Your next hire doesn't need a salary. Generic AI is built to be helpful. Iris is built to run your front desk - so your team can focus on the work.
A live daily brief you will actually read - then click through the rest of Iris's workspace, exactly as your team sees it. 👆 Try it yourself.
Between WhatsApp, email, your booking software, follow-ups and review requests, a lot falls between the cracks. By the time you notice a lead slipped through, the damage is done.
You're busy with customers all day. An enquiry at 11pm gets a reply at 8am - by which time half have booked elsewhere.
A few missed bookings a week is tens of thousands of rand a month, leaking quietly out of the business.
Repeat customers are the cheapest revenue you can earn - and the most often forgotten when nobody reaches out.
New leads wait hours for a response
The front desk is stretched too thin
Bookings get missed or forgotten
Happy customers are never asked for reviews
Past customers disappear without rebooking
Iris answers the easy ones instantly, and knows exactly when to hand the rest to a person.
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Eight capabilities, one Iris, every channel your customers use - WhatsApp, Instagram, email, SMS and web chat.
Pricing, hours, availability, what to expect - answered instantly, in your voice, the moment a customer asks.
Iris qualifies every enquiry - what they want, budget, timing - so your team knows who to prioritise.
Iris checks availability, shares pricing and books directly into the calendar you already use.
From what to bring to aftercare, Iris handles the repetitive questions that tie up your front desk.
Anything it shouldn't answer - a complaint, a custom quote, a sensitive question - goes straight to your team.
Iris reaches out to leads who went quiet and follows up after a visit - one gentle nudge, never spam.
Smart reminders at 24 hours, 2 hours and same-day. Customers confirm or reschedule instead of disappearing.
Iris asks happy customers for a review at the right moment - and knows not to ask the unhappy ones.
Iris reaches out at the right interval for each service, so customers rebook without being chased.
Iris wins back customers who quietly stopped coming, with a warm, well-timed nudge.
A clear monthly view of bookings, rebooking and retention - no dashboards to decode.
Iris answers the phone too, in your voice, for the calls your team can't reach.
Iris isn't a system that locks you out. She's a member of your team who reports in. Every morning she delivers a clear summary - yesterday's leads, bookings made, handoffs awaiting you and follow-ups due.
You approve, you adjust, you escalate. Iris keeps running. The business stays yours.
Prefer to dig in? There's a clean backend too - full conversation logs, lead pipeline, handoffs and reporting, all in one view. You don't need it to run the business. It's there if you want it.
Already got your booking system sorted? Iris doesn't replace it - she fills the gap in front of it. Your customers don't open your booking page at 9pm. They send a WhatsApp. Iris meets them there - answers pricing, collects their preferred day and time, flags anything for your team - then routes it into your existing workflow.
Iris handles the conversation and surfaces the booking request for you to confirm in your current system. One tap.
Iris books directly into your calendar. She checks availability, confirms the slot, sends the details and schedules the reminder. You open your diary in the morning and the bookings are already there.
Where your customers message
Works with your tools
Most tools either charge you per message, take a cut of every booking, or sell you an AI that answers questions it shouldn't. The real comparison isn't software. It's staffing.
Works 8-5 on weekdays, takes leave, calls in sick. Iris answers nights, weekends and holidays - and never forgets a follow-up.
A booking page only helps the customers who open it. Iris meets them where they already message and does the talking first.
A chatbot answers from a script. Iris knows your services, prices and tone - and hands over anything it shouldn't answer.
| A part-time receptionist vs Iris | Receptionist | Iris |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | R8,000 - R15,000 | from R2,500 |
| Available hours | 8am - 5pm, weekdays | 24 / 7 / 365 |
| Replies at 10pm on a Sunday | No | Yes |
| Takes leave | 15+ days a year | Never |
| Calls in sick | Yes | Never |
| Answers pricing consistently | Depends on training | Every time, exactly as set |
| Handles many conversations at once | Unlikely | Yes |
| Remembers every customer's history | If they've been there long enough | From the first message |
| True monthly cost (incl. UIF, leave) | R10,000 - R20,000 | from R2,500 |
Iris doesn't replace your team. She's the hire you can't justify yet - until now.
If your customers message, call or DM to book - Iris answers, books and follows up, day or night.
Fill the chair, not the voicemail. Iris books the 9pm "any space Saturday?" while you're with a client.
Book patients without pulling your team off the floor - and hand anything sensitive straight to a person.
Turn every "how much?" into a booked session, and win back members who quietly drifted away.
Never miss the after-hours "are you available?" - Iris captures the job, qualifies it and books the visit while you're on the tools.
Iris isn't a subscription that nickel-and-dimes you. One flat monthly rate, the way you'd budget for a team member. No per-message fees, no hidden costs, no credits that run out mid-month.
For a small founding group, in exchange for feedback and a case study. Includes full done-for-you setup. No risk: if it doesn't work for your business, walk away.
No. A chatbot answers from a script. Iris is an AI front desk: she knows your services, your prices, your tone and your rules - and she gets smarter about your specific business with every interaction.
No. Iris handles the repetitive front-desk work - answering, qualifying, booking and following up - so your people spend their time on customers, not admin. She's the extra hire you couldn't justify yet.
Iris knows her limits. Anything sensitive, a complaint, or a question that needs a person - a custom quote, a judgement call - gets handed straight to your team, with the full context, so nothing slips.
Iris takes privacy seriously. Conversations are processed securely to run your front desk, and you stay in control of your customer data - it's never sold or shared across other businesses. We'll walk you through a simple privacy overview during onboarding.
Yes. Iris sits in front of the tools you already use. On Starter she surfaces the booking for you to confirm in one tap; on Growth she books directly into your calendar and schedules the reminders.
Iris keeps working - we'll flag that you're near your limit and help you move to the right plan. No surprise per-message charges, ever.
No lock-in. Iris is month-to-month and you can cancel any time. The 30-day risk-free guarantee means you can try it with nothing to lose but the setup, which we refund if it's not a fit.
Done-for-you onboarding: we load your services, pricing, hours and tone, connect your channels, and tune Iris to sound like your business before she goes live - usually within 10 days.
A 15-minute call. We show you Iris live, on a real workspace. No pitch deck.