// The AI-native replacement for AllData & ProDemand
The same MOTOR repair data the big subscriptions run on, an AI that knows its way around it, and a real scan tool, all on your phone. Ask about the car in front of you and get an answer that cites the MOTOR procedure it came from.
Built by a master tech with 20 years in the bay. Fix one car for $29 or run your whole shop on it. iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Customer drops off: won't start, cranks but no fire. Tech confirms the no-start, starts thinking fuel pump — or worse, ECM. "These things go bad all the time."
The tech quotes the customer a PCM and programming, $1,200 all in. Customer hesitates. Tech orders the part anyway to get moving. Three days later, installed, programmed. Still no start.
Six hours into the ticket now. Tech is chasing wires with a meter. The advisor can't tell the customer what it is. The owner sees labor piling up on a ticket that hasn't produced a diagnosis. This is how shops lose money and customers.
Same no-start. Tech scans with ForgePilot. No active codes. Forge Assist pulls up MOTOR's no-start diagnostic tree and flags Step 1: listen for fuel pump priming on key-on. Tech turns the key — nothing. No pump prime.
AI suggests Step 2: swap the fuel pump relay with an identical relay in the same box (horn, A/C, whatever shares the same part number). Three minutes, relay swapped. Key-on — pump primes. Crank — starts.
Diagnosis: $15 sticking relay. The tech was ten minutes from ordering an $800 PCM. That's the whole product.
Forge Assist pulls the vehicle's repair history, calls up MOTOR procedures, checks pending codes, and remembers every finding you record. This is a real comeback story: cat replaced 8 months ago, same code. Before ForgePilot, it's another cat. With ForgePilot, it's a $40 coil.
We license the same professional-grade, OEM-sourced repair data they do, straight from MOTOR Information Systems. The difference is what got built around it.
| ForgePilot | ALLDATA | ProDemand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| OEM-grade repair data | ✓ MOTOR-licensedTrees, procedures, DTC data | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-native diagnostics | ✓ Built inAnswers cite the MOTOR procedure they came from | Bolt-onAdded to a legacy product | Bolt-onAdded to a legacy product |
| Built-in scan tool | ✓ Your phone + OBDLinkDTCs, live data, freeze frame, monitors | ✗ | ✗ |
| Native mobile apps | ✓ iOS + AndroidBuilt mobile-first, plus web | Limited | Limited |
| Pay per vehicle | ✓ $29 per VINEverything unlocked · 7 days · no subscription | DIY product onlySeparate, limited version | ✗ |
| Commitment | Month-to-monthCancel anytime | Annual contract | Lease terms |
| Monthly price | $195 solo · $395 shop5 seats included on Shop | ~$200+/moQuote-based, per shop | $199/moPer subscription |
Competitor pricing from published list prices and public quotes as of July 2026; actual quotes vary by shop size and modules.
ALLDATA® and ProDemand® are trademarks of their respective owners. ForgePilot is not affiliated with either.
The advisor writing the RO, the tech at the lift, the owner watching the numbers, and the kid who started Monday. They all use it differently, and it works for every one of them. So does the weekend wrench who just needs one car fixed.
Walk to the car while the customer is still at the counter. Plug in an OBDLink MX+, scan in 90 seconds, come back with real fault codes, an AI assessment, and a repair priority list. No more "check engine light on" ROs. No more surprise teardowns after the estimate.
Scan is already done. Codes, freeze frame, readiness monitors, battery voltage, live-data history — everything there before you lift a hood. Ask Forge Assist a question, attach a photo of the part you're looking at, get an answer grounded in MOTOR data. Less diagnostic time, more repair time.
Stop losing revenue to undocumented diagnostic time. Every scan creates a session record with the vehicle, codes, and AI assessment. Track what your techs found, what they fixed, and how long it took. Tech pause patterns reveal where training gaps or parts delays hide.
Forge Assist walks new techs through diagnostics step by step: MOTOR diagnostic trees, test procedures, spec values. When the tech's about to chase the wrong theory, the AI pulls them back. A week-one junior tech with ForgePilot can diagnose a vehicle they've never seen.
One check-engine light shouldn't cost a $200/mo commitment. A $29 Single Session unlocks the entire product for your VIN for 7 days: professional MOTOR data, the AI, the scan tool, all of it. Mobile techs, buy a session per job and bill it straight to the ticket.
A diagnosis is only as good as the history behind it. ForgePilot pulls what's known about the vehicle from the sources that matter, and sends findings back to where your shop lives.
The average shop spends 30–45 minutes per RO on initial diagnostic work ForgePilot automates. At $130/hr labor rate, the math is simple.
A service writer with zero diagnostic training can scan a car, get an AI assessment, and hand it to a tech who's ready to work, not ready to start diagnosing. The subscription usually pays for itself before lunch.
ForgePilot pairs with the OBDLink MX+ over Bluetooth Classic. Runs about $140, drop-shipped from us or bought anywhere online. We don't lock the hardware to the software. Custom Crimson Forge-branded readers are coming later.
Custom Crimson Forge-branded hardware coming later · No software lock-in now or ever
Built by a founder who spent 20 years finding out the hard way what a shop actually needs, and what it doesn't.
Just fixing one car? Single Session unlocks the entire product for one VIN, no subscription, and your history stays in your account.
Solo and Shop are per-shop subscriptions. Add technicians anytime at $49/seat. All plans month-to-month, cancel any time. Annual billing saves the equivalent of two months.
Every plan includes full access to MOTOR diagnostic trees, procedures, and DTC definitions: professional-grade licensed data, not a consumer database.
Native on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Pair any OBDLink reader, scan a car, and get your first AI diagnostic assessment in under a minute. On a desktop? Scan a code with your phone.
iPhone · iPad
Android
Point your phone's camera at a code to install.
No smoke and mirrors. Here's exactly where ForgePilot is and where it's going.
The apps are live and we're shipping constantly: MOTOR expansion, drive-cycle guidance, spec comparison. Drop your info and we'll email you when something real lands. That's the whole deal.
