tekDrive AILive

Your advisor isn't guessing anymore.

The moment a customer hesitates, tekDrive AI is already loaded with the job, the vehicle, and the finding. It pulls the manufacturer spec, reframes the risk, and scripts the next line your advisor should say — in seconds.

RO Context
Vehicle
2019 Honda Pilot · 98k mi
Finding
Serpentine belt — glazed, cracks
OEM spec
Replace at 60k–100k mi
Customer
Says: “why is this urgent?”
Reading 6 sources · 0.8s
Live coach
Customer is asking why the belt is urgent.
OEM says replace between 60k–100k mi. At 98k with visible cracking, failure risk is real — and a snap disables power steering, A/C, and the water pump.
Say this
“Totally fair question. Honda recommends swapping this belt before 100k — you’re at 98. If it snaps, you lose your alternator, power steering, and A/C at once. We’d rather handle it now, on your schedule, than on the side of the road.”
Generated in 1.2s · en/es +25 pts close-rate lift
The “No” moment

42% of recommended work walks out the door.

Most advisors are flying blind after the customer says “no.” No playbook. No data pulled up. No way to re-open the conversation without sounding desperate. The sale dies in the silence.

Without a coach

Guess. Fumble. Lose the job.

  • Advisor reaches for the wrong number or no number at all
  • No OEM data to back the recommendation
  • No script — just vibes and pressure
  • Junior advisors freeze; senior ones wing it differently
  • The “no” stays a “no.”
~33% close rate industry average
With tekDrive AI

Data. Language. Confidence.

  • AI already has the job, the vehicle, and the finding loaded
  • OEM spec, risk, and history pulled in under a second
  • Next line scripted in plain customer language
  • Every advisor — new or tenured — gets the same playbook
  • The “no” becomes a conversation again.
58%+ close rate at pilot shops
How it works

Detect  →  Retrieve  →  Script.

Three stages. One advisor. The customer never knows the difference.

01
Detect

A hesitation signal.

Customer pushes back on a recommendation. Asks “why is this urgent?” Declines the pitch. Goes quiet. Your advisor flags the moment — or AI surfaces it automatically from the shared report engagement data.

02
Retrieve

The full context, in under a second.

RO findings with photos. Vehicle Carfax. Manufacturer spec intervals. Customer's prior objections and approvals. Shop-wide patterns on this exact failure mode. All loaded before your advisor finishes the sentence.

03
Script

The next line — in their language.

Plain, customer-friendly English or Spanish. Risk reframed around what they actually care about. No jargon, no pressure. The advisor hits send (or reads it aloud) and keeps the job alive.

Context window

It reads what your advisor would read — if they had an extra six hours.

tekDrive AI is not a general-purpose chatbot. Every response is grounded in live data from the repair order, the vehicle, the customer, and the shop. No hallucinated prices. No made-up service intervals.

Your data stays in your workspace. Never used to train outside models.
Reading now6 sources
01
Active RO
Tekmetric sync
02
Inspection findings
Photos + videos + tech notes
03
Vehicle history
Carfax + prior shop ROs
04
OEM service data
Manufacturer intervals & specs
05
Customer record
Prior conversations & objections
06
Shop patterns
Historical ARO & approval data
Every surface

Coaching is just the beginning.

tekDrive AI shows up everywhere your team does — the rack, the estimate, the sidebar, the shared report, the Chrome extension dock.

Objection Coaching

Customer says "why is this urgent?" — AI pulls the OEM spec, the failure mode, and the safety implication. Scripts the re-pitch.

Finding Descriptions

Tech shoots a photo of a leaking rack. AI writes customer-friendly copy in English or Spanish. No advisor rewrite needed.

Estimate Generation

Describe the repair. AI generates parts, labor, and notes — pulling from 700+ automotive terms and OEM labor times.

Customer Drafts

Draft the status update, the follow-up text, the "your car is ready" message. Advisor edits instead of writing from blank.

RO Summarization

A 40-line repair order becomes a 3-bullet summary. Service manager walks in, gets the state of the car in 10 seconds.

Q&A on the RO

Ask anything — "what's the recommended interval on this timing belt?" or "what did we last replace on this car?" — answered in context.

Pilot data

33%  →  58%+ close rate.

The pilot shop we built tekDrive inside watched their close rate nearly double once advisors stopped guessing and started getting scripted coaching at the exact moment a customer pushed back.

Industry avg
33%
tekDrive AI
58%

Questions we hear.

What is tekDrive AI?

tekDrive AI is a real-time coaching and content assistant for auto repair service advisors. It watches the repair order in context — the vehicle, the findings, the customer, the OEM service data — and generates inspection descriptions, estimates, customer updates, and live objection-handling scripts when a customer hesitates.

How does tekDrive AI help close more jobs?

When a customer says 'no' or hesitates, tekDrive AI is already loaded with the job, the vehicle, and the finding. It pulls the manufacturer specification, reframes the risk in plain language the customer actually understands, and scripts the next line for your advisor to say — in seconds. Pilot shops have seen close rates move from ~33% to ~58%+.

What data does tekDrive AI have access to?

tekDrive AI reads the active repair order, inspection findings with photos and videos, the vehicle's full Carfax history, manufacturer service intervals and specs, prior customer conversations, and historical RO patterns across your shop. Everything stays inside your tekDrive workspace — no data is used to train external models.

Does tekDrive AI support Spanish?

Yes. Every AI surface — inspection descriptions, estimate notes, coaching scripts, and customer-facing explanations — works in English and Spanish. Your team can switch per-customer or per-RO.

Where does tekDrive AI show up in the workflow?

tekDrive AI is embedded across the platform: in the Chrome extension dock inside Tekmetric, on the Rack Attack inspection app, in the Estimator, in the customer-facing shared report, and as a standalone assistant panel. Your advisors never have to leave what they're doing to ask it a question.

Give every advisor the same coach.

Request a demo and we'll walk through a live objection with your actual repair order data.