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Case study · Pro Automotive Center

A high-tech site for a shop that fixes what others can’t.

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.

1997
Serving since
5
Pages
6
Core services
5.0
CARFAX rating
Client
Pro Automotive Center · Corpus Christi
Industry
Auto Repair & Diagnostics
Services
Design, build, content, CMS
Status
Live — proautomotive.us
The challenge

Make three decades of trust look the part.

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.

  • Trusted since 1997 — but a dated site, with a lapsed SSL certificate, that didn’t reflect it
  • The real edge — factory-level computer diagnostics that crack problems other shops can’t — was buried, not led with
  • The old site listed a menu of services instead of turning drivers into booked appointment requests
  • The owner needed to update services, reviews, FAQs, and photos himself — no code, no deploys, no waiting on us
  • Every claim had to be verifiable — anything we couldn’t prove had to come out, no matter what old listings said
Our solution

Lead with diagnostics, convert to appointments.

Design, build, content, and the integration plumbing — shipped as one production-ready site, tuned to convert and handed over so the owner keeps control.

01

A “Precision Diagnostics” brand site

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, count-up stats, and a five-page structure (Home, Services, About, Reviews, Contact), all mobile-first and reduced-motion aware.

02

A real appointment-request pipeline

The primary conversion is an appointment request — a working form wired to email delivery, validated and spam-hardened server-side with a honeypot and Zod, with a graceful fallback so it never hard-fails if a key is missing.

03

An owner-editable Sanity CMS

An embedded Sanity Studio at /studio lets the owner edit services, reviews, FAQs, process steps, and homepage photos with a Google login — no code, no deploys — and publishing triggers a revalidation webhook so changes appear almost instantly.

04

Verified proof, and only verified proof

We stripped every claim we couldn’t substantiate and rebuilt the trust story on provable signals — serving since 1997, BBB Accredited, CARFAX 5.0, factory-level and ALLDATA diagnostics — so the credibility holds up to scrutiny instead of inviting it.

Technical approach

Fast, editable, and maintainable.

Next.js 16 frontend

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.

  • Next.js 16 (App Router) + React
  • TypeScript end to end
  • Tailwind CSS v4 + Motion
  • Business constants in src/lib/site.ts

Sanity CMS with a static fallback

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.

  • Studio embedded at /studio
  • Falls back to content.ts / site.ts
  • Tag-based Next data cache + revalidation
  • Publish → /api/revalidate webhook

SEO + local discovery

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.

  • sitemap.ts + robots.ts
  • AutoRepair structured data
  • Open Graph / Twitter cards
  • llms.txt for AI-search visibility

Stateless appointment plumbing

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.

  • Server Action → Resend delivery
  • No customer DB, no auth
  • Honeypot + Zod validation
  • Logs when email keys are unset
Key decisions

Why we built it this way.

Lead on the diagnostics edge

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.

A CMS the owner actually uses

Sanity’s embedded Studio with a Google login means the owner edits content and swaps photos himself, with no code and no deploys — and the site degrades gracefully if Sanity is ever down.

Only verifiable claims

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.

Constants in code, content in CMS

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.

Built with

Technology stack.

Next.js 16ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS v4MotionSanity CMSResendJSON-LDVercelSaira CondensedArchivoIBM Plex Mono
See it live

Visit Pro Automotive Center.

Take a look at the live site — or tell us about a business of your own that needs a site that converts and stays easy to run.

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