Union electrician’s app says 70% don’t need panel upgrades
IBEW Master Electrician Jason Walls posted an NEC 220.82 load‑calculation app that he says shows roughly 70% of homes don’t need costly panel upgrades for EV charging — the post was widely reshared, including by Mark Cuban, and Walls says he’s applied to Shark Tank as interest mounts (x.com). He also highlighted tradespeople using AI (Claude) to build tools without coding, framing the movement as trades-led innovation rather than disruption (x.com).
ChargeRight’s website says the service automates NEC Article 220.82 load calculations, produces a PDF assessment from a homeowner’s panel photos, and offers paid reports alongside a free “Driving Calc” tool. The founder is listed as Jason Walls, an IBEW Local 369 master electrician who notes more than 10,000 hours of field experience and EVITP certification on the ChargeRight “About” page. Multiple business outlets reported that Mark Cuban reposted Walls’ post about the project while running a broader thread on surging new business formation and AI lowering startup costs. (benzinga.com) Coverage framing ChargeRight as a low-cost first-step for homeowners contrasted the $12.99 report price with commonly cited full-panel upgrade ranges of roughly $3,000–$5,000 in industry reporting. (ainvest.com) Walls has described building the app without formal coding by prompting Anthropic’s Claude to implement NEC logic, and third-party posts and forum mirrors reproduce his account of turning those prompts into Stripe payments and PDF report generation in about six months. (opposite-lock.com) Social clips and short-form videos circulating this week reproduce Walls’ claim that he has submitted a Shark Tank application, and ABC’s Shark Tank site confirms producers accept online applications through the show’s portal. (youtube.com; abc.com/shows/shark-tank/open-call)
