An AI-native shop operating system built to absorb the 2010s shop-management suites that have ruled this niche for fifteen years. Strangler-fig deployment so the shop keeps running while the new OS grows around it.
Specialty automotive shops — Porsche & euro indies, performance shops, custom-fab specialists — are running on 2010s-era shop-management software that hasn't gotten an AI integration, hasn't gotten a usable mobile experience, and hasn't shipped a meaningful update since the era of HTML tables. The niche of "modern shop POS + native AI + actually pleasant to use" is wide open.
PaddockOS is being built to fill it. Modern POS, scheduler, parts and inventory, estimates, RO management, time clock, and a shared local data spine that makes the whole toolkit feel like one OS instead of seven disconnected tools.
Critically, we deploy via the strangler-fig pattern, not a big-bang rewrite — your existing shop-management software stays as system of record while PaddockOS incrementally absorbs its responsibilities, tool by tool. Your shop keeps running every day of the migration.
Calendar-aware, AI-suggested booking, drag-and-drop rescheduling. Replaces the spreadsheet, the printed bay sheet, and the legacy POS scheduler — all three.
Track parts, custom-fab inventory, vendor relationships. Cross-references against open ROs so you know what to order and when.
AI-drafted line items with markup logic, customer-facing estimate PDFs, approval workflow with link-to-pay (Stripe / Square).
Roll-bar work, custom builds, fab projects — the kind of work the legacy POS systems track terribly. PaddockOS is built around it.
Customer follow-up agent, estimate-builder agent, parts-order agent — running on top of PaddockOS, not bolted on.
Stripe / Square integration for the payments layer — we don't write our own PCI-DSS handling. QuickBooks bridge for the bookkeeping side.
The legacy shop-management software stays in place until it doesn't need to. Each phase ships standalone value — even if you stopped after Phase 1, your shop is better off.
Scheduler, parts/roll-bar tracker, ops dashboard, customer follow-up agent, quote builder, EOD reports. Each one replaces a thing the legacy POS does poorly. Legacy POS keeps issuing invoices.
PaddockOS becomes the GM's daily front door. Estimates, RO management, time clock, parts inventory all shift to the new system. Legacy POS becomes back-office only.
Evaluate full retirement of the legacy POS. Stripe/Square handles payments. QuickBooks bridge handles books. PaddockOS handles everything else.
Productize for other specialty shops. Each shop gets its own deployment, configured to its niche (Porsche, BMW, Italian exotic, performance, fab).
Independent shops doing high-ticket work on Porsches, BMWs, Audis, Italian exotics. Where the legacy shop-management tools fall down hardest.
Shops where every job is a one-off, where roll-bar work and turbo builds need to be tracked properly, and where the existing POS systems' "parts catalog" is laughable.
Operators who'd rather buy in to a modern OS once than rent a 2010s SaaS forever. Strangler-fig lets you migrate without bet-the-farm risk.
If your shop manager is swiveling between three tools to do one thing, the unified OS is what fixes that. Built for the GM who actually runs the floor.
PaddockOS is in Phase 1 development with a pilot shop. Specialty operators who want in on early access — book a call. We'll walk through the strangler-fig plan and where your shop fits.