Free for TCAT graduates: get your trade business found

If you graduated from a Tennessee College of Applied Technology and run a trade business, AssistAnt lists it free, builds you a free website, checks every month whether AI assistants recommend you, and shows a TCAT Trained badge on your profile once we see your certificate. The directory lists more than 10,000 businesses in Tennessee and about 470,000 nationwide across 29 trades. No business can pay to rank higher.

Find and claim your business

Why a TCAT page

In 2017, at 40, Teddy Pivacek, an appliance repair shop owner in Antioch, Tennessee, went back to school. His 18-year-old son Anthony told him, “You never went to school for this. If you go, I go.” They took night classes in the HVAC program at TCAT Murfreesboro, and both graduated in 2018.

Asked to write what he’d do after, Teddy wrote that he’d “give everybody a better place to work, a better opportunity.”

In July 2024, Anthony “Ant” Pivacek was killed by a wrong-way drunk driver. AssistAnt is named for Ant. Every business that joins is part of Ant’s Colony. Read Ant’s story.

What every TCAT graduate gets, free

• Your business listed in the AssistAnt directory, where homeowners and AI assistants look for local pros.
• A free website at yourname.assistant247.net, built from your listing and edited by you.
• A free AI check every month: we ask ChatGPT and Claude who they’d recommend in your town and show you whether you’re named and what to fix.
• A fair spot. Nobody can pay to rank higher, pay to be verified, or pay to hide a competitor.
• The TCAT Trained badge on your profile, once we’ve seen your certificate or diploma.

The listing, website and AI check are free for every business on AssistAnt. The badge is for TCAT graduates.

How to claim it

1. Search for your business by phone number or name.
2. Tap Yes, this is my business, then open I’m a TCAT graduate: pick your campus, program and year, and add a photo of your certificate or diploma. Finished at a campus that has since merged? Type its name.
3. We call your business at its listed number to confirm, check the certificate, and turn on your badge.

Not listed yet? A way to add a business is coming soon. Until then, claim your listing when you open.

Verified TCAT graduates on AssistAnt (1)

• TN Appliance ExchangeAntioch, TN · TCAT graduate · Murfreesboro · HVAC · 2018

So far that’s the shop that started this. Yours could be next. Only graduates whose certificate we have seen are listed here.

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Questions

Is the AssistAnt directory really free for TCAT graduates?

Yes. The listing, a free website at yourname.assistant247.net, and a monthly free AI check are free for every business on AssistAnt, and no business can pay to rank higher. TCAT graduates also get the TCAT Trained badge, free.

How does a TCAT graduate get the TCAT Trained badge?

Find your business on AssistAnt, claim it, and fill in the TCAT section: campus, program, year, and a photo of your certificate or diploma. A person at AssistAnt checks it. The badge shows on your profile only after we have seen the certificate.

What if my business is not listed on AssistAnt yet?

Search first: the directory lists more than 470,000 local businesses across 29 trades, including more than 10,000 in Tennessee. If yours is not there yet, a way to add a business is coming soon; claim your listing when you open.

Is AssistAnt part of TCAT?

No. AssistAnt is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology or the Tennessee Board of Regents. It was started by Teddy Pivacek, a TCAT Murfreesboro graduate, and named for his son Anthony "Ant" Pivacek, who graduated with him.

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Built by an appliance man from Tennessee, carrying out his and his son's goals. If you learned your trade at a TCAT, this is for you.

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