Your agent, your voice
- You pick Priya and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and painting intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
The exterior estimate is priced from your squares — booked and on the painter's phone.
DispatchNode records siding and stories, writes the visit onto the board, and collects a deposit.
14-daytrialWeather delays cost exterior painting companies an average of 22 lost production days per seasonAvg ticket: $3,200 average residential repaint
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
New homeowners closing in 3 weeks — need full interior repaint before move-in.
7:30 PM — No Answer
"Please leave a message or press 1 for..."
7:18 PM - Lead Hangs Up
Searches Google, hires a competitor who answers.
Bottom Line
-$3,800
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
An 80% rain forecast for Tuesday kills your exterior crew's $3,600 production day, and you spend 45 minutes manually calling six homeowners to push their start dates back while your painters sit in the shop earning nothing.
A property manager texts at 9 PM needing a 2-bedroom unit turned over by Saturday morning. Your phone sits on a nightstand, and by 7 AM the $1,850 turnover job belongs to the competitor who replied at 9:02 PM.
Your dispatcher sends a standard roller crew to spray high-gloss cabinet enamel, and they leave drip marks on $4,000 worth of custom doors — triggering a full sand-and-reshoot that erases your entire profit margin.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live siding, stories, and squares — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Priya holds the slot, then writes it onto the board.
Collects, then dispatches
Stripe before hang-up. The tech sees the job, the map, and the notes on their phone.
Anatomy of a booked job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
New homeowners closing in 3 weeks — need full interior repaint before move-in.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Priya answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Color consultation booked. Estimate walkthrough scheduled via SMS. Crew reserved for next week.
Bottom Line
+$3,800
Revenue Captured While You Slept
Configured to your trade
Call → quote → book → deposit → dispatch
Not a receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. One agent, your rules — on the phone and the widget — and the job lands on the tech's phone.
01
Call
Twilio number or the website widget
02
Answer
Priya · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live siding, stories, and squares
04
Book
Confirmed on the board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + tech's phone
Your painting operation — not just the phone
Intake, catalog, and dispatch in your terms. The same person on the call and the widget. Unlimited techs and office.
Dispatch & calendar
- Live map, travel buffers, recurring routes
- Time clock with GPS; availability on the call
- Holds a slot, then books it onto the board
CRM, quotes & jobs
- Intake and siding, stories, and squares the way your shop already talks
- Estimates the customer approves by text
- Jobs created from the call transcript
Get paid
- Invoices + Stripe links, including mid-call deposits
- A/R dunning, job costing, 1099 contractor payouts
- QuickBooks Online & Xero on Starter+
In the field
- Native iOS & Android — no per-tech fee
- photos, signatures, and checklists
- Before/after PDFs and on-my-way ETAs
The customer
- No-login portal from an SMS link
- Pay, approve quotes, reschedule, see ETA
- Reminders, review asks, agreement renewals
Contracts & cadence
- Service agreements with e-sign review
- Recurring jobs generated on a cadence
- 60 / 30 / 7-day renewal reminders
Shop, parts & fleet
- Pricebook, inventory, vendors, serialized assets
- Bay, counter, or warehouse when you need them
- Vehicles, equipment, optional telematics
Office, team & growth
- 11 roles, audit log, website & campaigns
- Google + Outlook calendars; Gusto time sync
- REST + MCP API on Starter — your catalog, your terms
Live today Stripe · Twilio · QuickBooks Online · Xero · Gusto · Google Calendar · Outlook · Slack · CallRail · Lob · Mapbox / Google Maps · REST + MCP
Painting markets
Local pages for the metros this trade actually serves. The phone product is the AI receptionist. Packaging comparisons start with the Jobber alternative and the ServiceTitan alternative. What AI dispatch software does explains the workflow, and tiers are on pricing.
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Meet Priya
Your AI Voice Agent for Painting
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Painting — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A sudden Thursday thunderstorm washes out your exterior crew at 1 PM, and you now have six homeowners expecting start dates that just slid back a full week. Meanwhile, the apartment manager who texted at 9 PM last night needing Unit 4B sprayed white before Saturday's move-in already handed the $1,800 job to the crew that answered first.
How Priya wins the job
An apartment manager texts at 9:15 PM on a Tuesday needing Unit 4B sprayed standard white before a Saturday move-in. The AI agent reads the text, cross-references the 2-bedroom floor plan stored in the CRM, and books a Wednesday-Thursday slot on the turnover crew's calendar. It fires back a $1,850 digital estimate link within 8 seconds. At 7 AM Wednesday, the painters open their tablets to find the gate code, unit keybox PIN, and exact paint finish — eggshell on walls, semi-gloss on trim. The scheduling engine checks the hourly weather API and confirms zero rain risk for the exterior touch-up on Thursday afternoon. The second the crew lead taps 'Job Complete' at 3 PM Thursday, the platform compiles the uploaded wall photos into a timestamped PDF and emails it to the manager, locking sign-off before Friday morning.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform handle weather-driven rescheduling for exterior crews?
The scheduling engine ingests hourly precipitation and humidity data from the weather API. When Tuesday shows 80% rain probability, it automatically pushes exterior jobs to Friday, texts each homeowner a new calendar link, and pulls forward pending interior drywall patches to keep the crew billing hours.
See AI dispatch handle a live call — free 30-min demo