In Houston, TX, Ray V runs a 8-tech hvac operation. A near-miss: a tech walked in blind to hazards that were noted on a job nobody thought to pull up.
What was actually bleeding
Ray dispatched a tech to a property that had an aggressive dog flagged and an unsafe propane setup — both noted on a closed job nobody thought to pull up. The tech walked in blind. It was a near-miss, and Ray couldn't stop thinking about how close it came.
What Ray asked us to build
“Put a property hazard flag that surfaces for every future tech BEFORE they arrive.”
— Ray V, HVAC — Houston, TX
What we built
We built property-level hazard tagging across fifteen to twenty categories. Once a property is flagged, the hazard surfaces at dispatch, fires an en-route push to the assigned tech, and requires a pre-job safety sign-off before work begins.
How the tool works
Flag a property in the demo below, then dispatch a tech — the hazard surfaces before arrival and requires a safety sign-off before the job can open.
- Tag a property across 15–20 hazard categories, with an optional live photo of the hazard.
- The flag surfaces at dispatch and fires an en-route push to the assigned tech.
- A pre-job safety sign-off is required before any work begins.
- Every hazard a property has ever shown reaches the next tech automatically.
Property-level safety is one module of the Service OS we build. It rides along with dispatch, job records, and customer history so what one tech learns protects the next.
What came back
It's the feature Ray is most glad exists. Every hazard a property has ever shown now reaches the next tech before they pull up.
That’s not a projection — it’s what changed after we shipped the build.
The tool you just used isn’t a mockup — it’s the kind of thing we build inside our Service OS, one module of a system made for your trade and owned by you. If you’re carrying a version of this problem, the fastest way to see what a system would catch in your operation is to run your own numbers.
The takeaways
- Hazards a property showed once must reach the next tech automatically.
- Surface the flag at dispatch and en-route — before arrival.
- Require a safety sign-off before the job can open.
Ex-Microsoft operations and fractional COO for $5M+ field service operations. He writes about the systems that let trade companies scale without the owner holding everything together by hand.
These are the things we build inside our Service OS.
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