FOUNDING DEALERS · NOW IN BETA

The dealership operating system built on the drive.

One system for the whole dealership — starting where the money is made. Run Auto Expert alongside your current DMS today, and replace it when the full platform ships. Built for single-rooftop and small-group dealers by a service manager who's still in the chair.

Built for the service drive. By someone who still works it.

app.theautoexpert.io — Service Board ● LIVE
Dashboard Tuesday · 11:42 AM
All Locations Service Parts Sales Body Shop
TODAY'S REVENUE
$8,240
LABOR EFFICIENCY
87%
OPEN ROs
14
AVG RO
$588
Dispatch 5
Carlos Martinez In bay
'22 Honda CR-V · Oil & filter · MPI
Bay 4 · D. Reyes
Tyler Williams Promised 3pm
'19 Ford F-150 · Brake job · rotate
Bay 1 · T. Nguyen
Needs parts 4
James Porter On order
'18 BMW 330i · Timing belt
Bay 6 · S. Park
Sarah Mitchell Quoted
'21 Audi Q5 · Front brakes
Bay 3 · M. Cole
Ready 5
Frank Nguyen Completed
'20 Toyota RAV4 · Recall 23V · MPI
Bay 7 · D. Reyes
Marcus Lee Ready
'19 Ram 1500 · 30k service
Bay 2 · S. Park
EVERYTHING IN YOUR PLAN · NO ADD-ONS, NO PER-MODULE UPSELLS
Anything tagged IN DEVELOPMENT is on the roadmap, not live yet — founding dealers get it first.
Payroll & Time Clock Employee Onboarding Employee Recognition & Rewards Digital F&I Menu Builder Digital ContractingIN DEV Digital Multi-Point Inspection Video Inspections Online Scheduling Recommendation Presenter Equity MiningIN DEV Vehicle Evaluation Recon Management Board Internal Team Messaging Drill Down AnalyticsIN DEV Cloud Based Storage Custom Client Loyalty ProgramIN DEV Payment ProcessingIN DEV Reputation ManagementIN DEV Route PlannerIN DEV Payroll & Time Clock Employee Onboarding Employee Recognition & Rewards Digital F&I Menu Builder Digital ContractingIN DEV Digital Multi-Point Inspection Video Inspections Online Scheduling Recommendation Presenter Equity MiningIN DEV Vehicle Evaluation Recon Management Board Internal Team Messaging Drill Down AnalyticsIN DEV Cloud Based Storage Custom Client Loyalty ProgramIN DEV Payment ProcessingIN DEV Reputation ManagementIN DEV Route PlannerIN DEV

You're bleeding money being
the integration layer.

Your CRM is bolted on. Your equity tool is another bill. Your scheduler, your texting, your MPI, your payroll, your training — all separate vendors, all separate logins, and your team is the integration layer holding it together. Meanwhile the work is walking out the door. The customers you worked hardest to earn are getting their service somewhere else.

Auto Expert is one system for the whole dealership, built to keep that work in your bays.

THE WEDGE

After 2024, "what if it goes down?" isn't a hypothetical.

In June 2024, a ransomware attack took roughly 15,000 dealerships offline for weeks. Dealers ran on pen and paper and lost an estimated $944 million in three weeks.

Your data should be yours, and you should be able to leave if you ever need to. Your records export anytime, they belong to you, and there's no five-year lock-in to trap you if we ever stop earning your business.

How we handle your data
Your data, exportable.
Anytime. No gatekeeping, no fee.
No five-year lock-in.
We earn the renewal every month.
Backed up. Failover ready.
Redundant backups and automatic failover. And if anything ever does go wrong, your data walks out with you — that's in the contract, not just on this page.

Every department. One platform.

Built natively for every corner of the dealership — not patched together from acquisitions. Service leads, because that's where it started.

Service

Visual service board & full RO management — where it all started.

AVAILABLE NOW

Sales

Leads, deals, desking and trade appraisals in one connected desk.

AVAILABLE NOW

Parts

Inventory, POs, and vendor management built for the back counter.

AVAILABLE NOW
Supplier catalog & electronic ordering in development.

F&I

Digital menu and lender submission, built for the box.

AVAILABLE NOW
Digital contracting & e-sign in development.

Body Shop

Estimates, ROs, and repair tracking from drop-off to delivery.

AVAILABLE NOW

Accounting

The books, reconciled to the work — no exports, no re-keying.

AVAILABLE NOW · BETA

Marketing

Campaigns, equity offers, and customer outreach that drive work back to your store.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Administration

Human Resources, IT, Facilities, and Compliance — the back office that keeps every department running.

AVAILABLE NOW

What ships today. And what's next.

We'd rather be straight with you than oversell. Here's exactly where the line is right now.

AVAILABLE TODAY
Live in the product right now.
  • Service driveScheduling, RO management, dispatch, cashier close-out, mobile
  • Digital MPI & video inspectionsTemplates, tech media capture, auto-fed recommendations
  • Sales, desking & F&ICRM, deals, trade appraisals, digital F&I menu, lender submission
  • Parts counterCatalog, pricing matrix, internal orders, vendor management
  • Body shopEstimates, stage board, supplements, repair tracking
  • Accounting & general ledgerGL, journal entries, financial statements, A/R, A/P, bank rec · beta
  • Payroll, time clock & HRPunches, payroll periods, ACH file, onboarding, reviews, PTO
  • Garage consumer appVehicles, service history, recalls, one-tap booking
  • Recon & loyalty setupRecon board with costs and stage history, loyalty program config
  • AI assistant & declined-work follow-upMiles, anomaly alerts, roleplay coaching · beta
IN DEVELOPMENT
Founding dealers first.
  • Customer texting (SMS)Threads are built; outbound sending wires in with the messaging ship
  • Live reporting & drill-down analyticsScreens are built; the live data layer is the next backend ship
  • Digital contracting & e-signNeeds a lender e-contracting and signature provider
  • Payment processingNeeds a card processor and text-to-pay
  • OEM warranty claim submissionNeeds per-OEM claim submission
  • Factory financial statementDepartmental statements are live; OEM line mapping is not
  • Supplier parts catalog & electronic orderingNeeds supplier catalog integrations
  • Equity miningNeeds vehicle and payoff data feeds
  • Reputation managementNeeds Google / DealerRater / Yelp APIs
  • Marketing campaignsNeeds the campaign and outreach backend
  • Route plannerNeeds routing, GPS and driver dispatch backend

Until warranty submission and the factory statement ship, you keep your current DMS for those two jobs — and run Auto Expert for everything your people actually touch all day. That's the point of dual-running: you get the drive today without betting your month-end on it.

Founding dealers are automatically first in line.

FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS · GARAGE APP

Give customers a reason to come back.

Garage is the consumer app that keeps your customers tied to your store — their vehicles, full service history, open recalls, and one-tap booking, all branded to your dealership. The work stays in your bays because the relationship lives in their pocket.

Service history & digital records, always in their pocket
Recall & maintenance alerts the moment they're due
Book straight into your service drive — one tap
In-app notifications and marketing

Included with every Auto Expert dealership — no extra app to buy.

9:41
Garage
Good morning, Sam
Your garage
2022 Honda CR-V
Service due
EX · 38,420 mi · VIN ···4821
UP NEXT
Recall 23V-456 safety recall · Open
Service Oil & filter · due in 320 mi
Book service
Garage
History
Dealers
Profile
Bode Manzitto, founder of Auto Expert, in the dealership
THE FOUNDER

Built by someone who's still in the chair.

I've spent fourteen years in this business — Honda detail bay to sales to service, now a service manager at Mazda. Most of those years I spent fighting the software that was supposed to help.

Every DMS on the market had its workflows built by people who haven't written an RO, haven't sold a car. They added features in a conference room. They don't know what 8am on a Saturday actually looks like.

So I'm building the one I always wanted — for the people who run the shop, not the people who buy software in a boardroom. In beta, with real dealers, right now.

BM
Bode Manzitto · Founder
Built on the drive.
Investing in Auto Expert
01
29%
Dealer share of service visits in 2025 — down from 33% in 2018.
Cox Automotive 2025 Service Study
02
55%
Of near-new vehicles come back to the dealer for service — down from 68%.
Cox Automotive 2025 Service Study
03
$944M
Direct dealer losses in three weeks during the 2024 DMS outage.
Anderson Economic Group
04
~50%
Of dealer gross profit comes from fixed ops — the department with the worst software.
Industry / NADA
WHERE WE'RE HEADED

A.I. where it counts — built in, not bolted on.

We use AI where it earns its place, and we're honest about what's live and what's coming. Because Auto Expert is built on modern architecture from day one, AI runs in the data layer instead of being stapled on top of a 30-year-old system. What we won't do is put a chatbot in the headline and call it the future.

Explore Auto Expert AI
IN BETA Miles, your in-app assistant
IN BETA Automated declined-work follow-up
IN BETA Anomaly alerts
IN BETA Customer roleplay & coaching

Honest pricing. No five-year contracts.

Founding dealers get founding pricing and a direct line to me. Real numbers, clear bands, no "call sales to find out."

See pricing

Want to be one of the first dealers on Auto Expert?

Founding pricing, direct access to the founder, and a real say in what gets built.