Your agent, your voice
- You pick Owen and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and fencing intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the linear footage for new fence builds is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your fencing catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialUnderground utility strikes cost fencing contractors an average of $3,800 per incident in repairs and delaysAvg ticket: $4,500 average fence installation
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Dog keeps escaping the yard — homeowner needs a fence installed ASAP.
6:15 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
-$4,200
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
The city's 811 utility locate crew takes 5 full business days to spray-paint gas and fiber lines on the grass, and every day you wait is a day your post-hole auger sits on the trailer earning nothing.
A homeowner's HOA committee takes 6 weeks to approve a shadowbox design, leaving 120 cedar pickets stacked in your shop while you guess whether the contract will ever actually close.
A neighbor disputes the property line after your crew pours 18 concrete footings along the fence run, forcing a $2,400 emergency redesign and 3 days of wasted labor ripping out hardened posts.
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. Owen 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
Dog keeps escaping the yard — homeowner needs a fence installed ASAP.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Owen answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Property measurement scheduled. Material options sent via SMS. Install slot reserved.
Bottom Line
+$4,200
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
Owen · 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 fencing 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
Fencing markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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More metros at /locations · each city page is self-canonical for fencing.
Meet Owen
Your AI Voice Agent for Fencing
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Fencing — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A homeowner calls on Saturday morning wanting 200 linear feet of privacy panels installed before their new puppy comes home in three weeks. Your estimator is driving T-posts into a backyard across town, and the call rolls to voicemail — handing that $5,800 cedar fence to the competitor who picked up on the second ring.
How Owen wins the job
A homeowner calls Saturday morning needing 200 linear feet of privacy fence before their puppy arrives. The AI agent answers immediately, logs the address, asks if the HOA requires a specific stain color or board style, and books a Monday estimator walkthrough. It emails the homeowner a digital 811 utility locate consent form within 10 seconds. The estimator enters a $6,200 bid for 6-foot cedar, and the platform texts the homeowner a secure checkout link. Once the deposit clears, the scheduling engine injects a hard 5-business-day blackout period for the city to mark gas and fiber lines, then locks the build onto the calendar for Day 6. The system fires an API request to the lumber supplier to schedule pallet delivery at 6:30 AM on build day, and texts the homeowner 48 hours in advance: 'Park both cars on the street by 6 AM Tuesday so the crew can access your driveway.'
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the scheduling engine handle the mandatory 811 utility locate waiting period?
The scheduling engine injects a hard 5-day blackout into the calendar the moment the contract is signed. It physically blocks your crew from being assigned to that address until the utility ticket status is updated to 'Cleared' in the system, preventing dangerous gas line strikes.
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