Questions before you join
Straight answers, before launch.
Who Frigalto is built for, how a unit is opened and inspected, who sets the refrigerant limits, what the Uptime Report holds and when it reaches your client, what Frigalto never certifies, and what the trial includes. Every answer points to the page where it is shown in full.
Frigalto in a minute
What is Frigalto?
Software for commercial HVAC and refrigeration maintenance firms. Frigalto is built to keep every unit in your clients’ buildings on its own record — rooftop units, chillers, AHUs, VRF and split systems, cooling towers — inspected to the protocol for its type, its findings followed to closure, its refrigerant logged circuit by circuit, and all of it compiled into the Uptime Report your client reads at renewal. The same record also carries scheduling, Service Proposals, Service Invoices and payments.
Who is it built for?
Independent firms that hold commercial HVAC and refrigeration service agreements, and the people in them: owners, contracts and service managers, engineers and technicians, refrigerant-certified engineers. Their clients are office towers and property portfolios, supermarkets and retail chains, data centers, hospitals, hotels and cold stores.
Is it for home heating and air conditioning?
No. Frigalto isn’t built for residential repair calls, sales-led installs or replacement quotes for homes. It keeps the record of a firm whose commercial clients expect to see the maintenance behind their plant.
Is it for a building’s own facilities team?
Frigalto is built for the HVAC firm, not the building that hires it. A facilities team hunting for a maintenance provider will find no firms listed or recommended here.
Which kinds of clients are covered in more depth?
Three client settings have pages of their own, each built on what that client asks of you: supermarkets and retail, property portfolios, and data centers.
Units, inspections and findings
How does an engineer open a unit?
From the round’s list of units for that building, or by scanning a label on the unit. Its record opens in place — the building and plant area, the unit type and its protocol, the last findings and the photo timeline — so the inspection starts at the unit, not on an empty screen.
Which kinds of units can be tracked?
Rooftop units, chillers, air handling units, VRF systems, split systems, cooling towers, heat pumps and any other plant you maintain — each held under its client, building and plant area, with its own history.
Are the inspection checklists fixed?
No. Each unit type is built to carry its own system inspection, and you decide its components and their order — compressor, coils, fans and belts, filters, electrical, controls, or whatever your procedures call for.
How are findings graded?
Three ways: routine, attention needed or deficiency. Every finding stays open, with its photos in date order, until it is closed — by a repair quoted as a Service Proposal or fixed on the next visit.
What does a building specification do?
It lists the units a building should have, by type. The registry is checked against it, so a unit removed, replaced or never added shows as below specification until the record is put right.
What do terms like plant area, system inspection or top-up mean?
The glossary explains the terms your service records use, and opens each one with a short answer.
The Refrigerant Record and the Uptime Report
What does the Refrigerant Record hold?
For every circuit of every unit with refrigerant: the refrigerant type, the charge, each recovery, leak check and top-up, the engineer who logged it and when. It can be exported for one unit, one building or the whole service agreement when your client or their auditor asks.
Does Frigalto make my client compliant with EPA Section 608 or F-Gas rules?
No. Frigalto records support refrigerant and maintenance record-keeping obligations. Frigalto does not issue EPA-608 or F-Gas certifications and does not verify operator-entered credentials. Meeting the rules your clients work under stays with you and your client.
Are refrigerant limits built in?
No numbers are built in. You set the limit for each circuit from your own procedures and the rules your clients work under; every top-up is drawn against it and an entry that crosses it is marked by fixed rules, never by AI.
What goes into the Uptime Report?
What your record shows for the period you choose: the maintenance rounds completed, what each system inspection found, the findings opened and closed, the Refrigerant Record by circuit and each unit’s status and photo timeline — topped with a brief summary the AI drafts and you revise before it is sent.
Does the Uptime Report go to my client automatically?
Never by itself. It is sent when your client asks for it, when you decide, or on a schedule you fix for that client — and it carries your company’s name, arriving as a PDF straight to an inbox, or as a web link.
Does Frigalto read data from the building management system?
No. Frigalto is not a BMS front end or a monitoring product. The record is what your engineers inspect and log on site; the Uptime Report is built from it, not from runtime data.
The rest of the working week
Can I schedule quarterly rounds, seasonal changeovers and call-outs?
Yes. Set each building’s rounds once on the Maintenance Calendar — monthly or quarterly, the cooling-season start-up and the heating changeover — assign the engineer, and fit in the call-out when a client rings on a hot afternoon.
Can I quote with Service Proposals, collect deposits and send invoices?
Yes. Price a repair or a service agreement in a Service Proposal and let your client approve it online; request a deposit where the job needs one, and raise the Service Invoice once the job is complete. Each payment is kept on the record, and a finished job keeps its Work Record.
Can my client log in?
No. Nothing reaches your client except what you send — the Uptime Report, Service Proposals, Service Invoices and, if you decide to share it, a job’s Work Record — delivered by email or as a web link.
Can I use it on a phone, and with no signal?
Frigalto opens in any web browser, on a phone, tablet or computer, so the record gets written at the unit itself. Saving an entry needs a connection; offline rounds in a plant room with no signal aren’t supported.
Which payment methods can my clients use?
Card online, plus the methods common in your country that you choose to accept — set once in your payment settings and printed on every Service Invoice.
Launch, trial and founding access
Is Frigalto live today?
Not yet; Frigalto is launching soon. Everything described here is what it is designed to do at launch, and each scene shows an invented client with sample data.
Will there be a free trial?
Yes. Once Frigalto launches, you can trial The Operation at no cost for 14 days — up to five users, 750 AI interactions, no credit card needed. Upgrading turns on live payments. If you use up the AI interactions, everything else in Frigalto carries on, and voice and commands return as soon as a plan is chosen. When the 14 days are over, the workspace can be viewed but not edited until a monthly or yearly plan is in place.
What will it cost?
The Specialist, The Operation or The Portfolio: three plans, monthly or yearly, each priced in your own country’s currency. The pricing page lists every plan for the market chosen in the header.
Does claiming early access commit me to anything?
No. After you confirm your address, launch news arrives by email, and you may unsubscribe whenever you like. No account gets created.
Which languages will it speak?
Like this site, Frigalto comes in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French.
Your details and your data
What details of mine are collected if I claim early access?
Just your name and work email, shared with your consent and handled as set out in the privacy notice. Before anything else goes out, a confirmation email verifies your address.
Who can see my firm’s records?
Only your firm and the teammates you invite. Clients see nothing except what you send them.
Frigalto records support refrigerant and maintenance record-keeping obligations. Frigalto does not issue EPA-608 or F-Gas certifications and does not verify operator-entered credentials.
Founding access
Still a question left? Start with founding access.
Founding access is open to commercial HVAC and refrigeration maintenance firms. Tell us about your service agreements, and the launch news reaches you first.
Launching with a 14-day free trial. No card needed.