An AI receptionist for Alive & Well Pharmacy

Meet Sage.
She answers,
so you can fill.

A calm, compliant voice on every call to your Bee Cave pharmacy — hours, turnaround, order status, refills — handled the moment the phone rings. Your pharmacists stay on the bench, not the headset.

The bottleneck

The phone is run by people who should be compounding.

Alive & Well lives on questions — is it ready, how long, do you take my insurance. Most are routine. Each one pulls a licensed pharmacist or tech off the work that actually needs a license.

~70%
of pharmacy calls are routine — status, hours, refills — no clinical judgment needed.1
3 cities
Austin, Dallas & Boulder patients all calling about compounds made in Bee Cave.
After 6pm
calls go to voicemail. A missed call from a waiting patient is a frustrated patient.
The shift

Sage picks up first. Your team picks up what matters.

She greets every caller instantly, day or night, handles the routine majority on her own, and warm-transfers anything clinical to a pharmacist — with the whole conversation already summarized.

  • Answers on the first ring — no hold music, no phone tree, 24/7.
  • Knows your pharmacy — clean-compounding turnaround, hours, refill & insurance policy.
  • Hands off cleanly — clinical questions reach your pharmacist with full context.
Try it yourself

Ask Sage
a question.

Type like a patient would, or tap a question. Watch how she resolves the routine ones — and how she steps aside the moment it turns clinical.

Call the live demo — (512) 399-0568
Replies are a scripted preview — but ask for a refill and it really submits to the live demo queue. Synthetic data only; tap to call to hear the real Sage.
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Sage
Alive & Well Pharmacy · (512) 580-5775
Scope, by design

Built to know exactly where she stops.

The safest AI in a pharmacy is one with hard edges. Sage owns the routine front desk and never crosses into the pharmacist's chair.

What Sage handles

  • "Is my compound ready?" — order & refill status
  • Turnaround & clean-compounding questions
  • Hours, Bee Cave location, pickup at Dallas & Boulder
  • Insurance & cash-pay policy, refill requests
  • Shipping & statewide Texas delivery
  • After-hours messages + text confirmation
  • Bilingual — answers in English or Spanish, switching automatically
Everything routine, handled warmly — in your pharmacy's voice.

What Sage never does

  • Counsel on a new prescription
  • Advise on dosing, interactions or side effects
  • Touch controlled-substance requests — always escalated
  • Share any patient detail before verifying identity
  • Stand between a patient and your pharmacist
Designed around Texas 22 TAC §291.33 — only your pharmacist counsels. Sage opens the door to them; she never guards it.
For the pharmacist-in-charge

Compliance isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Every safeguard below is set up, signed, and maintained by Aperture before Sage answers a single real patient call.

HIPAA, end to end

A signed Business Associate Agreement at every layer that can touch patient information — telephony, transcription, and the AI itself. Encrypted in transit and at rest.

Identity first, always

No order detail leaves Sage's mouth until the caller is verified by name, date of birth, and a third factor. If it doesn't match, she shares nothing and offers a transfer.

Every call logged

A complete, auditable record of what was asked and disclosed — the documentation trail an audit expects, ready whenever you need it.

Texas pharmacy law, respected

Sage is scoped to administrative help only. Counseling, dosing, and clinical judgment stay with your licensed pharmacist — per 22 TAC §291.33.

Never trained on your patients

Sage learns your pharmacy from documents and synthetic examples — never from raw recordings of real patient calls. Your patients' words stay theirs.

Controlled substances, hands-off

Any controlled-substance request is handed straight to your staff. No exceptions, by design.

Why it actually holds up

The specifics a pharmacist-in-charge should ask for — and how each one is answered.

  • There is no "HIPAA certificate." HIPAA has no certifying body; compliance is safeguards plus signed Business Associate Agreements. Anyone selling you a "HIPAA-certified" bot is bluffing. Here is the real chain instead.
  • The voice platform is HIPAA-eligible with a BAA. Sage runs on Retell, which executes a Business Associate Agreement covering the PHI it processes, with its telephony and transcription sub-processors under matching data agreements. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • "Minimum necessary," enforced in the script. Sage verifies identity first, then answers only what was asked — she never volunteers a fuller record. Less patient information moves, so less is ever exposed.
  • Scope shrinks the exposure. Limited to administrative help under 22 TAC §291.33, Sage never touches counseling, controlled substances, or clinical records — so the riskiest data simply never reaches her.
  • The demo you can call today carries zero patient data. Every name, date, and order in it is synthetic — call and test Sage as hard as you like; there is no real PHI in play while we prove it out.
  • Nothing real goes live until the paperwork is signed. Before the first real patient call, Aperture executes the full BAA chain (Retell, the refill store, and Aperture ↔ your pharmacy) and adds a call-recording disclosure. Real PHI flows only after that.
Under the hood

One clean path for every call.

Patient callsany hour, any day Sageverifies · understands · acts ROUTINE · ~70%Answered & resolved on the spot CLINICALWarm-transfer, with context Yourteam

Runs on HIPAA-compliant voice infrastructure, configured and operated by Aperture. Optionally connects to your LifeFile pharmacy system for live, real-time order status.

The math

Less than a part-time hire. Working every hour.

One-time setup
$1,500*
Knowledge base built from your pharmacy, branded voice, full configuration, and the compliance paperwork — done for you.
All-in, monthly
$850/mo*
Full coverage — day, nights, and weekends. Telephony, the AI platform, monitoring, knowledge-base upkeep, and compliance maintenance. One number, fully managed by Aperture. After-hours-only starts at $500/mo.
vs.
A part-time receptionist runs ~$1,600/mo for about 20 hours a week. Sage covers all 168 — nights, weekends, and lunch rushes included.

*Starting estimates. Final pricing is set once we see your real call volume — most of the cost simply scales with minutes answered.

Rollout

Live in weeks — at a pace you control.

No big-bang switch. Sage earns trust one low-risk step at a time.

1
Week 1–2

Listen & learn

We map your most common calls and build Sage's knowledge of your services, turnaround times, and policies. Nothing goes live.

2
Lowest risk

After-hours only

Sage starts by catching the calls you'd otherwise miss — evenings and weekends. Every interaction reviewed, zero daytime exposure.

3
Full coverage

Daytime, monitored

Once you're comfortable, Sage takes the daytime overflow with your team monitoring transfers. You can pause or adjust her at any time.

4
Optional upgrade

Connect to LifeFile

Because Alive & Well already runs LifeFile, Sage can drop refill requests straight into your LifeFile queue — then, as a later step, read real-time order status and place outbound "your compound is ready" reminders.

Why Aperture

You run the pharmacy. We run Sage.

Fully managed

We build it, run it, monitor it, and keep it compliant. You never touch a dashboard.

Always on

24/7 coverage with monitoring, so a quiet failure never becomes a silent missed patient.

Built for pharmacy

Scoped around real Texas pharmacy rules from day one — not a generic bot bolted on.

Austin-local

A real local partner you can call — not a faceless support queue three time zones away.

Next step

Let's give your front desk a second pair of hands.

A 15-minute call to look at your real call volume, then a two-week scoping pilot. No commitment, no disruption to the pharmacy.

Book a 15-min call →