NicNac for Auto Mechanics
Fix it right — your shop's best friend
“Bring me your subscriptions and I’ll be the intelligence that combines everything — so you can get back to your profession. Let’s make you the best in your industry.” That is Beam — and for auto mechanics, he wears the hat below and goes to work on the phones, the schedule, the invoices, and the paper, so you can get back to the work only you can do.
Beam is NicNac’s AI — he says so himself, always. The help is real; the handshake can be human whenever you want it.
The day this fixes
The phone at a repair shop rings exactly when both hands are under a hood — and the person calling has a car that won't start and three other shops on their list. The front counter makes the money; the bays just do the work. Beam works the counter around the clock: booking the diag, chasing the estimate approval, reminding the oil-change customer — while you turn wrenches.
What Beam does for auto mechanics
Four working systems, run by Beam under your subscriptions — the same NicNac engine as every door, aimed at a auto mechanic’s day.
Answer & Book — your phone, answered
Every call answered — year, make, symptoms, 'is it safe to drive' — and booked into the right bay time, with tow-ins and waiters sorted properly.
NicNacInvoice — invoices that chase themselves
Approved work becomes a clean invoice from the job details; balances follow up on their own instead of aging on the counter clipboard.
NicNacMeet — scheduling without the back-and-forth
Estimate approvals chased by message and call, pickup scheduling, and the 'your car is ready' conversation — handled while the next job is already on the lift.
AI Visibility — be the name customers hear
Drivers ask an AI 'who's an honest mechanic near me' before they ask anyone. Visibility work helps your shop be the name that returns — baseline measured, results reported plain.
Meet your Beam
The backbone of America — Beam wears real workwear, not costumes.
- Wears: Navy mechanic cap with oil drop + wrench
- Uniform: Navy jumpsuit with Beam patch, dirty knees
- Carries: Giant wrench + tire + thumbs-up
- Colors: Navy #0D2C54 + Oil black
- Says: “Fix it right — your shop's best friend”
Your Beam arrives as yours
When you sign up, your Beam starts as Auto Mechanic Beam — the one on this page — because this is the door you came through, and we remember the particular door and why. He is set up for a auto mechanic’s work from the first minute, not handed to you as a generic chatbot.
His starter workflow pack is this door’s own: Answer & Book, NicNacInvoice, NicNacMeet, AI Visibility — switched on in that order, ready to be shaped around your subscriptions and your day. That pack, your profession, and your reason for coming in are the seed your own Beam is grown from; no one else’s Beam is configured like it, and no one else’s information ever enters it.
Prefer a different Beam later? Switch to any of the thirty, any time — your work, your records, and your settings come with you. And if you would rather arrive through the agent door — helping other auto mechanics as a NicNac agent — the application is open.
One price book, the same for every door
Start with the free experience, then begin with the plan that fits. Prices and inclusions are the ratified NicNac book — the canonical Plan Architecture, rendered identically on every door.
CORE
AI receptionist + virtual assistant core: answering in your business’s name, NicNacBook booking with confirmations and reminders, message taking with instant notification, daily digest, inbox triage drafts, follow-up reminders, review requests. 600 included voice minutes (overage $0.10/min). 1 number, 1 location, 1 calendar.
“$49 a month for your first 3 months, then $99 a month for the rest of your first year. From month 13, $299 a month; from month 25, $499 a month. We tell you before every change, and you can cancel before it does.”
Begin with a conversationGrowth
Everything in CORE, plus 1,500 included minutes, up to 3 numbers / 2 locations, 3 team seats, outbound confirmation and quote-follow-up calls, a monthly Solo-scope generation credit, priority agent queue.
Talk it throughStudio
Everything in Growth, plus 2,500 included minutes, up to 5 numbers / 3 locations, 5 team seats, dispatch board and no-show rescue, a monthly Studio-scope generation credit. The self-serve ceiling for multi-location businesses that still run their own system.
Talk it throughOperated
The hinge — the last metered tier, and the first NicNac operates with you. Everything in Studio, plus a dedicated build and knowledge base created and maintained by NicNac, 4,000 included minutes, up to 25 seats / 5 locations, multi-location answering with per-location scripts, named human escalation path, a standing monthly operations cadence with human-desk review of exceptions, and a monthly performance report. The difference from Studio is not size — it is who runs the system.
Talk it throughOperated Complete
The complete operated front office across all locations of one ownership (up to 5): one knowledge base, per-location scripts and calendars, qualification, booking, confirmations, reminders, no-show rescue, human escalation desk, dispatch, SLA reporting, named operations lead, consolidated owner reporting. Flat — arranged by agreement only; no self-serve checkout.
Talk it throughEnterprise Operated
Enterprise, operated — by agreement only. Multi-entity / multi-brand operation: your own systems (CRM, EHR, scheduling, commerce) connected and operated by NicNac, custom workflows built and run by NicNac, a dedicated operations team, SLA and data terms by agreement. The local-only deployment option (signed USB update packs) lives at this rung; beyond it, custom by agreement.
Talk it throughAnnual prepay on any tier: pay for 10 months, get 12. Prefer a person before any of this? Book a call — a human conversation is always a door here.
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