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AI for

Auto Repair Shops

Two stories reach the bay: the trade is finished, or none of it matters. This book is about the third one — the writing that piles up between the car and the customer.

Ebook $7.99 · Audiobook $14.99 · instant download · no DRM

eleven hours
a week.

That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4Writing estimates and translating tech findings~3 hours
  • Chapter 5Status updates, approval requests, the phone that never stops~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Invoices, warranty claims, fleet billing, payment chasing~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Review responses and complaint letters~1 hour
  • Chapter 8RO notes, TSB reading, customer explanations~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9Marketing you keep putting off~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters, 150 copy-paste prompts, a glossary that assumes nothing, and a thirty-day plan to get there.

  1. Line illustration: a tortoise walking along with a turbocharger strapped to its shell 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: a kitchen egg timer connected to a car battery by a pair of jump leads 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a megaphone plugged into a car's diagnostic port connector 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: a clipboard from which an enormously long estimate unrolls into a heap on the floor 04 Estimates That Get Approved
  5. Line illustration: one telephone base that has sprouted six handsets on tangled cords 05 The Front Counter That Never Goes Quiet
  6. Line illustration: a pen standing upright with no hand holding it, writing on an invoice pad by itself 06 Money Paperwork That Writes Itself
  7. Line illustration: one oversized star resting on the roof of a small car, its suspension compressed 07 Reviews, Complaints, and Your Shop’s Name
  8. Line illustration: an open toolbox containing a smaller toolbox, with a lightbulb inside that 08 On the Job — The Second Brain Behind the Counter
  9. Line illustration: a large magnet at a garage door drawing a queue of small cars toward it 09 Getting Cars in the Bays
  10. Line illustration: a rulebook clamped tight in the jaws of a bench vice 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a multi-tool fanned open, its blades all garage tools except one small keyboard 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: a calendar page torn off and folded into a paper aeroplane, flying away 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,194 words First, About the Robot in the Bay About 10 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for auto repair shops The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [N]-bay independent auto repair shop in [CITY, STATE] called [SHOP NAME]. We work on [ALL MAKES / SPECIALTY]. Typical work: [YOUR TOP 5 — e.g., brakes, diagnostics, suspension, scheduled maintenance, AC]. When I ask you to write anything customer-facing, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level, and never talk down to the customer. When I ask for an estimate or price, always leave the numbers as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you. Never state that a repair is safe, guaranteed, or complete unless I said so.”

One of 150 in AI for Auto Repair Shops.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

Line illustration: a single paperback standing in an open postal box exactly its own size
Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 1057 KB · about 30,940 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-411-7
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 35m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-412-4
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, First, About the Robot in the Bay, free: 2,194 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Estimates & Service Writing (16–40), Customer Communication (41–65), Money & Paperwork (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,940 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 35m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-411-7; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-412-4. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.

AI on the Job: Auto Repair Shops Edition · page one

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