--- title: "Urge Chat™" --- Services · The Platform Urge Chat™ Live chat that captures every lead, on your own infrastructure. Not a rented chat widget that quietly ships your visitors' data off to someone else's servers. Urge Chat is a sovereign, privacy-first live chat that runs on your own site, lets you answer from your phone by text, and turns every conversation into a tracked lead your marketing can actually see. See Urge Chat in actionTalk to the team Answer from your phone by text Every conversation a tracked lead Sovereign, privacy-first Scroll ## What is Urge Chat™? It is a live chat that works for you, not for a chat company. Most website chat tools are rented widgets: they route your visitors' conversations and data through a third party's servers, lock you into their platform, and treat the leads as theirs to hold. Urge Chat is the opposite. It runs entirely on your own site and infrastructure, so the conversations, the visitor data, and the leads are yours. It is built for a practice that wants a real chat on its site without handing a stranger the front door. ## Answer from your phone, by text This is the feature busy practices feel first. A visitor sends a message on your site, and it texts your phone. You reply to the text like any other message, and your reply appears in the chat as if you were sitting at a desk, with a live “agent is typing” cue for the visitor. No app to install, no dashboard to babysit. Your front desk can catch a website visitor from anywhere, which is exactly how you [stop losing the ones who show up after hours](https://urgeinteractive.com/challenges/leads-slipping-through-the-front-desk/) or between patients. ## Every conversation becomes a tracked lead This is where Urge Chat stops being a chat widget and becomes part of your growth engine. The moment a visitor gives you their details, Urge Chat captures them as a [lead](https://urgeinteractive.com/services/lead-management/), routes them by what they came for, new-business inquiries as leads, existing-patient questions as support, so your pipeline stays clean, and it does one thing a normal chat never does: it feeds that lead to the [Urge Intelligence Platform™](https://urgeinteractive.com/urge-intelligence-platform/). That means a chat conversation is not a dead end. It becomes part of the same picture as your calls, your forms, and your ads, so you can finally see which marketing produced that patient. The chat on your site becomes a measured source of new patients, not a black box. ## Privacy-first, and built for medicine A chat on a medical site handles sensitive conversations, and Urge Chat is built with that in mind from the ground up. It is privacy-first by design: it runs on your own infrastructure, keeps visitor data local rather than shipping it to a third-party chat vendor, and gives you real control over what it captures, with data capture off by default for medical use. It is built with HIPAA in mind. We never claim it is certified for HIPAA, because no such certification exists, and any chat tool that claims one is overstating it. For a medical, patient-facing site, we set it up conservatively and work to your own compliance requirements, rather than making a promise no chat tool can honestly keep. ## Sovereign, like everything we build Urge Chat follows the same principle as the rest of the Urge platform: you own it, and it is not rented from a vendor who can raise the price, change the rules, or hold your visitors' data hostage. The realtime, the spam protection, the geo lookup, the notifications, all of it runs on your own site rather than a chain of third-party services. It is a chat you control, on a platform built and owned by Urge, for practices that would rather own their front door than rent it. ## How it fits with Foundation and the Intelligence Platform Urge Chat is one piece of a connected whole. The [Urge Foundation™](https://urgeinteractive.com/urge-foundation/) is the site it runs on. The Urge Intelligence Platform is the intelligence it feeds. Foundation gets you found and makes you trusted; Urge Chat catches the visitor and turns them into a lead; the Urge Intelligence Platform proves which marketing produced them and runs the rest. Each is strong on its own. Together, they are the engine. ## Urge Chat™ FAQs **Q: How is Urge Chat different from a normal website chat tool?** Most chat tools are rented widgets that run your conversations and your visitors' data through a third party and keep the leads on their platform. Urge Chat runs on your own site and infrastructure, so the conversations and the leads are yours, and it feeds every lead straight into your marketing intelligence so you can see what produced it. It is built to be your front door, not a stranger's. **Q: Can I really answer chats from my phone?** Yes. A visitor's message texts your phone, and you reply by text; your reply shows up in the chat as the agent, with a typing indicator for the visitor. No app, no dashboard required. It is the simplest way for a busy front desk to catch website visitors from anywhere, including after hours. **Q: How does Urge Chat handle HIPAA?** It is privacy-first and built with HIPAA in mind. We never claim it is certified for HIPAA, because no such certification exists and anyone claiming one is overstating it. It runs on your own infrastructure, keeps your data local, and defaults data capture off for medical use. For a patient-facing medical site we set it up conservatively and work to your own compliance requirements, which always govern the specifics. **Q: What happens to a lead from a chat?** It is captured the moment a visitor shares their details, routed by intent so your sales pipeline stays clean, and sent to the Urge Intelligence Platform, where it joins your calls, forms, and campaigns as part of one measured picture. So a chat conversation becomes a trackable source of patients, tied to the marketing that produced it. **Q: Do I need Foundation or the Intelligence Platform to use Urge Chat?** Urge Chat is built to work best inside the Urge platform, on a Foundation site and feeding the Intelligence Platform, because that is where a chat lead becomes a measured, attributed patient. 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