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The 3am reschedule
Moved, confirmed, and nobody was awake
A reschedule is four actions that all have to happen or none of them should: find the booking, check what is free, release the old slot, take the new one. Getting three of the four done is worse than doing nothing.
- Four actions in one exchange, at any hour
- The old slot is released so somebody else can have it
- A crash mid-way never leaves a double booking
- The diary is the same one your staff are looking at
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Today
A voicemail at 3am, a callback at 10am, a slot sitting empty in between, and a patient who already booked elsewhere.
With this running
The appointment is moved before anyone opens their eyes, and the released slot is available to the next person who asks.
Reading what the interrupted turn already did…
One booking. Not two.
A restart that repeats itself is worse than one that never happens — the customer sees the mistake.
Step by step
What actually happens
- Customer
Something's come up, can I move Thursday to next week?
- Assistant
Finds the patient, reads their upcoming appointments, and checks what is free with the same practitioner.
- Assistant
“Of course — I have Tuesday 14:00 or Wednesday 16:30 with Dr Amara. Which suits?”
- Customer
Wednesday
- Assistant
Releases Thursday, books Wednesday 16:30, confirms both in one message.
01 / 02
The half that is easy, and the half that is not
Reading a diary and offering times is the easy half. The hard half is that a reschedule is a sequence: release, then book. If the process handling it dies between those two — a deploy, a timeout, a machine going away — a naive system either loses the new booking or, far worse, makes it twice when it retries. This one records each action as it happens, so a restart continues rather than repeating.
02 / 02
Cancelling can need a person; booking usually does not
Most clinics are happy for an assistant to fill a free slot and want a human eye on anything that empties one. That is a switch, not a rewrite: mark the cancelling action as needing approval and it stops, tells the patient it is checking, and puts the request in front of whoever is on. Nothing is cancelled on a silence.
How this is put together
The same building blocks every assistant is made of. Nothing here is bespoke to this scenario.
What starts it
A customer message — A patient messages about an existing appointment
Where it runs
What it can do
- Checked the time
- Looked up a contact by number
- Looked through the appointments
- Checked what times are free
- Cancelled an appointment— needs your approval
- Booked an appointment
- Replied
What it uses
Needs
An account running the matching industry module — the tools above come with it. See the modules
Every action above is a real capability, and every run keeps a record of which ones it used. How the engine holds this together →
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