“The newer guys embrace the CYTK app,” he stated.
“We do about 1,600 autos a month, and utilizing the app has lowered our typical time spent servicing a car by two and a half minutes, or roughly 20 %.”
Levenson stated his firm will generate income by way of recurring month-to-month subscriptions. The price of the app is roughly $60 a month for impartial store techs and from $100 to $179 month-to-month per dealership.
CYTK has fewer than 10 engineers and programmers understanding of Silicon Valley, Detroit and South America and needs to ramp as much as 15 staff.
Levenson believes his app will assist not solely the recruitment and training of techs but in addition the growth of cellular companies the place vehicles are labored on at prospects’ houses. He stated CYTK would additionally get a shot within the arm with the expansion of electrical car gross sales and the quantity of data saved in EVs.
Larry Hourcle, an NADA Academy teacher, says that CYTK is an fascinating product and cheap to make use of.
“It provides techs an exceptional asset to assist them discover methods to diagnose and restore,” Hourcle stated. “The hyperlinks to YouTube movies plus the data on the app give techs written and video directions on their telephones.”
He stated entry-level techs want info rapidly. Plus, CYTK could be particularly useful for mother and pop operations which will have solely a handful of techs and haven’t got the information base gained from years of expertise.
“Numerous producers have fast oil change companies, and having the app helps techs shave minutes off of service time, particularly in the event that they uncover they should substitute a headlight bulb in the course of the oil change,” Hourcle stated.
“The brand new technology of techs want mentors, and this app can function a restore plus estimating software when constructing an estimate. It’ll additionally assist to raise restore high quality.”