Your agent, your voice
- You pick Alder and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and photography intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the golden hour bridal shoots is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your photography catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialPhotographers who respond within 30 minutes are 21x more likely to bookAvg ticket: $2,200 average booking value
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A couple calls to book engagement photos before their save-the-date deadline.
7:40 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
-$2,000
Estimated Session Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Sessions to Voicemail.
A bride submits an inquiry at 2 PM while you are mid-shoot in a park with no phone access. By 2:14 PM, she has booked the photographer who replied in 11 seconds—your $3,800 wedding contract evaporated in the time it took to pose a family of five.
A completed wedding gallery sits on a hard drive for 8 weeks while the editor color-corrects 2,400 images. The bride's three recently engaged friends ask for photographer recommendations during week 2—but she has nothing to show them yet, and the referral window closes.
Coordinating a golden-hour engagement shoot means aligning 4 family members' work schedules, checking sunset time for the GPS coordinates, and monitoring rain probability—a 45-minute text chain that produces zero billable revenue.
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. Alder 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 couple calls to book engagement photos before their save-the-date deadline.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Alder answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Session date and location confirmed. Deposit secured. Shoot reserved.
Bottom Line
+$2,000
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
Alder · 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 photography 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
Photography 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 photography.
Meet Alder
Your AI Voice Agent for Photography
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Photography — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A newly engaged bride emails five photographers at 2 PM on a Tuesday. One system texts her back in 12 seconds with a portfolio link and an available-date confirmation. She books the $3,800 package before dinner. The other four photographers finish their afternoon portrait session, check email at 7 PM, and type replies to a bride who already paid someone else.
How Alder wins the job
A bride submits a web form at 11 PM. The AI agent texts her back in 12 seconds, notes her preference for moody editorial lighting, and confirms June 14th is open in the scheduling database. It calculates round-trip drive time to the venue, generates a $3,800 quote for 8 hours with a second shooter, and texts a secure payment link. While the photographer sleeps, the bride pays the $1,000 retainer and picks an engagement shoot date from the live calendar. The photographer wakes up to a signed contract, a $1,000 deposit cleared, and the bride's shot-list preferences already logged in the client file.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform route headshot inquiries differently from wedding inquiries?
The AI agent detects the service type from the intake form and forks the workflow. Headshot requests route to a streamlined 15-minute booking calendar with flat-rate pricing. Wedding inquiries flow through a 10-question consultation sequence that captures venue details, guest count, and style preferences before generating a custom quote.
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