A patient texts to book an eye exam and their first question is whether you take VSP or EyeMed, but the front desk is busy dispensing glasses and pretesting the next patient, so the message sits until the end of the day.
Book a CallWe build an AI sales agent that replies to each exam inquiry by text, email, and web form within minutes, answers which vision plans you accept from your facts file, books the comprehensive exam on your calendar,
And follows up when a patient goes quiet, stopping when they reply or a person on your team steps in, so open chair time does not sit idle in the exam lane.
An optometry practice earns twice from every patient, once in the exam lane and again at the optical bench, and the two feed each other for years through annual recall, contact-lens supply, and second pairs. To fill that funnel you pay for Google Ads, your website, and your Google Business Profile so exam requests arrive by text, email, and web form.
Then reality intrudes. The front desk is adjusting frames, running a materials benefit, or pretesting a patient in the lane, so a new patient asking whether you accept their VSP plan waits for a reply and messages the practice two blocks over.
Behind the front desk, questions about contact-lens fittings, second pairs, and exam times pile up in the inbox while the team is dispensing. An AI sales agent closes those gaps.
It replies to each exam inquiry within minutes, answers which vision plans you accept from your facts file, books the comprehensive or contact-lens exam on your calendar, and follows up when a patient goes quiet so a question does not end in silence.
The costliest missed message in an eyecare practice is the new patient asking whether their vision plan is accepted, because that one exam becomes years of annual visits, contact-lens supply, and eyewear. When it sits unanswered during a busy dispensing hour, there is no second chance; the patient books elsewhere.
The leaks continue past the first message. A patient who asked about an exam time gets a short answer and no follow-up, so exam lanes run soft midweek.
A patient who emails about contact lenses or a second pair gets a short reply from a busy desk, then nothing, and the question that needed a booking never turns into one. Someone who admired progressive sunglasses at the dispensary walks out meaning to think about it, and the follow-up never happens.
Every one of these is capture rate leaking away, exam-to-optical conversion you already paid to earn, drifting out unworked while next week’s schedule still shows open chair time.
A growth system built around how an eyecare practice actually earns, from the first exam inquiry through vision-plan questions,
Exam booking, contact-lens fitting requests, and the follow-up that turns an inquiry into a booked visit.
The agent replies to exam inquiries that reach your inbox, text number, or web forms from your site, Google Ads, and social campaigns within minutes, at any hour,
So a patient shopping for an eye exam reaches your practice instead of waiting while the front desk is dispensing glasses.
It answers the question that decides most bookings, whether you accept the patient’s VSP, EyeMed, Davis Vision, or Spectera plan, as listed in your facts file,
Never quotes a benefit amount or checks a patient’s coverage, and separates a routine annual exam from a contact-lens fitting or a medical eye visit.
It books comprehensive exams, contact-lens exams, and follow-ups on the calendar for the right optometrist and lane, then sends a confirmation to the patient’s email,
And your team can read the whole thread, so the front desk can step in when a lane has a last-minute hole instead of leaving it idle.
It follows up with patients who asked about an exam and then went quiet, with a short message at a set pace,
Offering open times again and booking the exam, and stopping as soon as the patient replies, a person steps in, or STOP is received.
It answers contact-lens and eyewear questions from your facts file, such as which fittings you offer and how a pickup works,
And books the fitting or the pickup, sending anything about a prescription or an eye-health concern to your optometrist with the full thread.
It books against the calendar you set up for each optometrist and lane, and your team can read every conversation,
So the front desk and optical work from one schedule and nobody has to ask what a patient was told.
When every exam inquiry gets answered within minutes and booked into a real lane, the ad spend that used to leak into unanswered messages has a better chance of turning into exams on the schedule. The front desk stops living in the inbox between patients and gets back to dispensing and verifying benefits, the exam lane gets fuller midweek, and the eyewear a patient asked about at the bench gets a reply that books the pickup.
The optometrists get patients who arrive with the right exam type booked, and the owner gets a weekly report of inquiries received, answered, booked, and handed to a person.
The new exam inquiry is the reason the marketing budget exists, and in eyecare it usually opens with insurance. Before anything else the patient wants to know if you take their VSP or EyeMed plan. If that question sits unanswered during a busy dispensing hour, the patient books the practice down the street. The agent answers the text, email, or web form within minutes, on the channel the person used, greets them by your practice name, and moves straight to the plan question that decides most first bookings.
From there it asks the few questions a sharp front desk would. It tells the patient whether the plan they named is one in your facts file, and captures why they are coming in, a routine annual exam or a first-time contact-lens fitting. Then it books the right appointment type into an open slot by optometrist and lane, so the schedule the front desk sees is already correct and the patient arrives expected and pretested on time. A red or painful eye is a hard case: it goes to a named person on your team, not into a booking.
Most eyecare practices chase new patients while another gap sits in the inbox: patients who asked about an exam, got a short reply, and never booked. Following those up by hand rarely happens because the front desk is buried in messages and the optical floor. The agent takes it on directly. It works only with patients who have written to you. When a patient goes quiet, it sends a short follow-up in your tone, offers open times again, and drops the appointment onto the calendar once the patient picks one.
Because these are patients who already asked, a follow-up is the cheapest lane time in the building. The agent paces the messages so they feel personal rather than a blast, handles the back-and-forth of finding a time around work or school schedules, and stops when the patient replies, when a person on your team steps in, or when the patient sends STOP. Your team can read every thread, so the front desk sees who rebooked.
The optical bench is where an eyecare practice makes much of its money, and two quiet leaks drain it. Contact-lens wearers who ask about a reorder wait for an answer and buy from a website instead. And patients who admired a second pair, prescription sunglasses, or a progressive upgrade at the dispensary leave meaning to decide later, and later never comes. The agent answers both kinds of message within minutes, from your facts file, so a patient who asks about a reorder or a second pair gets an answer and an open time while the question is fresh.
On eyewear, it answers the practical questions that stall a decision, how the second-pair or bundle offer works and when to expect pickup, as written in your facts file, then books the dispensing pickup. It never states a price or allowance that is not in the file, adjusts a prescription, or makes a clinical recommendation; when a patient has a true prescription or eye-health question, it sends the thread to a named person such as your optometrist or optician, and the patient gets one short holding message. What it does is keep the conversation moving so an exam turns into optical revenue instead of a lost second sale.
Someone shopping for an eye exam is weighing two or three offices within the same hour, so how fast you reply matters more than any script. The agent watches your inbox, your text number, and your website forms, including those that come from Google Ads and social campaigns, and starts the conversation within minutes on whichever channel the patient chose. Since it handles each inquiry the same way and your team can read every thread, the owner finally gets an honest read on the weekly numbers: inquiries received, answered, booked, and handed to a person.
None of that helps if the front desk cannot see it, so the agent works through your calendar, your email, text messages and your web forms, and your team can read every thread. It does not connect to RevolutionEHR, Eyefinity, Crystal PM, or Compulink. Tell us which tools you rely on and we will say plainly what it can and cannot do with them on a call. The front desk keeps one schedule as the source of truth, and the agent offers only slots that are open on the calendar.
Because it converses with patients, the agent has to fit within your HIPAA program, and we describe how it handles patient information so your compliance lead can assess it. The agent asks only for what your facts file lists, such as the reason for the visit and the plan name. Your team can read every thread, and in the first week every reply waits for your approval. Whether a Business Associate Agreement is needed depends on what your team sends through the system, and we will talk that through plainly on a call. We never stand in for your privacy officer or counsel or promise a compliance result.
A firm clinical line is built in too. The agent replies, books, and follows up, and it performs none of the optometrist’s work. It will not diagnose, interpret a vision or eye-health symptom, read imaging, change or reissue a prescription, or advise on contact-lens wear or eye medication. If a patient reports sudden vision loss, eye pain, a chemical splash, a burst of flashes and floaters, or anything urgent, the agent does not answer it. The thread goes to a named person on your clinical team, such as your on-call optometrist, with the full conversation attached, and the patient gets one short holding message.
We build production-grade agent systems that stand up to real inquiry volume, engineered by people who keep them working, not scripted demos. We know how an eyecare practice actually earns: where exam inquiries originate and what each one cost you, why a VSP question plays out differently from an EyeMed one, how the exam-to-optical capture rate can make or break the month, and why a booking has to respect your optometrists, lanes, and exam types.
Our agent stays reliable when the morning dispensing rush and a wave of messages arrive together.
The agent handles exam inquiries, vision-plan questions, contact-lens questions, and eyewear follow-up the way a strong front desk and optical team would, asking the optometry-specific questions in your facts file so an annual exam, a contact-lens fitting, and a second-pair pickup each land in the right place.
Everything is booked on your calendar by optometrist, lane, and exam type, and your team can read every thread, so your team works the one schedule they already trust and nothing hides in a separate app.
New-patient replies, follow-up for quiet inquiries, contact-lens questions, and eyewear pickup booking are all part of the same agent, so it fills the exam side while it keeps the optical conversations moving.
The agent replies, books, and follows up. It does not diagnose, interpret vision symptoms, adjust a prescription, or give clinical eye advice, and it hands anything clinical or an urgent eye problem to your optometrist with the full context attached.
They built the automation around how we actually work rather than making us change to fit a tool.
They automated the process work that was quietly eating our week. It runs now without anyone thinking about it, which is the only real test.
Our marketing operations are automated end to end. We brief the outcome and the workflow handles the rest.
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