
Six clinicians rotating across three clinics. Stella answers, books evaluations and follow-ups into each clinician's real hours at each clinic, reminds, reschedules, and keeps every plan of care on its rhythm — with the “sooner if you can travel” offer built in.
Good afternoon, Harbor Physio & OT, this is Stella — how can I help?
It's not that you need more software. Someone has to pick up, know who's where, and make the sooner-elsewhere offer without an interrogation.
Stella asks one yes/no question about place, hears the real answer, and offers the trade: wait here, or sooner at the other clinic.
The universal six, and two that matter when your team rotates and your patients follow a plan.
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.
Availability is per clinician, per clinic, per hour. When the home clinic is full she offers the other one as a plain trade — always time and place together, and never a geography interrogation.
Twice a week for six weeks means twice a week, sensibly spaced. When a session moves, only that session moves; the next week returns to normal by itself.
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 clinician stuck at the hospital, a treatment room out of action, a snow day at one clinic — 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 it's an overrun rather than a closure she works by who can still act: the patients who haven't left home yet get the call and the choice; the ones already in the waiting room get the real ETA; nobody further out is touched unless the delay keeps growing. Nobody hears why; nobody rings the desk.
Dr. Reyes is stuck at the hospital till three. Push her morning to the afternoon or offer Harbor Street.
Clinicians aren't owned by a clinic — presence is a schedule. Stella knows who is where on which day, searches the caller's home clinic first, and offers another one only when it's meaningfully sooner.
The referral is the easy part. Answering the phone when it comes is the hard part.
A panel at each clinic's desk: who's next, what changed. A voice button for “move Ruth to eleven.” Vendors and scam calls never make it to the floor.
The clinician's frame — hours, clinics, days — guides what Stella offers on her own. A direct instruction is simply carried out and teaches her nothing about “normal.”
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.
Six clinicians on Answer & Act: $414 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 services, your clinicians and where they are on which days, your rooms, your plans of care. 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.