Carvis
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Carvis is an AI co-pilot for auto repair shops that turns inspections into priced estimates in seconds. It plugs into your existing shop software and adds upsell suggestions.
About Carvis
What Is Carvis
Carvis is AI auto repair estimate software, built for the front desk of a shop. It's an AI estimator for auto repair shops, and the shop management system integration is what makes it usable in daily work. A service advisor gets an inspection, then has to build a repair order line by line: parts numbers, labor hours, sublet costs, shop fees. That work takes 20 minutes on a good day and eats the time an advisor should spend talking to the customer.
Carvis sits next to the shop management system the team already runs. You feed it the vehicle and the inspection findings, and it builds a priced estimate in roughly 25 seconds, pulling parts pricing and labor times that match how your shop has priced similar jobs before. It also flags services a customer is likely to approve based on mileage and past repair orders, which is where the extra revenue comes from.
The catch: this is a tool for people who write repair orders for a living, not for car owners. It runs inside a shop's workflow and depends on that shop already having a management system with usable history. A single-bay shop with paper tickets has far less to gain, because the AI leans on past repair orders to price accurately. Carvis is also invitation-based, so you book a demo rather than sign up in a browser.
Getting Started
- Book a walkthrough on carvis.ai. Bring one of your own repair orders, and the team will generate a second one from the same inspection so you can compare them side by side.
- Connect your shop management system. Carvis says it maps to any major platform, reading and writing inside the software your advisors already use, so nobody has to learn a new interface.
- Load your rules. Pricing structure, inspection standards, and the voice your shop uses with customers are set up so every estimate comes out the way your shop would write it.
- Run live tickets. Advisors write estimates with Carvis docked beside the ticket, approve or edit the suggested lines, and send the estimate to the customer.
- Review the numbers. Close rate, average repair order, and advisor productivity roll up in the dashboard, with location-level rollups on the Professional and Enterprise plans.
Product Information
A quick look at Carvis's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Independent shop owners
- Multi-location repair groups
- Service advisors drowning in paperwork
- Fleet and franchise operators
Tasks
- Turning a digital inspection into a priced estimate
- Catching missed upsells
- Answering parts and labor questions at the counter
- Standardizing pricing across locations
- Embedding estimates into other tools
Scenarios
- A busy Monday morning with cars stacked at the counter
- Onboarding a new service advisor
- Rolling Carvis out across a newly acquired shop
Key features
Estimate Generation in Seconds
Give Carvis the vehicle and the inspection, and it returns a priced estimate in about 25 seconds, which the company puts at 85 percent faster than manual writing. Each line carries a parts number, a labor time, and a price, so the advisor starts from a draft instead of a blank form. The output is editable, and that matters, because no AI gets every line right on an unfamiliar vehicle.
Pricing Trained on Your Repair Order History
Carvis doesn't price from a generic national average. It reads your past repair orders, matches the job to similar ones the shop has done, and prices in line with how your shop already charges. That's why accuracy improves the longer a shop uses it, and why groups with years of history see better results than shops that just opened.
AI Upsell Recommendations
The co-pilot suggests services tied to the vehicle's mileage and to what similar cars had done at the shop. A Civic at 87,000 miles might trigger a timing belt recommendation because 12 of 14 similar jobs included it. Advisors still decide what goes on the ticket, which keeps the recommendation from feeling like a script.
Works With Your Existing Shop Management System
Shop management system integration is the core of the product, and there's no new platform to adopt. Carvis connects to the system your advisors already use, reads and writes inside it, and adapts to how that system is set up. For a shop that has tried and abandoned software migrations, this is the part that matters most.
Ask Anything at the Counter
Advisors can ask plain questions mid-conversation, such as whether a maintenance item is due, and get an answer in seconds drawn from shop history, written procedures, and the wider Carvis network. It's a lookup tool for the moments when a customer is standing there waiting.
Group Analytics and Enterprise Controls
The dashboard tracks close rate, average repair order value, and technician productivity, and rolls them up across locations in real time. Enterprise adds single sign-on, audit logs, regional data residency, a 99.9 percent uptime commitment, and custom AI training on your own history.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Estimates come out in seconds and match shop pricing, which frees advisor time for customers rather than data entry.
- Integration inside the existing management system means no migration and no retraining of the front desk.
- Upsell suggestions are grounded in real repair order history, so they're defensible when a customer asks why.
- Multi-location groups get centralized pricing and dashboards, plus an API for embedding estimates elsewhere.
- A 30-day money-back guarantee lowers the risk of trying it on one location first.
Cons
- No free plan. You need a paid subscription starting at $299 per location per month just to test it in daily work.
- The Starter plan caps you at 100 AI estimates a month, which a busy shop can hit in two or three weeks.
- Pricing quality depends on history. New shops, or shops still on paper tickets, get less accurate suggestions until they build up repair orders.
- You can't sign up on your own. Onboarding runs through a sales demo, which slows down a shop that wants to try it this week.
- Carvis and its revenue figures come from the vendor's own marketing, and independent benchmarks of estimate accuracy are scarce.
Frequently asked questions
Carvis writes priced repair estimates from inspection findings and connects to the shop management system the shop already uses. It also suggests extra services based on mileage and past repair orders, and answers parts and labor questions at the counter.
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