Your agent, your voice
- You pick Quarry and the speaking voice — or clone yours
- Callers hear your shop, not a generic receptionist
- Knowledge base, pronunciation, and portable sign & barricade rental intake in your language
Built around your shop — not bolted on
By the time they hang up, the flashing arrow board drops is quoted, booked, and on the tech's phone.
Not an AI receptionist bolted onto someone else's software. DispatchNode prices from your portable sign & barricade rental catalog and rules, books the job on the board, collects Stripe, and the tech sees it on their phone.
14-daytrialSign companies lose $3,200/month on average to permit violation finesAvg ticket: $650 average weekly rental
Anatomy of a Lost Job
7:15 PM - Urgent Call
A contractor calls to rent arrow boards and barricades for a road project starting Monday.
4:00 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
-$600
Estimated Rental Lost
The Old Way:
Losing Rentals to Voicemail.
A $4,000 LED arrow board disappears for three weeks because a highway contractor moved it to a new lane closure without logging the new cross streets. Your dispatcher drives 90 minutes checking four job sites before finding it.
A city code enforcement officer slaps a $500 fine on your A-frame sign because the 30-day municipal placement permit expired at midnight. Nobody in your office tracked the expiration date.
Your dispatcher spends 40 minutes playing phone tag with a car dealership general manager just to confirm the exact spelling of a 'Weekend Blowout Sale' LED message—time that could have booked two new rentals.
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. Quarry 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 contractor calls to rent arrow boards and barricades for a road project starting Monday.
7:15 PM - Instant Answer
Quarry answers instantly and qualifies the lead.
7:17 PM - Job Booked
Sign type and quantity confirmed. Delivery scheduled to job site.
Bottom Line
+$600
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
Quarry · 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 portable sign & barricade rental 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
Portable Sign & Barricade Rental 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 portable sign & barricade rental.
Meet Quarry
Your AI Voice Agent for Portable Sign & Barricade Rental
Answers the phone, asks for their street address, texts them a deposit link, and drops the confirmed job into your schedule.
Portable Sign & Barricade Rental — why missed calls hurt
Market reality
A portable sign operator tracks 200 LED message boards scattered across car dealership lots, construction zones, and shopping center entrances. Each unit rents for $650 a week—but a single expired municipal placement permit triggers a $500 fine that wipes out the entire rental margin on that board.
How Quarry wins the job
A furniture store manager calls at 4:30 PM on Friday needing three LED message boards for a weekend liquidation sale. The AI agent queries the live fleet inventory database, confirms three charged units with current batteries are available in the yard, and books a 6 AM Saturday delivery route. It texts the manager a secure intake form to type the exact LED message copy—eliminating spelling errors. The platform logs the 72-hour city permit window and sets an automated expiration countdown. On Monday morning at 7 AM, the AI agent texts the manager asking if they want to extend the rental for $200 per board. When they decline, the scheduling engine automatically routes a driver for an 8 AM pickup, generates the final invoice, and flips all three unit IDs back to 'Available' in the fleet dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the platform track which sign is deployed at which location?
Every sign unit is assigned a unique digital ID in the fleet database. When the AI agent books a rental, it locks that specific ID to the customer's GPS address and flips the status to 'Deployed' on the visual fleet map. The unit cannot be double-booked until the status reverts to 'Available' after confirmed pickup.
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