The 2025 to 2026 case study is live: a $3M HVAC shop, +78% jobs year over year. Read the numbers
Revenue leak audit for trade contractors

Find the money your shop is leaking.

On a 30-minute call I show you every place your HVAC, plumbing, or electrical shop loses leads and dollars, then hand you the fix. You own it. You never rent it.

Free score, instant result. The $1,500 audit is free if I find nothing and credits 100% to your build.

+78% jobs YoY +52% customers 7x hidden leak found $26 cost per lead

Real numbers from one build: a $3M/yr HVAC shop, 2025 to 2026. Read the case study

Proof, not promises

Built for a real shop. Working without them.

A 3 million dollar per year HVAC company, 2025 to 2026. We built their back office from scratch. Here is what the year after looked like. Client kept private.

+78%
Jobs year over year
+52%
New customers
$26
Cost per lead, top creative
4.12%
Ad CTR, roughly 2x typical

Jobs went from 159 to 283. Customers went from 168 to 256. Their ad account had been undercounting real conversions by seven times before we fixed the tracking. Same shop, same owner, a system that runs the parts a person kept dropping.

Anonymized HVAC case study, 2025 to 2026 · read the full breakdown
Who's behind this

One operator, not an agency.

I'm Nick, and I build Forge myself. Not an agency, not a room of juniors. One operator who builds these systems and runs them end to end.

I don't just wire the back office. I run the Meta ads, the Google Local Services, and the tracking underneath them. Lead flow and cost per lead are my actual job, not something I outsource and hope works.

I build for trade contractors because I got tired of watching good shops pour money into software and ad spend they'd never own or control. Forge works the opposite way. I build the system around how your shop actually runs, hand you the keys, and it's yours.

Nick, founder of Forge Built AI · more about who you're hiring →
Three ways in

Start free. Go deeper. Or own the whole thing.

Every contractor starts somewhere on this ladder. Pick the rung that fits where you are right now.

Free

90-second leak score

A fast read on where your shop is most likely bleeding money and how visible you are in AI search. Instant score.

Take the score →

$1,500

Revenue Leak Audit

A 30-minute call where I put a real dollar figure on every leak, from missed calls to untraceable ad spend. Free if I find nothing. Credits 100% to the build.

See the audit →

$25,000

The Owned Back Office

The full six-engine build, done in six weeks, backed by the $50,000 guarantee. You own the code and the data outright.

See the build →

No rip and replace

Wires into the software your shop already runs on.

Your build connects to the tools you already live in. Keep what works. We make it all talk to each other.

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Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Connections are built through each platform's public API or webhooks. Listing here does not imply endorsement or partnership. If your shop runs something not shown, we wire it too.

The full build: the Owned Back Office
$25,000 flat, one time. you own everything.

Six engines that never sleep, plus $10,500 in bonuses, backed by the $50,000 revenue guarantee. Total value $35,500. You pay $25,000 and own all of it, forever, with nothing to rent.

6 engines + $10.5k bonusesYou own the code$50k guarantee
The six engines you own
01

Lead Velocity Engine

Every missed call and form answered by SMS within 90 seconds. No lead dies in voicemail.

02

Upsell Intelligence

Your crew sees each customer's full history before they arrive. They walk in knowing the upsell.

03

Dispatch Command

Crews routed by distance, skill, and capacity. Live tracking, zero wasted drive time.

04

Revenue Dashboard

Where the money actually comes from, cost per lead by channel, crew productivity. Decisions on real numbers.

05

Customer Command Center

AI answers the first call 24/7, handles FAQs, books callbacks, escalates the hard ones to you.

06

Conversion Optimizer

Follow-up, retention, and the pixel fix that recovers undercounted ad spend. Dead leads re-engaged automatically.

The math contractors run before they say yes
Most shops we audit are leaking$50k+/yr
The build costs$25,000 once
Payback window~6 months, then it is profit

You own it outright the day we hand it over. The optional $3k/mo is only if you want us running and improving it for you. Cancel anytime, you keep the whole system.

Weeks 1-2Scope and build against your real jobs
Weeks 3-4Wire into your field software and phones
Weeks 5-6Test live, train your team, hand over the keys
Book your audit call →

We take 1 to 2 builds a month so every shop gets built right. When the month is full, you wait for the next one.

See the full stack and every payment option, or read the $50k guarantee.

The guarantee, no fine print

The risk is on me, not you.

The $50,000 guarantee, in plain English
  • Measured against your own books over an agreed 90-day window.
  • If the build does not clear the number, I refund the shortfall, up to $15,000.
  • It only voids if your team abandons the system. No weasel clauses.
  • Full terms on the guarantee page.
What "you own it" actually means
  • The full source code lives in a repo that is yours.
  • Full data export any time. Nothing held hostage.
  • Run it yourself, hire any developer, or move it. No lock-in.
  • If Forge disappeared tomorrow, your system keeps running.
Does this work for a $1.2M shop or only $3M and up?

It is built to your shop, not a template. The $1,500 leak audit puts a real dollar figure on your specific shop before you commit to the build.

It is one operator. What is the backup plan?

Because you own everything, you are never dependent on me to keep it running. The build ships with a runbook so any developer can maintain it. More about who you are hiring.

How is this different from ServiceTitan, Podium, or Hatch?

Those are rented software. You pay every month, they hold your data, and you change nothing without their roadmap. Forge is bought once and owned. Your data, your rules.

What do you need from me during the build?

Access to the tools you already run, a couple of scoping calls, and a few hours up front. After handoff it runs without you in the loop.

Own the machine that runs your shop.

Thirty minutes. No pitch. We map exactly where AI fits your business and hand you the roadmap, whether you hire us or not.

Book the audit call →