Friendly AI for auto repair and body shops

Keep the bays full and the phone covered

Type your line of work for a version tuned to you — or read on.

DocsHound answers repair and collision questions, books drop-offs, and chases down approvals so your service writers can stay on the cars, not the phone. You set it up in plain English, no engineers and no setup project.

Repair estimates and quotesAppointment and drop-off schedulingRepair status updatesInsurance claims and approvalsInvoices and payment questionsWarranty and parts coverageTowing and after-hours intake

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No setup call, no credit card, and no AI experience needed.

Your way into AI

The simple way to bring your business into the AI era.

Everyone says you need AI in your business. Nobody tells you how without hiring an engineer, wiring up ten tools, or disappearing down a rabbit hole for six months. DocsHound is the simple way in: you describe what you want in plain English, and it becomes the AI employee that handles it, so you get the upside of AI without the madness.

No engineers to hire. If you can describe the job, you can set it up.
No AI rabbit holes. One friendly tool, not a stack you have to learn.
Up and running in an afternoon. Not a six-month project.

Meet your hounds

What your hounds can do for you

Most shops start with three things: a job you run over and over, the customer questions that tie up the front desk, and the help your crew needs to keep moving.

A hound running a process and sending an email

Automate a process

Turning the back-and-forth around estimates, parts, and insurance into a few quick steps that run themselves.

Estimates — gather year, make, model, mileage, and the problem, then start a written quote
Insurance claims — collect the claim number, adjuster name, and photos so the file is ready before the car arrives
Parts delays — text the customer when a backordered part lands and offer a new drop-off time
Supplement approvals — flag jobs waiting on insurer sign-off so nothing stalls in the bay
Follow-ups — remind customers about declined work and the next oil change or inspection

Cars move through the shop faster because the paperwork is ready before the keys are.

Serve your customers

Answering the calls and messages that pull your writers away from the counter, day or night.

"Is my car ready?" — give a real status update from the ticket instead of a callback
Quotes — explain what a brake job, alignment, or dent repair runs and what is included
Scheduling — book a drop-off, loaner, or shuttle without anyone picking up the phone
Hours and location — answer where to drop keys after close and what to leave in the car
Payment — send the invoice, take a card, and answer "why so much" line by line

Customers get a straight answer right away, and after-hours tow-ins still turn into booked jobs.

Support your team

Giving your service writers and techs fast answers so they are not hunting for information.

Warranty terms — look up what the shop covers and for how long on parts and labor
Labor guide — pull the standard hours and your posted labor rate for a quote
Vendor info — find the parts supplier, account number, and who to call for a return
Shop procedures — answer how to log a comeback or write up a supplement
Fleet and insurer rules — remind the crew which accounts need a PO or pre-approval

Your people stop digging for answers and keep their hands on the work.

Run something else the same way every time? Tell us and we’ll point you to the right hound.

Build your first hound

Today a hound can ask, answer, send an email, and create a link. Sheets and Zapier are coming.

Get a running start

Tell us what you want to automate

Tell us what kind of business you run and we will show you what DocsHound can take off your plate first. You can change all of it later.

1 What you do 2 Recommended Hounds

What do you do?

What DocsHound can automate for your business

Based on your business, here is what we would set up first. Each one gathers what you need and takes the next step for you. Create them now or tweak later.

You are all set.

We are putting your Hounds together. Check your inbox for a link to start adding what your business knows.

See it in action

Find your industry

See what DocsHound does for your line of work.

Pick your line of work below for a version tuned to the jobs you run — or just type what you do:

Professional firms

Multi-location & portfolio

Clinics & practices

Retail & local

Simple to set up. Here is what you get.

No project, no jargon. Describe what you want in plain words and your business starts getting this back:

Anyone can set one up

No IT person, no setup project, no training. If you can describe the job, you can build the hound.

Save hours every week

The asking, collecting, and replying you do by hand all day runs itself, so you win the time back.

Open while you sleep

Customers get answered and jobs get booked at 2am, not just nine to five.

One business, a pack of hounds.

You do not run your whole business out of one inbox, so your AI should not either. A Hound handles one job, whether that is a process, a client, or one part of your world, and does it the same way every time.

Put one hound on staff questions, one on each property you manage, one on quotes for the field crew, one per client. Each stays in its lane, so the work stays clean and nothing gets crossed.

For your staff

Answers HR, PTO, and policy questions so the office does not have to.

One per property

Takes maintenance requests and resident questions, and routes them.

One per client

Runs their intake and onboarding, their way, every time.

For the field crew

Answers manual and SOP questions from a phone on the job.

Take one for a walk.

Meet a small business we made up, so you can try this without using your own. Ask it something, or say you want to book a callback and watch it take the details and act.

What this hound handles

a small business

Ask the Hound

Ask me a question, or say you need a quote or a callback and watch me take the details and hand them off.

Start by using it yourself. Share it when you are ready.

Use it yourself

Keep it private and get your own answers first. Nobody else has to know it exists yet.

Give it to your team

Invite employees so the person who used to get asked everything stops being the bottleneck.

Put it on your website

Let customers ask the same questions your staff already answers twenty times a day.

Connect it to your tools

When integrations land, your hound can push what it collects into the software you already use.

What would you put in yours?

Not sure what goes in first? Here is what three very different people would start with.

Joe the Plumber

Quote intake, plus warranty and pricing answers, so every tech in a truck gets a straight answer without calling the office.

Bob the Bookkeeper

One per client, handling new-client intake and answering “how does this one close their books?” before he even opens the file.

Any small business

The stuff that always lives in one person’s head, so the whole team can get an answer on day one instead of waiting for the person who knows.

Your first Hound is free

Put a hound on the busywork.

Pick one job you do over and over, like customer intake, quotes, or the questions your team fields all day, and let your first hound handle it. Set up in minutes, free to start.

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