Quick post this morning. Two things. First — thank you. I know this past week has been heavy on EasyBench content. You've been patient with me, and I don't take that for granted. I want to tell you why this launch matters to me so much. Not the business side. The personal side. In late 2017, a small group of shop owners took a chance on me. I didn't come from the automotive industry. I didn't grow up turning wrenches. I didn't know the difference between an A tech and a C tech. But those owners — they let me in. They taught me how shops actually work. They shared with me what keeps them up at night. They explained why hiring was the thing that could make or break everything they'd built. They didn't have to do that. But they did. And over the past eight years, that small group turned into hundreds of conversations. Hundreds of shop owners who trusted me enough to tell me the truth about what they were going through. The owner who said "maybe it's time for me to sell" — because one tech left. The owner who told me "staffing is the main reason we aren't meeting our stretch goals." The owner who watched 18 shops close in her area — most of them owner-operators with nobody to replace them. Every one of those conversations shaped what I do. And every one of them pointed to the same gap: There was nothing for the shop that wasn't in crisis yet — but knew they should be building a bench while things were good. EasyBench is my answer to that gap. It's the thing I wish I could've given every shop owner who called me before it was too late. So thank you — for bearing with me this week, and for being the kind of community where something like this can exist. Second — here's where we stand. The EasyBench Founders cart closes tonight at 5:00pm Pacific. If you're in at $149/month, that rate is locked for life. At 5:01 PM Pacific tonight, the price goes to $249/month. Permanently. The first 20 Founding members also get the private 60-minute Bench Board Jumpstart call with me — where we build your first Bench Board together, mapped to your shop, your market, your ideal tech. That bonus goes away tonight too (there are a few spots left).

EasyBench has been live since Friday. Some of you joined immediately. Some of you are still thinking about it. This post is for the ones still thinking. I've gotten a lot of questions — in emails, in DMs, on the phone. So let me just lay it all out. No fluff. No spin. 👉"I'm fully staffed. I don't need this right now." You're exactly who I built this for. Every single shop owner who's ever called me in a panic was fully staffed six months before the crisis. Fully staffed doesn't mean safe. It means you're one resignation, one injury, one no-show away from starting over on Indeed. The best time to build a bench is when you don't need one. You know this. You've probably said it yourself. EasyBench is cheapest and easiest to use when things are calm. By the time you need it, you'll wish you'd started months ago. 👉"I don't have time for one more thing." The system takes about 20 minutes a week to manage. That's it. The weekly clinic with me is optional — 60 minutes, live, every week. Show up when you can. Skip it when you're slammed. The recordings are there if you need them. Smart shop owners and GM's will double dip by showing up to the call so they can get their weekly work done with me live at the same time where they can ask questions and see what's new inside of the EasyBench command center. Compare that to 60 days of scrambling on Indeed the next time someone quits. That's dozens of hours sorting junk applications, interviewing no-shows, and losing revenue on an empty bay. 20 minutes a week now. Or 60 days of chaos later. Pick one. 👉"What's the difference between this and Technician Find?" Simple. Technician Find is for shops in crisis. You've got an open bay. You need a hire. We run the ads, generate the applications, and help you get someone across the finish line. Done-for-you. Month to month. EasyBench is for shops NOT in crisis. You're staffed. Things are stable. But you want to make sure you're never starting from zero again. Done-with-you. I give you the system, the tools, the scripts, and the coaching to keep your own bench growing and keep it warm.

I want to tell you why I built EasyBench. Not the business reason. The real reason. A while back, a shop owner got on the phone with me. She was exhausted. You could hear it in her voice. She and her husband had built their shop from nothing. Years of grinding. Finally had a solid team. Things were clicking. Then two techs left within a month of each other. One got poached by a dealer that promised factory training they'd never actually deliver. The other just... quit. No notice. No warning. Suddenly she went from running a profitable shop to wondering if it was time to sell. She told me: "If we leave now, we close. There's nobody to take over." And I helped her. That's what Technician Find does. We ran the ads, generated the applications, and got her a hire. But it took about two months. And it cost her more than money. It cost her sleep, her confidence, and almost her business. And sitting on that phone call, I kept thinking the same thing I think every time a shop owner calls me in crisis: This didn't have to happen. She didn't need a better recruiter. She needed to have never been in that position in the first place. She needed a bench. Here's something most people don't know about me. I talk to shop owners every single week. Have for almost eight years. Hundreds and hundreds of conversations. And the thing that haunts me isn't the owners who call in crisis. I can help those people. That's what Technician Find does. We write the ads, run the ads, generate the apps, and get them a hire. What haunts me are the ones who call too late. The owner-operators who closed because there was nobody to replace them. One shop owner told me about eighteen shops in their area alone — all gone. Not because business was bad. Because they were the only tech, and when they couldn't turn a wrench anymore, the shop died with them. The owner who told me "I've depleted my bench" — while he was still fully staffed. He could feel it coming. That fragile, one-phone-call-away feeling. But there was nothing to buy that would fix it. No recruiter to call. No ad to run. Because he didn't need a hire. He needed a system.

EasyBench is live. Join Here: https://www.skool.com/technicianfind/plans If you commented BENCH this week, check your DMs — the link is already there. For everyone else, here's what you need to know. THE SHORT VERSION: EasyBench is Full-Bay Insurance — a done-with-you system that keeps 5–10 pre-qualified techs warm on your bench so you never start from zero again. $149/month. Locked in for life for everyone who signs up before Monday March 2nd at 5 PM. The first 20 founding shops that sign up get $149 locked in for life plus a private 60-minute Bench Jumpstart Call with me where we build your first Bench Board together. https://www.skool.com/technicianfind/plans THE FULL VERSION: All week I've been breaking down a problem that most shops don't realize they have until it's too late. Monday: The crisis is never the tech who leaves. It's having nobody to call when they do. Tuesday: There are two kinds of shops — crisis mode and prevention mode. If you need a hire now, that's Technician Find. If you want to make sure you never panic-hire again, that's EasyBench. Different problems. Different solutions. Wednesday: The shops that never panic aren't lucky. They have a 2-minute daily habit of staying warm with good techs. That habit is the entire difference between scrambling on Indeed for 60 days and making one phone call on a Monday morning. Thursday: I showed you everything inside the EasyBench Founders Stack — the Bench Board, the Never-Short System, the Campaign Vault, the Warm-Up Scripts, and the weekly live clinic with me. Today, the door is open. HERE'S WHAT YOU GET: ✅ The Bench Board — your color-coded command center ✅ The "Never-Short" System — SOPs + follow-up tools ✅ The Campaign Vault — swipe-and-deploy bench-building campaigns ✅ 2-Minute Warm-Up Scripts — low-pressure texts + follow-ups ✅ Weekly Implementation Clinic — 60 min live with me every week ✅ FOUNDERS BONUS: Private 60-minute Bench Jumpstart Call — we build your first Bench Board together, mapped to your shop, your market, your ideal tech

If you've ever lost a tech on a Friday and spent the weekend in panic mode... This is the thing I built so that never happens again. 30 minutes. Be here.