Your agent, your voice
- You pick Gavin and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and handyman intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the punch list items and fixture installs is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your handyman catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialA reliable handyman earns $4,500+ annually per retained household through repeat visitsAvg ticket: $350 average service call
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Tenant moved out — landlord needs 15 small repairs done before new tenant's move-in.
6:20 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
-$350
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Jobs to Voicemail.
A 30-minute ceiling fan install turns into a 3-hour electrical rewire when the junction box has no ground wire. The next five homeowners on the day's schedule sit at home waiting while the dispatcher scrambles to push their windows back.
Driving 45 minutes across town to fix a single running toilet at $150 burns $38 in gas and 90 minutes of windshield time — erasing the entire profit margin before the handyman even picks up a wrench.
Your dispatcher books a tech for a minor roof flashing patch, but the truck only carries plumbing and electrical tools. The tech stands on the driveway, apologizes, and drives back to the shop for a caulk gun and tin snips.
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. Gavin 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
Tenant moved out — landlord needs 15 small repairs done before new tenant's move-in.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Gavin answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Repair visit confirmed. Punch list details requested via SMS. Handyman scheduled for this week.
Bottom Line
+$350
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
Gavin · 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 handyman 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
Handyman 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 handyman.
Meet Gavin
Your AI Voice Agent for Handyman
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Handyman — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A loyal homeowner who spent $4,200 with you last year texts about mounting a 65-inch TV. You're elbow-deep inside a crawlspace replacing a sump pump float and won't see the text for 3 hours. By then, she's already booked a TaskRabbit for $89 and you've lost the recurring relationship that generates $4,000+ annually.
How Gavin wins the job
A homeowner texts at 10 AM with three fixes: a jammed sliding door, a dripping kitchen faucet, and a wobbly ceiling fan. The AI agent parses the text into three line items, calculates a 4-hour labor block, and offers tomorrow at 1 PM. It builds a digital parts list — door rollers, faucet cartridge, wire nuts — and texts the handyman so he can hit the hardware store before clocking in. At noon, a VIP customer texts about mounting a 65-inch TV. The AI agent matches the phone number against the CRM, finds $4,200 in lifetime spend, and replies: 'We can fit you in at 9 AM Friday!' It slots her job precisely 3 miles from Friday's first stop, eliminating a cross-town drive. The handyman bills 14 jobs across 3 days with less than half a tank of gas used in total windshield time.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI agent handle multi-task honey-do lists from a single text message?
The AI agent parses the text into individual line items, calculates the collective labor hours for each task, and builds an automated parts shopping list. It texts the list to the technician the evening before the job, ensuring they never leave a house mid-task to buy a $3 part at the hardware store.
See AI dispatch handle a live call — free 30-min demo