Have your AI agent call to confirm holiday hours

By Jake Marsh · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Short answer: Ask your agent whether a place is open on a holiday. It checks listed hours with find_business, and because holiday hours online are often wrong, it places a short CallForMe call to ask directly. The assistant asks if they're open, the hours, and anything different that day, then your agent tells you in one line.

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$1 when someone answers, first 2 minutes included. Nothing if nobody picks up. Connecting asks for nothing.

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It sounds like the simplest possible call, and it is. It's also the one you'll forget until the day of, and the one where a wrong website costs you a wasted drive.

What your agent does

1. find_business with the pharmacy's name and your area. That returns the phone number and today's hours, which may not reflect the holiday.
2. plan_call confirms the goal and shows the cost estimate, $1.
3. place_call:

{
  "phone": "+19725550168",
  "business_name": "Main Street Pharmacy",
  "goal": "Ask whether the store and the pharmacy counter are open on Thanksgiving, Thursday Nov 26, and their hours that day.",
  "questions": [
    "Is the pharmacy counter open on Thanksgiving?",
    "What are the pharmacy hours that day?",
    "Is the front store open different hours?"
  ],
  "on_behalf_of": "Alex Chen"
}

4. get_call with wait_seconds: 50. This call usually ends inside the first wait.

Example result

Illustrative example: names, prices and times are made up. Transcript excerpt:

Clerk: Main Street Pharmacy.

Assistant: Hi, this is an assistant calling for Alex Chen, on a recorded line. Is your pharmacy counter open on Thanksgiving, and what are the hours?

Clerk: The store's open 8 to 6, but the pharmacy is only 10 to 2 that day.

Assistant: Thank you, that's all I needed.

What your agent tells you:

Call length 0m 41s, $1.00.

Check several places at once

When any open one will do, ask for a few at once. With call_around your agent calls them together and returns one table: who's open on the day, the hours, and who didn't answer.

Call the 3 pharmacies closest to 75024 and ask which ones have the pharmacy counter open on Thanksgiving, Thursday Nov 26, and the hours that day.

Each answered call is $1 and these usually take under a minute, so three places cost about $3. Places that don't pick up cost nothing.

Tips

• Ask about the counter, not just the store. Pharmacies, service departments, and delis inside bigger stores often close earlier.
• Name the date, not only the holiday. "Thursday Nov 26" avoids confusion about observed holidays.
• Batch it. If you're planning a holiday week, have your agent check the pharmacy, the post office annex, and the dry cleaner in one go.
• Skip callback_number here. It's a question, not a request, so there's nothing for them to call back about.

Federal holidays this season

The 2026 federal holidays left this year are Veterans Day (Wednesday, November 11), Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26) and Christmas (Friday, December 25), per OPM's holiday schedule. Federal offices and the Postal Service close on all three, and many banks and credit unions follow the Federal Reserve's schedule and close too. Most stores stay open on Veterans Day, so it's banks, post offices, government offices and some doctors' offices worth calling ahead:

Call my bank's branch on Main Street and ask if they're open on Veterans Day, November 11, and if the drive-through is.

What it costs

$1 per answered call. These are usually under a minute.

Related

• Pre-order Thanksgiving pies, turkeys and sides
• Thanksgiving week prompt pack
• Have AI call pharmacies about hours
• Order ready for pickup?
• Pharmacy stock check
• What an AI call sounds like
• Pricing

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