It learns your car's normal
After a drive you're happy with, you can mark it as a good drive. Those marked drives become your car's baseline. Nothing is added to the baseline unless you mark it.
Early development ยท invite-only
An assistant for your car that knows what normal looks like for your car.
Plug the Pneumaion Link into your car and ask questions in plain language. Answers come from your car's own data, compared against your car's own history. When you need a mechanic, your workshop gets the evidence, and you get a measured before-and-after report on the repair.
Pneumaion is being built now. We're inviting a small number of owners and workshops as it becomes ready.
How it works
It watches and explains
It keeps an eye on your car's systems over time and tells you when something is unusual for your car. Ask it things like "what does this warning mean?" or "is my battery getting weaker?"
It helps when you need a mechanic
Share the evidence with your workshop before they start. Afterwards, you get a report showing the measurements before the repair, what was done, and the measurements after.
Readable reports, not dashboards
You shouldn't need to read graphs to understand your car. Reports say what was measured, how it compares with your car's own normal, what it might mean, what it doesn't mean, and what you could do next.
Read a sample report (illustrative data, not a real vehicle)
"Unusual for this car", not pass or fail
Day to day, the assistant compares your car with itself. It flags things that have drifted from your car's normal and explains them. A repair is only reported as working when it has been measured before and after.
For workshops
When an owner brings their car in, you can start with their evidence instead of a vague description, then give them a proof-of-fix report when the job's done.
Evidence up front
See what the owner's car recorded, and how it compares with that car's own normal, before it's on the hoist.
Proof-of-fix reports
Record a measured Before, the repair and a measured After. The report shows all three, so the owner can see what changed.
Clear job ownership
The technician who claims a job works on that job's records, with access the owner has granted.
Bookings that bring the evidence
When an owner chooses to book with you, their car's evidence comes with the booking, into a calendar based on your real bay and technician capacity.
Quotes your staff approve
The assistant drafts quotes from your own price book and the car's evidence. Nothing reaches the customer until your staff approve it, including changes mid-job.
Plans
Two plans are planned. Coming soon, invite-only
Personal
For car owners
- An assistant that answers questions from your car's own data
- Monitoring against your car's own known-good normal
- Readable reports
- A vehicle history that stays with the car
- If you choose to, book a Pneumaion workshop from a note, with your evidence attached to the booking
Workshop
For shops: full workshop management
One head service advisor oversees the whole shop. The assistant handles the repetitive work: drafting quotes, customer updates, chasing approvals and flagging jobs running over their quoted time. The advisor approves everything that goes out.
- Booking calendar based on your real bay and technician capacity
- An assistant service advisor that greets customers, explains likely work and handles approvals and changed requests. It never promises a fix.
- Owners' evidence arriving with the booking
- Quotes drafted from your own price book, sent only after your staff approve
- Proof-of-fix reports: measured Before, repair and After
- Team seats, with the claiming technician bound to the job
- Mechanics clock on and off jobs, with time tracked per job and per mechanic
- Notes and photos kept with each job
- A live workshop board showing each bay's job progress from recorded events: clocked on, Before recorded, repair logged, waiting on parts, After pending, hours on the clock versus quoted. It tracks jobs from what mechanics and the Link record, not people.
- An oversight board of open quotes, approvals and jobs in progress
- Quoted-versus-actual tracking, so your estimates improve from your own jobs
- Optionally publish your own fixed prices for common jobs
- Supplier quoting: your ranked preferred suppliers are checked in order for price, stock and delivery time for the car's decoded VIN, with fallback when a part is out of stock or doesn't fit. Your markup and labour rate are applied, your advisor reviews and approves, and parts are ordered only after approval.
- Accounting without double entry: quote becomes job becomes invoice, supplier bills matched to parts orders, job profit versus quote, timesheets from the job clock and payments recorded. Syncs to QuickBooks and Xero rather than replacing them.
Pricing hasn't been decided. Each shop sets its own rates in its own price book.
What we won't do
- No guessing about your car's health. The assistant explains measurements. It won't tell you your car is healthy, or that a repair worked, unless there's a measured Before, a recorded repair and a measured After.
- Plugging in proves nothing on its own. Connecting the Link never counts as a pass, and never adds to your car's baseline.
- Your baseline is your call. Only drives you mark as good after the drive are used. Nothing is enrolled automatically.
- Your car's data is yours. We don't sell it.
- No made-up numbers. We don't have customers or results to quote yet, so we don't.
Early access
Pneumaion is in early development and not yet available to buy. If you'd like to try it as an owner or a workshop, and tell us honestly what works, we'd like to hear from you.