Your agent, your voice
- You pick Cedar and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and mobile barber intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the straight razor fades is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your mobile barber catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialRoute-optimized mobile barbers serve 2-3 more clients per day than manually scheduled onesAvg ticket: $65 average house call
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A groomsman calls to book haircuts for the wedding party the morning of the ceremony.
9:15 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
-$200
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Appointments to Voicemail.
A mobile barber drives 25 minutes across town for a single $60 house call. After gas, tolls, and dead travel time, the effective hourly rate drops to $18—below minimum wage for a licensed professional holding $3,000 in equipment.
An assisted living resident's caregiver scheduled the haircut for 10 AM, but the barber arrives at 10:20. The resident is already in physical therapy down the hall, and the barber sits in the lobby for 40 minutes waiting—losing the next appointment on the route.
A homeowner books a $60 house call and ghosts. The barber pulls into an empty driveway, waits 10 minutes, and drives away—out the $60 cut, the gas, and the 45 minutes of drive time, with zero chance of a walk-in to fill the gap.
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. Cedar 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 groomsman calls to book haircuts for the wedding party the morning of the ceremony.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Cedar answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Headcount and time confirmed. Mobile barber session booked at location.
Bottom Line
+$200
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
Cedar · 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 mobile barber 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
Mobile Barber 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 mobile barber.
Meet Cedar
Your AI Voice Agent for Mobile Barber
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Mobile Barber — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
An assisted living facility manager dials a mobile barber at 10 AM to book cuts for 14 residents. The barber is mid-fade in a client's kitchen with clippers buzzing and can't answer. The manager hangs up after four rings, Googles the next result, and schedules a different barber within 3 minutes—$630 in recurring revenue gone because of one missed call.
How Cedar wins the job
A facility manager calls to book bi-weekly cuts for 14 seniors. The AI agent answers, calculates a 4-hour block at $45 per head—$630 total—and queries the routing engine to slot it into a Tuesday morning window that sits 3 miles from the barber's existing 2 PM appointments. It texts the manager a recurring calendar invite and a secure payment link for the first session. When a resident's family member calls to add a beard trim, the AI agent extends the block by 15 minutes, recalculates the invoice to $645, and updates the route without overlapping the afternoon bookings.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the routing engine cluster mobile barber appointments by geography?
The routing engine scans GPS coordinates of every new booking request. It only surfaces available time slots to the client when the barber's van is already scheduled within a 3-mile radius of the requested address—physically preventing cross-town dead-mileage trips.
Ready to run mobile barber from first ring to the tech's phone?
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
See AI dispatch handle a live call — free 30-min demo