Part 145 Repair Stations

When the gray-haired IA retires, your shop's brain leaves with him.

Independent repair stations run on decades of tribal knowledge: airframe quirks, vendor relationships, pricing judgment, and FSDO interpretation patterns. None of it lives in a system. When your senior IA holder walks out, your shop loses its competitive edge overnight.

01

Every retirement is a knowledge loss event

Two of every five mechanics will reach retirement age by 2031. The airframe quirks, vendor contacts, and repair judgment they carry exist nowhere in writing. Training a replacement takes years because the expertise lives in your most experienced people's minds, not in a system anyone can search.

02

Parts sourcing intelligence is scattered across inboxes

Your best employee knows which vendors are reliable, which 8130-3 documentation to watch for, and which brokers to call for an AOG. That knowledge lives in their phone, their email, and their memory. When they leave, your next parts chase starts from zero.

03

Work order knowledge disappears after sign-off

Every completed job contains repair decisions, discrepancy findings, and labor insights that could inform the next job on a similar airframe. None of it is captured in a searchable way. Your shop solves the same problems from scratch, job after job.

04

Your IA holder's judgment is undocumented

A 25-person shop may have one or two IA holders. Their return-to-service judgment, FSDO interpretation knowledge, and regulatory instincts exist only in their minds. If that person is out, your shop does not just lose a signature. It loses the reasoning behind every decision they have ever made.

The MRO knowledge gap

40%

of current mechanics will reach retirement age by 2031

0

purpose-built tools for MRO knowledge capture

100%

of repair judgment and vendor intelligence is undocumented

1-2

people hold everything your shop actually knows

Your shop's repair expertise, findable before the gray-haired guy retires.

We capture the institutional knowledge that keeps your shop running: repair expertise, vendor intelligence, pricing judgment, and regulatory know-how. Your team searches it in plain English and gets real answers.

  • Repair expertise and airframe-specific quirks captured from veteran techs before they retire
  • Parts sourcing intelligence across trusted vendors, lead times, and 8130-3 documentation history
  • Quoting knowledge preserved from your best estimators, with estimated-vs-actual tracking
  • FSDO interpretation patterns and regulatory compliance history, searchable by anyone on the team

Where shop knowledge lives today

Senior IA's memory
Paper work orders
Access databases
Vendor phone calls

Searchable shop knowledge base

Every repair, every vendor, every pricing decision

Your daily shop briefing, built from your actual work orders.

Your techs and estimators are the best in the business. Our agents handle the documentation and research so your team can focus on the work that actually requires a wrench.

  • Quoting agent pulls historical work order data to generate labor estimates and scope predictions
  • Documentation agent drafts return-to-service statements and work order narratives from structured inputs
  • Parts sourcing agent tracks vendor availability, pricing trends, and 8130-3 compliance across suppliers
  • Everything routes through your IA for review before it touches a logbook

Shop briefing

Annual on N456CD: similar airframe had corrosion at STA 420 in 3 prior jobs, check recommended
2 open quotes awaiting customer approval, follow-up drafted for review
Parts lead time alert: brake assembly from preferred vendor now at 18 weeks, alternate sourced at 6

Your shop runs on knowledge that no system captures. We change that.

We build a searchable knowledge base from your repair history, vendor intelligence, and IA holder expertise, then deploy agents that put it to work on every job. Your team asks questions in plain English and gets real answers.