Your agent, your voice
- You pick Birch and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and mobile sheep shearing intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the spring flock clips is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your mobile sheep shearing catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialShearer shortages leave some regions with 3-month booking backlogsAvg ticket: $15 per head average
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
Flock of 40 sheep overdue for shearing — fleece is matted and causing heat stress.
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
-$200
Estimated Opportunity Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Bookings to Voicemail.
Spring creates a 6-week scheduling bottleneck where every flock in the county needs shearing simultaneously. A shearer who books by phone call alone loses 3 hours a day to scheduling conversations instead of clipping wool, burning $360 in billable time.
A hobby farmer claims '10 sheep' on the phone. The shearer arrives to find 25 animals penned in a muddy paddock, blowing up the daily route by 90 minutes and making the shearer 2 hours late to the next three farms.
A shearer drives 45 minutes to a farm and finds the flock standing in wet pasture from overnight rain. Wet wool jams the handpiece combs and creates a serious electrocution hazard with electric shears—the entire trip is wasted.
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. Birch 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
Flock of 40 sheep overdue for shearing — fleece is matted and causing heat stress.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Birch answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Shearing day booked. Flock size confirmed via SMS. Shearer scheduled for next available date.
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
Birch · 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 sheep shearing 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 Sheep Shearing 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 mobile sheep shearing.
Meet Birch
Your AI Voice Agent for Mobile Sheep Shearing
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Mobile Sheep Shearing — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A fine-wool farmer in Vermont watches the April thermometer hit 75°F and 12 pregnant ewes panting in full fleece. Every day without a shearer risks heat stress that drops lamb birth weights by 15%. She dials three shearing services—the one that answers books 40 head at $12 each before she hangs up. The other two call back in May when the damage is done.
How Birch wins the job
A farmer calls in February to book April shearing for 40 fine-wool sheep. The AI agent logs the exact breed—knowing fine wool requires 3 extra minutes per head versus coarse crossbreeds—and calculates a 160-minute time block. It quotes $12 per head plus a $50 setup fee, totaling $530, and collects a $100 deposit via a secure payment link. The routing engine clusters this farm alongside three neighboring properties in the same zip code, building a dense Tuesday route with zero backtracking. The system texts the farmer strict prep instructions 48 hours out: pen all 40 sheep the night before, keep them off wet grass from 6 PM onward, and have a covered, dry shearing area ready. The shearer rolls in at 7 AM, processes 40 dry sheep in under 2 hours, and drives 6 minutes to the next farm.
Frequently Asked Questions
How far in advance does the scheduling engine open spring shearing dates?
The system opens the spring calendar in January and fills dates strictly by geographic zip code clusters. The routing engine refuses to book a farm 50 miles south on the same day as a farm 50 miles north—it forces geographic density so the shearer processes 150+ head per day without burning fuel on cross-county backtracking.
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