Custom AI systems for local trade businesses,run by an operator, backed by a team.
FnButton builds the systems that hold a trade business together between the job and the invoice. Work entered once instead of three times, follow-up that runs without anybody remembering, the hours nobody can cover, and the shop's own knowledge answerable in plain English.
The point
Why FnButton exists
Most trade businesses do not need more software. They need the software they already pay for to stop making them type the same job three times.
So that is what we build, install, and run: the connections between the tools, the follow-up nobody owns, the hours nobody covers, and the knowledge that currently lives in one person's head. Getting read by ChatGPT and Gemini is on the list too, and it is where a lot of shops start, because it is the free one. Built for trades and backed by a team that keeps it running.
Time back. Money kept. Tools that talk.
That is the whole pitch. Everything we install has to earn one of these three.
Your evenings stop belonging to the office
Calls answered, leads filed, follow-ups sent while you are on a roof or under a house. The admin work that used to follow you home runs itself.
You stop paying for shelf-ware
No enterprise build, no pile of overlapping subscriptions. We make the tools you already pay for work together, and only add what earns its place.
Your stack finally works as one system
Built around your existing setup, whether that is ServiceTitan, Jobber, QuickBooks, or a whiteboard. No rip and replace, no migrating onto someone else’s platform.
How we work: Assess, Deploy, Optimize
Assess
We look at how you actually run. Where calls slip through, where leads go cold, and what AI assistants see when they look you up.
Deploy
We build and install the system, tuned to your trade and your hours. You do not touch the tech.
Optimize
We keep it sharp with ongoing tuning and support as your business changes and grows.
Why us
The big names sell you software.
We hand you a running system.
The platforms and agencies
- Software you set up, connect, and babysit yourself
- Your business gets moved onto their platform, and they hold the keys
- A support queue three time zones away
- Retainers priced for companies fifty times your size
FnButton
- Built, installed, and run for you. Your job does not change
- Wired around the tools you already pay for. You stay portable
- One operator you know by name, a full team behind him
- Sized and priced for a working trade business
And we take our own medicine: we run the same scan on ourselves and publish it. FnButton scores 83. Ask any platform for their own number.
Nick, Founder of FnButton
Nick Tidrick is your point of contact at FnButton, based in St. Petersburg. Behind him is a team of engineers and designers who build, install, and run your system. Before FnButton, Nick ran operations as a VP in the rentals business, so missed calls, after-hours phones, and paperwork pileups are problems he has lived, not read about. You get a local operator who knows the Tampa Bay market, fluent in English and Spanish, with the depth of a full team behind every deployment.
- A team behind every buildEngineers and designers build and run your system. You are never leaning on one person.
- One clear point of contactYou always know who to call. Nick keeps the team pointed at your account.
- Rooted in St. PetersburgLocal enough to show up in person around Tampa Bay, built to work with trades nationally.
- English and Spanish, natively handledNick spent a decade living back and forth in Spain and is fluent. Work with us in English or Spanish. The systems we build can do the same for your customers, answering in whichever language they use.
- Practical firstSystems that earn their place in a working business. If it does not add value, it does not make the cut.
- Built to lastOngoing support and tuning from the team, not a one-time setup that gets abandoned.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is FnButton for?+
Trade and service businesses that run on jobs: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, restoration, pest control, cleaning, general contracting, and plenty that are not on that list. Any size. If your crew is in the field and the paperwork piles up somewhere else, you are who this is built for. We are based in St. Petersburg, and distance does not get in the way.
Is this just one person?+
No. Nick is your point of contact, backed by a team of engineers and designers who build and run your system. You get a local operator and a full bench behind him.
Do I need to be good with technology?+
No. We build and run the system for you. You keep doing your job while it answers, files, and flags in the background.
What does it cost?+
It depends on what your business needs, so we scope it on a quick call instead of guessing at a number here. You can start with a free look at where you stand.
How do we start?+
Tell us what a normal week looks like and where it breaks down. If you would rather start with something free and concrete, run the AI Visibility Report on your website and we will send back what the assistants can and cannot read. Either way, we start by showing you where you stand, then what a system would actually change.
Do you speak Spanish? / ¿Hablan español?+
Sí. Nick is fluent, after a decade living back and forth in Spain, and the systems we build can answer your customers in English and Spanish. Si le resulta más cómodo, toda la conversación puede ser en español.
Start with a look at how your business actually runs
Every business runs differently. We find the duplicate entry, the follow-up nobody owns, and the hours nobody covers first, then build around what we find.