Your agent, your voice
- You pick Nora and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and locksmith intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
The lockout at 1am is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
DispatchNode answers on ring one, prices from your rules, and the job is dispatched before they call the next locksmith.
14-daytrial70% of locksmith calls are emergenciesAvg ticket: $135 average emergency lockout
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A stranded driver calls after being locked out of their car at midnight.
12:14 AM – 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
-$275
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Lockouts to Voicemail.
A driver locked out of their running car at a gas station at 11 PM will never leave a voicemail. If your line rings past the third ring, they tap the next search result in under four seconds, and your $125 emergency fee evaporates before you even know the call happened.
Scam operators run $15 bait-and-switch ads backed by overseas call centers that answer 24/7. You lose legitimate lockout jobs because you cannot match their round-the-clock phone coverage while you are physically on-site rekeying a six-pin Schlage deadbolt at a foreclosed property.
Your technician arrives to re-key a commercial office building and realizes the specific high-security Medeco cylinder blanks are not loaded in the van. The $300 re-key job turns into an unpaid 45-minute round trip back to the shop, and the property manager’s trust drops with every wasted minute.
Quote, book, collect, and dispatch — on one call
Quotes from your catalog
Live lock type and urgency — not a script that says someone will call you back.
Books it on the board
Confirmed job, not a voicemail. Nora 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 stranded driver calls after being locked out of their car at midnight.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Nora answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
ETA confirmed via SMS. Locksmith dispatched to location.
Bottom Line
+$275
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
Nora · 29+ languages · first ring
03
Quote
Live lock type and urgency
04
Book
Confirmed on the board
05
Deposit
Stripe before hang-up
06
Dispatch
Map + tech's phone
Your locksmith 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 lock type and urgency 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
Locksmith markets
Local AI dispatch pages for top metros — same shop OS, city-specific operating context.
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Meet Nora
Your AI Voice Agent for Locksmith
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Locksmith — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A nurse finishes a 12-hour overnight shift and discovers her keys locked inside her sedan in a dark hospital parking lot at 2 AM. She dials locksmiths from Google and hires the first one who answers with a quoted price and a confirmed arrival time. The operator whose phone rings five times and goes to voicemail loses a $135 emergency lockout fee to the competitor who picked up.
How Nora wins the job
At 1:30 AM, a nurse finishes a 12-hour shift and discovers her keys locked inside her sedan in a dark hospital parking garage. She dials your number. The AI voice agent picks up within two seconds and asks for the vehicle make, model, and year. The caller says “2021 Honda Civic.” The AI queries the CRM to check for an existing customer profile—no match, so it creates a new record. It then fires an SMS location-ping request; the nurse taps the link and the system captures her GPS coordinates in the parking garage. The routing engine queries your fleet-tracking API, identifies a technician 4.3 miles away who has Honda-compatible tools loaded, and writes the dispatch ticket through a webhook with a 12-minute ETA. The AI texts the nurse a live map tracker showing the van’s location and a secure payment link for the $125 flat-rate lockout fee. Her card clears in 40 seconds. The technician arrives, opens the car, and closes out a fully documented, pre-paid service call.
Why businesses switch from the alternatives
Frequently Asked Questions
Can the AI quote exact prices to combat bait-and-switch scam operators?
The AI agent pulls the operator’s flat-rate pricing matrix during the call and quotes a specific dollar amount based on the lock type and service category. A residential lockout quotes at exactly $125; a high-security Medeco re-key quotes at exactly $285. The agent states the total verbally and includes it in the follow-up text, so the customer has a written record that matches the on-site charge—eliminating the price ambiguity that scam call centers rely on.
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