AI job briefs for electricians and the trades

FIXmyPOWER

Guided by AI. Fixed by pros.

Guided questions steer you to the right diagnosis. Your pro loads the likely parts before the first trip.

Electrical panel with AI detection overlays
The Problem

Every service call starts with a guess.

~1 in 3
of the founder's troubleshooting calls ended with an extra drive for supplies
Founder's job log: 91 troubleshooting calls among 265 Bay Area service calls, Aug 2024–May 2026.

Can't describe the fault

"The light just doesn't work" is the median customer report — no symptoms, no context.

The van carries everything

And still misses the one part — a missing SKU nobody could have predicted from a phone call.

Unpaid time, twice

Every extra trip is 35–60 unpaid minutes, and a customer left waiting on the first visit.

The Cost

A missing part is the top reason for a second trip.

51%

of repeat field-service visits trace to a missing part
Aberdeen Group survey (2013), via Fieldpoint

~1 in 4

service visits don't solve the problem the first time (avg. first-time fix rate ~77%)
The Service Council, via ServicePower

FixMyPower targets the biggest cause: the likely part is on the brief before the van leaves.
Electrical supply room with wire and parts
How It Works

We guide you to a clear diagnosis — so your pro shows up ready, not guessing.

Plain-language questions, one at a time, steer you toward what matters — so your electrician gets a diagnosis, not a guess.

01

Snap

Pick what's not working. The questions that follow are different every time — built around your specific problem — and end with exactly which photos to take.

📷 Device📷 What it controls📷 Panel
02

Scope

Switch typeLikely single-pole / 3-way
Switch cost$3–$18 standard

Your answers and photos become a job brief: likely parts, probable cause, and a price range — built from what you were guided to notice, not a guess.

03

Solve

Your electrician reviews the brief, loads the right parts, and arrives ready to fix it — not diagnose it.

Parts loaded · job ready to go
Guided Intake — New

Asking the right question, one at a time.

"The light just doesn't work" is the median customer report. Before FixMyPower asks for a single photo, it asks 2–4 plain-language questions — one at a time, written for someone who has never heard of a GFCI or a breaker panel.

Before

"Switch not working." No further detail.

After 3 taps

Breaker never tripped · switch feels warm · two switches control the same light.

01
Each answer narrows the AI's confidence — the same "conf high / conf med" tags on the parts estimate, now backed by the customer's own words.
02
Answers decide which photos get requested next: skip the panel photo if the breaker never tripped, ask for a close-up if the switch feels warm.
03
Next: real-time photo-quality coaching — guiding a re-shoot the way an ID-verification app guides a selfie.

My Issue

When this happened, did anything flip off in your breaker box?
Something flippedBurning smellNeither
Does the switch feel warm or smell like something's burning?
YesNo
AI Parts Recognition Estimate
Switch typeLikely single-pole or 3-way
Switch brandLeviton or Eaton class
Switch cost$3–$18 / $18–$65 smart
AI Intake Follow-Up — from Guided Intake
Breaker tripped?Yes
Switch warm/noisy?No
Possible Causes
  • Failed wall switch or loose terminal
  • Tripped or defective breaker
  • Open neutral or damaged conductor
The Job Brief

The pro sees the job before reaching the house.

01
Equipment ID from the photo: type, color, likely brand.
02
Parts with price ranges: $3–$18 standard, $18–$65 smart or dimmer.
03
Likely causes, ranked: failed switch, tripped breaker, open neutral, fixture fault.
04
The customer's own answers to the guided questions, verbatim — context before the pro leaves.
05
NEC-informed checklist, adjusted for the local amendments that apply where the job actually is — for licensed pros only.
Safety first. No DIY instructions. Smoke, sparks, or a hot panel send the customer to a licensed pro or 911.
Why This Matters

Electricians are stretched thin. The work keeps growing. We help close that gap.

Finding a licensed electrician is only getting harder: 81% of contractors with openings report trouble filling them — the toughest trade to hire for right now.AGC and NCCER Workforce Survey, 2026 (1,830 firms)

And homes need more electrical work than ever: 28 million EV charging ports are needed by 2030, most of them in driveways and apartment lots, not commercial sites.NREL, 2023

Guided questions and a few photos do what used to take an in-person look — so the electricians we do have can get to more people, faster.

What's Next

Report it through whatever AI agent you already use.

FixMyPower will run its own MCP server. Your assistant can describe the problem, answer the guided questions, and attach photos on your behalf — the app is one way in, not the only way.

FixMyPower MCP Serverjob-brief intake, open to any agent
Your own AI agent
Answers the guided questions and submits photos for you.
Later
Any MCP-speaking app
Nothing bespoke for us to build per partner.
Later
Team

A seasoned electrician and a software engineer.

Serhii Shepelenko
Serhii Shepelenko
FOUNDER AND CEO
Licensed California electrical contractor (C-10)
15 years in electrical work: Kharkiv's regional power utility, then 5 years running his own contracting company in Ukraine, Bay Area residential service since 2023
He is the customer: runs Bay Area service calls every week
MS in Electrical Engineering, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Inventor: provisional patent on an electrical wiring device (2026)
Full-time on FixMyPower from the day the round closes
Sergei Lapin
Sergei Lapin
CTO
Software engineer at Apple
Embedded systems and power electronics background
Erasmus Mundus master's program, KU Leuven
Market

Every trade that drives to a customer.

821K Electricians
511K Plumbers
441K HVAC
283K Low-voltage & internet
84K Fire & security alarms

Plus independent handymen

TAM

$1.7B/yr

3.6M US field technicians in 13 customer-site trades × $480

SAM

$550M/yr

1.15M solo operators and small-shop pros in the first-wave trades

SOM

$5.5M ARR

11,500 paying pros by year 5 (1% of SAM), subscriptions only

78% of US construction businesses have no employees. The buyer is a solo pro or a small shop.

Business Model

$40 a month. One saved supply run pays for it.

One supply run costs 35–60 billable minutes. A single Google lead costs $40–75. The math favors not driving.

Today
$40

Per pro, per month

One seat per technician — the core subscription.

Next

Shop & homeowner lines

Per-seat shop plans for multi-tech crews, plus homeowner requests routed to verified pros.

Next

Supply-house referral

Parts list sent to the local supply house for pickup, with a referral fee back to FixMyPower.

Progress

Built by practicing electricians. Pilot next.

DONE
  • End-to-end prototype covering both sides of the workflow: homeowner intake through to the pro's job brief.
  • Pilot channel secured through the founder's own licensed contracting business, Plug and Go Electrics, operating since August 2026.
  • Incorporated as a Delaware LLC in May 2026; funded entirely by the founder to date.
Next
  • Pilot with 5–10 Bay Area electricians from the founder's network, months 3–6.
  • Electrician license verification, checked directly against the state licensing board.
  • Real service-call photos, collected with customer consent, to validate and tune AI accuracy.
Get Early Access

Join the waitlist.

We're onboarding Bay Area electricians first. Leave your email and we'll reach out before launch.

Serhii Shepelenko s@fixmypowerai.com demo ↗

Photographs are illustrative. App screens are from the clickable prototype.

Service van on a residential street at dusk