For HVAC & plumbing shops with 5–25 techs
The service report that sells the replacement.
Your tech snaps the nameplate and a few photos. Dataplate writes the report — and the report says “this unit is 11 years old” with an Approve button under it. Your customer reads it on their phone. You stop writing up jobs at 9 p.m.
Free during beta · $29/tech locked for life
You’ve said at least one of these this month.
Dataplate was built for the 70% of shops that run on QuickBooks, texted photos, and memory. Not for the PE roll-ups.
Four taps on the job. One report the customer actually reads.
Open the job.
Today’s jobs, customer, address. Add them by hand, import a CSV, or keep using whatever you schedule with. Works with no signal — everything syncs when the truck hits the road.
Snap the nameplate. Snap the work.
Dataplate reads the dataplate: make, model, serial, refrigerant. It decodes the serial into a manufacture date. Before-and-after photos land on the job automatically.
The AI writes it up. Your tech signs it.
Problem found, work performed, parts used, recommendation — drafted from the photos and a few dictated words. Your tech edits it in their own voice. Nothing goes out that they didn’t read.
The customer gets a report they can act on.
A clean page with your logo, the photos, the write-up, the unit’s age, and an Approve this recommendation button. Sent by text or email. You get a notification when they tap it.
Why the report matters
“Your condenser is 11 years old” turns a $240 repair into a $9,000 conversation.
Every tech knows which units are on borrowed time. Almost none of them write it down, and the customer never sees it. Dataplate puts the unit’s age on every report automatically, drafts the replacement recommendation for the tech to approve, and gives the customer one button to say yes. No follow-up call. No “let me think about it and lose your number.”
The tech wrote this in 40 seconds by editing the draft. The customer approved it from the driveway.
The equipment record
Snap the nameplate once. Dataplate remembers the unit forever.
Photos tell you what happened on Tuesday. Dataplate tells you what’s at the address: a 2014 Carrier, a 2019 Rheem water heater, the furnace you replaced two winters ago. Every job, photo, and recommendation hangs off the unit it was about. When the customer calls next August, whoever picks up knows the history before the truck rolls.
- Make, model, serial, refrigerant
- read off the dataplate by camera, not typed by a tech with greasy hands.
- Age decoded from the serial
- top brands decoded exactly; the rest flagged with a confidence level so nobody over-promises.
- Service history per unit
- every visit, every photo, every recommendation, in one place, for as long as you’re the shop that services it.
Before-and-after photos on every job. Time-stamped, tied to the unit, sent to the customer.
“You never told us.” “You didn’t tighten that.” “That wasn’t like that before.” The photos are already in the report the customer received the day of the job. Argument over.
Software that doesn’t want a meeting with you.
Sign up, add your logo, invite your techs by text. Your first report goes out the same afternoon. It’s priced per tech, month to month, and you cancel from the settings page — not from a phone call with a retention specialist.
What Dataplate is not.
It’s not dispatch software. It’s not a CRM. It’s not another photo app. There’s no scheduling, no invoicing, no map with trucks on it — and there never will be. Dataplate is where your equipment lives: the nameplate, the age, the history, the recommendation, the customer’s yes.
Run it next to Jobber or Housecall Pro. Run it next to CompanyCam if your techs like CompanyCam. Or run it next to nothing at all — most of the shops we built this for don’t have anything else, and don’t want anything else.
This is what lands on your customer’s phone.
Your logo at the top. The photos. What was wrong, what was done, what was used. The unit’s age. The recommendation, and one button. Open it on your phone — it’s a real page from our demo company.
One price. Per tech. You already know if it’s worth it.
Founding shops use Dataplate free through the beta, then pay $29 per tech per month, locked for as long as you’re a customer. After the first 100 shops it’s $39.
See pricingBuilt with the shops using it.
We’re building Dataplate with founding HVAC and plumbing shops. They get it free during beta, $29/tech locked for life, and a direct line to the people writing the code. Their feedback ships weekly. If you’d rather shape the tool than buy it later, this is the window.
Free, no signup
How old is that unit? Type the serial number and find out.
The same serial decoding that powers Dataplate reports, as a free lookup. Useful on the job, on an inspection, or when your customer asks.
Look up a serial number100 founding shops. Then the price goes up.
Free during beta. $29 per tech per month locked for life. A direct line to us. Tell us about your shop and we’ll get you in.