Dropped $200 on an AI scheduling bot and it double-booked my whole week

I run a small pest control business (bed bugs are the worst, seriously) and I thought I'd try one of those fancy AI scheduling assistants to handle customer calls. Paid $200 upfront for what they called a "smart calendar agent" that promised to learn my routes and preferences. First day it booked two jobs across town at the exact same time, which is awesome when you're driving a van full of chemicals. Then it started sending people appointment confirmations in Spanish (I don't even speak Spanish, did it just guess?). By day three it had me showing up to a house that was already fumigated last month. I had to refund like four customers and now I'm back to using a paper calendar like it's 1995. Has anyone else had an AI tool make your job way harder instead of easier?

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lewis.charlie1mo ago

$200 for a bot that can't even pick the right language sounds like you got scammed, not AI.

ivan_fisher991mo ago

Man I was in the same boat last month, spent way too much on a tool that just couldn't do basic stuff. Ended up switching to a free open source model and tweaking the prompts myself, saved a ton and it actually works now.