Your agent, your voice
- You pick Prairie and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and mobile vehicle inspection intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the pre-purchase inspections is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your mobile vehicle inspection catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialOnline used car purchases grew 40%, driving third-party inspection demandAvg ticket: $175 average pre-purchase inspection
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A used car buyer calls to schedule a pre-purchase inspection before the seller's deadline.
5:15 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
-$200
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Inspections to Voicemail.
A buyer finds a deal online at 10 AM and needs an inspection by 2 PM. The seller refuses to drive the car to a shop, demanding someone come to their driveway. Four hours of phone tag with inspection services costs the buyer the deal entirely.
A technician spends 45 minutes photographing 80 angles of a vehicle, then burns 2 more hours organizing those photos into a coherent PDF report at home. The 3 hours of post-inspection labor turns a $175 job into a $58-per-hour grind.
A seller warms up the car for 20 minutes before the inspector arrives, masking the hard 1-2 shift that only manifests on a stone-cold transmission. The buyer purchases the truck and discovers a $4,000 transmission rebuild 2 weeks later.
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. Prairie 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 used car buyer calls to schedule a pre-purchase inspection before the seller's deadline.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Prairie answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Vehicle location confirmed. Inspector dispatched for evaluation.
Bottom Line
+$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
Prairie · 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 vehicle inspection 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 Vehicle Inspection 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 vehicle inspection.
Meet Prairie
Your AI Voice Agent for Mobile Vehicle Inspection
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Mobile Vehicle Inspection — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A buyer in Atlanta finds a 2018 pickup truck listed by a private seller in Birmingham, 150 miles away. Before driving 3 hours, the buyer needs proof the frame isn't rotted and the transmission shifts clean. The first inspection service that answers, dispatches a certified inspector within 12 hours, and delivers a 150-point PDF report wins the $175 fee. The second service to call back hears 'I already bought it.'
How Prairie wins the job
A buyer 500 miles away wants to purchase a 2018 full-size pickup from a private seller. The AI agent captures the VIN, maps the seller's driveway address, and logs the buyer's primary concern: frame rust. It dispatches an ASE-certified inspector within 12 hours. The system texts the seller directly—demanding the truck sit for a minimum of 6 hours prior to the appointment to ensure a cold-start transmission test. The inspector arrives, uses a paint-depth meter to find 4mm of body filler on the rear quarter panel, snaps 60 timestamped photos of the undercarriage, and logs a 1-2 transmission slip at 1,800 RPM. The AI agent compiles a 150-point PDF report within 60 seconds and delivers it to the buyer's email, saving them from a $4,000 transmission rebuild and a hidden collision repair.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the system handle logistics with an uncooperative private seller?
The AI agent removes the buyer from the coordination entirely. The system texts the seller directly, negotiating the driveway time slot and enforcing a mandatory 'cold engine' clause—the vehicle must sit unstarted for 6+ hours before the inspection. This ensures the inspector can hear cold-start rattles, test cold-transmission shift points, and detect issues that a warm engine masks.
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