It started with a P&L that did not add up.
An independent shop in western Iowa ran the numbers before a bank meeting. Thirty thousand dollars of parts through the door. Thirty five thousand in revenue. Negative twenty five hundred for the year.
Two things were wrong, and neither was the work.
"There was a job the other day, I timed myself. It was a three and a half hour job and I would have had it done in two. I would have just banked an hour and a half. How many times does this happen?"
Shop owner, August 2026
He was billing what the clock said instead of what the job was worth. And he was passing parts through at close to cost, because there was no system telling him not to.
The fix he was looking at was a five hundred dollar flat rate binder. Paper, no prices, no math, and someone else's times for someone else's shop.
We built this instead.