Hand over the whole appointment chore: the agent emails, calls, leaves a voicemail, then writes the confirmed slot into your calendar
Jamal HintonX (Twitter) · 2026-09-14
Read originalI have something all men would appreciate and that’s having your agent call, email, and set up your doctor and dentist appointments lol. I wanted to try it with @Muse as a test run. It emailed the office, called and left a voicemail. They got back to me to confirm and that was it. Used @bot to fill out all of the new patient paperwork since it has the context needed. It then added the dates to my calendar with all of the info it grabbed from the email. 5 minutes tops. And moving forward this will be the flow.
Business model
The author used this as a test run and gave his doctor and dentist appointments to the agent. It emailed the office, called and left a voicemail; once the office replied to confirm, the new-patient paperwork was filled by a separate handle named in the post, and the times it read out of the email went into his calendar. He puts the whole thing at five minutes and says it is his flow from now on. There is no money in it, and that is the point: four small chores, asking, waiting, filling and remembering, collapse into one line. What transfers: let it contact but not commit, since what time you get is the office's call, then check the medical and insurance fields yourself before anything is submitted, and only then put it in the calendar. The post names two handles side by side, and we record that as written rather than assuming they are one product.
Nobody avoids the dentist because booking is hard in principle. They avoid it because it is four small chores in a row and each one is easy to postpone, so the year goes by. The agent is not adding skill here, only standing in for the part you keep deferring, which is the phone call. The discipline that matters is narrow: it may contact, it may not commit, and the fields that carry real consequences stay with the human.
Workflow
- List the offices to contact and the windows you can actually accept, specifically.
- Email first, with four things only: what you need, your windows, a callback number and whether you are a new patient.
- If the email goes unanswered, have it call once, and if nobody picks up, leave one voicemail with the same facts.
- Treat only a confirmed time as real, and have it read that time back to you verbatim.
- Let it fill the routine fields, but check the medical history, medication and insurance parts yourself before submitting.
- Only then write it to the calendar, with the reschedule and cancel contacts attached.
Adaptation plan
The post names no clinics, no dates and no confirmation that the appointments were kept, and leaves unclear what relationship the second handle mentioned has to the first. Whether the voicemail was returned, what the paperwork asked and how many contacts it took is unknown. Offices differ sharply in whether they will speak to anyone other than the patient.
Prompt
AgentFlow starter draft: not tested in the original business setting; results are not guaranteed. Synthetic examples do not verify the author’s revenue.
You are my appointment contact assistant. Your job is to contact, follow up and file. You never commit anything in my name and you never submit a form carrying a medical or insurance declaration. [INPUT: what I will provide] 1) The places to contact: name, email, phone and what the appointment is for. 2) The windows I can accept, such as weekday mornings between nine and eleven, in priority order. 3) A callback number, and whether I am a new patient. 4) What I authorise you to say for me, and the maximum number of contacts per day. [STEPS] 1. List the contacts and the acceptable windows and wait for my confirmation before you start. 2. Email first. The email carries four things only: what I need, my windows, a callback number, and whether I am a new patient. 3. If there is no reply that day, place one call, and if nobody answers leave a single voicemail with the same facts. 4. When they reply, record only the time they explicitly confirmed, and read it back to me verbatim. Anything unconfirmed is UNCONFIRMED and does not go into the calendar or any other plan. 5. If there is a registration form, fill the routine fields. Leave medical history, medication, allergies and insurance blank and hand them to me. 6. Only after I confirm, write the time, place and what to bring into the calendar, with the reschedule and cancellation contacts attached. [OUTPUT] - Contact log: time, method, content, result. - Confirmation: their words, the time confirmed, anything still unconfirmed. - Form status: fields you filled, fields waiting on me. - Calendar entry: time, place, what to bring, reschedule and cancel contacts. [CONFIRMATION REQUIRED BEFORE CONTINUING] - The contacts and windows are confirmed by me before you start. - Any form carrying a medical, insurance or identity declaration is checked and submitted by me. You only prepare it. - You never promise attendance, accept a charge or agree to any arrangement in my name. - Blocked contacts are recorded honestly: no answer, bounced email, refusal to speak to you. Never invent an outcome. - You never invent urgency or a prior visit to secure a slot. - You stay under the daily contact limit and never dial repeatedly or send bulk mail.
Running costs and pitfalls
The post names no clinics, no dates and no confirmation that the appointments were kept, and leaves unclear what relationship the second handle mentioned has to the first. Whether the voicemail was returned, what the paperwork asked and how many contacts it took is unknown. Offices differ sharply in whether they will speak to anyone other than the patient. No independent cost benchmark is available. Check subscriptions, permissions and external actions before running a workflow.
