Know what's wrong with her nails before she walks in.
She takes one photo of her own hand. She gets a real report about her own nails. You get her name, her number, every finding — and a record that is still there the next time she books.
Your salon starts keeping a record.
A dental practice opens your chart before you sit down. NailScan gives your salon the same thing: every scan writes a dated, structured record of what her nails actually looked like — surface, colour, structure, cuticle — and the care plan she was given that day.
Six visits later, that is a history. You can see whether the damage is improving, which service actually worked, and who is due back. The scanner is the instrument. The record is the asset.
One nail, five frames. This is the whole assessment: the frame she submits, the frame that survives admission, and the three passes that put something on the record. Nothing here is a filter — every mark is a field the front desk can read back.
This is the part that compounds. A scanner you can buy anywhere. A named, condition-tagged history of every client who has ever walked through your door is infrastructure, it belongs to you, and it is worth more in year three than it was on the day it was installed.
She gets the truth, with your name on it.
A report in under a minute, branded to your salon. Ridging, dryness, damage from the last set — described plainly, and honestly enough that she believes the part where you can help.
- It does not flatter her. That is why she trusts the care plan underneath.
- It refuses when it cannot see. A bad photo gets a reshoot request, never a made-up answer.
- It never diagnoses. Where something warrants a professional eye, it says so and stops.
Lifting and a color change together is the combination we ask someone qualified to look at in person.
It is allowed to tell her the nails are damaged.
Design principle · honest mirrorHer number arrives with her nails attached.
Nobody hands over a phone number for ten percent off. They hand it over for something about themselves they cannot find out anywhere else — and it lands in your booking system with every finding already on the record.
The call opens itself: “I have your scan in front of me — the lifting on two nails is the part I'd want to see in person.” That is a two-minute conversation, not a cold pitch.
It works while you're closed
Sunday, 11pm. She scans, the report sends, the follow-up goes out on its own. You read it Monday.
It stops the price shoppers
Discount pop-ups attract people shopping on price. A real assessment attracts people who care about their nails.
The list is yours
Every scan lands in a database you own and can export in full. It does not vanish if you stop working with us.
Watch it refuse to answer.
Pick the bad photograph. Most tools would invent something confident. Watch this one stop.
“So it tells my clients to stop buying gel?”
For the ones whose nails are genuinely failing — yes, for six to twelve weeks. That client was already unhappy and already halfway out the door.
- She was leaving anyway. A recovery plan keeps her on your schedule instead of in a competitor's chair.
- Recovery is billable. Treatment, buff and file, cuticle work — on the midweek slots that are empty anyway. Most salons have nothing to sell a damaged-nail client.
- The rescan is the rebook. Week six and week twelve, she has a reason to come back that isn't a discount.
And the honest version: if gel and acrylic are the only things on your menu, this will cost you money in month one. Build the recovery service first, or don't buy the scanner. We will tell you exactly this on the call.
We ran it in our own salon first.
294 clients scanned before we sold this to a single person. Every record kept, every one reconciled against the booking system, and around 250 of those leads worked by phone off the findings.
We also broke it four times in production — a storage setting quietly deleting reports, field mappings that shipped empty, an automation left switched off while ads ran, and a test address that created a fake client. All four are fixed and all four are published, because a vendor who has never had a failure has never had a user.
The whole failure list →One mark for every client we scanned before any of this was for sale. Seven are in red. Those are the records that could not be matched back to a booking, found during a reconciliation pass and never quietly rounded away. Reference deployment · 294 records · 287 reconciled by identity and a ±10 minute window
Buy it once. Own it.
Half at kickoff, half when it goes live on your website. If it isn't live in thirty days you get your money back. There is no subscription, no contract, and nothing stops working if you walk away.
- On your website, with your branding
- Reports sent by link and email
- Your scan database, yours to export
- The scanner, plus the follow-up that converts it
- Connected to your booking system
- QR codes, ad landing page, staff training
Optional $500/month if you'd rather we ran it. Cancel any time — the system keeps running.
Scan your own nails first.
Thirty minutes. We run it on your hands, show you the report your client would get, and work out with your real numbers whether it pays for itself. If it doesn't, we say so.