DipstickIQ

Find the money hiding in your shop.

DipstickIQ reads the reports your auto repair shop software already exports (declined work, estimates, customer history) and shows which jobs are worth a call this week, in dollars.

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Now working with our first 10 design-partner shops.

$34,820 recoverableSample shop, last 12 months of repair orders

Illustrative figures. Your audit uses your own data.

  • $18,420Declined repairs
  • $8,400Estimates that never became jobs
  • $5,100Customers who stopped coming in
  • $2,900Labor and parts priced too low

Six places a busy shop quietly loses money

Your shop software records all of it. Nobody has time to go back through it.

Declined repairs

Work your techs found that the customer said "not today" to. Most of it still needs doing.

Open estimates

Quotes that went out and never came back. A well-timed follow-up converts more of them than you'd think.

Lapsed customers

Good customers who haven't been in for a year, often with a vehicle that's due.

Missed maintenance

Mileage and service history tell you when a car is due. A fixed six-month reminder doesn't.

Labor and parts margin

Job types and suppliers where you're consistently earning less than your target.

Empty bay time

Slow afternoons you could fill with customers who already have work waiting.

Every job comes with a reason and a next step

You get a ranked list, not a pile of reminders. The biggest, most likely wins sit at the top.

  • Built from your technicians' own recommendations. DipstickIQ never diagnoses a vehicle.
  • Ranked by repair value, urgency, time since the visit and how often the customer comes back.
  • Suggested wording for the follow-up, written the way a service advisor would say it.
OpportunityContact this week
Customer
John S.
Vehicle
2019 BMW X5
Declined
4 months ago
Miles since visit
About 5,200 (estimated)
Front control arms$1,480
Alignment$180
Opportunity$1,660
Recovery potential: High
  • Safety-related suspension work
  • Declined 4 months ago, still unrepaired
  • Customer usually comes in every 4 to 6 months
  • About 5,200 miles driven since the inspection
Suggested message

"When your BMW was in back in May, we noted wear on the front control arms. It's been about four months, so we'd like to take another look. Want me to find you a time this week?"

No new shop software

DipstickIQ isn't a shop management system. It works from reports you can already export, and your team keeps the system they know.

How the free audit works

  1. Tell us your shop system

    We'll tell you exactly which reports to export.

  2. Send the exports

    Upload CSV or Excel files. Nothing to install.

  3. We find the money

    Every opportunity is priced and ranked by value, urgency and how recently the customer was in.

  4. Walk through it together

    A short call to go over your top opportunities. Keep the report either way.

After the audit: a weekly list of money to go after

If your audit finds enough, DipstickIQ keeps reading your shop data and tells you what's worth doing each week.

Find

Available now

Every week: the declined repairs, open estimates and lapsed customers worth a call, priced in dollars and ranked.

Recover

Building with early shops

Help winning the work back: follow-up messages you approve, and a clear record of which jobs came back.

Optimize

Building with early shops

Where labor rates, parts margins and empty bay time are quietly costing you.

We're working with our first 10 design-partner shops: a reduced price, a direct line to the founder, and a say in what we build next.

Questions shop owners ask

Is my shop data safe?

Files are sent over an encrypted connection and stored on our own server in Germany, outside the public website. Only the DipstickIQ team can open them. We never sell your data, and uploaded files are deleted within 90 days of your audit unless you become a customer. Privacy notice.

What does it cost?

The revenue audit is free, with no contract. Shops that want ongoing weekly reports can join as early design partners at a reduced monthly price.

Will you contact my customers?

No. The audit is a report for you. We never contact your customers. You decide who to follow up with.

Does it work with my shop management software?

DipstickIQ works from standard report exports. It works with Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, R.O. Writer, Mitchell 1, Shop-Ware, AutoLeap and most systems that can export CSV or Excel.

Do I need to change anything in my shop?

No. Your team keeps using the shop software they know. DipstickIQ only reads the reports you export.

Is DipstickIQ a shop management system?

No. DipstickIQ does not do estimates, invoices, scheduling or inventory. It sits on top of your existing system and tells you where you are losing money and what to follow up.

Who's behind DipstickIQ

Cosmin, founder of DipstickIQ

I'm Cosmin, the founder. While DipstickIQ is young, I run every audit myself and talk to each shop owner directly. You're dealing with a person, not a sales team.

Independent shops already record everything needed to find lost revenue: every declined job, every estimate, every visit. DipstickIQ turns that record into a short list of what to do next.

Rather talk first? Book 15 minutes with me, or email [email protected].

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