Your agent, your voice
- You pick Alba and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and erosion control intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the retaining wall consults is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your erosion control catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialEPA NPDES violations carry fines up to $50,000 per dayAvg ticket: $6,000 average erosion control installation
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Heavy rain washing soil into the neighbor's yard — homeowner facing a lawsuit threat.
7:10 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
-$3,500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
A developer breaks ground on Monday and demands silt fence installation before the excavators start moving dirt on Tuesday. If your crew doesn't install 1,500 linear feet of controls by end-of-day Monday, the county issues a stop-work order that halts the entire $2 million project.
A half-inch of rain falls overnight across your service area. By 7 AM, every one of your 23 active construction sites requires a mandatory SWPPP inspection within 24 hours. Your two field inspectors can physically visit 8 sites per day, leaving 15 sites out of compliance.
A crew mixes 400 gallons of hydroseeding slurry at 8 AM for a 10 AM application. A scheduling mix-up delays their arrival until 1 PM. The tackifier has begun to set, the slurry is unusable, and $1,000 in seed, mulch, and chemicals gets dumped down the drain.
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. Alba 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
Heavy rain washing soil into the neighbor's yard — homeowner facing a lawsuit threat.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Alba answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Site assessment scheduled. Slope photos requested via SMS. Crew reserved for this week.
Bottom Line
+$3,500
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
Alba · 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 erosion control 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
Erosion Control 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 erosion control.
Meet Alba
Your AI Voice Agent for Erosion Control
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Erosion Control — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A site superintendent watches the weather radar on his phone — a Friday night rainstorm is moving in and 3 acres of bare soil on his development site have zero erosion controls installed. If stormwater carries sediment into the creek by Saturday morning, the EPA NPDES fine hits $50,000 per day.
How Alba wins the job
A superintendent calls at 3 PM on Friday with a rainstorm forecast for that night and 3 acres of bare soil exposed. The AI agent verifies the NPDES permit number, queries the warehouse inventory system to confirm 2,000 feet of silt fence are in stock, and dispatches a crew for 7 AM Saturday installation via the scheduling engine. It automatically generates a post-rain SWPPP inspection work order for Sunday morning and fires a webhook that emails the compliance report template to the developer. The routing engine locks in the $8,500 emergency installation and attaches a recurring monthly inspection contract to the project file.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the system trigger automatic SWPPP inspections after rain events?
The platform monitors a live weather data feed via API. When cumulative rainfall exceeds 0.5 inches at any active site's GPS coordinates, it automatically generates 24-hour inspection work orders for every affected project and assigns them to the nearest available field inspector.
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