Tim Tesluck: Building an AI Back Office for the Trades

Every trade business runs on two jobs at once. There is the work: the leaking pipe, the failed compressor, the wiring that needs a careful hand. Then there is the paperwork: the quotes, the scheduling, the invoices, the follow-up calls that pile up long after the tools are packed away. For decades, the small crew of one or two carried both loads with no help. Tim Tesluck, CEO & Co-Founder of Mr. Task, is convinced that the second job is about to disappear.

The People the Software Industry Ignored

Tesluck is a second-time founder and a former software engineer. He built Mr. Task for a customer the technology world had largely overlooked: the local tradesperson who keeps homes running. Handymen, plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, and more than twenty-five other trades now run their entire operation from a single app.

The idea was simple and, in its way, radical. The enterprise platforms reserved their real operational firepower for hundred-truck companies. A two-person crew could not afford that software, and often could not use it. Tesluck wanted to hand the small operator the same capability, starting at twenty dollars a month.

Mr. Task was spun out of Field Complete, the company where Tesluck first sharpened the product. Today the platform covers scheduling, dispatching, estimates, invoicing, payments, GPS tracking, and customer management. It is, in the company's own phrase, "More jobs. Less paperwork."

Software, Work, and Now the AI Back Office

Tesluck describes the company's arc in three acts. First, Mr. Task gave contractors the software. Then it gave them the work. Now it is building them an AI back office. Headquartered in Atlanta, the platform has processed more than one million work orders for over three thousand contractors.

The forward-looking act is the one that animates Tesluck most. Mr. Task is building an AI back office that quotes, schedules, invoices, and follows up, so a two-person shop can run as if it had office staff. The premise reframes what small contractors have always lacked.

"Small contractors were never worse at business than the big guys," Tesluck says. "They just never had the staff. Now AI is the staff."

He is careful about what changes and what does not. The work itself stays human. The administrative drag is what technology can lift.

"AI won't replace the tradespeople," Tesluck says, "but it will replace the hold music."

The result, he argues, is measurable. Every trade business carries two jobs, the work and the paperwork, and Tesluck believes the second one is on its way out.

"Every trade business has two jobs," he says. "The work and the paperwork. AI is deleting the second one."

Our Own Toughest Customer

Most software companies sell tools they never touch. Tesluck built a different arrangement. He is co-founder of R10K Capital, a residential value-add fund in metro Atlanta that turns distressed homes into affordable housing. Every one of those jobs runs on Mr. Task.

That is the heart of the story, and Tesluck returns to it deliberately. The founders operate their own capital, properties, and crews on the same product they sell. When something in the workflow breaks, they feel it first. When something works, they have already proven it on their own portfolio.

This is the differentiator that separates Mr. Task from the larger platforms. The big players serve big companies. Mr. Task serves the crew of one or two, at a price they can actually afford. It also brings contractors jobs, not just tools to manage them. And it holds itself to a standard few competitors can claim: it is its own toughest customer.

What the Operators Report

The numbers from the field point in one direction. Operators report doubling their weekly job volume, from roughly ten jobs to twenty, with the same staff, simply by cutting the manual admin work. One operator moved intake, scheduling, and invoicing onto Mr. Task and doubled weekly volume without adding a single person.

The reviews echo the pattern. On Capterra, where the product is listed under its original name, users describe a short path to real use.

"We got through the learning curve almost immediately," writes Jimmy A., a project manager. "I was surprised how quickly we started using at a high scale."

Selene G., a general manager, puts it plainly: "Allows me to manage everything from one platform instead of the old messy way."

That phrase, "instead of the old messy way," captures the promise. The messy way is the second job. It is the shoebox of receipts, the missed callback, the estimate scrawled on the back of an invoice. Mr. Task exists to retire it.

The Founder Behind the Bet

Beyond Mr. Task, Tesluck is an angel investor in more than ten startups, working alongside firms such as Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and Foundation Capital. He advises founders from first scale through exit, which gives him a wide view of what makes a company durable.

Mr. Task itself is backed by Notation Capital, Wonder Ventures, and other leading investors, including Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer. That confidence rests on a thesis that is easy to state and hard to execute: give millions of small trade businesses the operational muscle that scale used to require, and the market will follow.

Tesluck is building for a future that arrives one crew at a time. When AI handles the admin, the calculus shifts for every small operator. The plumber spends more hours on the work and fewer on the phone. The electrician quotes faster and invoices the moment the job ends. The handyman running solo suddenly competes on service with companies ten times the size.

None of this replaces skill. It removes the tax on it. That distinction, more than any single feature, defines what Tesluck is building.

Tim Tesluck Named Best AI Entrepreneur In Atlanta

Tim Tesluck, CEO and Co Founder of Mr. Task, has been recognized as Best AI Entrepreneur in Home Services in Atlanta of 2026 by Best of Best Review. The award recognizes Tesluck's practical approach to artificial intelligence, his focus on independent contractors and small trade businesses, and the measurable impact of Mr.

See What Mr. Task Can Do

If a small trade business is losing evenings to paperwork, Mr. Task was built for that need. Explore the field service management software that already runs more than one million work orders, then start a free trial and put scheduling, invoicing, and follow-up in one place. See why contractors describe the switch as leaving "the old messy way" behind, and give the crew the back office it never had. Connect with Mr. Task, Tim Tesluck on LinkedIn, his personal site, the Apple App Store, and Google Play.