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Cover of AI for HVAC Pros: a classic round wall thermostat with a chrome ring and one red pointer needle, its face completely blank

009 of 025 · Trades & Main Street

AI for

HVAC Pros

The thermostat on the wall already learns. It still cannot write the replacement quote, explain the bill, or tell a homeowner why the unit gave out in July.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
of your week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week — and more in the weeks that aren’t normal, which in this trade means the first heat wave and the first hard freeze. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Writing replacement quotes in the evening~3 hours
  • Chapter 5Customer texts, triage messages, follow-ups~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Invoices, agreement renewals, payment chasing~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Review responses and complaint letters~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Job write-ups, pick lists, homeowner explanations~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9The seasonal marketing you keep putting off~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters, 150 prompts ready to paste, a glossary in plain words, and a thirty-day plan you can actually keep.

  1. Line illustration: an outdoor air-conditioning condensing unit with a full-sized aeroplane propeller fitted in place of the fan blade behind its top grille, the casing left completely plain with no lettering, numbers or badges anywhere on it, the propeller the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: a small vacuum pump joined by a single refrigeration hose to the side of an ordinary round wall clock, the clock face entirely blank apart from its two hands and the pump's gauge face blank as well, the hose the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a length of flexible ducting rising up out of the floor and flaring at the top into a large gramophone horn, the horn the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: three outdoor condensing units of ascending size, one standing on each tier of a silver three-tier cake stand, every casing plain with no lettering, numbers or price tickets anywhere, the cake stand the accent colour 04 Replacement Quotes in Ten Minutes
  5. Line illustration: an oversized outdoor thermometer whose glass column has burst out through the top of the tube and coiled into a long loose spiral above it, its scale left completely blank with no numbers or graduation marks, the escaped column the accent colour 05 The Seasonal Crush — and the Office Manager in Your Pocket
  6. Line illustration: a ceramic piggy bank plumbed into a run of copper refrigerant line, a flare nut joining a pipe to each end of it, the piggy bank the accent colour 06 Money Paperwork — and the Maintenance-Agreement Engine
  7. Line illustration: a pleated air filter cut into the shape of a five-pointed star, seated in a square return-air grille far too rectangular for it, the filter's cardboard frame completely plain with no printing, numbers or markings, the star-shaped filter the accent colour 07 Reviews, Complaints, and Your Name
  8. Line illustration: a canvas tool bag with a wooden library card-catalogue drawer built into its side and pulled wide open, the index cards inside completely blank and the brass card holder on the drawer front empty of any lettering, the open drawer the accent colour 08 On the Job — Your Second Brain in the Truck
  9. Line illustration: an oversized map pin standing point-down in a small front lawn, several times the height of the service van parked beside it, the van's panels left entirely plain with no lettering, numbers or markings, the pin's head the accent colour 09 Getting Customers
  10. Line illustration: a slim stack of blank documents sealed inside a short section of round sheet-metal duct whose two open ends are wrapped in many overlapping turns of foil tape, no lettering, numbers or printed markings anywhere on duct, tape or paper, the foil tape the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a refrigeration gauge manifold hanging from its hook with its three service hoses plaited into a single thick braid that ends in one lone coupler, both gauge faces left blank with no numbers, graduations or lettering, the braided hoses the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a domestic floor register grille set flush in a plain floor with a full-size airport windsock rigged on a mast rising straight out of its slots, the sock filled and standing out level, no lettering or markings anywhere on grille, mast or sock, the windsock the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,164 words Before the First Hot Week About 9 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for hvac pros The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [SIZE]-person HVAC company in [CITY, STATE] called [BUSINESS NAME]. We do [residential service and replacement / light commercial / new construction]. Typical work: [YOUR TOP 5 JOB TYPES, e.g., AC and furnace repair, full system replacements, heat pumps, tune-ups, IAQ]. When I ask you to write anything customer-facing, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, no scare tactics, an 8th-grade reading level. When I ask for an estimate or price, always leave the numbers as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you. Never state equipment sizes, SEER ratings, or rebate amounts I didn’t give you.”

One of 150 in AI for HVAC Pros.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

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Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 995 KB · about 30,517 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-427-8
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 28m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-428-5
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, Before the First Hot Week, free: 2,164 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Replacement Quotes & Estimates (16–40), Customer Communication & the Crush (41–65), Money & Maintenance Agreements (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,517 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 28m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-427-8; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-428-5. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.

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