Turn consults into committed packages—without giving your evenings to the follow-up.

That's the point of starting here. Deptly answers or returns the calls, texts, and messages that land while you're teaching, handles the routine questions from materials you approve, screens the case against your intake rules, and books consults against your real calendar and territory. Anything unusual waits for you in an organized queue instead of interrupting a session — and the pet parent hears back while they're still deciding, not tomorrow night.

No — that's a hard rule, not a preference. Deptly schedules the coaching; it never does the coaching. It delivers the homework recaps and progress notes you write, answers logistics questions like timing and location, and routes every 'what should I do when he...' question to you. A confident wrong answer about someone's dog is the one failure this setup is designed to make impossible.

Yes, from your own materials. During setup you approve how your approach, certifications, and philosophy are described — positive reinforcement, balanced, whatever is true for you — and Deptly answers from that, consistently, on every inquiry. Anything beyond the approved answers, like a debate about tools or a comparison with another trainer's method, goes to you. Those conversations convert best in the trainer's own words anyway.

Carefully, and within your rules. Your intake defines the flags — bite history, resource guarding, severity questions you want asked — and flagged cases come to you before any consult is promised. Deptly describes what the pet parent reported; it never assesses the dog or predicts the behavior. Whether you take the case, refer it to a veterinary behaviorist, or decline it is entirely your judgment, and anything medical belongs to the vet.

Yes. Interest that currently lives in DMs, texts, and a phone note becomes an actual list — worked in order as start dates approach. Deptly confirms prerequisites like vaccine status before enrollment, collects payment under your policy, sends class reminders, handles makeup sessions within your rules, and flags a roster that's at risk of running light while there's still time to fill it, not the night before.

Not the way it's done here. The follow-up is a useful recap in your voice — what you observed, the plan, the price, the start dates — followed on a cadence you set, and it stops the moment someone says no. Most pet parents aren't annoyed by a trainer who follows up; they're relieved someone made the next step easy. The version that annoys people is the tenth generic drip email, and that's not what this is.

It can fix the part that's fixable. Reminders protect scheduled sessions, missed ones get rescheduled within your policy instead of drifting, and a weekly scan catches packages going quiet while there are still sessions left to save. What it can't do is make anyone practice — no service honestly can. What changes is that fading clients get a warm, guilt-free nudge at week two instead of silence until the package expires.

On your timing and your ladder. When a package nears its final session, Deptly queues the next-step conversation — advanced class, refresher sessions, a new goal — and opens it in your voice at graduation, when the momentum and the goodwill are highest. Happy grads get a genuine review request. Programs that end still end with a decision and a documented goodbye, not a quiet fade you notice a month later.

No. Deptly works on your existing business line and inside the tools you already run — that's a design rule. If your bookings live in PocketSuite, DogBizPro, Acuity, or Square Appointments, they stay there, and your exact setup is confirmed during discovery rather than promised upfront. If your client records live in a spreadsheet, that works too — plenty of excellent trainers run that way.

Yes, against the policy you set. Puppy enrollment usually runs on series-in-progress rules rather than annual expiries, and your requirements — which shots by which class, what your veterinarian partners advise — become the checklist Deptly enrolls against. It chases the records before the first class, flags anything unclear, and sends exceptions to you. What the policy should be is between you and the vets you trust; holding the line on it is the part Deptly carries.

Solo is where the collision is sharpest — every hour you teach is an hour nobody answers, follows up, or reschedules. Most solo trainers start with a single workflow, usually inquiry answering or consult follow-up, scoped to what actually leaks. A straightforward first workflow can often launch in days; complex integrations and regulated work may require more time. You're not buying an office staff — you're taking the evening shift off your own plate.

Deptly is priced by the scope of the workflows it carries — answering, follow-up, scheduling, renewals — not by headcount. A part-time admin can't return an inquiry at 8 PM when the pet parent is actually deciding, or watch every active package for stalls at once, and most training businesses don't have the volume to keep one busy anyway. The honest comparison is on the pricing page, against your own evenings and the consults that currently go silent.