Piston Labs

The Connected Shop Platform

Shop management software that builds a repair intelligence network as a byproduct of doing repair orders correctly.

$14.4B
Total Addressable Market
250K+
US Independent Shops
60%
Customers Never Return

The Problem

Independent shops run on disconnected, legacy software that treats repair orders as flat line-item lists. Diagnostic data is unstructured free text. Service records are siloed per shop. Customer retention tools are bolted-on afterthoughts. The $8B repair intelligence market (Identifix, ALLDATA, Mitchell1) depends on technicians voluntarily logging fixes into separate systems -- contribution is dying and data quality is degrading.

For consumers: service records are scattered across gloveboxes and disconnected shops. Carfax charges $44/mo for incomplete, often inaccurate records. Maintenance is reactive -- "your car needs service NOW" -- with no time to plan or budget.

The Solution: Four Products, One Platform

myodo captures structured repair intelligence as an automatic byproduct of shop operations. No voluntary contribution. No extra work. The data flows from compliance -- shops are legally required to document findings, causes, and corrections on every repair order. We structure that mandatory documentation so it produces queryable intelligence.

Concern ▶ Cause ▶ Correction ▶ Verification ▶ Intelligence
Shop Management System
Lead product. Full SMS replacing multiple shop tools.
$500/mo
Repair Intelligence Network
The moat. Also sold standalone to non-myodo shops.
$99/mo standalone
Glovebox
Consumer acquisition. NFC-first digital service records.
Free to consumers
Integrated Payments
Stripe Connect + Terminal. Card payments from the RO.
~$250/shop/mo
Fleet Dashboard
Near-term revenue. Tracking + intelligent service planning.
$25/vehicle/mo

Why We Win

Architectural differentiators that form a closed loop -- work categories, Three Cs diagnostic chain, Raw+Rendered dual layers, Living Health Document, five-status inspection, scan tool vision, built-in compliance. Copying one piece is useless without the others. Incumbents can't add these without full platform rewrites.

The network effect: Every shop on myodo contributes to the repair intelligence network by doing their normal job. The math scales fast -- at 1,000 shops, that's 30,000-50,000 structured, verified records per week. We also sell standalone access at $99/mo to shops not on our SMS -- extending the network and adding a second revenue stream.

Traction

$30K raised of $500K target • SMS prototype built (sms-prototype.pages.dev) • Beta shops committed • Fleet dashboard functional with devices in the field • Delaware C-Corp via Stripe Atlas

The Team

Tyler Porras, CEO -- Owner of Era Automotive. 13 years in the aftermarket. Achieves 80% retention through manual work. myodo automates it. Founder-market fit: Tyler IS the customer.

Ryan Morris, CTO -- Technical co-founder. Architecture, feature development, team technical leadership.

Eli Lloyd, Director of Sales -- Beta shop onboarding, demos, distribution partnerships.

Marisa, Director of Communications -- Pitch refinement, sales language, consumer perspective, fleet sales.

The Ask

$500K on YC Post-Money SAFE @ $5M cap

6-month runway • Target: 50 shops, 5 fleet accounts, 50 consumer devices • Get live, prove revenue, raise seed

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