What Insurers Are Cutting From Your Paint Estimate – and How to Get Them to Pay
We looked at 554 short pays. On the 290 we compared line by line, insurers cut paint on 78% of them.
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We looked at 554 short pays. On the 290 we compared line by line, insurers cut paint on 78% of them.
Small time leaks in your collision shop can add up to hundreds of lost hours per year.
Big, labor heavy jobs are getting rarer. When the work gets smaller, every operation you miss costs you more.
Upload your P&L and get a 25-page financial analysis and a 90-day action plan, in about five minutes.
Upload your CCC close ratio report and see how much each estimator is leaving on the table, plus the targets to fix it.
Tell it about your shop and your market, and it builds a marketing plan around your ZIP code, your goals and your capacity.
Custom interview questions, candidate scoring and a 90-day onboarding plan, built for collision repair shops.
A printable handout that gets customers to actually leave the review, built live and free to download.
Keep an eye on every shop in your market without spending an hour a week doing it.
Three tools you can open today, what each one is good for, and where they fall over.
Answer every review in your shop's voice, including the bad ones, without writing each reply yourself.
Script, voice and visuals for a 60-second ad for your shop, built live in one sitting.
Dean Hancock on why heavy truck estimates get written short, and what a shop can do about it.
Peyton Bell of Bell Autobody on writing every procedure the manufacturer requires, and holding the line when it gets cut.
An onboarding plan with real day 30 / 60 / 90 milestones, so the hire you fought for stays.
Ted Culbertson of Top Gun Auto Body on what happens when the whole shop can see the numbers.
John Brown of Red Rock Collision on one location against national MSOs, and what actually wins the customer.
Shane Orlando of Orlando Autobody on how many estimates walk out the door, and what it costs when nobody counts.
Brian Davies of Body Works Plus on building a shop people do not leave.
Why we started a podcast about how a body shop is actually run.
Role-specific interview questions, red flags and a weighted scorecard for comparing candidates honestly.
A 2026 marketing plan built from your ZIP code: demand signals, competitor pressure, budget and a 90-day content plan.
Upload the P&L and see where the margin is leaking, then get a 90-day plan to plug it.
What the paint department is really costing, in material, hours and rework.
Five ways shops waste their first month with AI, and what to do instead.
Read every review you and your competitors have, and find the pattern in them.
Hand it your P&L and get a plain-English read on what is working, what is not, and a 90-day plan. The full prompt, free.
Why the gap between shops that use AI and shops that do not is about to get wide.
What AI Labs is, who it is for, and what we are going to build in it.
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