The lead-generation business has a trust problem. The big platforms sell the same homeowner furnace call to three, four, five contractors at once, charge a premium for it, and dress it up as something it isn’t. For a commercial shop chasing real buildouts, replacements, and maintenance contracts, almost none of it is useful, and all of it asks you to just trust them.
HVAC Scout is the opposite bet. The opportunities that actually matter for commercial HVAC are already sitting in public records: a building changes hands, a mechanical permit gets filed, a new business registers, a facility puts work out to bid. That information is public. The work is finding it and being honest about what it is.
So that’s what we built: a scout that reads public records, surfaces the commercial HVAC opportunities, scores them, and hands each one to you with its source attached, so you can verify everything yourself. There are no fake testimonials or guaranteed jobs here, and we don’t pad a slow week. If we can’t point to the public record, we don’t show it to you.
I build this from Indianapolis, and I tested it first on the counties I know best. It now works in every county in the country. If you run a commercial HVAC shop and the usual lead services have burned you, tell me what you need. I read every email.
Jacob Pike, founder of HVAC Scout