AI Agents for HVAC Businesses: What Actually Works | Jim Christian, Podium

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AI agents for home service businesses are finally doing real work, not demos. In the first episode of Wrenches n Robots, Tersh Blissett sits down with Jim Christian, Senior Director of Product at Podium, for a straight conversation about where AI actually earns its spot in an HVAC, plumbing, or electrical shop. No hype, no robot takeover. Just what a working owner can put into production. Jim builds Podium's AI Operating System for home services, and he breaks down the parts that matter: why the value lives in the application layer and not the model, what an AI agent really is in plain language, and how one contractor went from stacks of paper membership agreements to booking on autopilot.…