AI agents for dental practices: the front desk that never puts a new patient on hold
A dental practice does not have a marketing problem so much as a front desk problem. The advertising works, the reviews are good, the phone rings, and the phone rings at the exact moment the receptionist is taking a payment, the hygienist needs a room, and the dentist has a question about the 2pm. The call goes to voicemail. New patients do not leave voicemails. They ring the next practice on the map, and that practice gets the exam, the hygiene visits and the family that follows. An AI receptionist for dentists exists to answer that call, and the text, and the website chat, and the Instagram message, at the moment it arrives, and to book the appointment while the person is still there.
Bold Agent Kit gives you one agent per practice, built from your own material. Give it your fee guide, your opening hours, the insurance plans and payment options you accept, your new patient information, the pages of your own site it may link to, and your answers to the questions the desk hears every day. Connect the phone number, a mailbox, the website widget and the social accounts you use, and the calendar the appointments need to land in. From then on it answers as your practice, from that material only, and books real open slots into Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Acuity Scheduling, Square Appointments, Zoho Bookings or the other calendars it connects to. It cannot invent a time and it cannot double-book a chair, because it is only ever shown slots that are genuinely free.
It also does the outbound jobs nobody at the desk has an afternoon for. The confirmation and reminder texts for the week. The recall sequence to patients overdue a hygiene visit. The reactivation campaign to the patients who have not been seen in two years. Each is a campaign you build once, with the steps, the days and the hours you set, and the agent works the replies, books the appointments, and stops the moment somebody books, answers or asks it to.
It is not a medical device and it does not practise dentistry. It does not give clinical advice, and it should not be collecting health information in conversation: you decide what it asks for and what it stores, and you write the rule that sends a patient describing pain, swelling or a knocked-out tooth to a person with the transcript. Responsibility for the regulations that apply to your practice, HIPAA, GDPR or whichever applies where you are, stays with the practice, as it would with a member of staff on the same phone. What the software gives you is the controls: what it asks, what it keeps, what it says, when it hands over, and a record of every conversation.
And it is $25 a month, or $200 a year, for the whole account. Unlimited agents, so a group with four practices runs four, each with its own number, calendar and knowledge base. No per-call, per-minute or per-message charge from us. You pay your carrier and your AI provider at cost, usually a few dollars a month each, and you keep every new patient it books.
The call answered on the first ringYour own Twilio number, real-time voice, and a transcript and recording of every call in the inbox.
Fees, hours and insurance from your materialYour fee guide, your plans and your Q&A pairs. It says what you told it to say and links only to your pages.
The booking, not a booking linkReal open slots from your calendar, offered on the call, and only a slot it offered can be booked.
Reminders, recall and reactivationText, email and call sequences at the week's list or the overdue list, inside the hours you set.
Emergencies go to a personA rule in its instructions sends pain, swelling or trauma to your inbox with the transcript, and it stands down.
One price, every location$25 a month for the account. Unlimited agents, one per practice. No per-minute or per-message charge.