AI dashboards, automations and websites for independent garages and bodyshops.

Working with the motor trade

Three ramps full, and the phone ringing off the hook.

Most independent automotive businesses in the UK are two to twelve people: an owner who is still the best technician on the floor, a couple of techs, someone on the front desk if you are lucky, and a whiteboard that runs the week. Work comes in by phone, by walk-in and by habit, and it gets quoted, authorised and invoiced across the counter between jobs, with the details living in the owner's head.

The leaks are the same in every workshop. Bookings ring in during the busiest hour of the morning, when nobody can get to the phone. MOT and service due dates are not tracked, so last year's customers quietly drift to the chain down the road that texted them. Quotes and work authorisations happen on the phone with nothing written down, so the conversation at collection is your word against theirs. Parts get ordered from memory, and the wrong one comes back. Courtesy cars and collections are juggled on the whiteboard. Invoices are raised at collection and nobody ever asks for the review. A three-ramp independent garage and a bodyshop handling insurance work have the same problem: the person fixing the cars is also the only person running the business.

We fix that with three things, built around how your workshop already runs. A dashboard that shows every booking, job card, authorisation, courtesy car and invoice on one screen, from the front desk or your phone. Automations that text MOT and service reminders when they fall due, confirm bookings and remind customers about drop-off, draft quotes and work authorisation requests with photos from the ramp for you to approve, send a "your car is ready" message the moment the job is done, ask happy customers for a review, and put a weekly bays-and-revenue report in your inbox. AI drafts the words; you check them before they go. And a website that ranks for the searches drivers in your area actually make, with online booking that lands straight in the diary rather than in a voicemail.

It starts with a Discovery Day on site: a working day in the workshop and at the counter, watching how bookings arrive, how jobs get authorised and where they slip. Within three working days you get a plain-English report of what we would fix first, each item with a fixed price and no obligation to build any of it.