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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 appointment pipeline and content the owner edits himself.

1997
Serving since
BBB
Accredited business
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 that reaches the shop, checked before it is accepted and screened for automated spam, and built so a delivery problem is reported rather than hidden behind a thank-you screen if a setting 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.

The shop’s details, in one place

Name, address, hours and phone number are held once and used everywhere: the header, the footer, the contact section, the tap-to-call links and the machine-readable facts Google reads for local results. A shop that changes its Saturday hours changes them in one place, and every surface follows, which is exactly how a business avoids a customer arriving at a closed door.

  • One edit updates every place a detail appears
  • Google sees the same name, address and hours everywhere
  • Tap-to-call links generated from the same number
  • Pages prebuilt, so they open fast on a phone

His edits go live without us

The owner signs in with his Google account, changes a service description or swaps a photo, presses publish, and the live site updates within moments. No ticket to us, no deploy, no waiting. If the content system is ever unreachable the site keeps serving the last known good version rather than showing an error, so an outage at a vendor is never an outage for the shop.

  • Signs in with Google, edits, publishes, done
  • Changes appear on the live site within moments
  • An outage at the vendor never takes the site down
  • No developer needed for routine content changes

Found by drivers searching nearby

The site states in machine-readable form that this is an auto repair shop in Corpus Christi, what it services, when it is open and how to reach it, which is what feeds a local map result. The same facts are made available to AI assistants, because a growing share of people now ask one where to take a car rather than searching for a shop.

  • Identified as a local auto repair shop, not a generic page
  • Services and hours published in machine-readable form
  • AI assistants explicitly allowed to read the site
  • A proper branded preview whenever a link is shared

Appointment requests that reach a human

The one thing the site does beyond showing pages is deliver an appointment request to the shop. It is checked before it is accepted, screened for the automated spam that finds any public form, and never discarded behind a thank-you screen if delivery has a problem. No customer records are stored here, so there is no database of drivers for anyone to breach.

  • Requests checked and screened before delivery
  • No captcha for a real customer to fight with
  • A delivery problem never destroys the request
  • No customer records stored on the site
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 content editor the owner actually uses

He signs in with the Google account he already has, edits a service or swaps a photo, and presses publish. No code, no ticket to us, no waiting for a release. It sits inside the site rather than being a separate product to learn, which is the difference between a content system that gets used and one that gets abandoned after a fortnight.

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.

Two kinds of content, handled differently

The facts that must never be wrong, such as the address, hours and phone number that feed local search, are held in one place and kept consistent everywhere. The words the owner wants to change, such as service descriptions, reviews and photos, live where he can edit them himself. Putting both in the editor would eventually have put a typo into Google’s record of the business.

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.