New Built in London, for UK independent venues

Padmina answers your venue's enquiries 24/7.

Instagram, Messenger, web chat and phone, so you never lose a booking to a missed message.

Answers every enquiry on Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, web chat and the phone
Customers expect a response in minutes, not hours or days
14-day free pilot · Founding venue offer: Growth at £199/mo for 12 months
Live · try the demo
GH
The Grand Hall · Shoreditch
Replies in seconds · 24/7
via web chat
E1 Shoreditch
SE1 Borough
E8 Hackney
N1 Islington
SW11 Battersea
W1 Soho
SE16 Bermondsey
EC2 City
E1 Shoreditch
SE1 Borough
E8 Hackney
N1 Islington
SW11 Battersea
W1 Soho
SE16 Bermondsey
EC2 City
THE PROBLEM
78%

book the venue that replies first — and most enquiries arrive after hours, when no one is reading.

Sources: Lead Connect Speed-to-Lead Research; Salesforce State of the Connected Customer.

A typical Friday evening at a London venue:

  • 9:47pm — enquiry about a November wedding. Read Monday.
  • 11:12pm — DM about a 30th birthday. Reply 36 hours later.
  • 6:18am — corporate launch brief. Answered at lunchtime.
  • Now — Padmina replies in seconds, checks your diary, and books the follow-up call.
WHY THE NAME
Padmina
PERSONAL ADMIN ASSISTANT

Hidden in the name, written into the work. Padmina is a personal admin assistant for booking-led businesses.

INTEGRATIONS

Plugs right into your calendaryour inventory.

No new system to learn. Padmina reads from what you already use, so it answers from real availability instead of inventing it.

Customer enquiry
"Sat 12 Sep, 140 guests"
Google Calendar
Sep 2026 · live
✓ Live
Fri 11Private hire · 6pm
Sat 12Free all day ✓
Sun 13Wedding · 2pm
Mon 14
Venue inventory · live stock
14 items tracked
✓ Synced
Main hall65 / 200
Long tables (seats 10)14 free ✓
Chiavari chairs164 free ✓
Linen (ivory)4 left
Projector + screen1 / 2
Reply generated → "Good news — Sat 12 Sep is free. Shall I take a few details and pass them to the team?"
HOW IT WORKS

From cold enquiry to hot lead, while you sleep.

Three steps. No new inbox to learn.

01
15 MINUTES, ONCE

Connect your channels

Instagram, Messenger, web chat and your phone line, plus your Google Calendar. Nothing new for your team to log into.

02
EVERY ENQUIRY, ANY HOUR

Padmina answers

From your real packages, prices and house rules. It checks your actual calendar before it says a date is free. If it doesn't know, it says so and passes you the enquiry.

03
AS SOON AS QUALIFIED

Hot leads land in your inbox

Name, number, date, guest count and the full conversation — ready for you to close. Hot ones ping your phone.

MISSED-CALL RESCUE

Never lose a booking to voicemail.

Forward your line when nobody picks up. Included from Growth.

BEFORE

Missed call → customer rings a competitor

They wanted a date, a price and a yes. Voicemail gave them none of it, so they called the next venue on their list.

AFTER

Missed call → Padmina answers → you get the lead

Padmina picks up, qualifies the event, checks the date against your calendar, and sends you a callback lead with their name, number, date, guest count and the conversation. You ring back already knowing what they want.

She remembers.

  • Picks up where you left off mid-conversation — no "sorry, can you start again?"
  • Carries full context across the whole enquiry
  • Knows what's already been discussed, automatically

She gets it right.

  • Reads your real diary — won't quote a date that's taken
  • Quotes only what you've configured, and won't invent a price
  • Hands off to you when she's not certain
THE MATHS

A handful of recovered bookings. Padmina pays for itself.

Adjust the sliders for a venue like yours. The numbers use the standard Growth price of £279/month; founding venues pay £199/month for year one.

Bookings per month today18
Average booking value£1,200
Extra bookings recovered / month1
Padmina cost / year (Growth)£3,348
Extra bookings / year24
Revenue recovered£28,800
Net benefit, year one£25,452
Pays for itself in under 6 weeks.
Founding venues · limited to a few venues at a time

Try it free for 14 days on your real channels.

We connect your Instagram, a web-chat widget and (optionally) your phone line, configured with your own packages, prices and calendar. You watch every single conversation. Cancel with a click, and you keep the enquiry log either way.

No card, no setup fee

14 days on your real enquiries, not a sandbox. If it isn't earning its keep, walk away.

Then £199/mo for 12 months

Founding-10 rate on Growth (standard £279), held for your first year. Phone answering comes with Growth at no extra cost.

All we ask in return

If you're happy: a short testimonial, and permission to write up your (anonymised) numbers as a case study.

PRICING

Every enquiry answered, on every line you use.

All flat-rate, with no setup fees and no per-minute charges. Cancel anytime.

Starter
£99 /month

Your website, answered.

  • Web chat on your site instead of your enquiry form
  • Real availability from your live calendar, never invented
  • Lead capture + push notifications
  • 14-day free trial, no card
Start free trial
Pro
£449 /month

Padmina runs your phone line.

  • Full 24/7 answering, not only the calls you miss
  • Everything in Growth
  • Priority callback queue. Enquiries ranked by urgency, each with a transcript, so you call back already knowing what they want
  • Priority support
  • Richer reporting across every channel
  • Full cross-channel customer history
  • Fair use: 2,000 voice minutes / month
Talk to us
Custom

Custom / Bespoke — priced on scope

More than one venue, volumes beyond fair use, or something built from scratch? Custom covers multi-venue groups, high-volume phone lines, bespoke and non-venue builds (clinics, salons, studios, agencies), and every channel we add next. Talk to us.

Priced on scope
Talk to us

Founding-10 offer: 14 days free on your real channels, then Growth at £199/month for your first 12 months (standard £279 after), in exchange for a testimonial and a case study. See the pilot offer.

On voice minutes: no overage charges, no surprise bills. Fair use is 250 minutes on Growth and 2,000 on Pro. A call in progress always finishes. Reaching your allowance never interrupts service mid-month. We'll give you a heads-up at around 80% so you're not caught out. An occasional busy month is on us. If you're consistently over, we'll get in touch to find the right plan. Growth to Pro is usually it. Need a little more room on Growth, an extra 250 minutes is £59/month.

Included from Growth

Never lose a booking to voicemail.

Phone answering isn't an add-on. It's included from Growth up. Forward your line when nobody picks up and Padmina answers, qualifies the enquiry, checks the date against your calendar, and passes you the lead with a callback number. Call the demo venue and hear it yourself.

FAQ

Questions we hear every week.

Will it sound robotic?
No. During setup you pick a tone and feed us your phrases, so replies come back in your voice rather than a generic script. Every transcript tells you what to tune.
What if it gets something wrong?
Padmina will never quote a price or confirm a date it hasn't been given. When unsure, it hands the enquiry to you with context.
Can I step in myself?
Yes. Padmina emails the enquiry to you when a customer sounds frustrated, when a strong booking signal looks like it is being missed, or when an enquiry goes unanswered. You can also reply from your own Instagram, Messenger or WhatsApp account whenever you like. She carries on answering new messages on that thread, so let the customer know you've picked it up.
How long does setup take?
Most venues are live in 15 minutes on Starter. Growth and Pro include a 30-minute onboarding call to connect calendar, channels, and packages.
Is there a limit on conversations?
No. Every plan covers unlimited conversations for normal enquiry traffic from your venue's own customers. One subscription covers one venue; groups and multi-site operators use Custom, priced per venue. Voice minutes are the only published allowance, and there are never overage charges — see fair usage for the detail.
Do I have to hand over my passwords?
No. You connect Instagram and Messenger on Meta's own login screen, and your calendar on Google's or Microsoft's. We never see your password. Calendar access is read-only, so Padmina can see what's booked and cannot change it.
Can I customise responses?
Yes. At setup you give Padmina your tone, the phrases it should always use, the ones it must never say, and the topics it should hand straight to you. Send us a change any time and we update it.
Will Padmina remember my customers?
Yes — within your venue. From Growth tier upwards, Padmina recognises returning customers and picks up where you left off. She'll greet them by name, recall what was discussed last time, and surface useful context to you. Each venue's data stays completely separate. What Padmina knows about your customers is never shared with any other venue.
What happens if Padmina goes down?
Your Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp inboxes belong to Meta, not to us. Padmina reads from them rather than sitting in front of them, so an enquiry still reaches you if we are unavailable. When she cannot produce a usable answer, your customer gets a short acknowledgement in your venue's name rather than a guess, and we alert you. If nothing usable comes back within ten minutes, no automated reply is sent at all and the alert asks you to pick the conversation up in your own inbox. Web chat has no inbox behind it, so the visitor is told their message has been saved, or that it did not send and to try again if our service is unreachable. We do not offer a formal uptime guarantee.
What about GDPR?
Your data sits in UK and EU data centres. Some AI processing happens outside the UK and EEA, safeguarded by the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. Our web chat tells visitors they are talking to an AI assistant. Ask us to export or delete your data at any time. Signed DPA on request. Full detail in our privacy policy and DPA.
THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE

"78% of customers buy from the first business to reply."

— Lead Connect Speed-to-Lead Research

"30% of leads are never contacted at all."

— Drift Lead Response Report

"Replying within 5 minutes makes you 21× more likely to qualify the lead."

MIT Lead Response Management Study (15,000 leads)

READY?

Get set up in 15 minutes.
Start capturing the bookings you're losing tonight.

14-day trial on Starter, no card to set up.

Set up your venue Talk to founder