ClearPath OS reads your KPIs the way Caliber, Driven Brands, and Christian Brothers read them when they're deciding which independent shop to acquire next — so you can fix what they'd find before they find it.
The roll-ups have a playbook. They walk into every independent shop in your zip code and read the same six metrics. They know exactly which shops to buy and which to walk past. ClearPath OS gives you their playbook — pointed at fixing your shop instead of pricing it.
ARO, GP%, hours billed, comeback rate, declined-work value, technician utilization, parts margin, AOV, ticket count by service category — the same sixty-five metrics the chains use to evaluate every independent shop they're considering. Not a dashboard. A diagnosis.
Most shop dashboards show you a number and stop. ClearPath's engines show you why the number is what it is — what changed, who drove it, what to do today. When ARO drops six dollars, you don't get a chart. You get a list of the three causes and the one tech driving them.
Every "no" today is potential revenue tomorrow if your team remembers it. Declined work, lapsed maintenance, customers who haven't been in for eighteen months — ClearPath surfaces them tiered by recovery probability, with one-click AI-drafted outreach in your service writer's voice. The leaks are no longer silent.
ClearPath reads your live RO, your customer's history, and your shop's KPI patterns — then suggests the upsell, the bundle, the warning to flag. Not a script. A second pair of eyes that already knows your numbers and the customer in front of you. Service writers stop guessing and start closing.
Your shop management system stays your shop management system. ClearPath reads from the SMS API rather than replacing it — no double-entry, no migration, no "rip out and replace" sales pitch. Tekmetric integration is live today. Mitchell, Shop-Ware, and ProDemand are on the roadmap — added one system at a time and certified before we claim support. We won't put logos on the marketing for integrations we haven't built.
Section 18 of the Tekmetric API license forbids using shop data to train AI models. That's the contractual standard we operate on today, and the architectural floor we'll hold as we extend to other shop management systems. Your customer histories, your tech performance, your margins — none of it goes into training, none of it gets aggregated and sold. Your shop's data stays your shop's data. We can put that in writing.
Brake pads declined today are recovery candidates in ninety days. ClearPath surfaces every declined recommendation tied to its expected wear window — and reminds your service writer when the timer's up.
Per-tech ARO, comeback rate, hours billed, parts mix, gross profit per hour. Coaching opportunities surface themselves — Mike's comebacks are 3× the shop average, Tom's hours billed beat everyone — instead of waiting for the quarterly review.
Parts margin slips one percent a month for six months and nobody notices until the quarter closes red. ClearPath flags slope changes the second they show up — not after the damage is done.
Your shop management system stays your shop management system. Tekmetric integration is live today. Mitchell, Shop-Ware, and ProDemand are on a rolling roadmap — added one system at a time, certified before we claim support. ClearPath reads from whichever SMS API you've authorized, runs the diagnoses, and feeds the outputs back to the systems and people who already act on them.
There's a reason small auto shops keep getting bought up by corporate America.
It isn't that they're bad shops. It's that they don't have the operational sophistication to compete with Caliber, Driven Brands, Christian Brothers — the chains scanning every independent shop in their zip code for the next acquisition. The roll-up wins because the family-owned shop can't see what the corporate playbook sees: the leaks, the patterns, the customers quietly drifting.
I built ClearPath OS because I owned a shop and couldn't always be at the shop. I needed the same operational layer those firms use to evaluate which shop to buy next, but pointed at running mine instead — so I could see what was leaking, what was leaving, what to fix before it cost me.
That's still what it does. Every shop gets the corporate diagnosis without the corporate consequences. You see what they'd see. You fix what they'd find. You keep your shop.
You stay independent. You stay family-owned. You run your business like a corporation — and corporate America never gets the chance to roll you up.
That's the whole point.
A two-bay independent has different needs than a five-location group. We size pricing to the shop you actually run. No vendor lock-in. No per-RO skim. No "we have to charge enterprise rates because we built it for enterprise" — we built it for the operator who refuses to sell.
Nothing. ClearPath reads from your authorized Tekmetric API connection and lives alongside it. Your service writers keep using the same screen they're using today. The diagnosis surfaces wherever your team already looks — email, screen, SMS overlay. Migration is zero hours of bay downtime because there's nothing to migrate.
Not today, but those integrations are on the roadmap. We add SMS systems one at a time and certify each one before we claim support — no marketing checklists for integrations we haven't built. Tell us what you're on and we'll tell you our timeline. Early-pilot slots open up as each integration is certified.
As accurate as your SMS data. ClearPath doesn't invent numbers — it reads them, aggregates them with the rules the chains use, and shows you the same picture they'd see. If your data has gaps, ClearPath flags them. If your data is clean, the diagnoses are.
For owners and managers, less than an hour. For service writers, the system surfaces inside the workflow they already use — there's nothing new to learn beyond "look at this when the badge is red." We built it for shop floors, not classrooms.
If a service writer can read the SMS screen during a customer conversation, they can use ClearPath. The recommendation appears next to the customer record they're already looking at. No app, no login, no second tab. Adoption is the workflow.
No. Section 18 of the Tekmetric API license explicitly forbids using shop data to train models. We treat that as the floor across every integration. Your data isn't used to train, isn't sold in aggregate, isn't shared with other shops. We sign that into the contract.
Tell us what your shop runs on today — your SMS, your team, your monthly revenue, the things that keep you up. We'll show you what the first thirty days inside ClearPath OS would surface, sized to your operation. Pilot shops on Tekmetric today; Mitchell, Shop-Ware, and ProDemand pilots open as each integration is certified.
