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Company

Company overview

ServiceTitan helps contractors manage work on homes and commercial buildings, from taking a customer’s call and preparing an estimate to dispatching technicians, invoicing and collecting payment. Its customers range from family-owned firms to large businesses and franchise groups, principally in the United States and Canada.

Almost all revenue comes from its software platform. Customers pay for Core subscriptions and can add Pro products and FinTech services. Subscription prices generally reflect the features included and the customer’s number of field technicians. For payments and consumer financing, ServiceTitan connects contractors to third-party providers rather than supplying the financing itself, and earns fees based on the transactions those providers handle.

Revenue depends on customers retaining the software, adding technicians, adopting more products and routing more business through the platform. That ties ServiceTitan to demand for its customers’ services and their ability to staff and complete jobs. The platform runs primarily on Microsoft Azure, while its payment services depend on outside processors. Those services must comply with financial regulations and payment-card rules; noncompliance can cost ServiceTitan the ability to offer payment solutions.

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  • Customer

ServiceTitan’s results hinge on trades businesses’ technician counts and invoiced work volumes, making specialists HouseCall Pro, Jobber and BuildOps closer competitive comparisons than most broad software companies.

  • Salesforce competes with ServiceTitan for trades businesses’ spending on software that manages customer relationships and field-service work. Salesforce sells subscriptions across almost every industry, so its news about winning trades customers is more relevant to ServiceTitan than its company-wide growth.

  • Procore and ServiceTitan both earn subscription revenue tied to contractors’ work volumes and software adoption: Procore manages construction projects, while ServiceTitan runs trades businesses’ workflows. Watch the annual dollar volume of construction work customers contract to run on Procore and the products they buy, rather than treating that volume as equivalent to invoices issued through ServiceTitan.

  • SAP’s business-management software competes with ServiceTitan’s platform for running trades businesses, giving those customers an alternative to its industry-focused tools. SAP earns money from business customers through cloud subscriptions, software licenses and services; its cloud application and integration developments are the relevant competitive news to watch.

  • ServiceTitan depends on Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure to host most of its platform and on Microsoft’s machine-learning technology for its AI solutions. Azure outages or price increases, and changes in access to that AI technology, can affect the service ServiceTitan delivers to trades businesses and its costs.

Agenda

in 8 daysWed, Oct 28

  1. Time to be announced

    Microsoft Corp earningsMSFT

    ServiceTitan relies on Microsoft Azure to host its platform, so Microsoft's report offers a read on the cloud infrastructure behind the service it delivers to trades businesses.

in 14 daysTue, Nov 3

  1. Time to be announced

    Procore Technologies, Inc. earningsPCOR

    Procore manages construction projects, and its report will show whether construction customers are taking on more work and buying more software—a demand signal for the new-construction trades businesses ServiceTitan serves.

in 43 daysWed, Dec 2

  1. Time to be announced

    Salesforce, Inc. earningsCRM

    Salesforce also sells customer-management and field-service software to trades businesses, so its report can show whether it is winning customers and software spending that ServiceTitan competes for.

in 44 daysThu, Dec 3

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    ServiceTitan, Inc. earningsThis company

    ServiceTitan earns subscription and transaction-based revenue from trades businesses, and this report will show whether more customer activity is turning into more platform revenue.