Your agent, your voice
- You pick Inlet and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and mobile hair stylist intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the balayage color processes is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your mobile hair stylist catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialBridal hair bookings average $700+ per wedding partyAvg ticket: $110 average mobile appointment
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A bride calls to book bridal updos for herself and four bridesmaids.
8:50 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
-$500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Appointments to Voicemail.
A stylist sits on a client's couch for 45 minutes watching foil process on a double-highlight. Without a second chair to spin, that dead time burns $112 in lost hourly revenue while the stylist scrolls their phone.
Forty tubes of liquid hair color bake in the trunk of a black sedan on a 95-degree afternoon. The heat destroys the developer chemistry, turning a $3,000 color inventory into unusable paste.
A stylist rinses a client's hair in a kitchen sink without a portable basin. Water splashes onto the hardwood floor, leaving a dark stain that triggers a $400 damage claim and a 1-star review.
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. Inlet 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
A bride calls to book bridal updos for herself and four bridesmaids.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Inlet answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Party size and style preferences captured. Hair trial scheduled.
Bottom Line
+$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
Inlet · 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 mobile hair stylist 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
Mobile Hair Stylist 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 mobile hair stylist.
Meet Inlet
Your AI Voice Agent for Mobile Hair Stylist
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Mobile Hair Stylist — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A bride calls at 9 PM, four months out, needing herself and six bridesmaids styled by 1:30 PM on a Saturday. The first stylist who answers, locks in the $720 retainer, and sends a timeline PDF wins the job. The second stylist to call back gets a polite 'we already booked someone.'
How Inlet wins the job
A bride calls four months before her Saturday wedding for herself and six bridesmaids. The AI agent locks in the 2 PM ceremony time, calculates backward to a strict 6:30 AM start, and maps the hotel suite address. It collects reference photos for each bridesmaid's style—four updos and two blowouts—quotes $720 total, and processes a 50% non-refundable retainer via a secure payment link. The scheduling engine books a mandatory trial run 6 weeks prior. On wedding morning, the system pings every bridesmaid with their exact 45-minute chair time: bridesmaid one at 6:30 AM, bridesmaid two at 7:15 AM, continuing through the bride at 12:15 PM. The stylist arrives with the exact pin counts and spray types needed, finishing 15 minutes ahead of schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the system prevent bridal party members from derailing the morning timeline?
The scheduling engine builds a rigid minute-by-minute chair schedule and texts each bridesmaid 30 minutes before her slot. The message specifies that hair must be fully dry and face must be makeup-free. If any bridesmaid misses her window, the routing engine shifts remaining slots forward and alerts the bride to the updated timeline in real time.
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