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.
What MAD Garage Is Today
A full platform for car owners, mechanics, and shops. Expand each section to learn more.
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.
Ready to get started?
Whether you need a mechanic, you are one, or you own a shop.