Your agent, your voice
- You pick Drew and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and scrap metal collection intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, an appliance and copper pickups is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your scrap metal collection catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialA $20/ton commodity swing can flip a pickup from profitable to money-losingAvg ticket: $1,800 average commercial pickup
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A demolition crew calls to schedule a copper and steel pickup from a teardown site.
3:45 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
-$900
Estimated Pickup Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Pickups to Voicemail.
A buyer spends 25 minutes on the phone trying to quote a "mixed load" with no material breakdown. The AI agent runs a structured intake that separates ferrous from non-ferrous, clean from contaminated, and light gauge from structural, generating a per-material price estimate in under 3 minutes.
A dispatcher sends a pickup truck for 15 tons of I-beams that require a flatbed with a grapple crane. The AI agent calculates total tonnage from the caller's description — beam count, length, and approximate weight — and assigns the correct heavy equipment from the fleet.
A caller brings in 500 lbs of copper wire with soldered joints and PVC insulation still attached, expecting clean copper pricing at $3.80/lb. The AI agent asks about insulation, solder, and contamination during intake, quotes the accurate insulated copper rate at $2.10/lb, and sets price expectations before the seller reaches the scale.
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. Drew 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 demolition crew calls to schedule a copper and steel pickup from a teardown site.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Drew answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Metal type and tonnage logged. Pickup truck routed to site.
Bottom Line
+$900
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
Drew · 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 scrap metal collection 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
Scrap Metal Collection 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 scrap metal collection.
Meet Drew
Your AI Voice Agent for Scrap Metal Collection
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Scrap Metal Collection — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A demolition crew finishes tearing out 40 tons of structural steel at 3 PM and needs a price before they load it onto someone else's truck. Steel prices dropped $18 per ton overnight. The scrap yard that answers with a real-time quote and a locked price wins the $6,200 haul.
How Drew wins the job
A demolition crew calls with 40 tons of structural steel and 2,000 lbs of copper wire. The AI agent asks whether the copper is stripped or insulated and confirms the steel is free of concrete attachments. It pulls the morning commodity feed from the pricing engine, locks a 48-hour price guarantee at $3.80/lb for the stripped copper and $185/ton for clean steel, and dispatches a grapple truck for Thursday morning. The crew gets a firm $6,200 quote on the phone instead of shopping three other yards.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent quote accurate commodity prices that change daily?
The platform syncs with the yard's daily price board every morning. During the call, the AI agent pulls the current per-pound or per-ton rate for each material type, multiplies by the caller's estimated weight, and delivers a real-time quote. It can lock a 24-to-48-hour price guarantee to prevent the seller from shopping competitors.
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