Four-partner high street firm, three practice areas
Assumes: 300 inbound calls a month, one full-time receptionist, no out-of-hours cover.
THE PROBLEM
Roughly a fifth of calls went unanswered at peak and in the lunch hour, and every evening enquiry hit voicemail. New enquiries reached fee earners as one-line messages with no intake detail.
WHAT CHANGES
Prime Assist answers every call, runs the firm intake and conflict questions, books consultations into fee earner diaries and writes a structured note to the matter file.
24/7
coverage, including evenings and weekends
Every
enquiry logged with intake notes
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Six-van plumbing and heating firm
Assumes: 40 to 60 calls a day across six engineers, calls diverting to the owner mobile.
THE PROBLEM
The owner was doing dispatch from the driver seat. Emergencies and routine service calls arrived in the same voicemail box, and out-of-hours work went to whoever answered first.
WHAT CHANGES
Emergency triage runs on the firm own script, the make-safe instruction is given, the on-call engineer is paged, and routine jobs land in the scheduler with postcode and access notes.
One call
from first ring to a booked job
Every
emergency triaged against your own rules
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60-cover neighbourhood restaurant
Assumes: 150 calls a week, no dedicated reservations staff, six services.
THE PROBLEM
The phone was answered by whoever was nearest, mid-service. Late cancellations went to voicemail and the table stayed empty because nobody heard until morning.
WHAT CHANGES
Every call is answered without anyone leaving the floor, bookings are written into the table system with covers and dietary notes, and cancellations release the table immediately.
0
calls missed in service
Instant
cancellation turnaround
24/7
shift line answered, including nights
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Four-surgery dental practice
Assumes: Peak morning volume with two reception staff and a full waiting room.
THE PROBLEM
Every line was engaged within minutes of opening. Patients who could not get through booked with another practice, and reception started each day behind.
WHAT CHANGES
All concurrent calls are answered at once, routine bookings and moves are completed in the practice system, and clinical questions are escalated to a human with the transcript.
All
lines answered at once
Audited
DCB0129 safety case
Every
recall call logged and outcome recorded
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District council contact centre
Assumes: 30,000 calls a quarter, many of them transactional or repeat contact.
THE PROBLEM
Peak-time waits of fifteen minutes drove abandonment and repeat calls, inflating volumes further. Officers spent the day raising requests a system could raise.
WHAT CHANGES
Transactional requests are raised with a reference number given on the call, vulnerability triggers escalate to an officer immediately, and every call carries a transcript for audit.
Reference
given on the call
Every
request raised with a reference on the call
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Independent agency, 120 managed units
Assumes: 500 calls a month across sales, lettings and property management.
THE PROBLEM
Weekend portal enquiries all rang on Monday morning, viewings could only be booked in office hours, and out-of-hours maintenance either woke a property manager or waited.
WHAT CHANGES
Enquiries are answered seven days a week, viewings are booked into negotiator diaries at the moment of interest, and maintenance is triaged against the agency emergency list.
Every
applicant qualified before a viewing is booked
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* Illustrative scenarios, not customer case studies. Each states the business size and call volume it assumes. The figures shown describe how the service behaves by design, such as answering every concurrent call and logging every enquiry. Commercial outcomes are deliberately absent: we publish those only with a named customer, evidence and written permission.