How KumoKodo Studio rebuilt Pro Automotive Center — a Corpus Christi auto repair and computer-diagnostics shop, in business since 1997 — as a premium "Precision Diagnostics" site that converts drivers into appointment requests, with a real inquiry pipeline and a Sanity CMS the owner edits himself.
Pro Automotive Center is a Corpus Christi institution — diagnostics, brakes, A/C, engine, maintenance, and the tough jobs other shops turn away. It needed a site that matched its reputation, led with its diagnostics edge, and turned visitors into booked appointments — one the owner could keep current himself.
Since 1997
Self-serve content
Design, build, content, and the integration plumbing — shipped as one production-ready site, tuned to convert and handed over so the owner keeps control.
A clean, high-tech precision-shop design that leads on the computer-diagnostics edge — light surfaces punctuated by cinematic dark "diagnostics" sections, an animated diagnostic console, and count-up stats, all built mobile-first and reduced-motion aware.
The primary conversion is an appointment request — a working form wired to email delivery, validated and spam-hardened server-side, with a graceful fallback so it never hard-fails if a key is missing.
An embedded Sanity Studio at /studio lets Jamie edit services, reviews, FAQs, process steps, homepage photos, and the Google reviews link with a Google login — no code, no deploys — and publishing triggers a revalidation webhook so changes appear almost instantly.
We stripped every claim we couldn’t substantiate and rebuilt the trust story on provable signals — so the credibility holds up to scrutiny instead of inviting it.
A static-first Next.js site backed by a headless CMS with a static fallback — so it stays fast and cheap to host, and keeps working whether or not Sanity is connected.
Next.js App Router with React Server Components. Business facts used for SEO and structured data — name, address, geo, hours — live as typed constants in a single source of truth, so the same values stay consistent across every server and client component.
A data layer fetches editable content from Sanity and falls back to typed content in code when Sanity is unconfigured, empty, or erroring — so the site builds and runs identically before Sanity is connected, and degrades gracefully during an outage.
Per-page metadata, Open Graph and Twitter cards, AutoRepair JSON-LD, an auto-generated sitemap and robots, and an llms.txt — so the site is legible to search engines, local results, and AI search alike.
The only dynamic surface is the appointment-request Server Action. There’s no customer database and no accounts — inquiries go to email, editorial content lives in Sanity, and everything else renders statically.
Most shops sell "repair." Pro Automotive’s real differentiator is computer diagnostics that crack problems other shops can’t. The whole site — from the headline to the dark diagnostic sections — leads with that.
Sanity’s embedded Studio with a Google login means Jamie edits content and swaps photos himself, with no code and no deploys — and the site degrades gracefully if Sanity is ever down.
We removed every claim we couldn’t prove and rebuilt trust on provable signals — since 1997, BBB Accredited, CARFAX 5.0, factory-level diagnostics — so the credibility survives scrutiny.
Business facts that feed SEO and structured data stay as typed constants for consistency; editorial content lives in Sanity for the owner to edit. The right split for a lead-gen site.
Serving Corpus Christi drivers on domestic and Japanese makes — diagnostics, brakes, A/C, engine, maintenance, and the jobs other shops can’t crack.
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