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Operations review
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You run the HVAC and plumbing company. You're also the one coordinating every job and every tech.

In a Texas summer the phone never stops. Every call has to be captured, quoted, and matched to the nearest open tech before the customer calls someone else. Here is that whole coordination, running itself.

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1:47 PM · The call you'd normally take

A homeowner with no AC reaches out, and gets answered the way your best coordinator would, before they try the next company.

A real service request comes in, gets qualified, and turns into a job, without pulling you off the truck or out of the office.

TTom's Mechanical · Service
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Hi, this is Tom's Mechanical. How can we help today?
My AC quit overnight. It's already 88 inside and we have a newborn.
That's a priority. Is this for your home, and is the unit not turning on at all?
Home in Arlington. The outside unit runs but no cold air.
Got it. We can get a tech out today. The diagnostic is $89 and applies to the repair if you move forward.
Today 3:00 PMToday 5:30 PM
3:00 today, please.
Booked. You'll get a text with your tech's name and a live arrival time before they head out.
It becomes a job, not a sticky note

The call that used to live in your head is now a ticket with everything the crew needs, nothing lost between the phone and the truck.

The conversation lands as a structured job ticket, quoted and flagged for urgency, ready before anyone opens it.

tomsmechanical.com
Inbox / New service request
No cooling — outdoor unit runs, no cold air
Residential · Arlington · newborn in home
SAME-DAY
CustomerRamirez household
ServiceHVAC · AC diagnostic
Quote$89 diagnostic, sent
WindowToday 3:00 PM
Captured, quoted, and ready to assign
The board assigns it

The job that used to wait on you to call around matches to the closest open tech in seconds.

It auto-matches to the nearest available tech by location, skill, and current load. No whiteboard, no group text.

dispatch.board
Dispatch / Live board
Nearest available tech selected
Matched on location, HVAC skill, and current load
AUTO-ASSIGNED
Garrett · HVAC
Available
← assigned 12 min
Frank · HVAC
On a call
40 min
Phil · Plumbing
Available
9 min
No cooling — Arlington (newborn)Auto-matched
Water heater swap — SouthlakeAssigned
Drain clog — ColleyvilleQueued
Owner sees the board, not the scramble
The customer gets a live ETA

The family sweating in an 88-degree house gets a tech name and a live arrival time, so the 'is anyone coming?' calls stop.

The customer is texted who's coming and when, and the board updates the moment the route locks.

Route locked Live ETA sent
START
ROUTE
ETA
JOB
DONE
Shop
Route clear
Arlington stop
Garrett is 12 min out. We will text if anything changes.
Thank you, you have no idea how much we needed this today.
✓ Customer notified✓ Board updated
The curveball

A no-cool emergency jumps the line and a job runs long. The board reshuffles and re-texts the next customer a new time, on its own.

When the day goes sideways, the schedule moves itself and keeps every customer in the loop, instead of you working the phone at 6 PM.

Are we still on for this afternoon? Haven't heard anything.
Your tech is finishing an emergency call. Here are the next openings that still hold today:
Today 6:15 PM  ✓
Tomorrow 8:30 AM
6:15 today is fine, thanks for letting me know.
Today's board Emergency reshuffle shown
MON
TUE
WED
THU
FRI
Done
Done
Emergency
Moved
New
Open
 
Done
Open
 
✓ Customer re-notified✓ Board updated
You see the board, not the scramble

At the end of the run you get one clear digest, just the exceptions, instead of having lived inside the dispatch all day.

One summary at the end of the day, with only the jobs that actually need your call surfaced.

4:18
Today
Daily dispatch digestnow

31 service calls handled. 1 needs you — a commercial rooftop quote over $5k. The rest are quoted, assigned, and routed.

Exception flaggednow

Commercial rooftop replacement needs your pricing approval before scheduling.

One call, start to finish

That was your job coordination, running without you.

Intake, quoting, tech assignment, ETAs, and the reshuffles when the day goes sideways, all handled. The structure an Operations Coordinator takes months to build, already tuned to how an HVAC and plumbing shop actually runs.

What you stop being
  • The coordinator
  • The dispatcher
  • The one rescheduling all day
What you become again
  • The owner
  • The operator
  • The one who can take a day off
What that is worth

In HVAC and plumbing this is the whole game: every call gets captured, quoted, and assigned before the customer dials the next company.

If we're wrong, the conversation ends here. If we're close, this is rarely the only thing you're holding together by hand.

We built this from public information. How close did we get?

Tell us where we got it right, or where we missed. Under a minute.

Built for Tom's Mechanical as a working preview. Sample workflow; not a real client.
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