Your agent, your voice
- You pick Hank and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and tree service intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
The takedown is quoted, the drop zone is on the job, and the crew is on the board.
DispatchNode prices from your catalog, collects Stripe, and the crew sees access notes on their phone.
14-daytrialStorm damage creates 10-15x call volume spikes in 24-48 hoursAvg ticket: $1,800 average tree removal
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Large oak limb cracked and is hanging over the roof — could fall in the next storm.
6:15 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
-$2,800
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
A derecho hits at midnight and by 6 AM your call volume spikes 15x above normal. Your two-person office staff can physically answer one line at a time, dropping 14 out of every 15 calls. Each dropped call carries a $5,000 crane job to a competitor.
A homeowner describes a 'leaning tree' but can't tell you if the 36-inch oak needs a $400 structural prune or a $3,500 full removal with stump grinding. Guessing wrong means dispatching the chipper crew when you needed the crane, blowing the schedule for the entire day.
Your utility right-of-way contract requires CDL-equipped bucket trucks and flawless monthly drug test records for every operator. One missed test result in the compliance file removes your company from the utility's approved vendor list for 12 months, costing $180,000 in annual contract revenue.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live tree size, access, and drop zone — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Hank holds the slot, then writes it onto the board.
Collects, then dispatches
Stripe before hang-up. The crew sees the job, the map, and the notes on their phone.
Anatomy of a booked job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Large oak limb cracked and is hanging over the roof — could fall in the next storm.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Hank answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Emergency assessment scheduled. Hazard photos requested via SMS. Arborist dispatched for evaluation.
Bottom Line
+$2,800
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 crew's phone.
01
Call
Twilio number or the website widget
02
Answer
Hank · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live tree size, access, and drop zone
04
Book
Confirmed on the board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + crew's phone
Your tree service 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 tree size, access, and drop zone 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
Tree Service markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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Meet Hank
Your AI Voice Agent for Tree Service
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Tree Service — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
An ice storm snaps a 60-foot oak across a homeowner's roof at 3 AM. By dawn, the phone rings every 45 seconds. Every call that reaches voicemail is a $5,000 crane removal job handed to whichever competitor answers first.
How Hank wins the job
An ice storm hits at 2 AM, and by dawn the phones ring every 45 seconds. The AI agent scales to answer every call simultaneously on the first ring. It asks each caller whether the tree is resting on a structure, blocking a driveway, or tangled in power lines. The routing engine categorizes a tree on a roof as a priority-one emergency and dispatches the crane crew within 4 minutes. Standard yard drops get scheduled for the following week. At the end of every removal booking, the AI agent injects a $200 stump grinding add-on prompt into the conversation, presenting trunk diameter pricing and attaching the line item to the work order — all without a single office staff member picking up a phone.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent triage tree emergencies by structural risk level?
The AI agent runs caller descriptions through a severity logic tree with three tiers: structure impacts trigger immediate crane dispatch, road or driveway blockages receive 24-hour priority routing, and yard drops are queued into the next available weekly route. This tiered routing ensures the crane crew is reserved for high-value structure-impact jobs during surge periods.
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