For independent HVAC, plumbing, electrical & appliance-repair contractors on warranty networks
Get the authorization your work order actually earned.
Send us the work order number, your tech's photos, and the diagnosis notes. We send back a submitted, tracked authorization or appeal package — filed in American Home Shield's, Cinch's, or your warranty company's own contractor portal, followed to resolution. You never write the appeal yourself.
How a case moves
- Intake
- Evidence
- Review
- Submitted
- Resolved
If a case comes back under-authorized, it branches to Appeal before returning to Submitted.
Why this is worth fixing
The squeeze
The work order gets approved. The pay rate is the part that got cut.
Contractors working home warranty networks report a consistent pattern, regardless of which warranty company issued the work order — American Home Shield, Cinch, Choice Home Warranty, or another regional provider.
Negotiated-down pay rates
The approved labor and parts rate lands below what the diagnosed repair actually costs to perform.
Multi-week payment delays
Even authorized work orders can sit weeks before payment actually clears.
Forced band-aid repairs
Authorization comes back scope-limited to a temporary fix when the unit needs a full repair or replacement.
Mandated low-cost parts
The warranty company specifies the part, not the tech who's standing in front of the equipment.
Days-to-weeks approval waits
Work sits pending authorization before a truck can even be scheduled back out.
Some contractors just opt out
Enough licensed contractors avoid warranty-channel work entirely over this pattern that networks lose vendor capacity.
Source: Lee's Air, Plumbing and Heating (trade industry article on contractor experience with home warranty networks).
The Authorization Boost Package
One paid deliverable, per work order, tracked to resolution.
Not a dashboard you have to run yourself. A completed submission, filed and followed until the warranty company pays.
Evidence package assembly
Photos, meter and pressure readings, nameplate and serial data, code citations, and an itemized parts-and-labor cost benchmark — drafted from what your tech already captured.
Portal submission
Filed directly in the warranty company's own contractor portal, formatted to that company's completeness requirements — not emailed into a generic queue.
Tracking
Case status tracked from submission to resolution. You get an update when it moves, not a login you have to keep refreshing.
Appeal if needed
If the work order comes back under-authorized, scope-limited to a band-aid repair, or denied, we draft and file the structured appeal — you confirm before it goes in your name.
How it works
From work order to resolved case.
Work order in
You send the work order number, photos, tech notes, and any meter or pressure readings — however you already have them.
AI extraction & drafting
Data is pulled from your photos and notes into a draft evidence package, with parts-and-labor costs benchmarked against comparable jobs.
Completeness checklist
The draft is checked against that specific warranty company's own required fields and photo counts before a human ever reviews it.
Reviewer sign-off
A trade-qualified reviewer verifies technical accuracy and the cost benchmark. AuthLift drafts the package; your licensed tech's diagnosis and scope are what actually get attested.
Portal submission
Filed in the warranty company's contractor portal within 4 business hours of a complete case reaching the queue.
Tracking
Case status is tracked to resolution so you're not the one chasing the portal for an answer.
Appeal if under-authorized
If the authorization comes back short, scope-limited, or denied, we draft the appeal. You confirm before anything is filed in your name.
Resolution
The case closes when the warranty company pays. That's the only point the contingency fee is due.
Pricing
$25 flat intake, plus 28% of what we recover. Never hourly.
- $25 covers evidence-assembly cost regardless of outcome — due once, per case.
- 28% is charged only on the uplift: the dollar increase between the first offer and the final approved amount.
- Auto-Submit ($99–$249/mo by volume) is available once you've run 3+ successful Authorization Boost Package cases — it files every future work order automatically.
No recovery, no contingency fee
If AuthLift doesn't secure more than the warranty company's first offer, you owe only the $25 intake fee — nothing else. No hidden minimums, no hourly billing, no fee for a case that doesn't move the number.
The 28% rate is priced by analogy to adjacent recovery-desk work (freight detention recovery, distributor deduction recovery) — it is not a published home-warranty-industry benchmark, and we say so plainly.
Proof, as it happens
We haven't run a case yet, so we're not inventing one.
No client names, no dollar figures, no star ratings until they're real. These slots fill in once actual cases resolve.
Average uplift secured and cycle time will appear here once the first pilot cohort of independent HVAC contractors closes its first cases.
Contractor names, work order outcomes, and any quotes will only be published with that contractor's explicit permission, after the case has actually resolved.
FAQ
What contractors actually ask before signing up.
Is this legal? Will my warranty company retaliate against me?
What if you don't get me more money?
Do I have to give you my portal login?
What trades do you cover?
How fast is this?
Compliance
Where the line sits.
AuthLift is not a law firm, insurance adjuster, or public adjuster and does not provide legal advice; all technical repair determinations remain those of the contractor's licensed personnel.
Home warranty companies are regulated as "home protection contracts" by the California Department of Insurance (Insurance Code Part 7) in California, and under the Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1304 via TDLR in Texas. AuthLift itself is not a service-contract provider and does not hold or need that registration: it prepares documentation on behalf of the contractor-vendor requesting fair payment, not the consumer or policyholder.
A trade-qualified reviewer verifies technical accuracy and cost benchmarks before any evidence package is submitted, and you confirm before any appeal is filed in your name. The underlying repair diagnosis, code citations, and recommended scope always remain attested by your own licensed tradespeople — AuthLift drafts, your license backs the technical claim.
Free Authorization Audit
Send one recent underpaid or denied work order. Get a gap analysis in 24 hours.
No cost, no obligation, no card. Three fields — that's it.
[PLACEHOLDER] First-cohort authorization-uplift rate — our contingency is 28% of the uplift secured above the warranty company's initial offer. The real measured uplift appears here once the first pilot contractors complete a cycle.
[PLACEHOLDER] First contractor reference — added only with a named pilot contractor's written permission. AuthLift never invents a testimonial or a contractor name.
[PLACEHOLDER] Total authorization dollars secured to date — a live, auditable figure once real uplifts have been paid, never estimated.