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We were running eleven people across two call centers just to answer the phone. Nine months in, that team is four people who handle escalations, and we book 22% more jobs than we did with eleven.

The first week it caught a call at 11:40 on a Sunday night from a patient with a broken retainer. Booked her for Monday at 8. That single call paid for the month.

I have run answering services, offshore teams, and two other AI vendors. Operon is the first one that actually knew our pricing well enough that I stopped listening to the recordings.

Rollout across 34 locations took eleven days. The part I did not expect was the reporting. I finally know which marketing spend produces booked revenue and which produces ringing phones.

Intake used to take my paralegals four hours a day. Now they read a structured summary with the conflict check already run and decide whether to take the case.

Our no-show rate was 19%. Operon confirms, reschedules, and refills the slot without anyone touching it. We are at 6% and the schedule stays full.

We stopped paying an answering service $4,100 a month to take messages we then had to call back. Operon just books the job while the customer is still on the phone.

Two of my locations were underperforming and I assumed it was demand. The reporting showed both were losing calls at the same two hours every day. It was a staffing problem I could not see.

I was the after-hours line for nine years. My phone does not ring at midnight anymore and the work still gets booked.

Our Spanish-speaking patients used to wait for a callback from the one bilingual person on staff. Now they get answered in Spanish immediately, at any hour.

The database audit found $600,000 of unbooked estimates sitting there. We had been buying leads while ignoring the ones we already paid for.

My paralegals were terrified it would give legal advice. Six months in, it has never once tried. It gathers facts and stops.