A Irvine driver with a check-engine light calls two shops on a lunch break. The shop that answers gets the bay filled. The shop that rings out stays quiet on Thursday.
After Hours AI gives your Irvine shop a 24/7 AI receptionist that answers every call, books the appointment, and captures the vehicle, symptoms, and preferred drop-off time while your techs stay on the lifts.
The first company to answer wins the job. After Hours AI makes sure that is you.
Every tech on the phone is a tech off a job. The AI answers while your team wrenches, books the appointment, and captures the vehicle and complaint so write-up takes seconds.
Drivers needing brakes or a diagnosis book the first shop that answers. Every missed call is a bay that sits empty while the shop down the street stays booked.
People deal with car trouble after work. The AI answers those evening calls, books the morning drop-off, and your day starts with a full schedule.
No new phone number for your customers. No app to learn. Forward your existing Irvine business line to your AHAI number. Done.
A driver calls your existing Irvine shop number.
After Hours AI answers on the first ring, 24/7.
AI captures the vehicle, symptoms, and preferred drop-off.
Your service writer gets an instant text with the booking.
After Hours AI is not a chatbot company in a far-off office. Our reps know Irvine. They answer their phones.
Knocks doors, runs the demo on his phone, gets you set up in person. Covers Irvine Business Complex, University Park, Northwood, and more.
Covers Irvine Business Complex, University Park, Northwood, and the wider Irvine metro. Drops by between visits.
Plans from $19 a month. 30-day money-back guarantee. No contract.
Tap the circle and pretend you are a customer calling after hours. Ellie is the demo agent for New York Bagel Cafe. She runs on the same platform every Irvine auto repair shop gets, trained on your services, your pricing, and your schedule.
After Hours AI answers instantly, captures the year, make, model, and what the car is doing, and books the drop-off window you define. Your service writer gets a complete ticket by text.
It quotes only what you authorize: standard services like oil changes and alignments at your prices, and a diagnostic booking for everything else. It never guesses on repair pricing.
Yes. It captures the location and situation, shares your tow partner's number or your process, and books the car in so the driver knows where their vehicle stands.
Yes. After Hours AI forwards from your existing number. Customers call the number they have always used, and the AI answers when your counter cannot.
Status calls get captured and routed to your service writer with the customer's callback number, so your techs are never pulled off a job to check on another one.
Yes. After Hours AI handles calls in both English and Spanish, so no customer is lost to a language gap.
Most Irvine shops are live within 24 hours. No new phones, no hardware. We forward your existing number and the AI starts answering.
Plans start at $19 per month pay-as-you-go, or $497 per month with 1,000 answered minutes included, up to $1,997 for the full done-for-you plan. One flat rate covers every call, and one extra booked repair a month typically covers it.
A new resident in Irvine still unpacking boxes, or a longtime local whose search just turned urgent, does not scroll through ten blue links anymore. They ask an AI assistant for an honest mechanic in Irvine, and the assistant hands them a shortlist. The businesses that make that shortlist tend to share two traits: their information is structured so AI systems can actually read it, and their phone answers when the recommendation turns into a call.
That second trait is where most auto repair shops in Irvine lose the referral. The assistant hands over your number, the driver calls mid morning while every bay is full, and the call rings out or lands in voicemail. The same assistant's next suggestion gets the call instead.
To be clear, nobody can promise you a spot in an AI answer, and you should be suspicious of anyone who guarantees rankings. What you can control is being ready on both ends: After Hours AI clients get business pages and data structured for AI assistants and search engines to read, and a phone line that answers every call, day or night. When the AI sends the customer, you are the business that picks up.
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Get After Hours AI live for your Irvine auto repair shop in 24 hours. Call (743) 727-1003 or drop your details below. We text you back the same day.