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[:01:] TRAILWOOD / LABS
[: VERTICAL :] V-AUTO RL_V1 AUTO/AEO

AI-visible websites,
built for auto repair.

Nobody types "brake service." They describe the grinding, the shake, the warm air from the vents, and they ask an AI assistant what's wrong and which shop they can trust to fix it without getting taken. A shop with one Services page and a "call for a quote" never matches the words a driver used, so it's never the answer. We build the symptom-and-service pages that decode what they typed and get an honest shop cited.

[: THE SYMPTOM DECODER :] A-01 AUTO/SYMPTOM-x-FIX

Drivers don't search "brake service."
They search the noise.

A driver doesn't know the part name. They know what they hear, feel, and smell, and they describe it in plain words to an assistant. The shop that gets surfaced is the one whose site translates that plain language into the service that fixes it. Here's how the decode runs.

“Grinding when I brake”
Brake pad / rotor service
matched > grinding noise when braking
“Shakes at highway speed”
Wheel balance / alignment
matched > car shakes at high speed
“Check engine light + rough idle”
Diagnostics / tune-up
matched > check engine light [city]
“AC blowing warm”
A/C recharge / compressor
matched > car ac not cold near me
“Won't start, clicking”
Battery / starter
matched > car won't start clicking
“Whining when I turn”
Power steering / pump
matched > whining noise when turning

Matching the symptom is only half the win. The other half is being the shop the assistant calls trustworthy: warranty terms, ASE certifications, and real estimates modeled as readable facts, so when a driver asks for an honest mechanic, yours is the one it can actually verify. We engineer those signals in; we don't promise a ranking, and we won't.

A generic Services page matches none of these searches. A page built around the exact words a driver used matches the one they ran, and that's the page an engine can cite as the answer.

[: WHAT DRIVERS TYPE :] RL_V1

Real high-intent searches drivers run, often from the side of the road. A "call for a quote" page with no symptom depth can't be the answer. A structured one can.

  • > mechanic near me open now
  • > check engine light [city]
  • > car making grinding noise when braking
  • > transmission repair cost
  • > car won't start
  • > honest mechanic near me
  • > brake pad replacement [city]
  • > [make] repair shop near me
[: HIGH INTENT :] CITED IN AI ANSWERS
[: WHAT WE BUILD :] A-02 6/SYSTEMS

The website we build for your shop.

S-01
A page per symptom and per service
Brakes, transmission, A/C, diagnostics: each its own page, plus a page for the symptom that sends a driver searching. A single Services page matches almost none of what people actually type, so we build the pages that do.
S-02
The 'how much' search, answered up front
Drivers research cost before they ever call. Honest published estimates and ballpark ranges, written on-page and structured for AI engines to extract, win the 'transmission repair cost' search that a 'call for a quote' page can't.
S-03
The honest-mechanic signals, made machine-readable
Warranty terms, ASE certifications, years in business, and real reviews modeled as facts an engine can read, so when a driver asks for a shop they can trust, yours is the one that can be verified.
S-04
Make- and model-specific service pages
Honda, Ford, Toyota, diesel: the work and the search differ by vehicle. We model make- and model-level service pages so a driver searching '[make] repair shop near me' lands on a page built for their car, not a generic catalog.
S-05
Fast on a phone at the roadside
Built to load instantly. Stranded on a shoulder or stuck in a parking lot, a driver decides in seconds, and a slow template site loses them before it paints.
S-06
Every missed call caught
Missed-call text-back and review capture, so the call that comes in while you're under a hood gets an instant reply instead of going to the next shop on the list.
[: PRICING :] A-03 3/TIERS

Month-to-month.
No contracts, no lock-in.

The same managed-service pricing on every build, whatever your industry. Cancel anytime with 30 days' notice. Hosting, monitoring, security, and content updates are all included.

T-01
Foundation
~20 pages
$297 /mo
+ $297 setup · month-to-month

The AI-visibility baseline every service business should have had two years ago.

  • + Custom hand-built site or Shopify theme
  • + ~20 pages (home, services, a page for every city you serve)
  • + Full AI-readable site structure
  • + Customer automation layer (CRM, reviews, SMS)
  • + Speed and stability guarantees on every page
  • + Monthly performance report
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T-02 [: MOST CHOSEN :]
Growth
100–150 pages
$497 /mo
+ $297 setup · month-to-month

A page for every service in every city you serve. Built to dominate local AI results.

  • + Everything in Foundation
  • + 100–150 pages covering every service × every city
  • + Monthly content (2 articles)
  • + Branded AI chat agent that answers visitor questions and captures leads 24/7
  • + Full authority signals (so AI trusts you)
  • + Quarterly behind-the-scenes audit
  • + Priority support
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T-03
Dominate
200+ pages
$697 /mo
+ $297 setup · month-to-month

Weekly content. Competitor tracking. AI citation monitoring.

  • + Everything in Growth
  • + 200+ pages covering your full service area
  • + Weekly content (4 articles/mo)
  • + Competitor AI-visibility monitoring
  • + AI citation monitoring (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity)
  • + Monthly strategy call
  • + Dedicated Slack channel
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[: FAQ :] A-04 6/ANSWERS
01
My Google and Yelp reviews already bring people in. Why do I need this?
Keep the reviews going, they earn trust once a driver is already looking at you. The problem is the step before that. When somebody types 'grinding noise when I brake' or 'honest mechanic near me' into an AI assistant, they get one written answer with a couple of shops named in it. Star ratings on a third-party app don't put you in that answer. The shop whose own pages spell out the symptom, the fix, the certifications and the warranty is the one that gets named.
02
What's actually wrong with the websites the shops down the road are running?
To an AI engine, most of them barely read as a repair shop at all. One catch-all 'Services' page, nothing written around the actual symptoms a driver describes, no make-or-model depth, 'call us for a quote' where an estimate range should be, and certifications buried in an image instead of text a machine can parse. Pile that on a slow template build and the engine has nothing solid to quote. That blind spot is the whole opportunity.
03
At the end of this, do I own the site?
No, and we're upfront about that. This is a managed service: we build it, host it, watch it, and keep it current, and it goes offline if you ever stop the subscription. What stays yours regardless is the part that matters, your customers, the phone calls, the relationships, your domain and your name. Hosting and ongoing upkeep are baked into the monthly rather than nickel-and-dimed. If buying a site outright is what you're after, that's a separate product and we'll be straight with you about it.
04
How long before this turns into work in the bays?
Two clocks, different speeds. The automation, missed-call text-back and review requests, is live the first week. Getting named in AI answers is earned, not bought, so it builds over roughly three to six months, usually showing up first on specific symptom and make-related searches before the broad ones. We won't quote you a number of calls. AI ranking moves on factors outside anyone's control, so anybody promising you the top spot is guessing.
05
Would you ever build for another shop near me?
Possibly, and there's no theatrics about it. We don't do exclusivity or 'one shop per zip code'. What we will not do is hand two shops the same site, every build is custom and distinct, never a clone with the logo swapped, which also happens to be what keeps each one legible to the engines. If you ask on the call who else we work with in your area, you'll get a straight answer.
06
I'm not anywhere near Texas. Does that matter?
Not at all. We run out of DFW but build for shops across the country, the engineering and the symptom-and-service approach travel fine to any market. DFW is simply where we started.
[: START :] A-99 BOOK/CALL

Drivers describe the noise.
Your shop should be the answer that comes back.

30-minute audit call. We pull your current AI visibility live, show you exactly what's missing from your site versus the symptoms and services drivers are searching for, and tell you what it would cost to fix it.

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