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Reminders where people actually reply

Every afternoon your Aivell pulls tomorrow's appointments from the calendar and messages each patient on WhatsApp — where they actually reply. Yes confirms, no offers the next free slots and rebooks, silence gets one nudge. The front desk starts the day with a list of confirmed, moved and silent.

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starts when: Tomorrow's appointments come up in your calendar

The problem

The no-show economics are brutal: an empty chair costs around $200 an hour in lost productivity, and a physio or dental practice runs eight of those hours a day. Most no-shows aren’t malice — the appointment was made three weeks ago and life happened.

So practices remind. But reminder emails land in promotions tabs, and reminder texts are one-way — the patient who wants to move the appointment still has to call, reach a busy front desk, and give up. The reply is where reminders earn their keep, and the place people reliably reply is WhatsApp.

How your Aivell does it

WhatsApp is rolling out to early-access customers first; this is the chore they run:

  1. The afternoon sweep. At 16:00 the Aivell reads tomorrow’s appointments from the calendar and messages each patient — time, practitioner, and for first visits, the address and where to park.
  2. Yes means done. A confirmation is logged, and nobody at the front desk touched anything.
  3. No means rebooked, not lost. The patient gets the next two open slots in the same thread; picking one moves the calendar entry on the spot — into free slots only, a guardrail forbids double-booking — and Nadia is told.
  4. Silence gets one nudge. At 19:00, one polite follow-up. Never two: the messaging guardrail caps contact at the appointment itself, so reminders can’t drift into pestering.
  5. The morning list is ready before the kettle. Confirmed, moved, still silent — Nadia starts the day knowing which gaps are real and can offer them to the waiting list.
  6. Medical content is untouchable. A patient who replies with symptoms gets a human, not an answer. The chore’s rule is absolute.

The scheduling brain, the patient list and every reply are processed inside your practice — the reminder just happens to arrive where your patients actually look.

The chore, as you'd write it.

No flowcharts, no code — a chore is just a message to your Aivell, in your own words. It shapes it into a solid, guarded procedure and follows it to the letter. This one:

Giulia Aivell · remind and confirm appointments ● active

each day at 16:00, pull tomorrow's appointments from the calendar

message every patient — day, time, practitioner, in their language

a yes marks it confirmed in the log

a no or a reschedule gets the next two free slots to choose from

rebooking moves the calendar entry and tells Nadia

no reply by 19:00? one gentle nudge, never a second

first-time patients also get the address and the parking note

anything medical in a reply goes to Nadia, unanswered

by 8:00, hand Nadia the list — confirmed, moved, still silent

You
Got it — I'll start right away, and check with you whenever something needs a human.
Giulia Aivell

The tools it uses.

Connected with single-click passkeys — no copied tokens, no OAuth hell.

Calendar provides tomorrow's list, takes rebookings
WhatsApp sends reminders, reads the replies
Spreadsheets keeps the confirmations log

Sensible guardrails.

Every tool can be limited to exactly what this chore needs. For this one, you might set:

WhatsApp May message only people with an appointment, only about that appointment. No promotions, no follow-up campaigns.
Calendar Can move a booking into a free slot. Deleting appointments or double-booking a slot is blocked.
Spreadsheets Appends to the confirmations log; existing rows are untouchable.

Questions, answered.

Patient names and appointment times are sensitive. Where are they processed? +

On the box, in your practice. The calendar lookup, the reply reading, the rebooking logic — all onboard. WhatsApp carries the messages, as it does when your receptionist types them; no cloud AI service reads your appointment book.

When is the WhatsApp channel available? +

It's rolling out to early-access customers first. The chore, guardrails and flow on this page are what early-access practices are getting; say hello if you want to be one of them.

What if a patient replies with something medical? +

The chore has one rule for that — hands off. Anything beyond yes, no or a new time goes to Nadia unanswered, so a reminder thread never turns into accidental telehealth.

Will patients get pestered? +

One reminder, at most one nudge, and only ever about their own appointment — the guardrail on the messaging tool makes campaigns impossible, not just discouraged.

Related.

What is an Aivell?

An Aivell is an on-premise AI colleague: a small box that plugs into your network, runs its own AI onboard and takes the repetitive work off your desk. Prompts, documents, data — nothing ever leaves your office. Unplug the internet: it keeps working.

You describe each task as a chore, in plain language. Your Aivell turns it into a solid, guarded procedure and runs it in the background — with guardrails on every tool, a complete audit trail, and approvals in your hand when you want them. One-time setup, fixed monthly fee. No tokens, no overages.

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