The lead-generation business has a trust problem. The big platforms sell the same homeowner panel-swap to three, four, five contractors at once, charge a premium for it, and dress it up as something it isn’t. For a commercial shop chasing service upgrades, switchgear replacements, and buildouts, almost none of it is useful, and all of it asks you to just trust them.
Electrician Scout is the opposite bet. The opportunities that actually matter for commercial electrical work are already sitting in public records: a building files an electrical permit, a code violation forces a repair on a clock, a new business registers and needs power for a buildout, a facility puts work out to bid. That information is public. The work is finding it, organizing it, and being honest about what it is.
So that’s what we built: an AI-powered scout that watches public records, surfaces the commercial electrical opportunities, scores them, and hands each one to you with its source attached, so you can verify everything yourself. No fake testimonials. No guaranteed jobs. No padding a slow week to look busy. If we can’t point to the public record, we don’t show it to you.
Electrician Scout runs on the same engine as our sister product, HVAC Scout, retuned for electrical scope and priced for how electrical contractors actually buy leads. Unlike HVAC Scout’s exclusive one-per-county model, Electrician Scout is non-exclusive: more than one electrical contractor in a county can subscribe. We think that’s the honest way to sell leads that come from public records, not a monopoly on a county.
I’m building this in the open from Indianapolis. I’m a contractor’s kind of builder, learning as I go, shipping honestly, and starting in my own backyard before expanding. If you run a commercial electrical shop and the existing tools have burned you, I’d genuinely like to hear what you need.
Jacob Pike, founder of Electrician Scout & HVAC Scout