# AI for Auto Repair Shops — 150 copy-paste prompts | AI on the Job https://www.ai-on-the-job.com/books/001-ai-on-the-job-auto-repair-shops-edition 001 of 025 · Trades & Main Street Auto Repair Shops Two stories reach the bay: the trade is finished, or none of it matters. This book is about the third one — the writing that piles up between the car and the customer. eleven hoursa week. That’s eleven hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there. Where the hours come from Chapter 4Writing estimates and translating tech findings~3 hours Chapter 5Status updates, approval requests, the phone that never stops~2 hours Chapter 6Invoices, warranty claims, fleet billing, payment chasing~1.5 hours Chapter 7Review responses and complaint letters~1 hour Chapter 8RO notes, TSB reading, customer explanations~1.5 hours Chapter 9Marketing you keep putting off~2 hours Twelve chapters. Twelve chapters, 150 copy-paste prompts, a glossary that assumes nothing, and a thirty-day plan to get there. 01 Your Head Start 02 The 30-Minute Setup 03 How to Talk to It 04 Estimates That Get Approved 05 The Front Counter That Never Goes Quiet 06 Money Paperwork That Writes Itself 07 Reviews, Complaints, and Your Shop’s Name 08 On the Job — The Second Brain Behind the Counter 09 Getting Cars in the Bays 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break 11 Tools of the Trade 12 Your First 30 Days Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition. Read the opening before you decide. Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade. Prompt #1. Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one. COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I run a [N]-bay independent auto repair shop in [CITY, STATE] called [SHOP NAME]. We work on [ALL MAKES / SPECIALTY]. Typical work: [YOUR TOP 5 — e.g., brakes, diagnostics, suspension, scheduled maintenance, AC]. When I ask you to write anything customer-facing, keep it professional, plain, and brief — no hype, no exclamation points, an 8th-grade reading level, and never talk down to the customer. When I ask for an estimate or price, always leave the numbers as blanks for me to fill in unless I give them to you. Never state that a repair is safe, guaranteed, or complete unless I said so.” One of 150 in AI for Auto Repair Shops. Start reading here. Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. Read the opening → Try the free prompts → The questions people actually ask. Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book? Not yet. The free tiers of both tools will carry you through this entire book’s TRY IT NOW exercises and your first few weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (roughly $20/month) when you hit the free tier’s daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys. Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job? No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where.” You can read the whole opening, First, About the Robot in the Bay, free: 2,194 words, no sign-up. What is actually in the 150 prompts? Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Estimates & Service Writing (16–40), Customer Communication (41–65), Money & Paperwork (66–85), Reviews & Reputation (86–105), On the Job (106–120), Marketing & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full. I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced? It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses. How long is it? It is about 30,940 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 35m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them. Can I order the book here? Ordering is currently closed. Explore the books, read the opening essays, and try the free prompts. This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. It kicks. We’ll show you where. AI on the Job: Auto Repair Shops Edition · page one Somebody you work with needs one of these.