For Nail Salons

The AI Receptionist Built for Nail Salons

Your tech's hands are covered in polish and gel — literally can't pick up. Vanguard answers every call, books the appointment, and never sends a customer to voicemail, so a full color coming up doesn't cost you a walk-in.

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The problem

You can't touch your phone with wet polish on someone's nails.

A tech mid-gel-manicure can't stop to grab the phone — and even if they could, wet hands and a ringing phone don't mix. So it rings out, or a coworker at the front desk who's already checking someone out has to awkwardly juggle both.

Weekends are worse: back-to-back appointments, walk-ins waiting, and the phone ringing over all of it. Every call that goes unanswered is a customer who calls the next salon on the list instead.

Vanguard answers every time — mid-fill, mid-checkout, or after you've locked up for the night.

How it works

From missed call to booked chair.

  1. Forward your salon's line.
    Keep your same number — no new number to hand out.

  2. A caller asks about a service.
    Full set, gel manicure, pedicure, whatever you offer, even for a group — Vanguard already knows your services and prices, because you set them up once.

  3. Vanguard checks and confirms.
    It checks your existing Vanguard appointments so two callers can't get booked for the same slot, then confirms the new one on the spot.

  4. It's in your app.
    You see the new appointment before the tech even finishes that gel top coat.

Built for salons like yours

Why nail salons use Vanguard.

Wet hands don't answer phones — Vanguard does

24/7 coverage, including after close and during your busiest Saturday rush.

Group bookings, handled like any other

List a party package as a service (with your real price and duration) and Vanguard books it the same way it books a single manicure.

No double-bookings

Vanguard checks your existing Vanguard appointments before confirming a new one.

Switches to Spanish mid-call

No separate line, no setup — it follows the caller's language automatically.

Sounds like your front desk

Callers talk normally — no "press 1," no robotic menu.

Custom nail art requests become messages

Someone wants to show a reference photo? Vanguard takes their name and number so you can follow up and see it yourself.

Pricing

Simple, all-in pricing.

Starter

$49/mo
250 minutes included

Essential

$149/mo
1,000 minutes included

Professional

$279/mo
2,000 minutes included

Premium

$499/mo
4,000 minutes included

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Questions

Nail salon owners ask us.

No. The free trial runs for 14 days or 100 minutes, whichever comes first, with no credit card required — same voice, same AI model, same phone number, and no charge if you go past the minutes.
Yes — you set them up once (full sets, fills, gel manicures, pedicures, whatever you offer, with your real prices and durations) and Vanguard quotes them correctly on every call.
Yes — if you list group services when you set up your business (for example, "Birthday party package — 4 people — $180 — 90 min"), Vanguard books it like anything else on your menu.
No — it books against your Vanguard schedule, not any calendar or booking tool you already use elsewhere. If you keep appointments in more than one place today, you'll want to check both until everything lives in one system.
It takes a message — name, number, and what they're looking for — so you can follow up and see the photo yourself.
No. You keep your number and forward calls to Vanguard — all of them, or just the ones you don't pick up.

Stop losing clients while your hands are full

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