Assort Health makes AI voice agents for health care. Its home page talks about patients, referrals, insurance and health record systems, and about little else. If you run a medical practice, that focus is the reason to choose it, and we are not going to talk you out of it.
If you run something else and found Assort Health while looking for an AI receptionist, ours is built for a small service business. We phoned both on October 11, 2026. None of the nine we timed had a shorter slowest answer than Assort Health.
Checked October 11, 2026 on each vendor's own pages
Timed by phone
Assort Health's typical wait was 1.8 and 2.0 seconds, and its slowest answer took 2.1 seconds. None of the nine had a shorter slowest answer. It talked over the caller once across the two calls.
On October 11, 2026 we phoned each demo number twice. The caller was an AI of ours playing a new customer, and it was not told whose number it had dialled. The wait is the time from the caller's last sound to the receptionist's first sound. The typical wait is the middle value on a call. Talking over the caller means it started speaking while the caller was mid-sentence and the caller kept going.
Read the full test of all nine| What we timed | Nametech (ours) | Assort Health |
|---|---|---|
| Typical wait, two calls | 1.6 s and 1.9 s | 1.8 s and 2.0 s |
| Talked over the caller | Never | 1 time |
| Waits over 5 s | None | None |
| Slowest wait under 5 s | 2.4 s | 2.1 s |
Our column is the receptionist that answers our own business line. Assort Health's column comes from its home page, read on the date shown.
| What you need | AI receptionist in NameCRM | Assort Health |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is built for | Small service businesses in British Columbia whose day is calls, email, meetings, quotes and contracts. | Health care providers. Its home page says thousands of providers across more than 23 specialties trust it.[1] source 1 |
| How you get it | In progress Only with NameCRM, which is not on sale yet. It runs our own agency in Surrey, BC, and businesses can request access for a walkthrough. | Its home page invites a practice to get a demo.[1] source 1 |
| Books appointments | Yes Books, moves or cancels meetings in your real calendar during the call, checked against your open hours, with a Meet link or a meeting place. | Yes Schedules and manages patient appointments around the clock, following each practice's own scheduling rules.[1] source 1 |
| Knows who is calling | Yes Reads the caller's record before it speaks: open deals, recent texts, upcoming meetings and past calls. | Yes Draws on what it knows of the patient: language, preferred times and channels, and care history.[1] source 1 |
| Works with other software | NameCRM connects directly to the systems a service business runs on: Microsoft 365, Google Calendar, Stripe, QuickBooks Online and the phone network. | Yes Connects to more than 15 health record and practice management systems, Athena among them.[1] source 1 |
Facts about other products come from their own websites, read on October 11, 2026; the numbers in brackets lead to each page. Products change, so check the vendor before you decide. No prices appear here, ours or theirs.
Assort Health's typical wait was 1.8 and 2.0 seconds, and its slowest answer took 2.1. No other of the nine kept its slowest answer that short. It talked over the caller once. Ours answered in 1.6 and 1.9 seconds, with a slowest answer of 2.4, and did not talk over the caller.
Each demo number plays a different kind of business, and Assort Health's world is health care. That is one reason these numbers are a snapshot of one afternoon and not a ranking.
A clinic's phone is harder than ours. A caller may need the right provider and the right insurance handled, and Assort Health's page is about exactly that.
Ours books meetings into a calendar and files calls on a client's record. It does not connect to health record systems, and it has never scheduled a patient. We would rather say so here than on a sales call.
The AI receptionist is part of NameCRM and is not sold on its own, because it books into the calendar, reads the caller's record and turns promises into tasks. Request access on the NameCRM page and we will set up a walkthrough.
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Questions
Yes. Assort Health is built for health care, so most other AI receptionists are closer to what a non-medical business needs. Ours is one: it answers when you cannot, books into your calendar and files the call on the client's record. It comes inside NameCRM, by request.
We made two calls to its public demo number on October 11, 2026. Its typical wait was 1.8 and 2.0 seconds, and its slowest answer took 2.1 seconds. It talked over the caller once. That is two calls to a demo number, not a practice's own setup.
It can answer, book meetings and take messages for a small office, but it is not built for health care. It does not connect to health record systems, and we make no health privacy claim for it. A practice that needs those should look at a product built for health care, such as Assort Health.
Its home page says it schedules patients by each practice's own rules and draws on a patient's care history. It also connects to more than 15 health record and practice management systems. A general receptionist, ours included, does none of that.
It is part of NameCRM and comes by request. Ask for access on the NameCRM page and we will set up a walkthrough. To hear it first, call 604-900-2060 and let it ring.
