FOUNDING DEALERS · NOW IN BETA

The dealership operating system built on the drive.

One system that replaces your legacy DMS and the bolt-on apps stacked on top of it — one login, one bill. 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
ALL FEATURES INCLUDED
Payroll & Time Clock Employee Onboarding Employee Recognition & Rewards Digital F&I Menu Builder Digital Contracting Digital Multi-Point Inspection Video Inspections Online Scheduling Recommendation Presenter Equity Mining Vehicle Evaluation Recon Management Board Internal & External Messaging Drill Down Analytics Cloud Based Storage Custom Client Loyalty Program Payment Processing Reputation Management Route Planner Payroll & Time Clock Employee Onboarding Employee Recognition & Rewards Digital F&I Menu Builder Digital Contracting Digital Multi-Point Inspection Video Inspections Online Scheduling Recommendation Presenter Equity Mining Vehicle Evaluation Recon Management Board Internal & External Messaging Drill Down Analytics Cloud Based Storage Custom Client Loyalty Program Payment Processing Reputation Management Route Planner

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.
It doesn't go down.
Redundant backups and failover keep you running — never back to pen and paper.

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.

Sales

Deals, inventory, and equity mining in one connected desk.

Parts

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

F&I

Digital menu and lender submission, built for the box.

Body Shop

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

Accounting

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

Marketing

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

Administration

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

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.