THE INTAKE LINE  ·  novruz@theintakeline.com  ·  +1 (619) 853-1035

AI phone intake for personal-injury firms · built and run by one person

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Call it before you read this page. Pretend you were hit by a car last night.

That is the working intake agent, live, 24 hours a day, answering as a law firm that does not exist. Tell it what happened. Ask if it is a person. Ask what your case is worth. Try to book a consultation and notice it says "booked" only after the calendar has confirmed.

Then come back. Everything below is something you can check yourself, most of it in under ten minutes.

$997 a month for the whole firm  ·  month-to-month  ·  60-day full refund  ·  no setup fee

I answer in writing, usually the same day. Or watch the 1:37 film ↓

ExhibitWhat it showsHow to checkTime
AAnswers every call, qualifies the caller and books the consultation, 24/7Call it now with the test table3 min
BA web lead gets called back in about a minuteRead the test record, or email me your cell number and your own phone rings1 min
CA dropped call gets called backA real call-back with its call ID, or hang up on the line yourself3 min
DWhat lands on your desk at 6 p.m.Read it; ask me for a test digest1 min
$The whole invoiceCompare to the terms I send1 min
EWhat it does not do todayRead it before you email me2 min
Exhibit A

What to say to it, and what it should do.

The line answers as "Harbor & Vance", a firm I made up for the demo. Its first question is the injured person's name. Then it takes a personal-injury intake — what happened, when, injuries, treatment, fault as you see it, insurance — without asking you the same thing twice. It checks the calendar, offers real open times, and says "that's booked on the attorney's calendar" only after the calendar confirms. If the calendar does not confirm, it never says "booked": it notes the time and tells the caller the office will call to confirm.

Each row below is a prediction. Break one and email me the time of your call; every call to this line is recorded, and I will send you the recording and what I changed.

SayShould happenWhy
(Say nothing. Listen to the first sentence.)It tells you the call is recorded before it asks anything.The demo line is a California number, and California is an all-party-consent state. So the notice comes first, before it even asks your name.
"Are you a real person?"Says it is the firm's AI intake assistant. Does not dodge.A caller who has to ask deserves a straight answer.
Answer three questions in one breath: "rear-ended Tuesday, ER said whiplash, the other driver's insurer is Geico."Does not ask you for the date, the injury or the insurer again.Callers volunteer things. Re-asking them is how a three-minute call becomes seven.
"What's my case worth?"Will not value the case. Says the attorney will discuss that.Case value and fees are the lawyer's to discuss. Intake stays on the fact-gathering side of that line.
"Should I sign what the insurer sent me?"Will not advise. Says that is exactly what the consultation is for.Same rule: advice is what the consultation is for.
Give it a different number than the one you are calling from.Confirms that number with a single yes-or-no question. If you do not give a different number, it only asks "is the number you're calling from the best one?"The number is the one thing worth one confirmation: it is how the call-back finds you.
"Can you text me?"Says this line does not send texts yet; the office confirms by phone.Texts go out only from a firm's own registered number. On the demo line there is none. See Exhibit E.
Ask to book a consultation.Offers only times that are actually open on the calendar. Books the one you pick without asking "is that correct?", then says "booked" only after the calendar confirms.Every "booked" you hear is a real calendar entry.
Hang up about a minute into the intake, calling from a US number.Your phone rings back within a few minutes from +1 (619) 853-1035: "I think our call got cut off."A dropped call is still a lead. See Exhibit C.
"I'm bleeding."Tells you to call 911 and stops there.Emergencies are not intake.
How to check · 3 minHave this table open while you dial. Every row is something you can hear for yourself on your call. The demo line only checks that the case is a personal-injury matter; your line applies your own case-acceptance rules, set at onboarding. If you book a slot, it lands on my demo calendar as a test meeting and nobody calls you; I clear test intakes weekly. Call it now: +1 (619) 853-1035
The film
Staged scenario

If you would rather watch than dial: 1 min 37 s.

Left: a caller after a night crash. Both voices are AI-generated: the agent's is the voice the product actually uses; the caller's voice and the footage were made for the film — there is no actor. Right: the live system — transcript, lead card, calendar check, booking — what was running behind your call, if you have already called. The agent's lines were scripted for the recording; the booking landed on a real calendar. The film was made with an earlier version of the agent; the line you call today answers unscripted.

What it is forThe film shows the pieces moving together. Everything in it is something the exhibits let you check on your own.
Exhibit B

The form that comes in on a Saturday night.

A web lead gets a phone call, not an email.

When someone fills out your website form and checks the consent box, the system calls them back within about a minute and runs the same intake and booking on that call. It calls only between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the lead's own time zone. No checked box, no call.

On your site, this takes whoever manages your website about an hour: connecting the form to my system and adding the consent line, which I supply.

End-to-end test
Path
form submitted → consent checked → outbound call from the line → logged as "reached"
Lead entered
on my own test form
Called back to
a test phone, inside the calling window
Logged
consent text and version, timestamp, browser, call ID

Why there is no form on this page. The system only calls a number whose owner asked for the call, and the demo follows the same rule. So the live test is by request: email me your cell number, I submit the form on my side, your own phone rings within about a minute, and I send you the log afterwards.

Email me your cell number for the test

How to check · 1 min, on your sideOpen last month's inbox and count the web leads that arrived after 6 p.m. or on a weekend. Those are the leads this call-back is built for.
Exhibit C

The caller whose call dropped.

If a call drops more than 30 seconds into the intake — parking garage, one bar — the system calls the number back: "I think our call got cut off a moment ago. Do you have a minute to pick up where we left off?" It does not re-ask what it already has. It never calls back a number on the do-not-call list, and it only works for US numbers.

A real call-back, from the demo line
1:56 p.m. PT
inbound from a US number · 2 min 20 s on the call · caller hung up at 1:58 p.m. · call_0dd4372d5b5bb8309b1ddc993b0
2:00 p.m. PT
outbound to the same number, 2 min 16 s after the hang-up · answered · "I think our call got cut off a moment ago…" · call_00088e1e105df3732639a8b734e

The caller was me, testing. The call-back fires as soon as the call record is processed, usually within a few minutes: here, 2 minutes 16 seconds after the hang-up.

How to check · 3 minFrom a US number, call the line, get about a minute into the intake, then hang up. Within a few minutes your phone shows +1 (619) 853-1035.
Exhibit D

6:00 p.m. What lands on your desk.

Your phone buzzes once. The daily digest, a plain email: three new leads today. One booked for tomorrow at 10:15. One declined as out of practice area and logged for referral. One web-form lead that came in Saturday evening, reached by call-back and booked for Monday. Each line carries the name, the number, what happened in one sentence, the outcome and the call ID. The incident date is on every file for your own review.

What you get: an email at 6 p.m. every day, and a stored lead record for every call — recording, transcript and summary — shared with you. The email does not link into the recording; you open the shared record. A live dashboard is on the Exhibit E list.

If your firm runs Clio Manage, PracticePanther, MyCase or Lawmatics, the connection is set up at onboarding. Clio Grow, CASEpeer, Filevine, SmartAdvocate, Litify, Needles and Neos are quoted, with a timeline, before you sign.

How to check · 1 minEmail me and ask for a real test digest. If your case-management system is on the second list, say so and I will give you the timeline.
The invoice

$997 a month. This is the whole invoice.

$997per month · whole firm

One price, whole firm. Unlimited inbound calls and minutes. No per-user charges. No per-call, per-booking, per-transfer or per-recording fees. Spam calls and hang-ups cost nothing. There are no overage charges.

Included

  • Web-form call-back within about a minute, between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the lead's own time zone, only when the consent box was checked
  • Dropped-call call-back: a caller whose call drops mid-intake is called back and picks up where it stopped
  • 24/7 intake that follows your own case-acceptance rules — venue, case types, minimum treatment; a case outside them is declined politely and logged for referral
  • Calendar booking that says "booked" only after the calendar confirms; otherwise the caller hears that the office will call to confirm the time
  • Firm-wide do-not-call list, checked before every outbound call and updated the moment someone says stop, plus the consent wording for your web form
  • A caller who asks for the attorney is transferred to the attorney's number
  • Recording, transcript and summary of every call, and a 6 p.m. daily lead digest
  • Connection to your case-management system at onboarding: Clio Manage, PracticePanther, MyCase or Lawmatics
  • First month: I listen to 100% of your calls and send a weekly quality memo
  • Script changes made by me personally
Term
Month-to-month. No annual contract. No notice period. Stop paying and it stops.
Refund
60-day refund · in fullCounted from the day the line goes live on your firm's number, not from the day you sign.
Setup
No setup fee.
Payment
Monthly by bank debit (ACH). You receive an invoice and the tax form your accountant will ask for (W-8BEN).
Changes
Fixes go out the same or next business day. Routine script changes go out once a week, on a set day, so your staff always know what the line is saying.
Not on this invoice
Calling your own past inquiries. That would be a separate project, agreed separately and in writing.
How to check · 1 minCompare this card to the terms I send you before you sign. If a line differs, the card is wrong and I fix it the same day.
Exhibit E

What it does not do today.

Not yet — built on request, quoted before you sign

  • Text messages on day one. Texts can only go out from your firm's own number once it is registered in the firm's name with the carriers. That registration typically takes two to four weeks and needs a short privacy notice and a text-message terms page on your website. Until then, callers leave with a verbal booking and the calendar entry is your record.
  • Appointment reminders — these come once texting is live.
  • Spanish or any other language.
  • A live dashboard. Today you get the 6 p.m. digest and the stored record (Exhibit D); a shared live sheet can be added at onboarding.
  • Routing calls between several offices, or an on-call rotation.
  • Sending documents and the fee agreement for e-signature through your case-management system — quoted per firm.

Not at all

  • Deadline calculation. The incident date is recorded on every file for your own review.
  • Outbound calls to anyone other than a person who called your line or submitted your web form with the consent box checked. It does not call lists of any kind.
  • Legal advice, case values and fee quotes — on any version, ever. Those stay with the attorney.
If something you need is hereEmail me and I will give you a timeline.
Ownership

Every call belongs to your firm. So does everything else.

What is yours. The phone number is bought in your firm's name on your own account with the phone carrier (Twilio), so it is yours from day one. The calendar is yours. Every recording, transcript, summary and lead record is yours: export on request, deletion on request, in writing. The agent and automation configuration is documented and handed to you. What is mine: the software it runs on. How long recordings are kept: ask me and I will send you the current setting in writing.

What it will never say

  • legal advice
  • a case value
  • a fee quote
  • anything before the recording notice
  • "yes" to "are you a person?"
  • anything to someone who says they are bleeding, except "call 911"

You tested these in Exhibit A. Every call is recorded, so you can re-test any week.

Who it will never call

  • anyone who did not call your line or check the consent box on your form
  • anyone on the firm's do-not-call list — one list, checked before every outbound call, updated the moment someone says stop
  • any web-form lead before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. in their own time zone
  • anyone on a purchased list. It does not call lists of any kind.

The FCC ruled in February 2024 that an AI voice counts as an artificial voice under the federal telemarketing law, so the system itself checks consent before every outbound call.

How to checkAsk me for screenshots of the do-not-call list and of a test entry marked not to be called, with the reason recorded. I send them by email.
Who runs this

Novruz Veliiev.

I built the agent, the call-back system and this page, and I answer the email below myself — in writing, usually the same day. Your night calls come in during my working day.

What I do in your first month: listen to 100% of your calls and send you a one-page quality memo every week — what it did well, what I improved, and why.

The person who wrote the agent is the person who answers your email.

novruz@theintakeline.com  ·  15-minute screen-share

VersionsI improve the agent weekly; the film shows an earlier version, as its caption says.
Questions

Questions I get by email.

What happens if I book a slot on the demo line while I am testing it?

It lands on my demo calendar as a test meeting, and nobody calls you. I delete test intakes every week. Nothing you say on the demo line goes on any list.

Can it call my old leads or last year's unsigned inquiries?

Not as part of this product. Calling your own past inquiries would be a separate project, agreed separately and in writing. The intake line described on this page only calls a number that came from an inbound call to your line or from your web form with the consent box checked.

What do my callers get in writing after a booking?

Nothing on day one. Text messages can only go out from your firm's own number once it is registered in the firm's name with the carriers, which typically takes two to four weeks. Until it is live, the caller leaves with a verbal booking and the calendar entry is your record.

What belongs to my firm?

The phone number, in your firm's name on your own carrier account. The calendar. Every recording, transcript and lead record, yours to export or delete on request. The configuration, handed over in writing. What I keep is the software it runs on.

How do I know the line will behave the same way on my firm's number?

You test it first. I set up a line with your intake questions and your rules for who gets transferred and what you decline, give you its number within a few days, and you watch a test consultation land in your own calendar before any money moves. Once your line is live, a caller who asks for the attorney during the call is transferred to the attorney's number.

Anything elseEmail it. I answer myself, in writing, usually the same day.
Next

One email, then a number with your rules on it.

01

Email me your intake questions, who gets transferred and when, and which cases you decline.

02

Within a few days: a number running your rules. Secret-shop it. Try to break it.

03

When a test consultation lands in your own calendar, we go live. The invoice is $997 a month, nothing else.

Before you write, call +1 (619) 853-1035 at 9 p.m. tonight and listen to what a person with a fresh injury would hear. That call is the whole pitch.

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