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Decide dispatch vs defer
Not every panic is emergency.
Made for Auto Mechanics
Quote Emergency After-Hours Work Before You Roll the Truck
Also useful for: Electricians, people in Skilled Trades
15 min
Intermediate
Skilled Trades
Auto Mechanic
Career outcome:
Increase Pricing
Name the emergency rate before you leave home, not on the invoice.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
After-hours work is priced for disruption, not sympathy.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build the price frame
Minimum first.
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Write the phone script
Calm and firm.
04
Capture authorization
Textable.
Make Your Play
Quote Emergency After-Hours Work Before You Roll the Truck
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
What is failing, safety risk, can it wait until morning.
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After-hours, dispatch, T&M, minimums, payment terms.
What you think it is and what could expand.
New vs existing, location, temperament so far.
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What you'll do
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Decide dispatch vs defer
Not every panic is emergency.
02
Build the price frame
Minimum first.
03
Write the phone script
Calm and firm.
04
Capture authorization
Textable.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
The phone rang at 11 PM, the customer is panicked, and they haven't asked about price yet.
You'll need
- Emergency and safety
- Your rate structure
- Likely scope from phone triage
- Customer and distance
You'll get
- A a price frame, a phone script, and authorization language you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a price frame, a phone script, and authorization language you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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