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The Clearwater HVAC contract, and the grid it is graded on

The Clearwater HVAC contract runs ninety days against Advanced Cooling Systems, a Florida corporation filed on 3 October 2006 and reading ACTIVE, with twenty annual reports behind it and one named owner. A funded survey read the local pack at twenty-five points across the city on fifteen searches; on eight of them no other business takes more.

HVAC — the mark

Advanced Cooling Systems

Clearwater

Holds eight of the fifteen searches on the map grid, and is level rather than ahead on every one of them.

Open

Every reading on this page came from a public source that anyone can check. Each one names the register or platform it was read from, and the date it was read, in the list at the bottom.

One more reading belongs above the price rather than under it. The research behind this board carries a standing verdict of at-riskon this trade: when the domains returning on its fifteen searches were classified by owner, the head of the field belonged to private-equity groups, franchises or lead aggregators rather than to independents. The contract’s bar does not move — you beat the named target — but in this trade that is not the same as owning the field, and it belongs on the page with the price.

The searches they hold, and where they come back

The contract fixes fifteen searches in writing before any work starts — the ones somebody in Clearwater actually types when they need hvac. We read the local pack for each of them at twenty-five points spread across the city. This is where Advanced Cooling Systems takes a top-three place on the ones nobody takes more of, and who takes just as many. A reading says “6 of 25” because it counts map points, not a rank we can see inside Google.

Where Advanced Cooling Systems returns on the fifteen searches this contract tracks
The searchGrid points they holdWho matches them
HVAC Clearwater FL6 of 252 other firms
best HVAC in Clearwater6 of 252 other firms
HVAC company Clearwater Florida6 of 251 other firm
top rated HVAC Clearwater6 of 251 other firm
Who should I call for air conditioning repair in Clearwater, Florida?6 of 253 other firms
I need AC installation in Clearwater today — name specific companies.6 of 252 other firms
Which HVAC company in Clearwater, FL has the best reviews?6 of 251 other firm
Who is the most trusted HVAC business in Clearwater, FL?6 of 252 other firms

8 of the fifteen, read on August 2, 2026. A search counts here when no other business takes a top-three place across more of its twenty-five points. That is a lead, and on every row above it is a lead shared rather than a lead held alone — the column on the right says with how many. A reading on one day is a snapshot, not a trend, and nothing here claims a place holds tomorrow.

Who they are, on the record

Every line here is a filing the company made itself, read from the state’s own register rather than from a search result. Each read is dated in the source list at the bottom of this page. It is here because a contract names a company, and a company is whatever the register says it is.

Register

Advanced Cooling Systems

Name on the register
ADVANCED COOLING SYSTEMS INC., a Florida profit corporation
Document number
P06000126951
Date filed
3 October 2006
Status on the detail record
ACTIVE
Name history on the record
None
Officers named on the record
One, a natural person, holding both offices
Owning company named on the record
None — no officer row carries a document number
Most recent filing
Annual report, 2 March 2026
Annual reports on file
Twenty, one for every year since 2007
Years from that filing
19

Read from the register’s own detail pages, not from a search result. A found record is not an active record, and a status in a results list is not a status.

Why we are willing to name them

Naming a real company in public is a decision, not a flourish. Three things have to be true before a business appears on this board, and each one is a reading rather than an opinion. A business that fails any of them is not named, and the trade ships without a target — which has happened.

  1. Nobody bigger is standing behind them

    The corporation's officer block prints exactly one row, that row is a natural person, and the same individual is also the registered agent. No parent, no franchisor, no fund and no corporate agent appears anywhere on the filing, and no officer row carries a document number of its own. The manufacturer badge their site displays is a dealer accreditation any independent contractor can hold, and their own structured data names no parent organisation. One location. Read from the register's own detail record on 3 August 2026.

  2. The registration is live today, on the state's own record

    The detail record reads Status ACTIVE, and twenty annual reports sit on the filing history — one for every year since 2007, the most recent filed on 2 March 2026. This year's is already in, so this is not a shell coasting on an old status flag. That status came off the register's own detail page rather than a column in a results list, because a status printed in a list is not a status.

  3. Three independent records print the same address

    The corporation's principal address, the address in the business's own structured data, and the address on the listing profile the survey read are the same suite on the same street. The register names the same natural person as both officer and registered agent, and two separate state records for this trading name carry the same federal identifier as each other. On top of that the map grid and the assistant readings were collected by two independent instruments and place this business in the same band of the same market.

What their reviews say, and what they do not

Advanced Cooling Systems shows 830 reviews at 4.9 on Google, read from the profile itself by the funded survey. Read on 3 August 2026 from the business profile the survey resolved by place ID, to a depth of two hundred — the profile itself, not a directory's copy of one. It is the largest count this board publishes and it is a lifetime total on a single platform: it is not a sum across platforms, and a directory that transcribed roughly 782 for the same business was copying this platform rather than reading it. Different platforms count different people and no arithmetic joins them.

Every review figure on this site names the platform it came from, and every one of them was read from that platform rather than from a search result about it. Where a count is missing, it is missing because we could not read one we were willing to put a name to — not because there is nothing there.

What we are not claiming

Research turns up things that do not survive a second look, and things that are true but not ours to publish. Both are listed here, because a page that prints only the flattering half of its own evidence is a sales page, and this is supposed to be a record.

How quickly those reviews arrived, or how often the business replies to them.
The same read that produced the count produced both of those figures, and neither is published. A count is a position — the size of a reputation already built, which the business knows better than we do. How fast it is growing and how it is handled are operating facts about a company we are not working for, and this board does not print those about anybody. That holds here whichever way the numbers happen to fall.
That this business has been trading since 2000.
Their own site says so in four places. No Florida corporate filing supports it. A tenure figure on this board is the earliest Florida registration in a chain of entities linked by filings, and the only corporation under this name was filed on 3 October 2006, carries no name history and has no predecessor, so there is no chain to walk. Nineteen years is what a filing supports and nineteen is what we publish. Where a company's own account of its age and the register's disagree, this board publishes the register's, and it cuts in both directions — it would add years here if a filing existed to add them.
Anything about a state contractor licence, in either direction.
Their own website prints a licence number. We are not restating it, because a number a company publishes about itself is not a register reading, and every licence on this board is one we read at the authority that issues it. We tried to: two separate routes into the state licensing register returned no rows, and so did a control number that certainly exists — which means the route was not answering rather than that there was nothing to find. So their licensure is unavailable to us. Unavailable is not a finding, and this page does not say they are unlicensed, because we did not establish that either.
An ownership census of the businesses on this grid.
Eleven dossiers on this board publish one: who owns the domains competing for a trade's searches, sorted into directories, franchise brands, private-equity groups and independents. That census is a reading over a list of web results. This trade's fifteen were read on a map grid instead, which returns businesses and classifies nobody's owner, so there is no such reading to publish. The census this page carried until 3 August 2026 was taken over a search ladder run for a different company, and re-pointing it at this one would have been an invention.
How long this company's assets have been visible.
Eleven dossiers here carry a web-archive first-capture date. The one that stood on this page until 3 August 2026 was the first capture of the previous target's domain, and it belongs to that company rather than to this one. No archive reading was taken for this business, so there is none here and none is inferred from its absence. The register date beside it is a different observation and is not a substitute.
That the fifteen searches were read more than once.
They were read once — twenty-five grid points each on the map side on 2 August 2026, and three runs each on the answer side the following day. That is depth within a single collection rather than a second collection. Nothing here says a place moved, held, or is where they usually sit.
That every surface behind the answer readings was read.
The instrument now grades five assistant surfaces; this record was read under the four it named at the time. Three of those four returned readings and the fourth, hand-run, carries none — so the answer side holds three of the five surfaces the instrument now grades. It is stated here because a short reading must not pass as a complete one, and because a reader is entitled to know the shape of the instrument before the number.
That the counts on this page correct for a business appearing under two names.
Partly, and the part they do not is the part worth stating. Before anything is counted the survey resolves the two axes onto one set of names, and on this trade it joined ten of them — the assistants' "Bayside", "Bayside Heating & Air Conditioning" and "Bayside Heating and Air Conditioning" and the vendor's "Bayside Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc." are one business here rather than four, including the two that differ only in how they spell the ampersand. What it will not do is guess: 176 further name forms matched no single record cleanly, and those are counted exactly as they were read. A business sitting under two of those forms still has its readings split between them and each is understated. We publish the limit rather than presenting the arithmetic as tidier than it is, and it is the reason no figure here is offered as a market total.

How the Clearwater HVAC contract is measured, and on what instrument

Fifteen searches are named in the agreement before any work starts. Each was read in the Google local pack at twenty-five points spread across Clearwater on 2 August 2026, and separately put to three AI assistants three times each the next day. Both readings count cells, not ranks.

A grid point is a place on the map, not a person. Reading the local pack from twenty-five points across one city is how you tell a business that holds the pack across Clearwater from one that holds it on the block its office sits on. From a single reading the two look identical, and over ninety days they behave nothing alike.

The two axes stay separate because they are separate instruments. Three hundred and seventy-five map readings were accepted for this trade and one hundred and thirty-five answer readings across three assistant surfaces at three runs each. Neither is converted into the other, and neither is compared with the organic search ladder seven other trades on this board were read on — same fifteen strings, different rulers, and putting the two numbers side by side would show a reader a movement nobody measured.

That distinction is why this row changed hands on 3 August 2026. The contract is graded on beating a named business in the local pack across a majority of the fifteen, and the business named on this row before that date leads none of them. It is present on the grid — fourteen of the three hundred and seventy-five cells — but a term whose bar sits below where the market already is cannot be lost, and a term nobody can lose is not a term.

What the Clearwater HVAC local pack actually looks like

Seventy-three businesses take a top-three place somewhere on this grid, and none takes more than six of any single search's twenty-five points. Advanced Cooling Systems takes eighty-three of three hundred and seventy-five cells, second in the market, seven behind the leader.

The striking thing about this grid is how narrow the band is. On every one of the fifteen searches, Advanced Cooling Systems holds either six of the twenty-five points or five — never more, never fewer — and on every one of the fifteen the strongest showing by anybody is six. The whole difference between a search they hold and a search they miss is one grid point out of twenty-five.

That is a tighter market than the neighbouring roofing grid, where the same kind of reading put its target's misses as low as two points of twenty-five. Here there is no search anybody owns and no search this business is truly absent from. Eight of the fifteen fall on the near side of a one-cell line and seven fall on the far side of it.

On the eight listed above they are level with one to three other firms rather than ahead of them, and that is the reading that matters most to a buyer: the bar to clear on those eight is a tie, not a lead. Six is this market's ceiling rather than the instrument's — across the thirteen markets surveyed for this board the largest single-query showing observed anywhere is ten points of twenty-five.

How old Advanced Cooling Systems is on the Florida register

Advanced Cooling Systems Inc. is a Florida corporation, document P06000126951, filed on 3 October 2006 and reading ACTIVE with no name history. Measured from that filing the business is nineteen years old, and twenty annual reports sit behind it, one for every year since 2007.

The record is unusually clean. One officer, a natural person, holding both offices and also serving as the registered agent; no name history; no owning company on any row; and this year's annual report filed on 2 March. That is what the fair-fight gate turns on here, and it turns on a positive reading — a filing that names an individual and no corporation — rather than on our having found no parent.

Nineteen years is the number this page publishes, and it is the operating corporation's own age. A tenure figure here is the earliest Florida filing in a chain of entities linked by filings; this record has no chain to walk, no predecessor and no name history, so the one date is the whole answer.

There is one thing this page deliberately does not tell you, and it is worth saying why. Their website prints a state contractor licence number. We do not repeat it, because a number a company publishes about itself is not the same evidence as a number read off the register that issues it — and when we went to that register, two separate routes into it returned nothing, including for a licence we already knew was there. A route that answers nothing for a question with a known answer is not evidence of anything. So their licensure sits outside what this record can say, in either direction.

Where each of these came from

Every register and platform read for this page, with the date it was read. Follow any of them and you will land where we landed.

  1. Florida Division of CorporationsEntity detail record

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 3, 2026

  2. Advanced Cooling SystemsCompany homepage

    acs-advancedcooling.com · read August 3, 2026

  3. GoogleBusiness profile and reviews, resolved by place ID

    google.com · read August 3, 2026

What this contract costs, and why this number

The hvac contract is $10,300 for ninety days against Advanced Cooling Systems. Half is due on execution and half only if you finish ahead of them. The figure is measured rather than quoted: we survey this market across the AI assistants and the Google local pack, and the number tracks how much of both the strongest firm here already holds. It is an absolute reading rather than a place in a queue, so it does not move when another trade joins the board, and it is not pulled from a rate card.

How the result is measured, in full →Every published price →

Common questions

Why does the HVAC contract name Advanced Cooling Systems?
Because the survey measures this market and this is the business it returns. A funded reading of the local pack at twenty-five points across the city, on all fifteen contract searches, puts them second on the grid overall and level or better with everybody on eight of the fifteen. Three gates cleared first, each on a positive reading rather than an absence: a filing naming one individual owner and no parent, two separate state registers both reading live today, and four independent records printing the same address.
The company says it has been going since 2000. Why does this page say nineteen years?
Because nineteen is what a filing supports and 2000 is not. The only Florida corporation under this name was filed in October 2006, and it carries no name history and no predecessor, so there is no earlier record to reach back to. We publish the register's date rather than a company's own on every row of this board, and it cuts in both directions — it has more than halved a target's stated tenure elsewhere, and it would add years here if a filing existed to add them.
What does “six of twenty-five” mean on the HVAC searches?
It means the local pack for that search was read from twenty-five separate points spread across Clearwater, and on six of them this business came back in the top three. It is a count of places on a map, not a rank inside Google. Nobody outside a search engine can see a rank; anybody can stand in twenty-five places and look at what comes back.

Find out whether your territory is open

One contract per trade in Clearwater. If yours is open you can execute at the published price today; if a competitor already holds it, it is held until their ninety days are up.

The survey is credited in full against the contract if your territory opens and you take it.