Why we built Kaieco

The physical work was never the problem. The refrigerant paperwork was. That gap is why Kaieco exists.

Every HVAC/R shop we talked to told a version of the same story. The physical work was under control. The paperwork was not.

The shoebox problem

A technician adds two pounds of refrigerant to a rooftop unit on a Tuesday. They mean to write it down. Maybe it lands on a paper ticket, maybe on the back of an invoice, maybe in a text to the office. Three months later someone in the office is trying to calculate a trailing-twelve-month leak rate for that unit and the Tuesday is just gone.

Multiply that by a few hundred units and a handful of techs, and "are we compliant?" becomes a question nobody can actually answer. Not because the shop is careless, but because the record was never built to be answered from.

What we wanted to fix

We started Kaieco because the compliant thing and the easy thing had drifted apart. EPA Section 608 and the AIM Act do not ask for much: know what you put in and took out of each appliance, when, and be able to show your math. That should be a byproduct of doing the job, not a second job.

So the goal was narrow. Make logging a refrigerant transaction faster than writing it on a ticket. Tie every entry to the specific appliance. Keep the trailing-twelve-month leak rate current on its own. Make the report you would hand an auditor something you can produce in a click, not a week.

What Kaieco is, and is not

Kaieco maintains your refrigerant records and field-operations history, calculates the leak rates, and flags the deadlines. It is a recordkeeping and monitoring tool.

It does not certify anything, file anything, or guarantee an outcome. The compliance decisions stay with your organization and your certified technicians. We are careful about that line because the shops that get burned are usually the ones who assumed a tool was doing more than it was.

Still building

We are a small team, and Kaieco is still early. If you run a shop and something here is wrong, missing, or just annoying, we want to hear it. That feedback is most of how the product gets better.