10 beta seats · $99/mo locked for life

Your best advisor.
Every write-up.

Your veteran advisor catches what's due on every car. Your new hire just does what's asked. RO Engine closes that gap — automatically, on every repair order, for every advisor on your team.

No sales team, no demo script. You'd be talking to the guy who runs the shop it was built in.

AI Service Advisor Working
2019 Honda Accord EX-L
VIN ····8821 · last visit 11 months ago
87,432
miles
Checking the maintenance schedule and this car's history…
Transmission Fluid
27,432 miles overdue. Old fluid causes shift hesitation and early clutch wear.
$189
Brake Fluid Flush
Hit the 3-year mark. Moisture in the fluid lowers the boiling point — safety item.
$95
Spark Plugs
Iridium plugs due at 90K. She's 2,568 miles out — worth doing while it's here.
$145
Cabin Air Filter
8,000 miles since the last one.
$38
Recommended total$556
$199
per month, flat
54,823
OEM service intervals
6,900
customers migrated
10
beta seats
The advisor knowledge gap

Same car. Two advisors.
Huge difference.

A vehicle comes in for a routine oil change. Here's what happens depending on who writes it up.

MV
Your veteran advisor
8+ years on the counter
Oil & filter$89
Transmission fluid — overdue$189
Brake fluid flush — 3 yr$95
Spark plugs — due at 90K$145
Rear diff service$120
Cabin + engine filters$72
Deferred from last visit$137
Ticket written$847
NH
Your new hire
4 months on the counter
Oil & filter$89
Wiper blades$36
Transmission fluidmissed
Brake fluid flushmissed
Spark plugsmissed
Rear diff servicemissed
Deferred servicesnever surfaced
Ticket written$125
$722

missed on a single vehicle. Not because your new advisor isn't trying — because nobody handed him twelve years of pattern recognition on his first day. RO Engine does, on every RO.

Illustrative example using typical Northwest Arkansas labor and parts pricing, not a guaranteed result.

How it works

See it in action

The moment a vehicle is written up, RO Engine cross-references the manufacturer maintenance schedule, the vehicle's own history, and known failure patterns for that model.

AI Service Advisor

Every vehicle gets veteran-level recommendations. Consistent, every time, on every car.

  • Overdue services surfaced automatically
  • Deferred services remembered from prior visits
  • Customer explanation written in plain language
  • Parts and pricing populated instantly

AI Phone Answering

Included, not a $99 add-on — and it's wired into the repair order, not bolted on beside it.

  • Answers when the counter is buried
  • Takes vehicle and customer details
  • Call transcripts land on the customer record
  • Tone and personality you control

Digital Estimate Approval

Send the estimate, they approve it from the couch. No phone tag, and the answer is in writing.

  • Private link, no app and no login
  • Line-by-line approve or decline
  • Declines saved as deferred work for next visit
  • Approval timestamped on the RO

Parts & Purchase Orders

Order against the job, receive against the PO, and know what a ticket actually cost you.

  • Parts attached to the job that needs them
  • Purchase orders and receiving built in
  • Margin visible before the customer approves
  • Core charges and returns tracked
Pricing

One price.
Everything in it.

Most shop software puts the features you'd use every day behind a tier you have to upgrade into. We don't have tiers.

RO Engine
Everything, one price
$199
per month · unlimited users · no tiers · no add-ons
  • Work orders, invoicing, customers
  • Two-way texting with customers
  • AI service recommendations on every RO
  • AI phone answering, included
  • Digital estimate approval
  • 54,000+ OEM maintenance schedule entries
  • Deferred service memory across visits
  • Parts ordering and receiving
Tekmetric START
$199
per month · unlimited users · texting on a higher tier
  • Work orders, invoicing, customers
  • Two-way texting — SCALE, $439/mo
  • AI service recommendations on every RO
  • AI phone answering, included
  • Digital estimate approval
  • 54,000+ OEM maintenance schedule entries
  • Deferred service memory across visits
  • Parts ordering and receiving

Tekmetric plans and prices as published at tekmetric.com/pricing, August 2026: START $199, GROW $349, SCALE $439. Unlimited 2-way texting appears on SCALE. They're good software — we just don't think texting your customers is a premium feature.

$99
locked for life

The first 10 beta shops pay $99/month for as long as they stay — not $99 for a year, $99 permanently. In exchange you tell me what's broken and what's missing. I'm running this in my own shop every day, so I'll be fixing it either way.

6,900
customer records migrated off Shop-Ware
6,000
repair orders carried over with them
54,823
OEM maintenance schedule entries
1
real shop running it every single day

Those are our numbers, not an industry average. AutoHouse Automotive, Northwest Arkansas — six bays, three techs, and one service advisor who tells me immediately when something is annoying.

Built different

By a shop owner.
For shop owners.

RO Engine wasn't built by a software company that read about the auto repair industry. It was built by a working shop owner who ran his own custom management system for over a decade before building this one — and who still has to explain a $1,900 estimate to somebody every week.

  • Active shop owner, 13+ years on the floor
  • Built a custom shop management system in 2013
  • Every feature production-tested in a live shop
  • Northwest Arkansas — beta shops onboarding now
Claim a beta seat

Ten shops. Then the price goes up.

  • $99/month locked for life — not an intro rate
  • We migrate your customers, vehicles and history free
  • Live AI recommendations run on your actual vehicles
  • A straight answer about whether it fits your shop
  • Coming off Shop-Ware? We've already done that migration

No contract. No setup fee. Leave whenever you want.

I read these myself, usually same day. No sales sequence, no drip campaign, and your email doesn't go anywhere else.