Weekly Update #57: K&D's 300% Maintenance Sales Jump and the 54% AI Adoption Gap
On this Weekly Update of Trades Talk, Justin White unpacks the 300 percent year over year jump in K&D maintenance sales, the Service Titan State of AI Survey that every trades operator should have on their desk, and why quality of AI output now matters more than quantity.
Justin also digs into the AI headlines that actually matter (local models running on the iPhone, Anthropic's race to a $3 trillion IPO, Claude Cowork on mobile), calls out the ones that are just noise, and gets on the soapbox about the AI-generated marketing garbage flooding trades inboxes.
In this episode, we cover:
The K&D…
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