As the trades struggle to attract young workers, adding more technology could serve as a beacon.

Having the right fleet management solution can increase employee accountability, efficiency, safety, and grow an HVAC company.

While new technology can certainly help streamline certain aspects of HVAC business operations, like accounting and inventory management, it still needs to be viewed as a tool to augment the capabilities of employees, not replace them entirely.

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AI, especially its use in information gathering, needs to be harnessed by HVAC contractors if they want to be noticed when customers are searching for services online.

Josh Crouch and Tersh Blissett, who have HVAC backgrounds, say AI can be employed in an answering service or a chatbot, for outbound dialing, as a technician’s assistant, or to respond to customers’ online reviews.

AI can make work easier, more efficient for boots-on-the-ground HVAC professionals.

As AI continues to prove itself as more than just a fad, businesses should be harnessing its power to increase efficiencies and improve customer experiences.

 “Technology’s not going to solve everything, but you need to know how to use it,” Nelson Valderrama, CEO of Intuilize, told HVACR distribution professionals during the recent Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International conference.

Evolving AI technology is becoming an important business tool for personalizing customer experience, analyzing data, and much more.