🤠 Built by trades guys, for trades guys · Texas

Every trade needs an AI game plan. Yours starts at the table.

The big AI firms start at $2,500 a month and chase corporate CEOs. You run trucks, not a boardroom. Come sit at a roundtable, leave with a plain-English plan built for your shop, and we build it one win at a time — no retainer to get started.

Zero pitches. IRL > URL. Walk away with a real plan either way.

The gap nobody's filling

Big firms priced out the trades. That lane is wide open.

The high-end shops do fine work — for companies with a corporate budget. Everybody below their floor gets left to figure AI out alone. That's exactly who we're for.

The big AI firms

$2,500+/mo

Built for PE-backed, roll-up CEOs. Nothing offered under that floor.

A polished firm and an account manager who's never been on a roof.

The AI Game Plan

Starts free

Built for real trades shops — a few trucks, a small crew, a phone that won't stop ringing.

A neighbor who talks like you do and starts you small, no cliff.

How we work

Start free. Then spend only what makes sense.

No giant leap. Climb one rung at a time — most owners start at the table and never look back.

Free
AI Game Plan Roundtable
10–12 trade owners, one table. Leave with a custom report on your shop within 48 hours.
$149
AI Audit & Report
A deep-dive on where AI saves you time and money. Credited back when you build.
$500–3k
One-Time Builds
One automation, a knowledge base, or a custom AI skill — built and handed to you.
Most popular
$800–2k/mo
AI Concierge
Two build calls a month and a partner on call. Cancel anytime.
Built for your trade

We start with HVAC. Your trade is next.

Same game plan, tuned to how your trade actually runs. HVAC's live now — the rest roll out city by city.

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HVAC
Live now →
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Plumbing
Coming soon
Electrical
Coming soon
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Roofing
Coming soon
The community behind it

This runs on The Trades Room.

The AI Game Plan isn't some outside consultant parachuting in. It's powered by The Trades Room — a real Texas trades community with a weekly newsletter and monthly dinners. Zero pitches. Built by trades guys, for trades guys.

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🍻 Monthly dinners · 🗺️ Roundtables across Texas · 🙅 No pitches
❄️ HVAC · the first trade we built for

AI built for HVAC shops — not the boardroom.

Missed calls in the busy season. Quotes that never get followed up. A tech who knows everything and no way to clone him. That's the stuff AI is actually good at — and we set it up for you, plain and simple.

Conroe and Houston first — that's where the demand is.

Sound familiar?

Where HVAC owners are bleeding time and jobs.

Every one of these has an AI fix we can stand up fast — usually starting with a single build.

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Missed calls = missed jobs

Auto text-back the second you can't pick up, so the lead doesn't just dial the next guy.

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Quotes go cold

Automatic, friendly follow-ups on every estimate until you get a yes or a no.

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The knowledge is in one head

Turn your best tech's know-how into a searchable playbook the whole crew can use.

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Maintenance agreements slip

Reminders and rebookings that keep your recurring revenue from leaking out.

Same ladder, HVAC-focused

Start at a table, not a contract.

1

Come to an HVAC roundtable

Sit with other owners in your area. Free, no pitch — or grab the $149 audit and go one-on-one.

2

Get your HVAC game plan

A custom 48-hour report: what to automate first for your shop, and what it's worth in real dollars.

3

We build the first win

Usually the missed-call fix. One build, one price, no retainer — then grow from there.

See HVAC roundtable dates →

"Placeholder for a real HVAC owner quote — something like: 'I stopped losing after-hours calls in a week. Cost me less than one service call.'"

— HVAC owner, [City], TX · swap in a real one after the first builds

🗺️ Roundtables across Texas

Come sit at the table. Leave with a plan.

Ten or twelve trade owners, one table, a couple of hours. No slideshow, no pitch. You talk through where AI could actually help your shop — and within 48 hours you get a custom AI Game Plan report with your name on it. That's it. That's the whole deal.

Started in Conroe. Rolling out city by city.

Upcoming tables

Find a roundtable near you.

Dates below are placeholders — we'll set real ones together. Each table is trade-specific where we can fill it (HVAC first).

Done ✓
Conroe
Held · where it all started
The first AI Game Plan table. This is the model we're rolling out everywhere else.
Get notified for the next one
Next up
Houston
HVAC · date TBD
Biggest HVAC market in the state. First Houston table forming now — get on the list.
Save my seat
Planned
Bryan–College Station
All trades · date TBD
Home turf. A table for HVAC and the other trades as we fill seats.
Get notified
What a table is like

No pitch. No pressure. You leave with something.

1

Show up

Grab a seat with a handful of other owners. Bring the headaches, not a checkbook.

2

Talk it through

We map where AI fits in your shop, together. You'll hear what's working for the others too.

3

Get your report

Within 48 hours, a custom AI Game Plan lands in your inbox. Build it with us or take it and run.

Get started

Get your AI game plan — free.

Tell me a little about your shop. I'll point you to the next roundtable in your area, and you'll leave with a real plan — whether we ever work together or not.

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