Forward the shop line.
Go back to tattooing.
You keep the number that’s on your sign, your cards and your Instagram bio. Nothing about how clients reach you changes. What changes is that the call gets answered.
What happens between the ring and your notification.
In this order, every time — because the order is what keeps the shop out of trouble.
- 01
It picks up on the first ring
Nobody at the front desk, every chair running, and the phone still gets answered — days, evenings, Sundays, and the hours between appointments when the shop is empty but the phone isn't.
- 02
It checks age before anything else
Because in New York a tattoo on a seventeen-year-old is a crime, not a policy problem, and no parent can consent to it. That question comes before the booking, not after.
- 03
It takes the brief instead of quoting
What the piece is, roughly how big, where on the body, new work or a cover-up, what style. Five questions that turn “how much?” into something you can actually price.
- 04
It routes to the artist who does that work
Fine line doesn't land on the realism artist's calendar because that slot happened to be open. If they name an artist, they get that artist. If nobody's a fit, it says so and takes the details.
- 05
It books the consult on a real calendar
Your calendar, your availability, your consult length. It offers what's genuinely free and never invents a slot to make a caller happy.
- 06
You get the whole thing in writing
The brief, the callback number, the recording and the transcript — waiting for you when you're washed up, so you can price the evening's enquiries in one sitting.
Nothing gets reprinted.
Shops have their number on a window, a business card, a hundred Instagram posts and somebody's forearm. It stays exactly where it is.
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You first, then the AI
The shop phone rings as normal. If nobody picks up in a few rings — because everybody’s working — it rolls to your receptionist instead of voicemail. You lose nothing and catch everything.
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Everything, always
Every call goes to the AI first and reaches you only when it should — a client in distress about a healing piece, or whatever else you’ve told it is worth interrupting you for.
Both are a short code you dial once on the shop handset. We walk you through it for your exact carrier.
You hear it before any client does.
When it’s built, we call you and you talk to it — as a client would, asking the things your clients ask. It goes live only when you say it sounds like your shop. If the tone is wrong, or it says something you’d never say, you change it and re-publish in about a minute.
What it needs to learnCall the line and try to trip it up.
Ask it what a half sleeve costs. Tell it you're seventeen. Ask whether your healing tattoo looks infected. It's the same AI that would answer for your shop.