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ROI CALCULATOR // SHOP DIAGNOSTICS

WHAT'S YOUR SHOP
LEAVING ON THE TABLE?

Every uncertified tech costs your shop billable hours. Plug in your numbers and see the annual revenue FixedIntel Academy recovers.

Shop Configuration

13
1 100

U.S. franchised dealership average

$ /hr
$100 $300

ELR — what you bill per hour of flag time

1,000 2,800

Default reflects 40 flag hrs/week × 50 working weeks

17%
5% 30%

ASE-trained technicians average 15–20% productivity gain

$
$60 $600

$199/mo full shop access ÷ 13-tech average shop = $15/mo per tech

Each certified tech recovers 340 billable hours per year — derived from your shop's flag hours × efficiency lift.

Annual Shop Returns

$0 ANNUAL ROI

4,884

Recovered Hours

$732,600

Recovered Revenue

$61,050

Monthly Revenue

51.4x

Return on Investment

Payback Per Tech

4.5 min/month

Each tech only needs to save this many minutes of diagnostic time per month to break even on their seat.

Net Annual ROI

$718,344

Recovered revenue minus FixedIntel Academy cost

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340

Hours recovered per tech per year

Certified techs diagnose faster and more accurately, recovering billable time previously lost to guesswork and comebacks.

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Your labor rate & tech count

Multiply recovered hours by your shop's effective labor rate and number of technicians for your total annual revenue lift.

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Your annual ROI

Subtract the FixedIntel Academy cost to see your net return. Most shops pay back their investment in less than a day.

ROI assumes recovered diagnostic hours are filled with billable customer work. Shops operating at or near capacity will see this lift; shops with chronic excess capacity will see slower revenue conversion.