Your agent, your voice
- You pick Cleo and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and power line trimming intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, an utility clearance cuts is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your power line trimming catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialNERC vegetation violations carry fines up to $1 million per dayAvg ticket: $1.2 million average annual utility contract
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Tree branches growing into power lines — utility company issued a trim-or-disconnect notice.
5:40 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
-$1,500
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Contracts to Voicemail.
A NERC FAC-003 auditor pulls up span 4,271 on a 1,000-mile right-of-way and asks for the clearance measurement, species identification, and date of last trim. One missing data point on a single span can terminate a $10 million multi-year contract.
A hurricane makes landfall and your utility client demands 50 bucket truck crews deployed across 6 counties within 8 hours. Manually tracking crew locations, equipment readiness, and routing priorities on a whiteboard leads to 12 crews arriving at the same intersection while 3 high-priority transmission corridors go untouched.
A property owner blocks your crew's access to a transmission easement, claiming they never received advance notice. Without timestamped proof that the mandatory 48-hour notification was delivered, the police officer on scene orders your crew to leave. The utility docks $2,500 from your monthly payment for the missed span.
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. Cleo 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
Tree branches growing into power lines — utility company issued a trim-or-disconnect notice.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Cleo answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Trim assessment scheduled. Utility notice reviewed via SMS. Certified crew dispatched.
Bottom Line
+$1,500
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
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Answer
Cleo · 29+ languages · first ring
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Quote
Live catalog and rules
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Book
Confirmed on the board
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Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
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Dispatch
Map + tech's phone
Your power line trimming 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
Power Line Trimming markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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Meet Cleo
Your AI Voice Agent for Power Line Trimming
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Power Line Trimming — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A utility dispatcher stares at a radar screen showing a Category 2 hurricane 36 hours from landfall. Fifty bucket truck crews need deployment orders within 4 hours. The vegetation management contractor who can mobilize, track, and report crew positions across 6 counties in real time holds a $10 million annual contract.
How Cleo wins the job
A utility reports a planned transmission line upgrade requiring clearance trimming within 72 hours. The AI agent cross-references the specific line spans against the trim cycle database and identifies 23 critical zones where vegetation exceeds NERC clearance thresholds. The routing engine dispatches 3 bucket truck crews to geographically optimized zones and fires automated 48-hour text notifications to every adjacent property owner with delivery receipts logged. When an angry homeowner calls to dispute access, the AI agent pulls the easement deed reference within two seconds and the timestamped notification delivery receipt, explaining the NERC clearance mandate and defusing the confrontation before a human dispatcher gets involved.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the system enforce NERC FAC-003 compliance documentation at the span level?
The platform requires mandatory field data entry — GPS coordinates, tree species, clearance distance in feet, and date of trim — before a crew can close any span in the system. Missing any single field blocks the span from being marked complete, ensuring every record in the audit log is fully populated.
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