worked call: every trade with a pack →
Every scenario below is a worked illustration of how the product behaves, built from the price lists and rules a business of that type would load. They are not customer stories, and no business named or implied here is a Saleringo customer.
Dental practice
Single practice or a group. The chair is full when the phone rings, and the caller is a new patient deciding between you and the practice on the next block.
Hi — I chipped a front tooth this afternoon. How much is a crown, and can anyone see me this week?
Ranges come from the practice's own fee schedule. The AI never quotes a figure the practice has not approved.
My jaw is swollen and it's throbbing so badly I can't sleep. What do I do?
Clinical questions are a permanent handoff, not a confidence threshold. This is the behavior a practice should test first.
We've just moved to the area with two kids, 6 and 9. Do you see children, and can we all come the same morning?
A family of three booked without a staff member touching it — at an hour when the desk is opening the post.
I need to cancel Monday, something came up. Sorry.
The cancellation that used to arrive as a Monday-morning surprise now arrives as a filled Saturday.
A normal week at a two-chair practice.
Not a record week. An ordinary one — with the after-hours share marked, because that is the part currently going to voicemail.
- ·9 booked
- ·3 after hours
- ·1 to a person
- ·7 booked
- ·2 after hours
- ·8 booked
- ·4 after hours
- ·1 urgent routed
- ·8 booked
- ·3 after hours
- ·10 booked
- ·6 after hours
- ·busiest evening
- ·5 booked
- ·closed all day
- ·3 booked
- ·closed all day
Illustrative volumes for a two-chair practice. 33 of 82 inquiries arrive when the practice is shut — that is the share this is bought for. Your own call log is the number that matters; the cost calculator on the pricing page takes it.
Clinics & medical
Aesthetic, dermatology, physio, fertility, dental-adjacent. Patients ask in whichever language they think in, and half the questions are ones you must never answer.
¿Cuánto cuesta la primera consulta de dermatología y tienen citas por la tarde?
The reply is in the patient's language, from wording the clinic approved in that language — not machine-translated at the moment of sending.
I'm on methotrexate. Is this laser treatment safe for me?
Medication, diagnosis, suitability and outcome questions are refused categorically. That refusal is the reason a clinic can put this on its main line.
What would a course of three sessions cost, and do you do payment plans?
The discount applied is the clinic's own rule. Anything outside the rules goes to a person instead of being improvised.
I missed my appointment on Friday. Can I still come in?
No-show recovery is the least glamorous automation here and usually the one that pays for the month.
The line, written down before you go live.
You approve every row of this before a patient hears anything. The third column is the one to read twice.
The column on the right is the one worth reading twice. A receptionist that never guesses about a symptom is worth more to a clinic than one that answers everything.
Wedding & event venues
The longest sale on this list. An inquiry at 2 AM, a site visit three weeks later, a decision six months out — and a quote with more moving parts than any other trade here.
Do you have any Saturdays left in October? We're thinking 120 guests, and we'd want the ceremony outside.
The competing venue's website took a message. This one held a date and sent a priced quote before anyone woke up.
Can we add another two hours at the end, and is there a discount if we move to a Friday?
Discount logic is the venue's own. The AI applies rules; it does not negotiate, and it never invents a rate.
If we cancel in January do we get the deposit back? Our situation has changed.
Anything contractual is a handoff. Pausing the marketing cadence on an at-risk customer is the detail most systems miss.
— no message from the couple in three weeks —
On a six-month sales cycle the follow-up is the product. This is the pipeline half doing work the answering half cannot.
The arithmetic on a single recovered Saturday.
Using the venue figures published on this site and the plan a venue would actually be on. Your own numbers will differ — that is the point of showing the working.
Rates are the published ones on the pricing page. This says nothing about how many dates you would recover — only what one is worth against the cost. Set your own recovery rate on the missed-call calculator; it defaults sceptical.
Eight trades.
One machine.
The same product, the same refusals, the same records — configured for what each trade actually asks.
Home services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing. The shortest decision on this list — whoever answers gets the job — and the only trade here where a wrong answer can be a safety problem.
My AC just died and it's 95°F (35°C) in the house with a baby. Can anyone come tonight?
The competitor's line rang out. This is the entire business case for this trade, in one exchange.
There's a smell of gas near the furnace.
The guardrail is written before go-live and tested on the demo call. Ask any vendor to show you theirs.
How much to replace a 40-gallon water heater? I'm out past the ring road.
Zone pricing applied without the customer having to explain where they live twice.
You serviced our boiler last winter. Is it due again?
This is the CRM half earning its place: the answering layer alone would have had to ask who they were.
Boutique stays
Guesthouses, small hotels, holiday lets. Every direct booking is one you didn't pay commission on, and every unanswered message at 11 PM is one you did.
Bonsoir, avez-vous une chambre double pour vendredi ? Nous arrivons tard, vers 23h.
The alternative was a booking through a channel that takes a percentage, or no booking at all.
We're checking out Sunday but our flight isn't until 8pm. Any chance of a late checkout?
A confident yes instead of "I'll have to check" — because it did check.
There's no hot water in room 4 and we have an early start.
In-stay problems are a handoff, always — but a handoff that arrives with the answer half-found.
Is it cheaper if we stay four nights instead of two?
Length-of-stay pricing is exactly the kind of rule a tired owner forgets to mention at 3 PM.
Academies & tutoring
Language schools, test prep, music, coding, sports. Parents ask in the evening, decide in a week, and enrol in two spikes a year — so the follow-up matters more than the answer.
My daughter is 14 and struggling with maths. Do you have anything for her level, and what does it cost?
Parent and student are two different records for a reason: the parent pays and decides, the student attends.
Can you guarantee her grade will improve?
Refusing well converts better than promising badly. The parent who hears "no" here trusts the "yes" later.
— placement session attended, no decision yet —
Term enrolment is decided in about a week. This is the automation that turns a good trial into a paying student.
Ana's sick today — will she miss the whole topic?
Term-time absence calls all land in the same twenty minutes. This is the least visible saving and the most reliable one.
Every one of these
arrived after hours.
That is not a coincidence in the writing. It is when the inquiries actually come.
Veterinary
Owners call frightened, at night, about an animal that cannot explain itself. More of these conversations end in a handoff than in any other trade here — and that is the correct design.
My dog just ate a whole bar of dark chocolate. What do I do?
Toxicity, dosage and symptom questions are refused categorically. What it can do is route fast and route correctly.
Our kitten needs her second vaccination — when is she due and how much?
Vaccination recall is pure recurring revenue that leaks whenever the desk is busy. It stops leaking here.
Roughly what does a dental clean under anaesthetic cost for a 12kg spaniel?
Price-shopping calls are most of the volume in this trade. Answering them accurately at 6:50 PM is the whole game.
She's very quiet today and hasn't eaten since yesterday. Should I be worried?
"Should I be worried" is the most common veterinary message and the one an AI must never answer.
Franchise & multi-site
Two problems at once: customers who must reach the right location, and candidates asking what it costs to open one. Both arrive on the same number.
I want to book at the Northgate branch, not the one downtown.
One number, many locations, no cross-quoting. Each site keeps its own hours, price list and inbox.
What does it cost to open one of your stores?
In franchising the refusal is not a nicety. Answering that second question wrongly is a legal problem, not a service one.
Is the downtown store open today? Google says one thing and your site says another.
Wrong opening hours are the most common reason a multi-site business loses a walk-in. This turns one into a booking.
— the owner opens one screen instead of calling four managers —
This is the artefact that makes it a management tool rather than a phone feature — and it is the reason multi-site owners buy.
None of the above needed a developer.
Every example on this page runs off the same four things, taken from what the business already has. This is the whole setup — there is no fifth thing.
diagnosis medication guaranteed outcome contract terms earnings projectiontreatment insurer new patient? · Venues: date guests budget bandRoughly thirty minutes of your attention across the first few days, spread over reviewing answers. We do the building. See the first week →
Eight of them end with the AI refusing and handing to a person, because that is the half you cannot judge from a feature list. Reading is one thing — the demo lets you pick the trade and the question yourself, and shows the six objects that come out.
Stop reading examples.
Make one with your own price list.
Send us your website and your prices. We'll come back with the AI answering the ten questions your customers actually ask — in your words, at your rates. Free, and yours to keep whatever you decide.