Your agent, your voice
- You pick Oscar and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and paving intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the hot mix asphalt pours is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your paving catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialA 20-minute crew delay wastes $1,200 in cooled asphalt per truckAvg ticket: $8,500 average project value
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Commercial parking lot has potholes — property manager needs resurfacing before tenant complaints escalate.
5:20 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
-$5,500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Contracts to Voicemail.
Your dump truck idles at a railroad crossing for 22 minutes while 300-degree asphalt cools to 250 degrees. The roller operator lays it anyway, and the surface cracks within six months, triggering a $4,000 warranty redo.
A pop-up thunderstorm appears on radar at 1 PM, and your dispatcher scrambles to call five crew members, two dump truck drivers, and the asphalt plant to halt tomorrow's batch run, burning 45 minutes of phone time while $6,000 in scheduled work evaporates.
Your office manager spends two hours every morning calling the local asphalt plant to adjust material pickup slots because yesterday's sub-base grading crew ran 90 minutes behind schedule.
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. Oscar 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
Commercial parking lot has potholes — property manager needs resurfacing before tenant complaints escalate.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Oscar answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Site survey scheduled. Scope details confirmed via SMS. Paving crew reserved for next opening.
Bottom Line
+$5,500
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
Oscar · 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 paving 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
Paving markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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Meet Oscar
Your AI Voice Agent for Paving
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Paving — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A 300-degree hot-mix asphalt load drops 10 degrees every 15 minutes sitting in a dump truck. One 20-minute traffic delay on the way to your job site turns a $1,200 truckload into cold, unrollable rock that your crew shovels straight into the dumpster.
How Oscar wins the job
A property manager calls on Monday morning needing a 10,000-square-foot parking lot milled and overlaid before a tenant grand opening on Friday. The AI agent answers on the first ring, captures the exact square footage and current base condition, and fires an API query against your live asphalt plant reservation calendar to lock a Thursday 6 AM batch slot. It auto-generates a $18,500 digital quote with a secure payment link and texts it to the property manager within 90 seconds. The scheduling engine blocks a dump truck, a roller operator, and a five-man raking crew for Thursday, then calculates the 35-minute plant-to-site drive time and offsets the crew arrival to land exactly 15 minutes before the first hot-mix truck pulls in. Zero standby labor cost—crews are only dispatched after the AI confirms weather, material delivery, and equipment availability. By Friday morning, the lot is striped and open.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI coordinate crew arrival with hot-mix plant load-outs?
The routing engine calculates the exact drive time from the asphalt plant to the specific job site GPS coordinates. It offsets crew dispatch by that duration minus 15 minutes, so laborers step on site precisely as the dump truck raises its bed—eliminating $150-per-hour standby labor waste.
See AI dispatch handle a live call — free 30-min demo