Founding.dev

HVAC BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

HVAC software that works your way — and you own it.

ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro charge per tech, lock you into contracts, and change the app under your feet. Founding.dev is the AI-Driven SaaS replacement platform that builds your dispatch, quoting, and invoicing around how your shop actually runs — starting from high-performance templates.

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Backed byAntler

Save up to 70%

Built for your trucks, techs, and price book

You own the code & data

REPLACE EXPENSIVE HVAC SOFTWARE LIKE

ServiceTitanHousecall ProFieldEdgeQuickBooksCalendly
ServiceTitanHousecall ProFieldEdgeQuickBooksCalendly
ServiceTitanHousecall ProFieldEdgeQuickBooksCalendly
ServiceTitanHousecall ProFieldEdgeQuickBooksCalendly

The shift

Owning your software no longer means maintaining it.

The Old Model

Rent SaaS

  • Pay for bloated features you never use
  • Bend your workflow to fit their product
  • Per-seat pricing that's anti-growth
  • Price hikes you can't control

Build with a Devshop

  • High maintenance cost — forever your burden
  • Expensive to build, and takes time — lots of back-and-forth
  • Every change is a new invoice
The New Model

With

Founding.dev

  • You own everything — code, data, and infrastructure
  • One flat price. No per seat.
  • Change it in plain English, anytime
  • Bank-level security, built in.
  • We build it and run it — the maintenance isn't on you

Replace or Build Software

How it works

1

Sign up

Create an account with Google or GitHub. You land in the builder.

2

Choose a template

Choose a template that matches the SaaS you're replacing, or start something new for your team.

3

Make it yours

Change it to fit how you work. Build in plain English or let our engineers handle it. The code and data are yours.

Start replacing

SIDE BY SIDE

Renting vs. Hiring vs. Owning

The cost, control, and ownership trade-offs — line by line.

Monthly cost

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Per tech, per month — plus add-ons for phones, marketing, payments

Dev Shop: Expensive to build; every change is a new invoice

founding.dev: One-time build + optional flat fee. Unlimited techs

Customization

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Their workflow, their forms, their app updates

Dev Shop: Custom — but billed per change

founding.dev: Custom — change it yourself, in plain English

Ownership & data

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Your job history lives on their servers

Dev Shop: Usually yours — check the contract

founding.dev: Yours outright: code, data, infrastructure

Scaling cost

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Hire a tech, pay the software more

Dev Shop: New features = new invoices

founding.dev: Add techs and CSRs free

Vendor lock-in

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Multi-year contracts; data export is slow and manual

Dev Shop: Low — but you depend on their availability

founding.dev: None. Leave anytime, keep everything

Setup

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Months of onboarding and retraining

Dev Shop: Long back-and-forth builds

founding.dev: Starts from a proven template, shaped to your shop

Maintenance

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Included — until the forced upgrade

Dev Shop: Forever your problem

founding.dev: Optional: we run it for one flat price

Security

Legacy HVAC SaaS: Shared platform, their audit trail

Dev Shop: Depends on the shop

founding.dev: Bank-level encryption, audit trails, SSO built in

Real savings

$30K $8.8K a year

A public-adjusting firm cut its software bill by about 70% — 150+ users, zero per-seat fees — by owning its software instead of renting it.

HVAC Business Management Software — Your Questions Answered

It runs the office side of your shop: scheduling and dispatch, quotes, invoicing, memberships, price book, and reporting. The difference is whether you rent it per tech — or own it.
ServiceTitan charges for every technician, every month, before add-ons — and holds you to multi-year terms. We build your system once. Unlimited techs, one optional flat fee if you want us to run it.
Both, usually. Big-shop SaaS makes small shops pay for bloat. Owning used to mean a dev shop budget — templates changed that. You get exactly the features your shop uses.
Nothing. You own the code and the data. Cancel the optional maintenance anytime and keep everything.
Yes — tell us how your board, agreements, and pricing work and we build them in, with the field app your techs need.
No. We build it and can run it for you. Changes happen in plain English — our team helps whenever you want.
We start from engineered templates that already run real service businesses, then shape them to yours. You're not paying anyone to start from a blank page.
Yes — bank-level encryption, backups, audit trails, and single sign-on come built in.
Tell us what you're replacing at founding.dev/get-started.

READY TO BUILD?

Ready to stop paying per tech?

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