AI HVAC Contractor Playbook 2026: ServiceTitan & Sera Profits
Discover how AI for HVAC contractors reverses the 2026 margin squeeze — ServiceTitan and Sera playbooks for pricing, dispatch, and close rates that protect...
Chapter 1: The 2026 HVAC Margin Squeeze: Why AI Stopped Being Optional If you run an HVAC company and your net margin looks worse today than it did in 2022 despite charging more per ticket, you are not imagining things and you are not bad at your job. You are living inside a structural squeeze that hit residential and light commercial contractors from four directions at once. Labor got expensive and scarce. Refrigerant regulation forced an equipment transition that scrambled your inventory and your pricing. Private equity roll-ups turned your local market into a knife fight with a company that...