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On "FieldCamp Launches AI-Powered Field Operations Platform for HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical Contractors"

AI dispatch and message consolidation sound helpful until you realize you're trading one problem for another: you still need someone to actually vet those after-hours calls and decide what's an emergency versus a customer who's panicking about a slow drain at midnight. The real constraint in field service isn't organizing information—it's finding reliable techs and keeping them busy profitably, and no platform fixes that. If it does save you thirty minutes a day on admin overhead, that's worth testing, but don't expect it to change your unit economics or solve the actual labor shortage that's killing margins right now.

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