# The late-night inquiry becomes a typed session record by noon.

You automate photography client intake by putting a conversational agent in front of the first inquiry. It asks for the session type, the date they hope for, the headcount and the style they are picturing one question at a time, types it into a structured record, and never holds a date, quotes a price or interprets usage rights.

## The process this page is about

Not "AI for photographers". One process: the enquiry, the message that decides whether a client ends up on your calendar or the next studio’s, before anyone has spoken to a person.

- **Who starts it**: Someone who just got engaged, needs a headshot before Monday, or is scrolling a portfolio at midnight with a date in mind and a vague sense of budget, usually on a phone.
- **What it costs today**: A static questionnaire with a dozen or more questions that most clients start and never finish, or a DM thread in an app built for chatting with friends, not running a business.
- **What it has to produce**: A typed enquiry record: the kind of session, the date they hope for, roughly how many people, the style they described, and a budget range for understanding priorities, with no date held and no price quoted.
- **of people who start an intake questionnaire never finish it**: 67% (source: Zuko)

## What it asks, and what it never asks

You name the fields your intake already has. It asks in whatever order the story comes out, and keeps asking until the required ones are filled.

| Field | Type | Required | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact_full_name | text | yes | Identity on the enquiry record |
| contact_phone | phone | yes | How the studio calls back |
| contact_email | email | no | A second way to reach them, if they gave one |
| session_type | text | yes | Portrait, family, commercial, product or event |
| date_hoped_for | date | yes | The date they are hoping for, never held or confirmed |
| subject_count_estimate | number | no | Roughly how many people, for planning fit |
| style_vision | text | no | The style or feeling they are picturing, in their own words |
| budget_range | text | no | Understands priorities, never produces a quote |

### And what it will not do

- It never holds, confirms, or reserves a date. The studio checks the book and calls back.
- It never quotes or estimates a price, a package cost, or what a session usually runs.
- It never grants, promises, or interprets image usage or licensing rights. What a client can do with a photo is a contract term the studio sets.
- It never gives creative or technical advice that is a professional judgment call, posing and editing choices included.
- It never comments on another photographer, studio, or vendor, good or bad.
- It never invents a field. If they did not say it, the record says "Not captured" instead of a guess.

## Try the run yourself

Six situations a working studio actually handles, each running its own agent with its own fields. Pick one and answer it the way a real client would, out of order and mid-thought, and watch it ask the follow-up instead of accepting the blank.

- [I want to book a session](https://joina.chat/l/ss-intake): Chat widget. The first enquiry, in the corner of your studio’s own site.
- [I need this fast](https://joina.chat/l/ss-rush): Conversation page. A rush request with a hard deadline, escalated straight to the studio.
- [Do you even shoot this](https://joina.chat/l/ss-fit): Conversation page. A genre or location fit question, answered honestly before anyone books.
- [It’s been a while](https://joina.chat/l/ss-checkin): Conversation page. A past client reconnecting, no guilt about the gap.
- [I need to cancel](https://joina.chat/l/ss-cancel): Conversation page. No refund promised, just the reason recorded with care.
- [Getting ready for my session](https://joina.chat/l/ss-prep): Conversation page. Shot list and day-of timeline for a session already booked, not a lead.

## Frequently asked questions

**What does Gnosari do for a photography studio?**

Gnosari runs the enquiry a photographer would otherwise answer late at night from a phone: the session type, the date, the location, how many people, the style they like and how to reach them. It asks one question at a time on your portfolio pages or through a link, then posts a typed enquiry record to your CRM. You reply in the morning with a proposal instead of a list of questions.

**How do I stop photography enquiries going cold while I am on a shoot?**

Create a free Gnosari account and tell it which fields your enquiry form already asks: session type, preferred date, location, group size, style references, budget range, contact. Put the link on your portfolio pages and in your auto-reply. Gnosari runs the conversation the moment someone reaches out, follows up on a vague date, and posts the record to HoneyBook or Dubsado through a webhook, Zapier or Make. You come off the shoot to a complete brief.

**Will Gnosari confirm a date or quote a package price?**

No. Gnosari is instructed never to hold, confirm or reserve a date, and never to quote or estimate a price or package cost. Both are the studio's call, made against a real calendar and a real proposal, and Gnosari says so plainly whenever a client asks. It records the requested date and the budget range as stated, so the proposal you write starts from what the client actually said.

**Can Gnosari collect a shot list, and what does it say about image usage rights?**

Yes. A separate Gnosari agent takes the must-have shots, style preferences and the plan for the day, with key times, locations and access notes, recorded as a working document against a session that is already booked. On licensing, Gnosari never grants, promises or interprets usage rights. Whether a client can print, share or use a photo commercially is a contract term the studio sets, so it points back to the contract or the studio every time.

**Does Gnosari work with HoneyBook or Dubsado?**

Yes, through a webhook. The moment an enquiry record is complete, Gnosari posts a signed JSON payload to the address you give it, and Zapier or Make routes it into HoneyBook, Dubsado or the CRM you already run. There is no Gnosari app to install on either side, and the enquiry is already in your Gnosari inbox before delivery starts, so a down endpoint never loses a booking lead.

## Five minutes from now your late-night inquiries could be typing themselves up.

Build the agent, put it on your portfolio pages, and watch the first enquiry record arrive. Free to start, no card.

Full page: https://gnosari.com/for/photography