About — Atom
About

The person paying the bill has no software. That's the whole idea.

Pool, lawn and pest companies run on platforms built for dispatchers, priced per technician, and pointed entirely at the office. The homeowner — who chose the company, pays monthly, and decides whether to renew — gets a PDF. We think that's backwards, and we think it's the opening.

What we saw

Enterprise field-service platforms charge hundreds of dollars per technician per month. The pool category leader charges a dollar or two per pool and wins on one number: how many seconds a visit takes to log.

The cross-industry platforms lose for a different reason — a vertical is a template bolted onto someone else's product, so lawn operators end up fighting a system built for pest control.

And every single one of them stops at the office door. Nobody ships the homeowner a real app. That is a strange thing to leave on the table in a business where the customer relationship is the asset.

What we're building
One shared core, one module per trade
Scheduling, routing, billing and inventory live in one shared core, used by every trade. Chemistry, programs and devices are real trade modules, not settings pages — inside the product we call the core the Nucleus and the modules Electrons. That is why a second trade costs us a fraction of a second product, and why we can hand the software over for nothing until an operator is invoicing real money on it.
A field app judged on seconds
Under a minute from arrival to completed visit, offline, in gloves. If it doesn't clear that bar with real techs, the design is wrong — not the techs.
Proton, in every homeowner’s pocket
Atom Home ships with Proton, the homeowner assistant — unlimited seats, branded to the operator, at no cost and at any volume. It's our distribution, so charging for it would be charging for our own growth.
How we work

Five commitments we'd rather be held to.

A published price with unlimited seats invites a fair question: what's the catch? These are the things that have to be true for there not to be one.

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Where we are
Now
In staging
Provider portal, field app and Atom Home all running against real data in a staging environment.
Next
First pilot routes
A small group of pool, lawn and pest operators running live routes, with the visit flow timed against their techs.
Then
General access
The 1% running against real invoiced volume, and Atom Home available to every household on a pilot route.
Founder note

I'm a data architect. By day I build data products for billion-dollar manufacturers — moving data between systems, working out where it's getting stuck, and turning it into something that makes a factory floor run faster.

I'm also a homeowner in Collierville, with the same headaches as everyone else. Try to fix it myself. Realise I don't have the right part. Make a third trip to Lowe's. Give up and decide to call someone — then not know who to call. Ask around friends and family for the right guy at the right price, get three of them out to quote it, and lose a week to the whole rigmarole.

Eventually it occurred to me that this is a problem I already know how to solve. A house isn't a plumbing problem or a pest problem. It's a data problem. Everything about it sits in a filing cabinet, three vendors' systems and the owner's memory, and nobody can see the whole picture — least of all the person who owns it.

So Atom puts it in one place. Every visit, every product used, every invoice, on one property record. Then it hands that record to an assistant that can tell a homeowner what they can fix today with what's already in the garage, what they need to buy, and when it's time to call somebody.

If you're an operator reading this, that record gets built out of the work you already do — and the next technician who pulls up to that property knows exactly what the last one found.

I build for the person at the end of it. I hope that comes through.

Uday Cherukuri
Uday Cherukuri
Atom · atomhome.ai

If any of this sounds like your week, talk to us.

We're picking the first routes now, and we'd rather build the pilot with operators who'll argue with us.

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