📋 What was this drill?

Drill: Redesign the slop: take a generic SaaS landing page (gradient hero, 3 feature cards, emoji icons) and redesign it to avoid every anti-slop rule in claude-design. Target: same content, 10x less generic.

Interpretation: Rebuilding the genre's stock slop (gradient 'AI-powered field management' hero, trusted-by strip, 3 emoji feature cards, testimonial carousel, 3-tier pricing) for a residential HVAC contractor shop. The page is carried by domain artifacts whose arithmetic reconciles — a finished field ticket (before/after readings to $454.49 bill), an honest day board admitting a 40-minute overrun, a flat-rate price book, and per-tech pricing as a checkable monthly statement. Aesthetic: manufacturer service-bulletin register — IBM Plex Sans/Mono on warm paper, copper #9c4a1e as the single accent, hairline rules, zero gradients/shadows/emoji.

Field service software · residential HVAC · shows its work

HVAC software
that shows its work.

Manifold turns every call into a record of what was measured, what was found, and what it cost — a ticket your inspector, your warranty clerk, and your future self can actually read.

No “AI-powered” anything. Readings or it didn't happen.
Your data stays yours: every ticket exports to CSV, forever.

Manifold · Field ticket Job #24-0812
Tue · opened 09:26 Tech J. Alvarez #H-4182 System 3-ton R-410A heat pump Pratt — Owasso, OK · complaint: no-cool, upstairs 81°F
Reading Spec Before 09:41 After 10:52
ΔT split, °F 18–22 4.0 LOW 20.0
Suction, psig 118–130 88 LOW 124
Subcooling, °F 8–11 3.1 LOW 9.5
Work performed — recovered R-410A · N₂ held 30 min: leak at liquid-line schrader, core + cap replaced · weighed in 3 lb 12 oz per nameplate
Task 4.2 — recover, N₂ leak-check, weigh-in recharge (incl. refrigerant ≤ 4 lb)412.00
Part — schrader core kit #SK-226.50
Sales tax, Oklahoma 8.6%35.99
Total — paid on glass, Visa
Testo 557s · cal due 2027-03 · 6 readings, 2 photos, signature attached
Export: job-24-0812.csv — one click, no lock-in
01

ΔT is the trade's lie detector.

Supply minus return. A 4° split means move along — something is wrong. A 20° split means done. Every tech worth their gauges already knows this; every other field-service app buries it behind tabs.

Manifold tickets open with the split and the two pressures that prove it. The before column is what you were called for. The after column is what you can bill on.

Readings attach to the invoice, the warranty claim, and the equipment record — automatically, because they were taken before anyone typed a price.

ΔT split · job #24-0812scale 0–24 °F
0
6
12
18
24
4.0 before 09:41 20.0 after 10:52
Shaded band = manufacturer spec, 18–22 °F. The reading moved because 3 lb 12 oz of R-410A went back where it belonged — and the ticket says so in the same breath as the price.
02

A day that tells the truth.

Tue Sep 3 · J. Alvarez · 5 jobs wrench time 6 h 29 m · 1 overrun
Arrive Job Booked Actual Status
07:50 Hollis · Owasso — PM check 45 m 44 m done ✓
09:20 Pratt · Owasso — no-cool · tick. #24-0812 2 h 1 h 48 m done ✓
11:45 Meloy · Sand Springs — capacitor 1 h 1 h 02 m done ✓
13:40 Vela · Broken Arrow — no-cool → contactor + capacitor 1 h 30 2 h 10 m +40 done ✓
16:15 Osei · Jenks — replacement estimate 45 m 45 m done ✓
When the Vela job ran long, Manifold moved the next promise from 15:50 to 16:15 and told the customer why. Promise kept — nobody was told “the tech is on the way” while the tech was under a contactor.

Most dispatch boards show the day as it was sold. Yours lives in the day as it happened — booked next to actual, promises moved out loud instead of quietly missed.

The board keeps both columns because the difference is the shop's real capacity. After a month, your booking templates come from your own wrench time, not somebody's optimistic defaults.

Customers get one text when the tech is 20 minutes out, and a different text when a promise has to move. Both name the reason.

03

The price is on the truck.

A flat-rate book your techs quote from and your customers can see the row of — the same row, unchanged, on both screens. No “call for pricing,” no pricing theater in the office.

Every task in the book names what it includes, down to the refrigerant ounceage. When task 4.2 says refrigerant to 4 lb is included, the invoice doesn't rediscover that fact at 6 pm.

The book ships with 214 tasks written by two retired contractors. After that it's yours — edit any price, any task, any included part.

Price book · cooling · v2024.8 — shop edition
Code Task Includes Flat rate
4.2 Recover, N₂ leak-check, weigh-in rechargejet vacuum, nitrogen sweep, drier if required refrigerant ≤ 4 lb 412.00
3.1 Dual-run capacitor replacementtest old, verify microfarads under load capacitor, any OEM 189.00
6.4 Condenser fan motor replacementblade balance check, amp draw recorded motor, OEM-specific 341.00
1.0 Seasonal PM, cooling21-point list, full readings attached 1 lb top-up, filters to 16×25 129.00
What the tech quotes is what the customer signs. Task 4.2 above is the same row billed on ticket #24-0812 — the one at the top of this page.
04

Who it's for. And who it isn't.

Built for

  • 2–9 tech residential shops doing service and replacement — the size where the owner still runs a truck
  • Shops that take readings, or honestly want to start
  • Flat-rate or time-and-materials — the ticket carries either without becoming two products
  • Owners who answer warranty questions with paper and photos at 9 pm

Look elsewhere if

  • One truck, no office — a notebook and a free invoicing app cost $0 and beat us honestly
  • 20+ trucks needing board views, call centers, and rollups — ServiceTitan and Housecall Pro exist for exactly that
  • You want software to write the diagnosis for you. Manifold will not. Readings or it didn't happen
  • New construction only — permit workflows aren't our lane yet, and we won't pretend otherwise
“The warranty company wanted proof the compressor died of a dirty coil, not of us. The ticket had eight readings and a photo. Claim paid in four days.”
Dana Whitfield · Whitfield Heating & Air, Sand Springs OK · 6 techs · customer since 2024
05

Priced like an invoice, because that's the only math anyone trusts.

$39 per tech, per month. $0.24 per dispatched job.
That's the whole tariff — no platform fee, no “success manager,” no annual shakedown.

The statement on the right is a real August for a 6-tech shop out of Sand Springs. Yours will differ. The arithmetic won't.

Cancel any time — your tickets, readings, and price book leave as CSV. A company that keeps your data hostage after cancellation is telling you what it thinks of you.

Manifold · statement — Aug 2026 · sample shop
MANIFOLD FIELD SERVICE — AUGUST STATEMENT 6 techs × $39.00 ........................ 234.00 418 dispatched jobs × $0.24 ............. 100.32 Readings archive, photos, CSV export .... $0.00 Price book, customer SMS, signatures .... $0.00 TOTAL DUE .............................. $334.32
418 dispatched jobs is a real August for a 6-tech residential shop. 6 × 39 = 234.00 · 418 × 0.24 = 100.32 · 234.00 + 100.32 = 334.32 — check it.