A 15-minute diagnostic built for HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, remodeling, general contracting, painting, and landscaping owners. You answer 19 questions. You get one specific recommendation — matched to your trade, your revenue, and your current stack. Not a tier list. Not a sales call.
Industry-wide research, not opinion. The audit shows you which leaks are costing your specific business the most — and which AI systems plug them.
The four leaks above are universal. Which one is biggest in your business depends on your trade, your revenue, your team, and your current stack. Fifteen-minute audit tells you exactly which one to fix first.
Every operator we audit shows up with a different bottleneck. Most "AI for contractors" advice is generic noise. These are real-world scenarios pulled from owners who paid $47 last month:
Quotes sit for 3 days. Competitor already closed.
Lead calls at 7pm. Nobody answers. Gone by morning.
$40K job quoted. No follow-up for a week. Lost.
Hiring is stuck. No reviews to show candidates.
Four different tools. None of them talk to each other.
Bookkeeping behind a month. Cash flow foggy.
Seventeen pages, written for your trade and your revenue band. Built from the same framework we use on $20K Premium DFY engagements — for $47.
How prepared your business is to actually run AI today, scored against operations of similar size and trade.
Where you're losing revenue right now — missed calls, slow response, missing reviews, cold quotes — sized to your trade and lead volume.
What's already in your tech stack, what's missing, and which tools to keep, replace, or kill.
Specific install steps, in order, with what to do first this week — whether you DIY or have us install it.
One clear answer at the end — not a pricing menu. The exact path that fits your business at this revenue band.
If you'd rather build it yourself: which voice agent, which CRM, which AI tooling — with honest pros, cons, and price ranges.
Nineteen plain-English questions. Personalized 17-page audit. Your AI Readiness Score, leak analysis sized to your revenue, gap report on your current stack, and a 30/90/180-day roadmap. Forty-seven dollars — credited if you upgrade to a managed implementation.
From paying the forty-seven to having a personalized audit in your inbox: under twenty minutes. No call, no homework, no nurture sequence.
Secure Stripe checkout. One-time payment, no subscription, no upsell trap. You're on the diagnostic in under sixty seconds of clicking the button.
Trade-specific questions: what tools you run today, where the friction is, what your revenue band looks like. Honest answers in, honest audit out.
Within three minutes of the last question. Read it, decide if the recommended next step makes sense, and act this week — not next quarter.
Generic advice tells you to "implement AI." It doesn't know if you're an HVAC operator at $400K with three trucks or a roofer at $4M with thirty crews. Those two businesses need completely different first installs.
The audit runs your answers through a three-axis match: your trade (eight different operational shapes), your revenue band (which leak is mathematically biggest at your size), and your current stack (so we don't recommend tools you already run).
What lands in your inbox isn't a tier list. It's the one install that pays back fastest from where you actually are today.
If this were free, you'd open it once, never read it, and never act on it. We'd be talking to ten thousand tire-kickers.
$47 self-selects for owners who actually want a real answer. That's the only filter we apply, and it's why the audit you get is the real seventeen-page document — not a checklist.
If you decide to install with us, the $47 is credited back. Either way, you walk away with a roadmap that's worth more than $47 to a serious trades business.
Or worse — buying the wrong stack and ripping it out six months later. Here's everything inside the $47 charge. No upsell menu, no premium tier.
No "premium tier", no add-on cart, no $97 sequel. The forty-seven is the whole price.
Secure Stripe checkout·Audit in inbox in 3 min·Credited if you upgrade
Most operators we audit show up after they've already wasted $4K–$20K on the wrong platform — the AI estimating tool that didn't fit their trade, the voice agent that wasn't sized to their lead volume, the CRM that nobody on the team actually uses. The audit's whole job is to keep that money in your business by getting the first install right.
Worst case for you: you take the audit, decide nothing in it fits, and walk away. You still leave knowing exactly which tools to avoid, which to wait on, and which one would pay back fastest from where you are today. That's a forty-seven-dollar tuition on a five-figure mistake.
If you don't see yourself below on the left, save the $47. The audit isn't going to help.
The audit ends with a recommendation. If that recommendation is a managed implementation, we'll book a 1-on-1 call to walk you through it. No prices on this page. No pressure. Just a real conversation about whether the path fits.
Take the roadmap and try to install it yourself. Realistically: 6–8 vendor integrations, a 90-day project, and ongoing maintenance. Most owners read the playbook and book a call instead — but the option is yours.
We install the full AI operating system for your trades business — voice agent, missed-call text-back, lead qualification, review engine, estimate follow-up. Live in roughly 10 days.
The full AI Stack installed and your team trained to operate it end-to-end. Custom AI trained on your pricebook. The hands-off tier for owners who'd rather not run their own system.
Pre-built workflows specifically for Roofing Insurance Claims, HVAC Maintenance Plans, Plumbing Emergency Response, Electrical Inspection, or Restoration.
Running a $5M+ operation with complex needs? The audit will surface that — and the call after it will scope a custom build.
If your audit recommends the AI Stack install, this is what gets wired into your business. Numbers below are what an average shop reclaims after install — modeled from typical job/lead volume at the revenue bands we work with, not survey claims.
Pricing for the AI Stack install isn't on this page on purpose — your audit tells you whether this is the right path before any money conversation happens. If it is, we'll book a 1-on-1 walkthrough.
DIY with the roadmap. Implement with us. Pick an industry pack. Or just use it as a snapshot. The audit gives you the answer — what you do next is your call. No high-pressure pitch, no follow-up nurture sequence.
I've spent years building marketing and operations systems for service businesses — funnels, CRMs, automated follow-up, the whole stack. Trades operators kept showing up with the same problem: they'd buy a tool, plug it in, and three months later it was either uninstalled or sitting unused because it didn't actually fit how the business runs.
The pattern was always the same. Generic "AI for small business" advice told a $400K HVAC operator to do the exact same thing as a $4M roofing shop. The first install was wrong. The second install was wrong. By the third, the owner gave up on AI entirely — even though the right install would have paid for itself in a quarter.
So I built a diagnostic that takes your trade, your revenue band, and your current stack into account before recommending anything. Hard Hat Tools is the audit, the roadmap, and — if you want it — the install team. No tier menu, no agency speak, no $97 sequel after the $47 audit. The forty-seven gets you a real answer, and the rest of the path is your call.
The audit is built from the same diagnostic Rick uses with paying clients in HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, remodeling, painting, landscaping, and general contracting across North America.
My audit named quote-follow-up speed as the bottleneck before I'd even said the word. Installed the recommended tool that week. Closed two extra jobs the next month — paid for the next three years of my stack.
I was staring at five different "AI for contractors" tabs. The audit cut it to one tool to install first. No menu, no upsell, just THE answer.
$47 to find out exactly where to install AI in my plumbing business. Worth ten times that — I was about to buy a $4K AI estimating platform that would have been wrong for my size.
Free attracts tire-kickers, and tire-kickers don't act on what they read. A $47 commitment self-selects for owners who actually want a real answer.
The output is a 17-page personalized audit — not a lead-magnet checklist. And the $47 is credited back if you upgrade to a managed implementation.
A 17-page audit in your inbox, personalized to your trade, your revenue band, and your current stack. It includes:
Your AI Readiness Score · Four-leak revenue analysis · Stack gap analysis · 30/90/180-day install roadmap · One specific next step · DIY vendor comparison.
The diagnostic itself is 15 minutes. The personalized audit arrives in your inbox within three minutes of finishing the quiz. No "we'll get back to you in 3-5 business days" nonsense.
The audit doesn't assume any technical background. It asks 19 plain-English questions about how your business runs. The output is written for owners, not engineers.
If the recommended path is a managed install, we handle the technical work. You don't need to wire anything yourself.
The audit accounts for that. The quiz asks what you're already running, so the recommendation isn't "install a CRM" when you already have one. The output is the next-best step from where you actually are — not where a generic playbook assumes you start.
The audit ends with one recommended next step — not a pricing menu. If that's a DIY path, you take the roadmap and run with it.
If it's a managed implementation (an AI Stack tier — Lite, Pro, or Elite — or an Industry Add-On Pack), we'll offer to book a 1-on-1 call to walk through it. No high-pressure pitch. We only sell on the call when the fit is real.
No. You'll get a confirmation email and the audit delivery. After that, you'll get occasional updates if we ship something genuinely useful for your trade. One unsubscribe click ends it forever.
Most of them sell you a product first and ask what you need second. That's why so many trades operators have a stack of half-installed tools they don't use. This is the opposite. Audit first. Diagnose first. Recommend the install only if it fits your trade, your revenue band, and what's already wired in.
If the audit says DIY is the right call, you get the DIY playbook with vendor comparisons. We don't get paid on that path — and we don't try to talk you out of it.
Yes. The audit is written for owners, not engineers. No jargon, no acronym salad. If a concept needs explaining, the audit explains it in plain English with the trade-specific context that makes it click.
If anything in your audit isn't clear, you can email and ask. That's part of the $47.
No. The audit is a one-time $47 charge. There's no "next-tier" subscription, no auto-renew, no follow-up sales sequence designed to wear you down. You read the seventeen pages, decide what to do with them, and that's the end of it unless you reach out.
Yes — the audit is yours. Forward it to your partner, your COO, your bookkeeper, your trade association buddy. The roadmap is more useful when the people who'd actually run the install can read it too.
That happens, and the audit will say so directly. If your bookkeeping is six months behind or you don't have a CRM at all, AI isn't the first fix — and the audit will tell you what is, with the same trade-specific roadmap.
Your $47 is still spent on a real diagnostic. We'd rather tell you the truth than sell you a $20K install that wouldn't have worked.
Yes. Most operators reference their roadmap section for six to twelve months as they sequence installs. The 30/90/180-day plan is built to be revisited as your stack evolves.
If your business shifts dramatically (new trade focus, jumped a revenue band, sold or acquired), you can retake the diagnostic for $47 and get a fresh audit reflecting the new shape of the business.
Fifteen minutes. Personalized 17-page audit in your inbox within three minutes of finishing the quiz. The $47 is credited if you decide to install with us.
Get Your $47 AI Stack Audit →If you've made it this far, you're not the kind of operator who buys courses, watches AI hype reels, and never installs anything. You're trying to figure out what's actually worth doing in your business this quarter.
The whole point of the $47 is to give you that answer in fifteen minutes. Not a generic checklist. Not a tier menu. One specific install, sized to your trade and your revenue. If you decide nothing in it fits, you're still out forty-seven dollars instead of the four-to-twenty thousand most operators waste on the wrong platform.
Worst case: you spent $47 to find out exactly where your business is leaking money and what to fix first. Best case: you install one thing this month that pays for the next three years of your stack. Either way you walk away with a real plan.