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AI Automation for Dental

An Unfilled Hour Cannot Be Sold Later.

A practice is a diary with people in it. Every other business can catch up on a slow morning; you cannot, because the hour has gone and the chair was empty for it. Two things empty the diary — the cancellation at eight this morning for a two o’clock slot, and the recall that was due in March and never went out. Both are administrative. Neither is clinical. That is precisely why this is worth automating and precisely where it has to stop.

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A dental chair and equipment in a treatment room
The economic unitThe diary
Clinical decisionsNot ours
The Numbers First

Two problems, and both are admin

Neither of these requires a clinical judgement, which is what makes them the right place to start.

  • A cancellation at 8am for a 2pm slotSix hours to fill it, by hand
  • The recall that was due in MarchNobody sent it. Nobody noticed
  • The patient who did not rebookLeft after treatment, never returned
  • Reminder calls, one at a timeReception’s whole afternoon
  • “How much is a filling?”Answered fifty times a week
  • Enquiries arriving after 5pmWaiting until Monday to be read

Row one is the one with a clock on it. A slot cancelled at eight in the morning is worth something at nine and nothing at three, and filling it means contacting the right people fast — those who wanted an earlier appointment, who live close enough, and whose treatment fits the gap. Doing that by hand while running a reception desk is why most of those hours are simply lost.

Straight Talk

Nothing clinical. Pain goes straight to a person.

This has to be unambiguous, so: we build nothing that assesses a symptom, judges urgency, or advises a patient about their teeth. Anybody describing pain, swelling, bleeding, an injury or an emergency reaches a human being immediately, without a first answer being attempted. That routing is not a fallback we add later — it is the first thing built and the first thing tested.

What sits safely on the administrative side is substantial on its own. When your next available appointment is. What a treatment costs, where you publish a fixed price. Where to park, what to bring, how to cancel. Whether a recall is due. Confirming, moving or cancelling a booking. None of that requires an opinion about anybody’s mouth.

The recall system is where most practices find the largest genuine return, and it is unglamorous. A patient due six months ago who never received the reminder is a chair you were counting on that stayed empty, and the reason is almost never a decision — it is that somebody was busy in March. A recall that goes out on time, every time, is worth more than any clever thing on this page.

Our main AI automation page covers the data question properly, and it applies sharply here because patient records are among the most sensitive information a small business holds. The short version: the decision about what leaves your practice gets made first, deliberately, and for some practices the answer is that nothing does.

  • Pain and emergencies reach a person — Immediately, with no first answer attempted.
  • No symptom assessment, ever — Urgency is a clinical judgement and not ours.
  • Recalls are the biggest return — Unglamorous, and the chair it fills is real.
  • Short-notice gaps have a clock — Worth filling at nine, worth nothing at three.
  • Patient data decision first — Made deliberately. For some practices nothing leaves.
A doctor consulting with a patient at a desk

A recall that goes out on time, every time, is worth more than any clever thing on this page.

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Ghalib Ashrafi Founder & Digital Strategist · 12+ years across search, social & web

What we build for a practice

Six builds, all administrative, ordered by what they do to the diary.

01

Recalls That Actually Go Out

Due, sent, tracked, followed up — without depending on anybody remembering in a busy week. The least exciting build here and the one that fills the most chairs.

02

Short-Notice Gap Filling

A cancellation offered immediately to the patients it actually suits — wanted an earlier date, close enough to come, treatment fits the gap. The window is hours, which is why doing it by hand rarely happens.

03

Pain Routes Straight to a Person

Built first and tested first. Anything describing pain, swelling, bleeding or an injury reaches a human immediately, with no attempt at a first answer. This is the part that has to be right before anything else ships.

04

The Repetitive Questions

Opening times, parking, what to bring, how to cancel, and prices where you publish them. Answered from what your practice has already approved, not from anywhere else.

05

Reminders Without the Afternoon

Confirmations and reminders that reception is currently making one at a time. It gives back a predictable block of hours every week, which is usually the first thing anybody notices.

06

The Patient Who Did Not Rebook

Treatment finished, nothing booked, and nobody followed up. A gentle, scheduled prompt that treats them as a patient rather than a lapsed subscription.

RecallsThe biggest return
HoursThe window on a cancellation
NeverClinical or symptom judgement
FirstWhen pain routing is built

What clients say

Real clients, quoted in their own words — published with their permission.

More of them, in full, on our reviews page.

— Our Proprietary Methodology —

The Visibility Framework™, applied in Dental

The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.

Step 01

Audit The Hours

Where time actually goes, task by task, scored on volume, repetition and the cost of getting it wrong. Ends in a ranked blueprint with estimated hours saved — yours to keep either way.

Step 02

Design The Guardrails

Before any building: what the agent may touch, where a human must approve, what happens when it is unsure, and which data is never allowed near a third-party model.

Step 03

Build & Evaluate

One workflow at a time, in your accounts, scored against real examples from your business before it touches live work. Shipped early so it meets reality while it is still cheap to change.

Step 04

Run & Improve

Monitored for cost, failures and quality drift. Models change, your business changes, and an automation nobody tends becomes a liability rather than an asset.

Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment

If the audit concludes that a task is not worth automating, we will tell you and refund the difference rather than build it anyway. And if a workflow we built does not hit the outcome we agreed in the blueprint, we keep working on it at no extra cost until it does or we take it out.

Investment

AI Automation pricing for Dental, in GBP

Quoted in pounds after the data conversation, because patient records are among the most sensitive information a small business holds. Nothing on this page is clinical advice, nothing we build assesses a symptom, and we name no regulator because which one applies depends on your business, and a sales page is the wrong place to find out.

Recalls

The one that fills chairs.

£1,800 – £4,000
  • Recalls due, sent, tracked and followed up
  • Reminders and confirmations off reception’s desk
  • Pain and emergency routing built and tested first
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Multi-Site

Several practices, or data that must stay put.

£9,500+
  • Per-practice diaries with shared standards
  • Local deployment where records must not leave
  • Evaluated against your own enquiries before going live
  • Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
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Every plan is scoped around your market — start with a free first look and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.

What you’re actually committing to

Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.

  • The audit is credited, not sunkPay for the audit, and the full amount comes off the build if you proceed. If you don’t, the blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone else.
  • A fixed build price after the auditQuoted once we know what we are building. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our risk — the price only moves if you change the scope.
  • You own everythingAccounts, API keys, workflows, prompts, evaluation sets, logs and documentation — all in your name from day one, and still yours if we never work together again.
  • Running costs are yours and visibleAPI usage is billed by the provider directly to you. We never resell tokens or mark up usage, and you see the real number.
  • The retainer is month to month30 days’ notice, no exit fee. Stop it and your automations keep running — you are simply maintaining them yourself.
  • Human approval is the defaultAnything customer-facing or irreversible needs a person until the evaluation data justifies otherwise, and that decision is yours to make, not ours.

These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.

Dental AI Automation questions, answered

Will it give patients dental advice? +
No, and this is not a soft limit. Nothing we build assesses a symptom, judges urgency or advises anybody about their teeth. Pain, swelling, bleeding and injuries route to a person immediately with no first answer attempted — that routing is the first thing built and the first thing tested.
Recalls, almost always, and it is the least interesting answer available. A patient due six months ago who never got the reminder is a chair you were counting on that stayed empty, and the reason is rarely a decision — it is that somebody was busy that month.
Yes, and this is where the clock matters. A slot cancelled at eight in the morning is worth something at nine and nothing at three. Filling it means contacting the patients it actually suits — those wanting an earlier date, close enough to attend, with treatment that fits the gap — within a very short window.
That is a decision to make before any build rather than a reassurance to accept after one. What leaves the practice, what is contracted not to be trained on, and whether anything needs to run on your own infrastructure — settled first. For some practices the answer is that nothing leaves at all.
That page is about getting a patient to the right place safely, and it owns the escalation and welfare argument. This one is about the diary as the economic unit — recalls, unfilled hours and the arithmetic of a chair nobody sat in. Same care about clinical limits, different problem.
Yes, and doing better work. What goes is the afternoon of reminder calls made one at a time and the repetitive questions asked fifty times a week. What stays is every conversation where a person is actually needed, which is most of the ones that matter.
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