Advanced Training HVACR (ATH) is a wholly-owned business unit of Torus LLC, founded January 2026 to address one of the most acute supply-side gaps in the US economy: skilled trades. The construction industry posts roughly four times more skilled-trades positions than apprentices entering the workforce annually. ATH was built to fix the funnel — from day-one apprentice to franchise operator.
One in three skilled-trades workers is over the age of 50. The retirement cliff is here. Meanwhile, traditional trade schools have not scaled their throughput, and online training providers have largely substituted videos for instruction without changing the underlying pedagogy.
ATH inverts the model. Every trainee gets a dedicated AI Sensei — a domain-trained tutor specialized in one trade — that runs unlimited Socratic-style diagnostic drills, references manufacturer service literature by model number, surfaces relevant code citations, and ladders the trainee through certification milestones at the trainee's own pace.
This works because trades knowledge has structure: codes are codified, equipment is enumerable, fault patterns are diagnosable. AI is well-suited to teach a system with hard constraints. Consumer-chatbot hallucination tolerance does not apply when wiring a 480V three-phase disconnect.
Torus LLC is a Nevada-registered management-consulting holding company building vertical AI SaaS for regulated and trades-driven small and mid-sized businesses. Sister product: AI Maestro Cloud — the compliance-aware multi-agent orchestration layer that powers ATH's operational backend and ships bundled with future franchisee units.
Skilled-trades demand-to-supply ratio (US, 2026). 600K jobs posted vs ~150K new apprentices entering annually.
Of construction firms can't find qualified hourly craft workers (AGC 2026 Workforce Survey).
Of US skilled-trades workforce is over the age of 50 — retirement cliff incoming.
HVAC training market size by 2026 (CAGR ~6.8%). Refrigerant transitions drive demand.
Apprentice tier is free. Sign in with Google, pick your trade, and the AI Sensei is waiting.