diff --git a/examples/starter-apps/patient-intake.py b/examples/starter-apps/patient-intake.py
index f00d06b0d..01fe19547 100644
--- a/examples/starter-apps/patient-intake.py
+++ b/examples/starter-apps/patient-intake.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 from dailyai.services.open_ai_services import OpenAILLMService
 # from dailyai.services.deepgram_ai_services import DeepgramTTSService
 from dailyai.services.elevenlabs_ai_service import ElevenLabsTTSService
+from dailyai.services.fireworks_ai_services import FireworksLLMService
 from dailyai.pipeline.frames import (
     Frame,
     LLMFunctionCallFrame,
@@ -249,8 +250,7 @@ async def process_frame(self, frame: Frame) -> AsyncGenerator[Frame, None]:
                 print(f"--> {pretty_json}\n")
                 if frame.function_name not in self._functions:
                     raise Exception(
-                        f"The LLM tried to call a function named {frame.function_name}, which isn't in the list of known functions. Please check your prompt and/or self._functions."
-                    )
+                        f"Unknown function.")
                 fn = getattr(self, frame.function_name)
                 result = fn(json.loads(frame.arguments))
 
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@ async def main(room_url: str, token):
 
         messages = []
 
-        llm = OpenAILLMService(
-            api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
-            model="gpt-4-1106-preview",
+        llm = FireworksLLMService(
+            api_key=os.getenv("FIREWORKS_API_KEY"),
+            model="accounts/fireworks/models/firefunction-v1"
         )
         # tts = DeepgramTTSService(
         #     aiohttp_session=session,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c42452d4d..c0b8fe999 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ fal = [ "fal~=0.12.0" ]
 local = [ "pyaudio~=0.2.0" ]
 moondream = [ "einops~=0.7.0", "timm~=0.9.0", "transformers~=4.39.0" ]
 openai = [ "openai~=1.14.0" ]
+fireworks = [ "openai~=1.14.0" ]
 playht = [ "pyht~=0.0.26" ]
 silero = [ "torch~=2.2.0", "torchaudio~=2.2.0" ]
 websocket = [ "websockets~=12.0" ]
diff --git a/src/dailyai/services/fireworks_ai_services.py b/src/dailyai/services/fireworks_ai_services.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e5ccbc658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dailyai/services/fireworks_ai_services.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import os
+
+from dailyai.services.openai_api_llm_service import BaseOpenAILLMService
+
+
+try:
+    from openai import AsyncOpenAI
+except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
+    print(f"Exception: {e}")
+    print(
+        "In order to use Fireworks, you need to `pip install dailyai[fireworks]`. Also, set the `FIREWORKS_API_KEY` environment variable.")
+    raise Exception(f"Missing module: {e}")
+
+
+class FireworksLLMService(BaseOpenAILLMService):
+    def __init__(self, model="accounts/fireworks/models/firefunction-v1", *args, **kwargs):
+        kwargs["base_url"] = "https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1"
+        super().__init__(model, *args, **kwargs)