MAD Garage
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Built by an Enthusiast.
For Enthusiasts.

MAD Garage started as a simple idea — connect car owners with the shops that actually want their business. It's grown into something much bigger.

The Problem

Every car community on Facebook has the same post, every single week: “Where should I take my car to get [X] done?”

The answers come flooding in. Personal recommendations, horror stories, someone's cousin's buddy who works out of a garage. It's well-meaning but it's a mess. And if you're new to an area, or you drive something that needs a specialist, you're basically rolling the dice.

On the other side, there are thousands of independent mechanics, small performance shops, and specialty trades doing incredible work — but they're invisible. They don't have marketing budgets. They don't game Google reviews. They rely on word of mouth and hope the phone rings.

Find Your Lane

Whoever you are, here's exactly what MAD Garage does for you — and what we ask in return.

Car Owner

Free

The everyday driver. Keep your car healthy and find people you can actually trust — without paying for the privilege.

What you can do
  • Log and track maintenance so nothing slips through the cracks
  • Find shops near you, filtered by specialty, make, and location
  • Connect with local independent mechanics directly
  • Save real money instead of rolling the dice on a Facebook recommendation
What we ask

Nothing. Be as involved as you want — the entire owner side is free, and you don’t even need an account to get started.

Find a shop

Enthusiast

Free

For the people who get it. Everything the owner gets, plus the culture side of the platform.

What you can do
  • Spot cars in the wild and build your own sighting library
  • Join a club — or start your own
  • Post your car’s story and get it listed in the Show
  • Plan your build and get matched with shops that specialize in it
  • Show your mods and track your payoff over time
  • Play Wrench, the diagnostic game, and level up
  • Find performance shops and builders near you
What we ask

Free. Bring your build and your knowledge — the community is only as good as what people put into it.

Enter the Show

Mechanic / Tech

Free · $20/yr

The lone wolf, the two-bay tech, the specialist. Get seen for what you do best, and get paid for it.

What you can do
  • List yourself — your skills, your specialty, your experience
  • Pick the jobs you actually want to work, locally
  • Work outside your shop’s overhead and earn full pay on your own jobs
  • Use built-in work orders, message customers, and send quotes and invoices
  • Build a verified Wrench score that shops can see when they’re hiring
What we ask

Free to build your profile. $20/yr unlocks the job marketplace — mark yourself open to work and let local shops find you.

Build your profile

Shops

$20/yr

The small shop that does great work and just needs to be found by the right people.

What you can do
  • Priority listing to local users searching for exactly what you do
  • Full work order management from one dashboard
  • API integration to pull leads straight into your native platform
  • Direct customer leads — no per-click fees, no cut taken on your jobs
What we ask

A flat $20/yr — likely less than one 7-Eleven run for the crew. No per-lead fees, no commission on your work.

List your shop

For the Lone Wolf Mechanic

This platform was designed with you in mind. The one-man shop. The two-bay garage. The performance builder who's incredible at what they do but doesn't have a receptionist or a CRM or a marketing team.

The approach here is cooperative, not extractive. We're not here to take a cut of every job or charge you per click. We're here to stand up small businesses and help them succeed by putting them in front of the right customers at the right time.

When a customer searches for a turbo install in their zip code and your shop pops up because that's literally what you do every day — that's the whole point.

About the Builder

I'm Matt, a car guy, IT professional, and the person building this thing from the ground up. I've spent over a decade in tech leadership and most of my life with grease under my fingernails.

I run MAD Garage out of Conyers, Georgia, where I build and restore cars. Everything from a 1970 Plymouth Superbird to a turbocharged BMW M Roadster to a heavily modified C7 Corvette Z51 that I take to the track. I've lived the experience of needing specialized work done and not knowing who to trust, and I've been on the other side helping friends find the right shop.

This platform is the product of both worlds. I built it because nobody else was building what the car community actually needed, and because I believe independent shops deserve better tools and more visibility than what's out there today.

I also wrote For the Love of the Road — a book on performance driving and intentional car ownership, available on Amazon.

Help Shape MAD Garage

This is built in the open, one feature at a time. Found a bug, want something added, or just have a thought? Tell me — I read all of it.

Opens your email app, addressed to me.

Ready to get started?

Whether you're keeping a daily on the road, chasing a build, turning wrenches, or running a shop.

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