Built around your shop — not bolted on

By the time they hang up, the commercial scaffold erections is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.

Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your scaffolding catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.

14-daytrialFederal safety fines for poor scaffolding start at $15kAvg ticket: $3,500 average rental & setup
Scaffolding industry scene

Anatomy of a Lost Job

7:15 PM - Urgent Call

Painting contractor needs scaffolding erected on a 3-story Victorian by Friday morning.

5:35 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

-$2,500

Estimated Opportunity Lost

The Old Way:
Losing Contracts to Voicemail.

A single unsigned federal safety-inspection checklist triggers a site shutdown and a $15,000 OSHA fine before the first mason touches a trowel.

The contractor requests 'scaffolding for the east wall' but neglects to mention the 40-foot parapet height. The truck arrives 20 steel frames short, and the erection crew stands idle while a second truck is dispatched 90 minutes away.

Rented cross-braces and base plates sit on a completed job site for 12 days because the builder never called for teardown—racking up $1,800 in idle rental charges nobody authorized.

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. Ash 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

Painting contractor needs scaffolding erected on a 3-story Victorian by Friday morning.

7:15 PM - Instant Answer

Ash answers instantly and qualifies the lead.

7:17 PM - Job Booked

Erection schedule confirmed. Site dimensions reviewed via SMS. Crew and materials reserved.

Bottom Line

+$2,500

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.

  1. 01

    Call

    Twilio number or the website widget

  2. 02

    Answer

    Ash · 29+ languages · first ring

  3. 03

    Quote

    Live catalog and rules

  4. 04

    Book

    Confirmed on the board

  5. 05

    Deposit

    Stripe before hang-up

  6. 06

    Dispatch

    Map + tech's phone

Your scaffolding 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.

Your agent, your voice

  • You pick Ash and the speaking voice — or clone yours
  • Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
  • Knowledge base, pronunciation, and scaffolding intake in your language

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

Scaffolding 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 scaffolding.

Ash - Your AI Voice Agent for Scaffolding

Meet Ash

Your AI Voice Agent for Scaffolding

Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.

Scaffolding — why missed calls hurt

Market reality

A masonry foreman stands on a job site at 5:00 PM staring at a 30-foot brick facade that needs scaffold erected before his crew can start laying block at 6:00 AM Tuesday. Commercial scaffolding jobs run $2,000 to $10,000, and every hour of delay costs the general contractor $800 in idle bricklayer wages.

How Ash wins the job

A bricklaying foreman needs 30 feet of frame scaffold erected by Tuesday 6:00 AM. He calls dispatch on Sunday night at 9:15 PM. The AI agent extracts the exact wall dimensions, calculates the load-bearing requirement for 4,000 pounds of brick, and confirms the ground is compacted gravel, not soft topsoil. It texts the digital safety liability waiver for e-signature, schedules the 4-man erection crew for Monday at 2:00 PM, and fires a webhook to the inventory system reserving 24 cross-braces and 8 base plates—all without a single human dispatcher logging in.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the system ensure federal safety paperwork is completed before erection begins?

The AI agent texts a digital safety checklist to the site supervisor the moment the job is confirmed. Each line item—base-plate inspection, tie-in intervals, guardrail height—requires an individual e-signature. The system blocks crew dispatch until every signature field is completed, and it attaches the signed PDF to the contractor's daily site log automatically.

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