AI Assistant

Your AI team member that never clocks off

Workshop1's AI reads every enquiry, finds customers, creates bookings, and handles admin — so your team can focus on cars, not paperwork. Human-in-the-loop means nothing happens without your approval.

Sound familiar?

Australian workshops lose thousands every month to manual admin, missed calls, and slow responses. Here's what it actually costs you.

36%of work week

Buried in admin, not cars

Over a third of your week goes to paperwork, data entry, and scheduling — tasks that don't turn a wrench or earn revenue.

23%calls missed

Unanswered calls, lost customers

Nearly a quarter of calls go unanswered during business hours. 85% of those callers never try again — they just go elsewhere.

$11,250/month lost

Revenue walking out the door

Missed calls and slow responses cost the average shop over eleven thousand dollars every month in lost bookings.

10-15customers/day

Service advisors at capacity

Each advisor juggles 10-15 customers daily — every one needing data lookup, scheduling, and follow-up. Something always slips.

8-10hrs/week wasted

Repetitive tasks on repeat

Service advisors spend 8-10 hours a week on tasks AI can handle — that's a full workday lost to copy-pasting and calendar Tetris.

80%drop per hour

Speed wins the job

First to respond wins 35-50% of deals. Every extra hour of delay tanks your conversion rate by up to 80%.

The impact of AI that actually works

When your AI handles the admin, everything else follows.

8-10hours saved per week

Per service advisor. That's a full extra workday to focus on customers, upsells, and the work that actually grows your business.

79%of enquiries handled automatically

Only complex or unusual cases need human attention. Routine enquiries are processed, matched, and proposed — without intervention.

< 1 minresponse time to every enquiry

Every email, web form, and message gets a response in under a minute — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends.

$135K+recovered revenue per year

Zero missed enquiries, faster bookings, and automated follow-up add up to six figures back in your pocket annually.

How it works

From incoming enquiry to confirmed booking — four steps, one approval.

1

Read

AI reads every incoming enquiry — email, web form, or message. It understands what the customer needs, what vehicle they have, and when they want to come in.

2

Find

AI searches your customer database. Found? Profile and vehicle history pulled up instantly. New customer? Record created automatically from the enquiry details.

3

Propose

AI creates a booking proposal: right time slot, right technician, right bay. Everything pre-filled with customer details, vehicle info, and job notes.

4

Approve

Service advisor reviews the proposal. One tap to approve, adjust, or decline. The booking goes live, the customer gets a confirmation SMS.

AI that works with you, not instead of you

Everything you need to handle enquiries at scale — without losing the human touch.

Multi-channel enquiry processing

Email, web forms, online bookings — AI reads them all. No more copy-pasting from your inbox to your workshop software.

Intelligent customer matching

AI finds existing customers by name, phone, email, rego, or VIN. Creates new records automatically. No duplicate entries, ever.

Smart booking proposals

AI considers bay capacity, technician skills, job complexity, and existing schedule to propose the optimal slot.

Human-in-the-loop

AI proposes, you approve. No autopilot, no surprises. Every booking gets your sign-off before it goes live.

Zero missed enquiries

Every enquiry gets a response in under a minute, 24/7. No more lost leads from unanswered emails over the weekend.

Works for everyone

Owners get fewer interruptions. Receptionists handle 3x the volume. Mechanics get clear job cards from day one.

Built for every role in the workshop

Whether you're running the business, managing the front desk, or under the hood — AI has your back.

Owner

Stop being the bottleneck. AI handles the routine so you can focus on growing the business, not processing emails.

Receptionist

Go from overwhelmed to in control. AI does the data entry and scheduling — you handle the relationships.

Mechanic

Clear job cards, on time, every time. No more half-written notes or missing vehicle details.

The old way vs Workshop1

Side by side, the difference is clear.

Processing an enquiryRead email, search customer, look up vehicle, check calendar, create booking (15-20 min)AI does it all in under 1 minute
Missing enquiriesEmails pile up, calls go unansweredEvery enquiry processed automatically, 24/7
Customer lookupSearch by name, hope you find themAI matches by name, phone, email, rego, or VIN
Creating a bookingManual calendar entry, double-check availabilityAI proposes optimal slot, you approve with one tap
After-hours enquiriesWait until morning, hope they haven't gone elsewhereAI processes overnight, proposals ready when you arrive
Data entryType everything twice across multiple systemsAI pre-fills from enquiry, zero manual entry

Meet your new team member

Workshop1's AI assistant processes enquiries, books jobs, and handles admin — so your team can focus on cars.