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Free city market breakdowns.
Published in public.

8 city teardowns, available without an email or a credit card. The methodology below is the same one applied when you pay $1,497 for a full diagnostic — the only difference is the city, and one phone call we mystery-shop on your behalf.

Free baseline data — what's on this page

Eight cities. Public sources. Same depth.

BLS, NOAA, Census, county permit databases, state license boards. Nothing scraped, nothing private. Same data, same methodology, same writing standard as the paid product.

How every teardown is built

Five reference assets per market.
One phone shop on the paid product.

Each of the city teardowns below is built from the same five public-data assets, cross-checked against a city benchmark of the top 7 operators we already have on file.

  1. 01 Permit pulls. 12-month rolling HVAC permit history from the county building department, normalized per 1,000 households.
  2. 02 License + complaint history. State contractor board license status, formal complaints, disciplinary actions.
  3. 03 Mystery-shop scorecard. Human callers on the paid product only — your phone, your team, your intake.
  4. 04 ZIP-level demand heatmap. Census household income × age-of-housing-stock × climate intensity, modeled at the ZIP level.
  5. 05 PE consolidation ratio. Share of metro market revenue captured by private-equity-rolled-up operators in trailing 24 months.
  6. + City benchmark of top 7 operators. Already on file from prior research — used as the comparison set for every teardown.
Trust & legal posture

Mystery shops are human-only. No call recording in any state, no AI voice agents, no synthetic callers. We don't record audio. We don't claim to be a customer we aren't. The shopper takes notes against a 14-point scorecard and the call ends with a market-appropriate closing question. This is the methodology we'd want disclosed if it were our business.

Live market breakdowns 8 cities · published 2025–2026
AC Repair Market in Orlando FL — Where 13,896 Reviews Couldn't Buy #1
Orlando FL Apr 2026

Where 13,896 Reviews Couldn't Buy #1

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AC Repair Market in Atlanta GA — Why ITP and OTP Are Two Different Markets
Atlanta GA Apr 2026

Why ITP and OTP Are Two Different Markets

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AC Repair Market in Dallas TX — Why Multi-Trade Operators Own the Map Pack
Dallas TX Apr 2026

Why Multi-Trade Operators Own the Map Pack

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AC Repair Market in Denver CO — The Only Market Where Heating Outsells Cooling
Denver CO Apr 2026

The Only Market Where Heating Outsells Cooling

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AC Repair Market in Las Vegas NV — The Property Manager Channel Most Operators Miss
Las Vegas NV Apr 2026

The Property Manager Channel Most Operators Miss

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AC Repair Market in Tampa FL — How Salt Air Shrinks Every Sales Cycle
Tampa FL Apr 2026

How Salt Air Shrinks Every Sales Cycle

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AC Repair Market in Houston TX — When 10,033 Reviews Don't Buy #1
Houston TX Apr 2026

When 10,033 Reviews Don't Buy #1

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AC Repair Market in Phoenix AZ — The 32,766-Review Gap That Defines the Market
Phoenix AZ Apr 2026

The 32,766-Review Gap That Defines the Market

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Same research, your market

Three formats. Same methodology. Different depth of input.

The teardowns above prove what we'll do for your city. These three tiles show what changes — and what doesn't — as you go from free baseline to paid depth.

Tier 01 Free · public

Free Baseline Data

What the eight teardowns above prove: independent, cited, repeatable. Read any of them to verify the methodology before paying for anything.

  • Permit, license, demand, PE data — public sources
  • City benchmark of top 7 operators
  • Same writing & citation standard as paid
  • No mystery-shop · no per-business depth
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  • Mystery-shop your phone · 14-point scorecard · human caller
  • Audit your specific 5-mile map radius
  • Translate your marketing spend against city benchmark
  • Per-gap revenue modeling vs. your reported band
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