
Three dietitians, two rooms and a video-consult diary, follow-ups that taper from weekly to monthly — and first-time callers who've been meaning to ring for months. Stella answers warmly, books first consults and follow-ups into each dietitian's real day, reminds, reschedules, and keeps the taper on its rhythm.
Good afternoon, Greenway Nutrition, this is Stella — how can I help you?
It's not that you need another practice module. Someone has to pick up warmly, know all three diaries, and keep the taper going.
Stranger's number, so: place, first name, help — then she listens. No pointed questions. First consult booked, follow-ups explained without a sales pitch.
The universal six, and two that matter when the plan tapers and the caller has been putting it off.
No menus, no “press one”, no hold music, no disclaimer wall. Place, first name, how can I help — in one breath. Then she listens instead of interrogating. And she's there at 7:40 in the morning and 9 at night — when the parent thinks of it, not when you open.
She searches actual availability — who is where, doing what, for how long, in which chair or room — and never double-books. If she offers 2:20, 2:20 is free.
Reminders go out ahead of time. When someone can't make it, she handles the flustered call with warmth and finds the next time without drama.
A cancelled four o'clock is the one slot you can't sell tomorrow. The moment it frees, she offers it — by text — to the people who've said they'd take short notice, who wanted earlier, or who owe a make-up. First yes takes it; nobody else hears about it.
A four o'clock cancels? She asks the five o'clock if they'd like to come earlier. Nobody is obliged, and it cascades — you finish at five, not six.
Someone turns down a 9am; she stops leading with mornings for them. Preferences, never rules — and when she checks, she uses very few words.
Someone who's been meaning to ring for months hears warmth, not a form. She books the first consult, explains what happens without a pitch, and asks nothing about why. Whether in person or video is the caller's choice.
The follow-up rhythm the dietitian sets is a plan with a taper, not three separate schedules. A moved visit moves once; the taper carries on; video and in-person live in the same diary.
She takes the cancellation the moment it comes, whatever the hour — nobody waits for the desk to open. Runway is money: the earlier she knows, the more people she can offer the slot to once your outbound hours open, and the likelier it fills. Your policy — notice period, deposit, fee — is yours; she states it plainly, applies it the same way every time, and stays kind about it.
Everyone on the short-notice list asked to be on it. Nobody is nagged; nobody hears another client's business.
A deep clean, a dietitian off sick, a clinic day that has to go to video — the whole block moves, and it's your call, not the patient's. You say it once; she works out who's affected, offers each patient the right alternative in their own words, waives the fee, logs the reason, and reports back. When you're running late rather than closed, the next patient gets a text before they leave the house — not a wait outside the door. Nobody hears why; nobody rings the desk.
The clinic's shut for a deep clean Friday — switch Friday to video where people are happy, else next week.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly — those are presets. Underneath is target spacing over a horizon, so a taper is one plan, not three, and a moved follow-up never rewrites it.
The first call took months. It should be answered by someone glad they rang.
A panel at the desk: who's next, in person or video, what changed. One button to say “move Ruth to three.” Supplement reps and scam calls never make it through.
Nothing clinical on the panel — first names and times. Your notes stay where they are.
No “press one”. No “your call is important to us”. No recorded disclaimers before a human word. Warm, short, present — and she says what she is if you ask.
She offers what's in your catalogue and staff profiles. She won't crown a “best” anyone or promise an outcome. A time she offers is a time that's free.
A moved client hears “we need to move your Tuesday — let me find you another time.” Never who, never why. And once moved kindly, they're not yo-yo'd back.
She doesn't lead with it and doesn't apologise for it. Ask, and she'll tell you plainly: she's the assistant. She helps; that's what people remember.
Per seat — a person Stella books — counted from her own book each month. Nothing to declare, nothing to meter, no percentage of your takings. Month to month, no contract.
She picks up, day and night, and takes care of the appointment someone is calling or texting about.
Everything in Answer, plus everything she starts — on her own inside your outbound hours, or on one sentence from you.
Three dietitians on Answer & Act: $207 a month. A seat is a person with ten or more appointments on their name that month. Under ten they're free — stand-ins, part-timers and holiday cover cost nothing; the receptionist, the rooms and the owner-as-admin don't count at all. No contract: you stay because it works. Price for life: your rates are locked the moment you start — we may raise prices for new customers, yours never change, and moving between the two lines keeps your locked rates for both. Cancel or stop paying and the lock is forfeited. A commitment, not a promo. Early access is configured by hand and priced exactly like this.
Your consult types and lengths, your dietitians and rooms, video and in-person hours, your taper presets. She's configured by hand for the first practices — a few at a time.
Put your site in. If we already know it, we skip the hunt. Then call her from the phone you give us — she'll know it's you.