How a regional HVAC and plumbing company cut new-technician ramp time by a quarter across five branches.
A home services company with five branches across a metro region hired technicians in waves as demand grew, but new-hire training depended on riding along with a senior tech for two weeks before running solo jobs, an approach that varied significantly by branch and by which senior tech happened to be available. New equipment models rolled out from manufacturers roughly monthly, and getting every branch onto the updated install procedure took weeks of inconsistent word-of-mouth training.
The team connected Velo to their ServiceTitan work order templates. New-hire onboarding videos, built from the standard install and safety procedures, now give every branch the same foundation before a new tech's first ride-along, cutting the ride-along period roughly in half. When a manufacturer releases a new equipment model, the training lead builds an install video from the updated documentation and pushes it to every technician's phone the same day.
- Industry
- Home services, HVAC & plumbing
- Company size
- Five branches, ~180 technicians
- Plan
- Velo Ultra, multi-branch rollout
- Primary use case
- Technician onboarding & procedure training
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25% faster ramp
New technicians reaching solo dispatch readiness
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5 branches, same day
Down from a multi-week, word-of-mouth rollout
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18% fewer callbacks
On jobs completed after a procedure update, first quarter