Provenance

Built Inside a Working Collision Shop

EstimateLogic Pro was not written for collision shops from the outside. It was written inside one. The shop is Corsa Automotive, a collision and mechanical repair shop in Orlando, Florida, and the product exists because the estimating problem was in front of it every day.

Corsa is the provenance, not a reference

This is worth stating plainly, because a shop named on a software company’s website almost always means one of two things. Neither is true here.

It is the operating environment the software came out of. That is a claim about where the product was built, which is checkable, rather than a claim about who likes it, which would not be.

What the shop floor supplied

The product was informed by real vehicles rather than by a specification of what a vehicle might need. In practice that meant six things, each of which arrives at a different point in a repair.

Damage photographs
Taken on the shop floor in the light that is actually there, not in a studio. The estimator reads the same kind of photograph an estimator takes.
Carrier estimates
The documents adjusters actually sent, in the two formats they arrive in. They are why the product knows what a carrier pays rather than what a rate card says.
OEM parts decisions
Which part was specified, which was allowed, and what each cost. Read off settled lines rather than a catalogue.
Labor and repair-or-replace calls
Panels that were repaired and panels that were replaced, with the decision recorded rather than assumed.
Supplements
What was found after teardown, what was argued, and what moved. The stage of a job where the disagreement lives.
Completed repairs
Cars that went back out of the door. An estimate is a prediction until a repair order closes against it.

The measurements taken from those documents are published rather than described. 169 carrier estimates were read line by line, and what came out of them is on the measured pages, with the sample size printed beside every figure including the ones too thin to conclude from.

Who it is for, and what it does not claim

It supports professional estimators and the shops they work in. It is built for somebody who already knows how to write an estimate and wants the blank screen removed, not for somebody who needs the decision made for them. Every line it writes is editable and the person standing at the car still makes the call.

It does not claim to replace every estimating system a shop already runs. Shops have management systems, carrier portals and vendor platforms that this does not attempt to be, and a product that claimed to replace all of them would be describing something nobody has built. What it replaces is the part where an estimator starts from nothing.

Run it on a job you have already closed

The most useful first test is a repair whose real answer you already know, because then the comparison is against fact rather than opinion. Accounts are set up by hand, usually within a business day.

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More on the person who wrote it is on the founder page, and how the product is tested, including what has not been measured yet, is on how we test.