Your agent, your voice
- You pick Priya and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and painting intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
The exterior estimate is priced from your squares — booked and on the painter's phone.
DispatchNode records siding and stories, writes the visit onto the board, and collects a deposit.
14-daytrialWeather delays cost exterior painting companies an average of 22 lost production days per seasonAvg ticket: $3,200 average residential repaint
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
New homeowners closing in 3 weeks — need full interior repaint before move-in.
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
-$3,800
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
An 80% rain forecast for Tuesday kills your exterior crew's $3,600 production day, and you spend 45 minutes manually calling six homeowners to push their start dates back while your painters sit in the shop earning nothing.
A property manager texts at 9 PM needing a 2-bedroom unit turned over by Saturday morning. Your phone sits on a nightstand, and by 7 AM the $1,850 turnover job belongs to the competitor who replied at 9:02 PM.
Your dispatcher sends a standard roller crew to spray high-gloss cabinet enamel, and they leave drip marks on $4,000 worth of custom doors — triggering a full sand-and-reshoot that erases your entire profit margin.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live siding, stories, and squares — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Priya 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 homeowners closing in 3 weeks — need full interior repaint before move-in.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Priya answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Color consultation booked. Estimate walkthrough scheduled via SMS. Crew reserved for next week.
Bottom Line
+$3,800
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 tech's phone.
01
Call
Twilio number or the website widget
02
Answer
Priya · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live siding, stories, and squares
04
Book
Confirmed on the board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + tech's phone
Your painting 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 siding, stories, and squares 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
Painting markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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More metros at /locations · each city page is self-canonical for painting.
Meet Priya
Your AI Voice Agent for Painting
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Painting — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A sudden Thursday thunderstorm washes out your exterior crew at 1 PM, and you now have six homeowners expecting start dates that just slid back a full week. Meanwhile, the apartment manager who texted at 9 PM last night needing Unit 4B sprayed white before Saturday's move-in already handed the $1,800 job to the crew that answered first.
How Priya wins the job
An apartment manager texts at 9:15 PM on a Tuesday needing Unit 4B sprayed standard white before a Saturday move-in. The AI agent reads the text, cross-references the 2-bedroom floor plan stored in the CRM, and books a Wednesday-Thursday slot on the turnover crew's calendar. It fires back a $1,850 digital estimate link within 8 seconds. At 7 AM Wednesday, the painters open their tablets to find the gate code, unit keybox PIN, and exact paint finish — eggshell on walls, semi-gloss on trim. The scheduling engine checks the hourly weather API and confirms zero rain risk for the exterior touch-up on Thursday afternoon. The second the crew lead taps 'Job Complete' at 3 PM Thursday, the platform compiles the uploaded wall photos into a timestamped PDF and emails it to the manager, locking sign-off before Friday morning.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform handle weather-driven rescheduling for exterior crews?
The scheduling engine ingests hourly precipitation and humidity data from the weather API. When Tuesday shows 80% rain probability, it automatically pushes exterior jobs to Friday, texts each homeowner a new calendar link, and pulls forward pending interior drywall patches to keep the crew billing hours.
See AI dispatch handle a live call — free 30-min demo