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@trentjhughes Damn, that's crushing it! $12k–24k/month from straight installs is no joke. You're right, boring + consistent demand = gold. Any plans to hire a helper or add recurring service? maintenance/subscriptions are great in that smart home vertical!

Guy I know has a small business installing smart home devices Thermostats, cameras, doorbells, lighting... Charges $150-$300 per install 4 installs a day 5 days a week $3,000-$6,000 a week $12,000-$24,000 a month More demand than I expected Boring businesses can do well...

@garrytan It’s funny to be surrounded by plumbers building AI tools but it’s big and happening every day.

@jarydesign So in other words 40 hours on 128 off… Interesting 🧐 Lots of opportunity to be had!

@heatpumpnetwork Most of them are still using people and agents for after business hours

The HVAC companies that grow the fastest have one thing in common. They don't have better technicians. They don't have lower prices. They just answer the phone. I manage enough accounts to tell you: the gap between a $600k/year HVAC company and a $1.4m/year HVAC company is usually right there. One of them has a real system for answering calls and responding to leads within 5 minutes. The other one calls back when they get a chance. Same city. Same competition. Same trucks. Just one of them figured out that the first callback wins the job.

@WilsonCompanies Thanks for putting on a solid show!

Not done yet but proud of the mark I’ve made on my industry. Just filmed podcast #300 and we are consistently ranking top 150-175 for Business podcasts. Millions of listens and downloads over four years all while building a real business on the industry. Thanks for the ride yall!

Game-changer for CA adoption! Wall Whisperer + big rebates = massive opportunity for contractors. Quick Contractor win: Nail your heat pump sizing to avoid callbacks and max margins. Free tool here → heatpumpnetwork.com/shop/ Let's help more homeowners switch! #WallWhispererCA #HeatPumps

California Heat Pump Partnership's Wall Whisperer campaign aims to engage, educate, and inspire consumers and contractors to raise favorability of heat pumps, build on market momentum and widespread demand, and help advance the state’s goals. phcppros.com/articles/23078…

@LucasHogie Opus

🚨 BREAKING: R.I.P. CLICKFUNNELS. Opus 4.6 ONE-SHOTS entire VSL funnels now. I compressed my entire VSL framework into a single 5,280-word prompt. The same framework that's generated $1M+ and 500+ booked calls. HOW IT WORKS: You plug in your offer details. It spits out: → Full VSL script from hook to close → Built on the persuasion structure behind EVERY high-converting agency funnel → Generated $1M+ and 500+ booked calls This thing can INSTANTLY double your booked calls. Use it now or get left behind. 🤘 Like + reply "OPUS" and I'll DM it to you

@Will_Schryver Smells like… Opportunity!? LOL

This is a first Broker: ~$450k EBITDA HVAC opportunity, asking $2 million Me: Where are the rest of the financials? I only see 18 months. Broker: He bought the business 18 months ago Me: So he just bought it and is now trying to flip it for ~4.5x on <$500k EBITDA? Broker: Yes

Vanity metrics are funny—two shops sell a project for the same price and look profitable. But one runs overhead at 23% and stacks cash… the other at 32% eats ramen. AI automation cuts manual tasks and lowers that overhead fast. HVAC owners—what’s your biggest overhead leak right now? #HVACBusiness #AIforTrades"

@ConnorShowler 👀🤫

If I had to start again from nothing right now.. I'd 100% focus on building local service business brands around EMDs (exact match domains). Its just too easy in this environment..

@toddsaunders Spot on. This is picking up momentum in Heat Pumps and HVAC for sure. Real installers & business owners using Claude to ship tools that understand actual field conditions better than any generic software. Cory built that in 8 weeks? Legend. Every tradesperson willing to learn AI is now dangerous 🔥

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

@carrier 👀 very cool!

Today, Carrier announced that its venture group, Carrier Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Heat Geek, a UK-based startup helping accelerate residential heat pump adoption across Europe. Read more: bit.ly/472hbtd

@rispectrum Very cool stuff! Love to learn about this m market - so many people looking for lost revenue and found efficiency. The opportunity here is massive.

most people building AI agents are solving problems for people who already have 10 other solutions. i'm solving it for the HVAC tech who doesn't know what an API is but loses $180K/year in missed after-hours calls.

@thesayannayak National Heat Pump Contractor Resource Network

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@gumroad shout out!! Heatpumpnetwork.gumroad.com

@dramaricic Heatpumpnetwork.com

Your startup probably doesn’t need more features. It needs more users. Drop url, let’s drive some traffic👇

This nails the bigger picture: HVAC is the Trojan horse for home-infrastructure-as-a-platform. As someone deep in the heat pump transition, I see electrification supercharging exactly what you're describing—more sensors, more IoT integration, way more actionable data per home. PE roll-ups that embrace performance-based models (not just 'fix when broken') are going to print. Appreciate you calling out the trillion-dollar blind spot.

🚀 Helping HVAC contractors install more heat pumps & scale with AI to $10M+ revenue. Builder of AI systems for trades over $1M. Free Heat Pump Sizing Sheet in bio New connections welcome—especially contractors across the USA looking to grow electrification installs. What's one goal for your HVAC business in 2026? Reply! #HVAC #HeatPumps #HVACBusiness

@STLChrisH Top line metrics are funny, because two shops will sell a project for the same price and look like both are profitable. But one is running overhead at 23% and the other may run closer to 32% The owner running at 23% overhead is stacking cash, the 32% one is eating Ramen.

Most businesses are not measuring their numbers the same way. A few examples: One company includes sales commissions in cost of goods sold (“above the line”), another puts them in overhead One company nets manufacturer rebates against equipment costs, another books them as “other income” One capitalizes certain expenses, another runs everything through the P&L I could go on. The point is this: Two companies can report the same gross margin… and be running completely different businesses. If you don’t understand how your numbers are constructed, benchmarking against peers can actually send you in the wrong direction.

@Will_Schryver @homeprosnews Pre-buy distortion was massive ‘24 got inflated, '25 normalized hard. But, heat pump numbers held up stronger, better than straight A/C and kept stealing share from gas furnaces. Soft market = perfect time for HP specialists to dominate leads & installs. Time to lean in. ⚡

HVAC shipments drop -29% in January 8 consecutive months when HVAC shipments declined 20%+ HVAC unit volume clearly peaked in 2022 Demand is soft But it’s not all doom and gloom A lot of noise in the data with pre-buying demand before Jan 2025 Credit @homeprosnews for the chart and full article