Chris Sears
Chris Sears has spent most of his career learning whatever the work in front of him required.
He started in commercial construction at eighteen and moved into supervision early. From there he spent years in low-voltage and life-safety systems — fire alarm, security, access control, video, and the kind of work where a problem in the field has to be solved before everyone can go home.
When those systems began moving onto IP networks, Chris didn’t come from an IT background. He taught himself networking because the job required it. That eventually led to enterprise network-integration work, including helping define a structured VLAN and IP-addressing approach for a major national account.
In 2020, Chris moved full-time into Aquatrace Swimming Pool Leak Detection.
Running a field-service company gave him a different kind of technical problem.
There were missed calls.
Schedules changed.
Client information had to be entered again.
Photos lived in one place.
Jobs lived somewhere else.
Quotes, visits, invoices, messages, and field notes all had their own little corners of the business.
And at the end of the day, the owner was still the person trying to remember how everything connected.
Chris didn’t originally set out to build a software company.
He started trying to build a better system for Aquatrace.
That project became NexTeam.
NexTeam is being built from the perspective of someone who has actually run the truck, talked to the Client, scheduled the visit, done the field work, documented the job, sent the invoice, and dealt with all of the little pieces that existing software is supposed to make easier.
The goal is not technology for the sake of technology.
The goal is simple:
make running a field-service business feel less like holding ten different systems together in your head.