AI for body shopsLima, Ohio & Allen County
AI for estimate calls and the status question every customer asks.
“When will my car be done?” answered on your line, so your estimator can keep writing estimates.
Two conversations run your day: the estimate at the front, and “when will my car be done” repeated for every car in the shop.
Collision work runs on two conversations: the estimate at the front and the status update in the middle. The second one repeats every day for every car in your shop.
We put an agent on your line to handle status and estimate scheduling, and track each repair order so the customer hears about a parts delay from you instead of asking about it.
Customers call constantly for status updates on cars in the shop.
Estimate appointments compete with insurance calls for the same person's time.
Parts delays turn into a wave of calls nobody has time to make.
What the research says about businesses like yours
Published studies, not our marketing. Every source is linked.
Responding to a new inquiry within five minutes made contact 100 times more likely than waiting thirty minutes, and made the lead 21 times more likely to enter the sales process at all.
MIT Sloan / Lead Response Management study, 2007Dr. James Oldroyd; 15,000+ leads and 100,000+ call attempts across six companies68% of consumers say they'll only use a business rated four stars or higher — up from 55% a year earlier. Nearly a third now hold out for 4.5+.
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026Annual survey of U.S. consumers on local-business review behavior97% of consumers read reviews for local businesses, and 41% say they always check them before choosing where to go.
BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026Annual survey of U.S. consumers on local-business review behaviorBusinesses that got back to a new inquiry within an hour were nearly seven times more likely to qualify that lead than businesses that responded even an hour after that — and more than sixty times more likely than the ones who waited a day.
Harvard Business Review, 2011Audit of 2,241 U.S. companies' response timesEvery service, and what it changes for body shops
Start with one. The ones marked below are where most body shops see the fastest return — but they all work on the same operation.
Phone Agent
The status call, handled
The agent answers “is my car ready” and books estimate appointments, so your writer keeps writing instead of repeating himself.
- Callers hear a friendly greeting in your voice, day or night
- New leads are captured with name, number, and what they need
- Every call shows up as a transcript you can read later
Custom CRM
Every RO and where it stands
Which cars are waiting on parts, which are in paint, which are ready — visible without walking the shop.
- Stop losing leads in spreadsheets, sticky notes, and inboxes
- See every deal and where it stands at a glance
- Built to match your steps, so your team actually uses it
Website
Insurance work, made simple
Customers after a wreck want to know you handle their insurer, do it right, and can look at it today. Say that clearly.
- Loads fast and looks right on every phone
- Edit your own pages by clicking or speaking, no tech skills
- Stays current because you change it the moment something changes
Second Brain
Estimates, parts, and past repairs
What that panel cost, which supplier had it, what the supplement covered — answered without opening four systems.
- Stop digging through folders and old emails to find one detail
- Ask in plain words and get an answer in seconds
- Trust every answer because it shows the document it came from
Automated Social Media
Before-and-after is your best ad
A car that looked totaled and now looks new is exactly what someone deciding between shops needs to see.
- You stay active online without writing a single post yourself
- Posts sound like you, not like a generic ad
- A steady schedule keeps you in front of local customers
Outbound Caller
Proactive updates beat status calls
A scheduled update before the customer asks is the cheapest satisfaction gain a body shop can make.
- Old leads get followed up instead of quietly going cold
- Every call opens with what that person actually cared about
- Common objections get handled instead of ending the call
Cold Email Pipeline
Dealers, fleets, and agents
Steady volume comes from a handful of referral relationships. We repair deliverability so the outreach lands.
- Deliverability problems get found and fixed, not guessed at
- Your mailboxes get warmed to full sending capacity
- Your data flows into your sending tool automatically
The rest of what we build
Repair-order status, parts and supplement tracking, cycle-time reporting — built to how your shop actually moves cars.
Frequently asked questions
Can it give a real status update?+
If your status lives somewhere we can read, yes. Otherwise it takes the details and gets them to your service writer immediately.
Does it work with insurance-directed work?+
It handles the customer side. The insurer relationship stays exactly where it is.
Can it call customers proactively?+
Yes — a scheduled update before the customer has to ask is the single easiest way to raise satisfaction in a body shop.
Status calls stop consuming your estimator's day.
Status calls stop consuming your estimator's day.
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