Your agent, your voice
- You pick Dante and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and deck building intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the deck replacement consults is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your deck building catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialOver 60% of homeowners choose their deck builder based on who responds first to their inquiryAvg ticket: $15,000 average deck project
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Family wants a new composite deck built before summer barbecue season.
6:30 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
-$8,000
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Contracts to Voicemail.
Submitting engineered plans to the city building department means guessing whether the permit clears in 5 days or 7 weeks, forcing your sales rep to quote a start date they cannot guarantee to a homeowner demanding a Memorial Day deadline.
A specific gray composite board carries a 6-week factory lead time, and your crew sits idle for 3 weeks while the homeowner refuses to accept a different shade — tying up a $22,000 signed contract with zero billable hours.
A city inspector fails your concrete footings on a Friday afternoon, locking your framing crew out of the jobsite until the re-inspection clears next Wednesday — a 5-day gap where four workers earn nothing.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live catalog and rules — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Dante 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
Family wants a new composite deck built before summer barbecue season.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Dante answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Design consultation booked. Material guide sent via SMS. Build slot reserved for next month.
Bottom Line
+$8,000
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
Dante · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live catalog and rules
04
Book
Confirmed on the board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + tech's phone
Your deck building 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 catalog and rules 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
Deck Building markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
New York · Los Angeles · Chicago · Houston · Phoenix · Philadelphia · San Antonio · San Diego · Dallas · Austin · Jacksonville · San Jose · Fort Worth · Columbus · Charlotte · Indianapolis · San Francisco · Seattle · Denver · Nashville · Oklahoma City · El Paso · Washington · Las Vegas
More metros at /locations · each city page is self-canonical for deck building.
Meet Dante
Your AI Voice Agent for Deck Building
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Deck Building — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
Every homeowner wants their backyard platform finished before the Memorial Day barbecue, creating a vicious April bottleneck where your estimator fields 30 calls a week but the calendar is already choked through June. A $22,000 composite deck quote sits unsigned for 6 weeks because the city building department hasn't stamped the permit yet.
How Dante wins the job
A homeowner calls March 1st wanting a 400-square-foot composite platform with a cedar pergola before their July 4th party. The AI agent answers, logs the color preference and backyard slope, and books a Saturday design consultation. It texts the homeowner a disclaimer that city permits require a minimum 14-day processing window. The designer uploads a $22,000 bid with 3D renderings, and the platform texts a digital contract. The second the homeowner signs with their finger, the scheduling engine routes a purchase order to the composite supplier and places the job in a 'Permit Hold' status. Three weeks later, when the city stamps the plans, the system wakes the job, blocks out a 10-day build schedule, automatically requests the city footing inspection for Day 3, and texts the homeowner a locked-in completion date of June 28th.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform manage the permit waiting period without cluttering the active calendar?
The scheduling engine fences unpermitted jobs into a dedicated holding queue, invisible to the active dispatch board. The moment the stamped city plans are uploaded, the system grabs the next available 10-day slot, assigns the framing crew, and texts the homeowner a confirmed dig date.
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