Let us be honest about how a small workshop runs today: a phone that rings all morning, a notebook by the till, and the same conversation four times with the same customer.
WhatsApp on one phone. Emails on another. A text message someone saw and forgot. The car is in the workshop and the only person who knows where it is up to is the one holding the spanner.
And every call that comes in is twenty minutes that nobody gets paid for.
It does not have to work like that.
Atelier puts every message on one screen and files it in the car it belongs to. The mechanic opens one screen and sees what is urgent today. The customer opens theirs and sees where their car is up to, the way a parcel shows where it is.
No one has to keep two things up to date. What the customer sees comes out of what the workshop already did on its board — that is the whole idea, and everything else follows from it.
It works without any AI at all, the driver side is free and stays free, and there is nothing for you to install or keep alive. Poke around, and tell me what breaks.
The Atelier team
Built for French workshops, in three languages