The senior tech in every truck.
What it would look like if an apprentice in the cab could key the mic, ask "MyCom screw compressor, slide valve hunting, where do I check first," and get the right manual page in three seconds.
For Peter "Pete" McCauley · 27 May 2026
Hi, Pete.
Sit down for a minute. Jane is here — a calm voice from the same ITernative team that already runs Lo-Temp's IT. No slides. No pitch. Nothing to sign. Just a real conversation about what AI actually means for the trade you have built — the refrigeration work, your design know-how, the school idea, the field-assistant idea.
Headphones or a quiet room help. There is no clock running.
Things worth talking about
Open with whatever you want. If you would rather have a starting point, here are three threads Jane is ready for.
Thirty years of know-how, preserved.
Disney walk-ins, ammonia food-plant builds, Hoshizaki quirks — the kind of judgment that lives in your head and in scattered job folders. How that becomes a real, structured library before the trade loses it.
Where commercial refrigeration is actually going.
IoT sensors that flag a failing compressor two months out. The R-290 transition. Trane's AI Tech Assistant just shipping. What's real this year, what's noise, what fits Lo-Temp.
“ AI is the muscle and the memory. The mind, the trust, the trade — those stay with Pete and his people. ”