Your agent, your voice
- You pick Ruby and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and holiday lighting intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the roofline LED clips is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your holiday lighting catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialEntire annual revenue compressed into 10 weeksAvg ticket: $1,200 average residential installation
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Thanksgiving is next week — homeowner wants full roofline and tree lighting installed.
7:50 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
-$2,200
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Installs to Voicemail.
Your entire annual profit compresses into a 45-day installation window from mid-October through early December. A single missed call on a Tuesday in November is a $2,000 roofline installation that permanently vanishes — the homeowner books with whoever answers next.
A crew drives 40 minutes to a colonial-style home only to discover the roofline is 120 feet, not the 80 feet the receptionist wrote down. The truck is short 40 feet of C9 warm-white LED strand, forcing a return trip that burns 2 hours and $60 in fuel.
A single rain day on a Wednesday pushes 12 scheduled installations to Thursday and Friday, creating a cascading backup that breaks your hand-written calendar and forces weekend overtime at time-and-a-half labor rates.
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. Ruby 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
Thanksgiving is next week — homeowner wants full roofline and tree lighting installed.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Ruby answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Design consultation booked. Home photos requested via SMS. Install crew scheduled before Thanksgiving.
Bottom Line
+$2,200
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
Ruby · 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 holiday lighting 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
Holiday Lighting 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 holiday lighting.
Meet Ruby
Your AI Voice Agent for Holiday Lighting
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Holiday Lighting — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A homeowner realizes on October 20th that Thanksgiving is five weeks away and her roofline is bare. She calls three holiday lighting companies during her lunch break. The installer who answers with a clear price and an available Tuesday slot books a $2,200 job before 1 PM. The two companies whose phones rang to voicemail never hear from her.
How Ruby wins the job
A homeowner calls requesting a complete roofline and tree-wrap display installed before Thanksgiving. The AI agent queries a satellite imagery API to estimate the home's gutter line at 110 linear feet, quotes a $2,200 package for warm-white C9 LEDs with 6 tree wraps, and locks the installation into a tight neighborhood route next Tuesday alongside three other homes on the same street. It collects a $1,000 deposit via a secure payment link and simultaneously injects a January 15th takedown appointment into the crew's live schedule, guaranteeing the post-holiday removal is booked before the lights go up.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent calculate accurate lighting quotes without a site visit?
The AI agent queries a satellite imagery API to measure the home's gutter line, roofline peaks, and tree canopy diameters, then applies a per-linear-foot pricing matrix for C9 roofline strands and a per-tree rate for mini-LED wraps to generate the quote in under 60 seconds.
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