Podium
By Podium Corp
What it is
Podium's home services product describes itself as an AI operating system for HVAC, plumbing and electrical businesses. Its AI Employee, called Larry, answers calls and messages, captures leads and books jobs onto a dispatch board. The platform also includes field service management (scheduling and dispatch, a technician mobile app, estimates, invoicing and payments), a shared inbox for calls, texts and web leads, an AI Membership Coordinator for maintenance customers, and automatic review requests.
Description based on homeservices.podium.com, checked Nov 4, 2026. Features and pricing change, so check the vendor's site for current details.
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Use cases with Podium (1)
AI lead response for a solo electrician: Sloan Electric and Podium's AI Employee save 10+ hours a week
Sloan Electric
Mark Sloan, owner of Sloan Electric and a solo electrical contractor, says in a Podium customer case study that its AI Employee sends a preliminary message to every lead within one or two minutes, so customer conversations start while he is on a job. He says that after entering every material he uses into Podium's price book he can send leads an estimate in about 10 minutes, where before it often took more than a day, and that review requests now go out automatically after each job. He estimates he saves 10 hours a week. Note the source credits the price book and invoicing workflow, not AI, for the faster estimates; the AI Employee is credited with the instant lead response. This is a vendor-published case study with no date on the page, and the figures are Sloan's own.