SkillCat
Training and certification app for HVAC and appliance repair technicians
Polygrade integrates with SkillCat to check technician certifications before dispatch. SkillCat is a training and certification app for skilled trades, HVAC, appliance repair, and EPA 608 certification among them, used by more than 500,000 technicians. Polygrade reads a technician's SkillCat record to match the right technician to a job.
SkillCat is a training and certification app for skilled trades, HVAC, appliance repair, and EPA 608 certification among them, used by more than 500,000 technicians. For Polygrade, SkillCat is a record of what a technician is certified and trained to do, not a system that holds claim data.
What Polygrade does with SkillCat
When a claim is ready for dispatch, Polygrade can check a technician’s certifications and completed training in SkillCat against what the job requires, an EPA 608 certification for refrigerant work, for example, before assigning the job.
Where a technician hasn’t completed the training a job calls for, Polygrade can flag the gap or route the job to someone who has, rather than dispatching a truck roll that stalls once the technician arrives.
Polygrade logs which certification or training record supported a given dispatch decision, so the assignment is traceable back to the qualification that justified it.
How the SkillCat connection works
SkillCat tracks certification and course completion at the technician level, which is where Polygrade reads training status.
Where SkillCat doesn’t expose a field Polygrade needs, a Forward Deployed Engineer builds the mapping during deployment so certification checks run automatically as part of dispatch.
What stays with SkillCat
Course content, certification issuance, and technician training records stay entirely with SkillCat. Polygrade doesn’t train or certify anyone, it reads the record SkillCat already keeps.
Data handling and security
Certification data pulled from SkillCat runs on a company-specific Polygrade instance, one client’s technician records are never accessible to another. Polygrade is SOC 2 compliant, with both Type I and Type II audits complete.
Every dispatch decision that relies on a SkillCat certification check is logged alongside the specific record it drew from.
Deploying the integration
A dedicated Forward Deployed Engineer sets up the SkillCat connection to match which certifications matter for which job types in your dispatch rules.
Frequently asked questions about Polygrade and SkillCat
Does Polygrade replace SkillCat?
No. SkillCat continues to train and certify technicians exactly as it does today; Polygrade reads that record to inform dispatch.
How does Polygrade connect to SkillCat?
Polygrade reads certification and course completion status that SkillCat tracks at the technician level. Where no interface exists, a Forward Deployed Engineer builds the connector during deployment.
Does Polygrade require every technician to use SkillCat?
No. Certification checks against SkillCat apply to technicians whose training is tracked there; the underlying dispatch rules still apply to your full workforce.
