Real Estate · Workflow Automation
Viewings without phone tag.
How do we stop losing viewings to calendar phone tag?
Short answer
Check availability across buyer, vendor, agent and property access in one operation and confirm the slot, rather than sequencing three phone calls. Scheduling is the single most common point at which a warm buyer cools, and it is almost entirely mechanical.
The situation
A concrete version of this.
An agency where arranging a viewing requires reaching a vendor, confirming an agent is free, and calling the buyer back — often across two working days.
- The buyer requests a viewing and waits
- The vendor is called and does not answer
- By the time all three align, the buyer has seen two other properties
- Cancellations release slots that nobody refills
Why it matters
Every hour between request and confirmation is an hour in which a competitor agency can show the buyer something else. The delay is pure mechanism, with no judgement in it at all.
What gets built
Three things, in this order.
- 01
Multi-party availability resolution
Agent calendars, vendor preferences and property access constraints evaluated together to propose slots that actually work.
- 02
Confirmation and reminders end to end
Booking confirmed to all parties, calendars updated, reminders issued — with rescheduling handled the same way rather than reverting to phone calls.
- 03
Cancellation backfill
A released slot is offered automatically to buyers registered for comparable properties, recovering capacity that currently evaporates.
The metric
Hours from viewing request to confirmed appointment
It isolates the mechanical delay from everything else in the pipeline, which makes the improvement unambiguous and hard to argue with.
The boundary
What stays with a person
Vendor access preferences and any security or occupancy restrictions are hard constraints the system cannot override.
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Working example
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