Your agent, your voice
- You pick Arlo and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and moving services intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
Move size quoted, crew booked, deposit collected — on the same call.
DispatchNode takes the inventory, prices from your catalog, and the crew sees the job on their phone.
14-daytrialThe first mover to provide an estimate wins 40% of bookingsAvg ticket: $2,400 average local move
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A family calls to book movers for a last-minute closing date that moved up a week.
7:45 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
-$1,800
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Moves to Voicemail.
A homeowner calls at 2 PM on Saturday. The office is closed, so the call goes to voicemail. By 3 PM, the homeowner has booked a competitor who answered. The AI agent picks up on the first ring, runs a structured room-by-room inventory, and delivers a binding preliminary estimate in under 4 minutes.
The intake form says "4 bedrooms, no special items." The crew shows up Monday and discovers a 900-lb baby grand piano and two gun safes requiring a piano board and four movers. The AI agent asks specifically about items over 200 lbs, pianos, safes, pool tables, and hot tubs during every call.
A dispatcher sends a 16-foot cargo van for a 4-bedroom house that needs a 26-foot truck and a 3-man crew. The AI agent converts the room-by-room inventory into cubic footage, matches it to a specific truck size, and assigns the exact crew count based on weight and stair flights.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live move size and inventory — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the crew board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Arlo holds the slot, then writes it onto the board.
Collects, then dispatches
Stripe before hang-up. The crew sees the job, the map, and the notes on their phone.
Anatomy of a booked job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A family calls to book movers for a last-minute closing date that moved up a week.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Arlo answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Move date locked. Deposit collected. Crew assigned.
Bottom Line
+$1,800
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 crew's phone.
01
Call
Twilio number or the website widget
02
Answer
Arlo · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live move size and inventory
04
Book
Confirmed on the crew board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + crew's phone
Your moving services 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 crew board
CRM, quotes & jobs
- Intake and move size and inventory 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
Moving Services 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 moving services.
Meet Arlo
Your AI Voice Agent for Moving Services
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Moving Services — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A homeowner packing a 4-bedroom house calls five moving companies on Saturday afternoon. Four go to voicemail. The one company whose phone gets answered and provides a firm estimate within 3 minutes wins the $8,500 interstate move — 40% of all moving bookings go to the first company that quotes.
How Arlo wins the job
A homeowner calls Saturday afternoon to move a 4-bedroom house from Texas to Colorado. The AI agent answers on the first ring, runs a structured inventory capturing a baby grand piano, two gun safes, and 14 fragile-tagged boxes. It calculates 1,800 cubic feet, assigns a 26-foot truck with a 4-man crew, and pulls the 1,100-mile distance to generate an $8,500 binding estimate. It schedules a Tuesday video survey to finalize weights, collects a $500 deposit via payment link, and locks in the move date. Five competitor voicemails sit unanswered on the homeowner's phone.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent generate a binding estimate without an in-home survey?
The AI agent runs a room-by-room inventory logic tree that asks for special items — pianos, safes, appliances — stair flights, and walking distances. It converts the item list into cubic footage, multiplies by the tariff rate per cubic foot per mile, and delivers a preliminary binding price range in under 4 minutes.
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