Your agent, your voice
- You pick Briar and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and videography intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the multi-cam ceremony recordings is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your videography catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialCorporate videography demand has grown 35% since 2021Avg ticket: $3,500 average project value
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
An event planner calls to book a two-camera video crew for a corporate gala.
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
-$2,500
Estimated Booking Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Bookings to Voicemail.
A corporate shoot scheduled for Friday needs a drone operator. The usual guy double-booked himself and cancels Thursday night—the producer scrambles to find a licensed pilot at a $600 emergency day rate, wiping out the project margin.
A bride texts a videography inquiry at 10 PM. The videographer who texts back at 10:05 PM wins the $3,000 wedding reel; the one who replies Monday morning finds the bride already signed a contract 36 hours ago.
Fourteen completed wedding films sit in the editing queue, each requiring 30 hours of post-production. That backlog locks up $42,000 in final payments that won't clear until the renders deliver—starving the business of cash for three months.
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. Briar 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
An event planner calls to book a two-camera video crew for a corporate gala.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Briar answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Event date, shot list, and deliverables confirmed. Crew 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.
01
Call
Twilio number or the website widget
02
Answer
Briar · 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 videography 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
Videography 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 videography.
Meet Briar
Your AI Voice Agent for Videography
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Videography — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A real estate developer calls at 6 PM Thursday needing aerial drone footage of a luxury listing before Sunday's open house. He dials two videographers—the one whose system answers on the first ring, confirms a licensed drone pilot, and quotes $2,800 gets the job. The second videographer sees a missed call Friday morning and watches the listing go live with a competitor's watermark.
How Briar wins the job
A developer calls at 6 PM Thursday for a luxury listing shoot needing drone flyovers before Sunday's open house. The AI agent answers, queries FAA airspace data for the property address, and confirms zero restricted zones. It checks the contractor roster for a Part 107 licensed drone pilot available Saturday morning and books an interior camera operator for Saturday afternoon. It generates a $2,800 quote with a 48-hour rush surcharge, collects $1,400 via secure payment link, and injects the editor into a Sunday morning rush-cut slot. The finished reel hits the developer's inbox Monday at 8 AM.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform verify drone pilot credentials and airspace clearance before a shoot?
The AI agent cross-references the shoot address against live FAA airspace maps. If the property sits inside a restricted grid near an airport, the scheduling engine blocks the drone dispatch ticket entirely. It also verifies the assigned pilot's Part 107 certification expiration date before allowing the booking to confirm.
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