Yes. SleekAI reads your pricing table from ACF, mapping coat type (short, semi-long, long, double-coat) and service (lion cut, sanitary trim, de-shedding, full groom, bath only) to a precise quote. Add-ons (nail caps, mat removal per mat, paw pad shave) all price from the same table. Update the page and every conversation reflects the new number, no retraining or redeployment.

Name, age, weight, coat type, temperament (sweet, defensive, head-shy, reactive), prior grooming experience (first-time, occasional, regular), sedation history, and health flags (senior, hyperthyroid, kidney disease, arthritis, declawed). The captured intake drives scheduling. First-time cats get 90-minute slots. Reactive cats get cat-specialist groomers. Health flags route to lion cut conversations earlier than full grooms when relevant.

The bot does not decide on sedation, that decision belongs to a veterinarian. It captures temperament and health flags, notes your salon's policy from the service page (awake grooming with specialised technique versus referral for sedated grooms), and refers borderline cases to your sedation-partner vet practice with their contact details. The handoff is explained so the owner understands the next step without confusion.

Yes. Cat grooming requires specific training and not every dog-grooming team member should be working on cats. The bot reads your staff page and identifies cat-specialist groomers, then routes feline bookings to their calendars specifically. For a salon that does both dogs and cats, this means cats land on the right person automatically without the owner needing to ask, and the dog groomers do not get cat appointments they are not equipped for.

Senior cats and cats with chronic conditions (hyperthyroid, kidney disease, arthritis) get special handling. The bot captures the diagnosis from intake and books shorter, gentler sessions or refers to the lion cut option, which is often the most humane choice for a long-coated senior. For cats with active symptoms (severe lethargy, sudden weight loss, breathing issues) the bot defers grooming and recommends a vet visit first, without diagnosing.

Declawed cats sometimes have residual sensitivity in the paws, so the bot flags it during intake and notes that paw pad shaves or pad work may be modified. The salon's specific policy comes from your service page (some salons accept all declawed cats, some accept with extra care, some recommend lion cuts that minimise paw handling). The bot just surfaces the policy and captures the history.

Yours. SleekAI is BYO API key. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter key, and the model bills you directly. No per-message markup. For a single-location cat grooming specialist the monthly model cost is usually $5 to $15 in actual API usage. GPT-4o-mini handles cat grooming intake well because the prompt context is bounded (coat-type pricing, intake fields, sedation policy, partner vet).

Yes. For cat-only salons the entire bot is feline-specific. For mixed salons (dogs and cats), multibot lets the cat section run a different bot from the dog section, with different intake, different pricing tables, and different groomer routing. Display conditions show the cat bot only on cat service pages. This keeps the experience clean and avoids the confusion of dog intake appearing on a cat booking flow or vice versa.