A small Toronto team obsessed with the truck roll.
Retrofit.ai is a software company building pre-inspection tools for residential HVAC contractors. We started because the pre-inspection truck roll is the most expensive way to collect data in the trade — and for most jobs, it shouldn’t exist.
Our story
The trade is changing fast. Heat pumps are mainstream, rebate stacks are stacking taller, and HRAI-registered contractors are juggling paperwork that used to live in a clipboard. Meanwhile, the path from “homeowner calls” to “quote on the table” still runs through the same hour-and-a-half truck roll it did twenty years ago.
We watched contractors burn a third of their week driving out to collect data on jobs that never closed. Nameplate photos, panel photos, ductwork photos — the homeowner has a camera in their pocket. The information a contractor needs to quote a straightforward residential replacement isn’t a mystery; it’s a checklist. So we built one.
Today, Retrofit.ai is a tight product team based in the Greater Toronto Area, working alongside a small group of HVAC operators in Ontario. We’re in beta. We onboard one contractor at a time. We don’t ship features unless someone with calluses on their hands has told us they need them.
What we believe
Built with contractors, not for them
Every screen, every field, every prompt has been pressure-tested by real HVAC operators quoting real jobs. If a field doesn't earn its keep on a quote, it doesn't ship.
Homeowner-friendly by default
The intake reads like a friendly walkthrough, not a survey. No jargon, no account creation, no app download. If the homeowner gets confused, the contractor loses the job.
Plain-English, with citations
We publish heat-pump sizing, rebate, and Manual J explainers, for homeowners and for contractors. Sources cited, math shown, no marketing fluff.
Ontario first
We're starting in the GTA because that's where we live and where the rebate stack is richest. Outside Ontario? Tell us, and we expand as contractor demand pulls us.
Want to compare notes?
We love talking to contractors and homeowners about what’s working and what isn’t. Drop us a line.