BayAssist
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The phone answered, around the clock

The phone rings while your team is under a car. Nobody answers. That was a booking.

BayAssist answers every call, books the job into your diary, and runs the workshop behind it. Keep your number, keep your kit, stop missing calls.

Do the one thing no video can fake: ring it right now and talk to it like a customer. Give it a reg. Book an MOT. Hear it read the booking back before it confirms.

The proof you can check yourself

761 of 771 inbound calls answered

At a real Telford garage, in its first four weeks live, it answered 761 of 771 inbound calls and handed the rest straight to the workshop.

28 June to 23 July 2026. One garage. Real calls. Do not take a number off a web page: ring 01952 767 010 and hear it for yourself.

The call you never knew you missed

Here is a normal Tuesday

Both ramps are full. One lad is on an MOT, the other is elbow deep in a timing belt, and you are on the phone to a parts factor. The workshop phone rings. It rings four times, then five, then it stops. Nobody was free. Nobody wrote it down. Nobody even registered that it happened.

That call was a bloke whose MOT is due Friday. He tried you first because you did his brakes last year. You did not answer, so he rang the garage on the next street, and they booked him in. You will never know you lost him, because to you the phone did not ring at all.

Now multiply that by every busy hour, every lunchtime, every evening after you have locked up and gone home. That is the leak. It is not dramatic and it does not show up on any report. It just quietly costs you work, every single week.

You cannot fix it by hiring someone to sit and wait for the phone. The calls do not come in a neat line. They come in a rush when you are flat out, and one at a time when you are shut. There is no shift pattern that catches them. That is exactly the job a machine should do.

The same Tuesday, with BayAssist

This time it gets answered on the second ring

Same Tuesday. Both ramps still full, you are still on to the factor. The phone rings, and this time it gets answered on the second ring, in a natural voice.

The customer says his MOT is due. It asks for his reg, looks the car up on the DVSA record while he is still talking, tells him the MOT is due Friday, and offers him a slot. He takes half nine. It reads the reg back to him letter by letter, reads the whole booking back, waits for his yes, and drops the job straight into your diary.

You did not touch the phone. You did not lose the timing belt job you were concentrating on. And when you look at the board at lunchtime, Friday half nine has a car in it that you would otherwise never have known wanted booking. That is the whole idea: the calls you are missing right now get answered and turned into work, without taking you off the tools.

What it actually is

Three things that are really one thing

A receptionist

Answers every call in a natural voice, day or night, even when every bay is full.

A diary that fills itself

From the phone, the web and the desk, all into one place, holding four kinds of job: an MOT, a service, a combined MOT and service, or a diagnostic and the repair behind it.

The workshop behind it

Bays, hours, job sheets, invoices, reminders, so the call becomes a booking becomes a job sheet becomes an invoice without anything being retyped.

Keep your number. Keep your kit. It bolts on and catches what you miss.

What happens on a single call

The whole day, run behind the phone

1

It answers, in a natural voice, every time

When nobody can get to the phone, an AI receptionist picks up and holds a real conversation. No menu, no press one. It asks what they need and it books it. Around the clock, including the calls that come in after you have gone home.

2

It looks the car up while they are still talking

Give it the registration and it pulls the car off the DVSA record, live, on the call: make, model, colour, MOT due date, and the advisories from last time. The booking is right first time because the government record filled it in.

3

It reads the reg back in the phonetic alphabet before it books

Letter by letter, each one a full word, with a real pause between them, then the whole booking read back, and it waits for a yes. A misheard reg or a wrong slot is caught on the call, not found on the ramp two days later.

4

Everything lands in one diary that cannot argue with itself

Phone, online and walk-in bookings all feed the same diary. Nothing to reconcile, no double-handling, no we will call you back. And a bay cannot be double-booked, because the diary refuses the clash at the moment of booking.

5

It fills the diary with four kinds of job

An MOT. A service. An MOT and service together, held as one job for the day, that it will not book unless the day can hold both halves. Or a diagnostic and the repair behind it, dropped onto a free ramp. It is not a one-trick MOT bot.

6

The board tells the truth about your day

Every job is sized to how long it really takes, so a two-hour job takes twice the room of a one-hour job and one glance tells you if the afternoon is full. A job booked but not yet placed on a bay still counts against the day's hours straight away. And a job waiting on a part parks in its own lane, off the clock, with the supplier and expected date, until the part lands.

7

The car is the record, not the customer

The history hangs off the registration, not the owner. Advisories and past MOTs stay with the car, so when it is sold the story goes with it and the new owner is tracked separately. You keep the thing that earns you repeat work.

8

A cancelled slot heals itself

Cancel or mark a no-show and the slot is free again for anyone else, instantly. No manual tidying, no ghost bookings blocking an empty ramp.

9

It knows your regulars

A returning customer gets greeted by name, with their existing booking read back to them, because the lookup already handed it their details. No regular is made to spell their reg to a machine that should already know them.

10

A walkaround video that sells the work for you

Record a short walkaround against the car, show the customer the worn tyre or the split boot, and send them a link. They authorise the work having seen it themselves. The link expires and the video deletes itself after seven days.

11

It keeps talking to your customers after they leave

Confirmation in seconds, a reminder the day before to cut no-shows, an MOT reminder when the year is nearly up that rebooks the diary for you, and a your-car-is-ready text at collection. One number, one clean thread.

12

It brings back the work you already found

Every MOT throws up advisories. This keeps them all against the car and chases the ones you choose, with a text from your garage, before the work is due. It works off the jobs you already spotted, so it earns its keep on your own customers.

13

Invoicing, job sheets, and a website you own

Raise the invoice straight off the booking, tick the VAT lines, finalise, and print at handover. Print a job sheet in your own format. And we build you a website you actually own, on your own domain, not rented back to you.

How it compares

The other option is the phone alone, with a bill that moves

There are cheaper-looking AI phone tools aimed at garages. Look at what you actually pay, and what you actually get.

The nearest garage AI phone tool

  • Metered per credit, no fixed per-call price
  • A bill that moves month to month, and a busy four-bay garage lands around £410 to £535 a month
  • Top-up packs when you get busy
  • The phone, and not much behind it
  • No single diary, no workshop, no website

BayAssist

  • One flat price that never moves
  • No metering, no per-call charge, no top-up packs
  • The whole system: receptionist, diary, workshop, reminders, recall
  • A website you own on your own domain
  • Ring it now and hear it before you pay a penny

Busiest month, quietest month, it is the same bill. You can plan around it.

The part nobody puts a number on

You cannot count the calls you never heard

Ask most garage owners how many calls they miss and they guess low, because you cannot count the calls you never heard. But the calls are real and so is the work on the other end of them. Do not take our word for the size of it. Do your own sum.

Take a garage on the sort of volume we see: roughly eight hundred inbound calls a month. Say it misses only one in five while everyone is on the tools, and say only one in ten of those missed callers was a job worth booking, at a cautious hundred pounds each.

Inbound calls a month~800
Missed while on the tools (1 in 5)~160
Of those, a real job (1 in 10)~16
At a cautious £100 a job£1,600 a month walked

Those are deliberately careful numbers. Put your own in. Your average job is probably worth more than a hundred pounds, and a busy MOT bay misses more than one call in five. The maths gets uncomfortable quickly, and every one of those was money that walked to someone else with no record it ever happened.

Keep your number, keep your system

It bolts onto what you already run

You keep your phone number, you keep the way you work, and nothing gets ripped out. It sits on top of your existing line and catches the calls you miss. It adds the receptionist and the diary without taking anything away.

The questions every owner asks

Straight answers

Do I have to change my number or my system?

No. You keep both. It sits on your existing line and answers the calls you miss. Nothing gets ripped out and nobody learns a new way of answering the phone.

What happens when it cannot handle a call?

It hands the call to you or takes a message. Because you keep your own number, the fallback is your own line and your own team. It is a safety net on the calls that would otherwise ring out, not a barrier in front of your customers.

What if it books something wrong?

It reads the reg back in the phonetic alphabet, letter by letter, then reads the whole booking back and waits for a yes, so a misheard reg or wrong slot is caught on the call. And it cannot double-book a bay, because the diary refuses the clash at the point of booking. A combined MOT and service will not book unless the day can actually hold both halves.

I already do online booking, or I have a system already.

Good, this sits with it. The difference is one diary that phone, online and walk-in all feed, so they cannot disagree, plus the receptionist answering the calls your online booking never catches, plus the workshop run behind it. Most systems are a booking form. This is the phone answered and the whole day run.

My customers will not want to talk to a machine.

They already talk to machines that make them press one, then hold, then ring out. This holds a real conversation, greets your regulars by name, and books them in thirty seconds without a queue. And it only picks up the calls you were going to miss anyway, so the alternative for that customer was not you answering, it was nobody answering. Ring it yourself and hear how it sounds.

What about GDPR and my customers' data?

The customer data lives in a database the garage owns, not scattered across a rented system, and there is not a second copy floating around. Call handling and booking run on UK regulated telephony. Any walkaround video is sent on a one-time link that expires and deletes itself after seven days.

Does it only do MOTs?

No. MOTs, services, an MOT and service combined as one job, and diagnostics with the repair behind them. Four kinds of job into one diary, with the workshop run behind it.

What it costs

One system, one price, everything in

No tiers. No add-ons. No per-call metering. No top-up packs. The whole thing, for a price that does not move whether you are flat out or quiet.

£697 a month, up to four bays

£797 to set up, once. Then £697 a month, everything included. What you see is the bill, forever. Bigger workshop? We size it to your bays on the call.

Work out what one missed job a week is worth to you, then look at that number again. But do not decide on a page. Ring it, then book ten minutes and see it against your own garage.

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