Products · #11 · Operations & Forecasting
TIER A BLUEPRINT

No-Show Prediction + Safe Overbooking

Predict no-shows and overbook safely - recover lost slots without double-booking real patients.

from €1,290

TOMORROW · CHAIR 2 - RISK SCAN + OVERBOOK

Appointments · Wed
9:00A. Kazlauskienė5%
10:00J. Butkus9%
11:00M. Petrauskas61%
11:00+ OVERBOOK · T. Rimkus (waitlist)
12:00R. Žukauskas28%
13:00E. Vaitkutė7%

expected empty chairs: 1.1 → overbooked 1 · your cap: max 2/day · double-booking risk held under 3%

11:00 · M. Petrauskas · hygiene visit

61%

no-show probability · calibrated - 6 in 10 like this one don't come. Booking metadata only, never medical records.

Why - top 3 drivers
Booked 6 weeks ago (long lead = risk)
2 no-shows in the last 12 months
SMS reminder not confirmed
→ SLOT OVERBOOKED from waitlist · extra reminder queued
🟡 patient messaging is clinic-approved - templates & frequency yours
calibration Brier 0.147 · ECE 0.008 · backtest on 432 held-out clinic-days: 1,532 slots recovered, 30 turn-aways · logged ⛓

How it works

01

Connect the scheduling system

Mediq, Clinica or custom - read-only. The model sees booking metadata only: lead time, history, reminders. Never diagnoses, never treatment data.

02

Calibrated risk per appointment

Overbooking math is only safe with true probabilities - calibration isn't a feature here, it IS the product. Validated on your history before go-live.

03

Overbook under YOUR cap

Expected-cost optimisation weighs an empty chair against a turned-away patient. The cap and the turn-away tolerance are your risk decisions, not the model's - and the cap is never exceeded. It bounds your exposure; it does not promise zero.

04

Reminders, clinic-approved

High-risk appointments can trigger an extra reminder - with templates and frequency your clinic signs off. Seasonal drift watched (holidays shift behaviour).

Methodology reference

The published method this build is based on - and what it did in production.

American Airlines

American Airlines pioneered no-show forecasting and overbooking optimization (DINAMO), valued at ~$1.4B over three years.

No-show → overbooking optimization · as reported by INFORMS ↗

Referenced for methodology only. AimRank is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a customer of these companies; each links to its own public source.

The Four Guarantees™ - this build

Measured value

On the reference build: €13.64 recovered per no-show, and a held-out backtest that realised 1.18x its own forecast. Brier/ECE eval gate - the overbooking math demands true probabilities.

Defensible

Per-appointment risk reasons; no protected-class or clinical features; GDPR-grade (health-adjacent) audit log of every decision.

Self-correcting

Calibration tracked continuously; seasonal + behavioural drift alerts; corrections feed the model monthly.

Yours & everywhere

Scheduling-system write-back with the cap enforced; your cloud, full source. MCP tools for clinic-ops agents (🟡 messaging gated).

The number, sized honestly

Reference buyer: Lithuanian / Baltic private clinic group, ~500 appointments/week, ~12% no-show rate, ~€60 revenue per visit.

€186k per year lost to no-shows at this volume - the problem, measured
~30% the planning assumption we quote ≈ €55k/yr - not a measured result
~6 wk payback at the €4,900 PoC, on the reference volume
1.18x the backtest realised MORE than forecast - €86.5k against €73.3k expected, on 432 clinic-days the model never trained on

Three ways to own it

Tier What you get Price
Scaffolding The full repo - calibrated model + overbooking policy + reason layer, audit log, MCP server. Reference run on public clinic data. €1,290
PoC ★★RECOMMENDED A decision, not software. You export your appointment history once (CSV - no integration); we refit and calibrate on your patients, then replay the overbooking policy against weeks that already happened. You get the measured euro number, the eval-gate verdict, the Annex IV dossier and a written go/no-go - including 'don't buy the build'. from €4,900
Implementation ★★★ Production: live in your scheduling flow, caps enforced, monthly recovered-slots report. The agreed number attaches here - set from YOUR PoC backtest, not from our reference figures. Calibration monitoring, drift alerts and seasonal retraining run on the €390/mo plan, because a model that keeps earning its number needs watching, not just shipping. from €12,000

★ = engagement depth. PoC is the recommended path: quality proven on your data before production money. The PoC carries no performance guarantee by design; the agreed number (conservative) attaches at Implementation, informed by the PoC report.

What we don't promise

Overbooking is a risk trade, not a free win - and the reference numbers are not your numbers. The optimiser is deliberately risk-tolerant: you set how often a turned-away patient is acceptable, and on our own held-out backtest the policy produced 30 turn-aways across 18 of 432 clinic-days while recovering 1,532 slots. Anyone promising zero is either capping so hard it recovers nothing, or not counting. Every euro figure above comes from a public dataset of 110,527 Brazilian clinic appointments - not from your practice, and not from any client's. Clinics with fewer than ~500 recorded appointments need 3-6 months of data collection first. And the model never touches clinical data, or age, or sex: booking behaviour only, enforced structurally and proven by a test.

Ready to see your own number?

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