Your agent, your voice
- You pick Nina and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and fence staining intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the weatherproofing quotes is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your fence staining catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrial80% of revenue falls April through OctoberAvg ticket: $850 average fence staining job
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Cedar fence turning gray — homeowner wants it stained before the HOA sends another notice.
6:40 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
-$1,500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
A crew pours $400 worth of semi-transparent oil stain onto 200 linear feet of cedar fencing at 7 AM. A pop-up thunderstorm rolls in at noon, washing uncured stain into the flowerbed and forcing a complete redo that wipes out the entire job's profit margin.
The spring restaining rush packs 280 inquiry calls into a 4-week window between late March and mid-April. Every call that rolls to voicemail is a homeowner who books with the next contractor on Google before you finish your current job.
A homeowner insists over the phone that her fence is 'natural cedar' and demands a matching stain. Your crew arrives to find pressure-treated pine coated in a solid-body latex — a surface that requires chemical stripping before any semi-transparent product will adhere, adding $600 to the job.
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. Nina 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
Cedar fence turning gray — homeowner wants it stained before the HOA sends another notice.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Nina answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Staining estimate scheduled. Color options sent via SMS. Weather window reserved.
Bottom Line
+$1,500
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
Nina · 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 fence staining 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
Fence Staining 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 fence staining.
Meet Nina
Your AI Voice Agent for Fence Staining
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Fence Staining — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A cedar privacy fence turns ash-gray 18 months after installation, and the homeowner notices it the week before a backyard graduation party. She calls three fence staining companies during her lunch break — the one that answers with a clear quote and available date wins the $1,200 job.
How Nina wins the job
A homeowner calls about restaining 300 linear feet of 6-foot cedar privacy fence before a backyard wedding in three weeks. The AI agent asks the wood species, current condition, and fence height, then generates a $1,500 quote covering pressure washing and a two-coat brush application. It queries a live meteorological API and identifies a 72-hour dry window starting Tuesday. It locks the crew into that window, sends a secure payment link for a $500 deposit, and texts the homeowner a preparation checklist requiring all patio furniture moved 5 feet from the fence line by Monday evening.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent handle weather-dependent scheduling?
The scheduling engine queries a live meteorological API every 6 hours. The moment rain enters the 24-hour forecast window, it automatically fires an SMS to the homeowner with two alternative reschedule dates that each show a 72-hour dry forecast.
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