Auto repair is one of the least digitised industries in America. AI is changing the economics of why.
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Vertical AI is finally making low-digitization sectors like the 280,000 independent auto repair shops economically reachable—moving from generic SaaS to workflow-native agents that justify software spend. If you build in B2B, this is a template: pick a paper-heavy vertical, encode its edge cases, and let AI collapse labor-intensive coordination.
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