Ronic · Grooming — AI front desk for pet grooming & appointment businesses

Every call answered. Every pet pampered.

Ronic answers your phone, your texts and your website — booking grooms, asking which pet, reserving the right table time, and bringing every pet back on its own cycle. Day, night, holiday weekend. Your team keeps full control.

24/7Always answering
4Channels, one brain
25Capabilities live
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C
B7-week cycle

Bella

Golden Retriever · large (62 lb)
Full Groom · ~90 min with Jordan
Sat Jun 21 · 11:30 AM
Booked & confirmed · deposit $20 paid
0 missed callseven at midnight
Right slot lengthper service
One number, the whole menagerie

Every pet gets their own everything.

Most homes have more than one animal on one phone. Ronic keeps a separate record, history and recall cycle for each — and the AI always asks which pet before it books.

B

Bella

Golden Retriever · large, 62 lb
Full Groom~90 min$20 deposit
M

Milo

Domestic shorthair · small
Nail Trim~15 min
C

Cooper

Doodle · medium, 40 lb
De-shed~60 min$20 deposit

Recall cadence, per service

auto-scheduled after each completed groom
Full Groomwash · cut · style
7 wks
De-shed Treatmentheavy coats
8 wks
Bath & Tidyquick refresh
6 wks
Nail Trimmaintenance
4 wks
Puppy First Groomgentle intro
one-off
The full capability index

Twenty-five capabilities, one engine.

Every line below is shipped and running in production today — the same engine behind clinics and salons, fit to grooming. A working index, not a roadmap.

Voice + textWeb widgetFront deskTwilio & more
01

24/7 AI receptionist

Answers every call in your shop’s own voice — books, reschedules, cancels.

02

“Which pet?” cascade

Always asks by name, captures breed & size, reserves the right table time.

03

Per-pet records

One phone, many animals — each with its own history and reminders.

04

Identity autofill

Returning pet parents recognised by number across voice, text and web.

05

Per-service durations

Full Groom 90m, Bath 45m, Nail Trim 15m — each booked with real buffers.

06

Smart waitlist

Cancellations auto-fill with a pet-named offer to the next in line.

07

No-show recovery

Warm rebooking message with live slots, then staff escalation if quiet.

08

Per-service recalls

Full Groom 7w · De-shed 8w · Bath 6w · Nails 4w — per pet, automatically.

09

Walk-ins & capacity

A walk-in picker that shows true real-time room per groomer.

10

Overbooking + bump list

Soft buffer + hard cap; overbooked pets promoted when a slot frees.

11

Deposits & no-show fees

$20 deposit on Full Groom & De-shed; no-show fee tracking built in.

12

Outbound campaigns

Rolling AI call waves over lapsed pets, each analysed after it ends.

One Saturday, start to finish

Where the day usually leaks — plugged, automatically.

The same engine catches every gap across a single day. Here’s the front-desk board at 9 AM, and four quiet saves around it.

Today · JordanSat Jun 21 · 9:04 AM
09:00Bella · goldenFull Groom · deposit $20 paidChecked in
10:30Milo · shorthairNail Trim · booked by MarcusConfirmed
11:00Cooper · doodleDe-shed · deposit $20 paidReminder sent
11:00Walk-in · RockyBath & Tidy · soft overbook 1/2Overbook
12:30Luna · poodleFull Groom · from waitlistWaitlist ✓
Capacity 9/8 · soft buffer in useBump list: 1 waiting
8:41 PM

The after-hours call

Closed two hours ago — the AI still books Bella’s Full Groom, recognises Jessica by number, and texts a confirmation before she hangs up.

11:02 AM

“For Bella or Milo?”

Marcus texts for a groom. The AI asks which pet, books Bella on her 7-week cycle, and keeps Milo’s nail-trim cycle separate.

1:12 PM

The cancellation that refilled

A 2 PM frees up. The waitlist offers it to Emily for Cooper — table full again in two minutes, no staff time spent.

+7 weeks

The no-show that came back

One tap marks a no-show → warm rebook. Seven weeks on, the recall brings Luna back for her next Full Groom — conversationally.

Under the hood, simply

One engine. Five moves, every time.

Call, text or walk in — the same pipeline runs, so behavior is consistent and everything lands in your records. And four promises hold on every move.

1

Pet parent reaches out

Call, text, web chat or walk-in — any door, any hour.

2

Identity resolves

Number → parent → which pet. History, consents and preferences load instantly.

3

The AI engine decides

Live availability, service rules, capacity limits and consent — all weighed in one step.

4

Calendar + record update

The booking lands in the calendar and the pet’s record at the same instant.

5

The loops keep running

Confirmations, reminders, recalls and recovery — scheduled the moment they’re needed.

Consent-first

Every message checks opt-in before it sends — enforced by the engine, not staff memory.

Privacy by design

Names redacted at rest in calendar data; each shop’s records in isolated storage.

Fully auditable

Every AI booking and decision logged with its reasoning — reviewable anytime.

Human in control

Step into any chat, override any booking, gate exactly which powers the AI has.

Built for teams, not just bots

Everyone sees exactly what they should.

Access is scoped by role at the data layer — not hidden by the UI. A groomer literally can’t query another groomer’s book.

O

Owner

Every location, groomer, conversation & KPI — plus full AI audit trail.

sees · everything
M

Shop manager

Their location’s calendar, team performance & daily digest.

sees · their shop
G

Groomer

Their own grooms and assigned tasks. Clean, focused, nothing else.

sees · their book
The owner’s morning digest

Numbers that move the shop, every morning.

98%Calls answered
−41%No-show rate
2.1×Recall yield
9minAvg refill time

Illustrative figures — your digest reports your shop’s real numbers.

Ready when you are

Stop losing grooms to a busy signal.

See your own shop’s flows running live — your services, your groomers, your phone number — in a guided 30-minute demo.

Ronic · GroomingThe front desk that never sleeps.
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