Your agent, your voice
- You pick Tate and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and landscaping intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the hardscape design walkthroughs is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your landscaping catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrial83% of landscape companies report difficulty filling positionsAvg ticket: $12,500 average design-build project
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
New homeowner wants a full backyard transformation — patio, fire pit, and native plantings.
7:30 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
-$4,500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Projects to Voicemail.
Spring booking season crams 60% of your annual revenue into a 10-week window between March and May. A single missed call on a Tuesday afternoon in April sends a $40,000 patio-and-pergola project directly to the competitor who picked up the phone.
Your designer emails a $25,000 outdoor kitchen proposal on Wednesday. Without automated follow-up, the estimate sits unread in the homeowner's spam folder for 9 days. By the time your office calls back, the homeowner has already signed with another company.
Your designer specifies three 8-foot mature Japanese Maples at $1,200 each. The crew arrives on installation day and the nursery sold out yesterday. The entire $18,000 planting phase stalls while you scramble to source replacements 60 miles away.
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. Tate 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
New homeowner wants a full backyard transformation — patio, fire pit, and native plantings.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Tate answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Design consultation scheduled. Inspiration photos requested via SMS. Site visit reserved.
Bottom Line
+$4,500
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
Tate · 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 landscaping 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
Landscaping 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 landscaping.
Meet Tate
Your AI Voice Agent for Landscaping
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Landscaping — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A homeowner calls in mid-April wanting a flagstone patio, outdoor kitchen, and landscape lighting installed before a June wedding reception. Three other landscapers are also getting calls today. The company that books the $45,000 design consultation first locks in the contract — the other two never hear back.
How Tate wins the job
A homeowner calls in April wanting a complete backyard overhaul with a flagstone patio and landscape lighting before a summer party. The AI agent captures the yard dimensions, asks about drainage problems and HOA restrictions, and queries the scheduling engine for the next available Saturday design consultation. It fires a webhook that texts the homeowner a link to the outdoor kitchen portfolio. It logs the caller's specified plant varieties, sizes, and quantities into the designer's project file so the team can verify nursery availability before the consultation. When the designer arrives Saturday, the tablet displays the pre-qualified budget range, site conditions, and plant specifications — eliminating the discovery phase and letting the designer present options immediately.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent pre-qualify design-build consultations to shorten the sales cycle?
The AI agent extracts exact project scope, budget range, yard dimensions, and site conditions during the initial call. It pushes this data directly into the designer's mobile app via API, eliminating the entire discovery phase and letting the designer walk into the consultation ready to present options.
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