business for the fracking industry. After some convincing, Chad took on the challenge and started again from the ground up, with just himself, his employer, and an accountant. That company went public in 2020 doing about $450 million per year. Then COVID hit, and the downtime gave Chad an opportunity to sit back and reflect on what he wanted to do next. “I had the chance to think about where I stood and what I wanted to do,” he recalls. “At that point I had done three start-ups for other people, so I decided I wanted to do one for myself. I didn’t know what it was going to be at first, so I started looking around and I came across an opportunity with this business.” Initially, Chad hesitated from diving in – HVAC was out of his wheelhouse, and he thought it would be slightly odd to go from a vice president of a large oil and gas company to operating a duct cleaning company. But the more he researched the industry, the more he saw an opening. Traditional methods had dominated the space for decades, and no one was meaningfully applying the kind of technology and operational rigour he had spent his career refining. COVID had made indoor air quality a mainstream concern, and Chad saw a clear path into an underserved market – particularly in healthcare. “I came up with the idea to use robotics,” he says. “No one else was really doing that. The technology was out there, but no one was really utilizing it. Because of COVID, air quality was a big issue. So my focus became using this robotic technology to JUNE 2026
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