We built the shop software, then ran a shop on it.

Custom shops run on a quote that changes three times, parts that arrive in the wrong order, and a customer who wants a number before anyone has touched the vehicle. The general-purpose invoicing tools handle none of that well, and the automotive tools are written for dealership service lanes, where the work is known before it starts.

Garage Bae is built for the case where it isn’t: a quote that carries its own revision history, work orders that survive a parts delay, and a payment step that does not require the customer to be standing at the counter.

It runs a real shop every day, with real money moving through it. When an invoice doesn’t send, the shop calls us the same morning.

Every feature we might have shipped on a hunch gets checked against a Tuesday afternoon in Vernon Hills first.

We handle the releases, the database, the payments, and the support call when something breaks. It’s the same arrangement we offer clients, where the company that builds the software also answers for it afterward.