Speedish Software LLC / Danville, Indiana
Software for the
people who fix things.
We run a repair shop, so we know exactly how bad the software is. We built our own, then opened up the repair data underneath it, then pointed the same idea at heavy equipment and at our own kids’ education. Ten products, one machine, no landlord.
01 / The portfolio
Four products doing the heavy lifting.
Two of them run repair shops. One gives away the data the whole industry overcharges for. One teaches our children. They share more plumbing than you would expect.
Also in the trades stack
Built for our own house
Same stack, same machine, different problem.
02 / The system
It is one system, not a pile of side projects.
The open data platforms feed the shop products. The shop products feed the dealer product. The voice stack we built to stop paying a vendor now answers phones for shops and reads lessons to kids. Every piece makes the next one cheaper to build.
The household apps sit off to the side of this diagram. They solve a different problem, but they run on the same stack, on the same machine, to the same standard.
Scroll sideways to see the whole system.
Data first, apps second
We built the labor time database before we needed it for anything. It turned out to be the moat: every product downstream gets real repair content for free.
One stack, many faces
ShopBase, HeavyBase, and Recon Desk share a spine. A fix in the inspection engine lands in three products at once, which is how a small team ships like a large one.
Nothing rented
Speech, database, hosting, and cron all run on our own hardware. The only meaningful outside dependency left is the model provider, and that is a choice, not a lock-in.
03 / How we build
Four rules, held stubbornly.
Own the layer underneath
Everybody in this industry rents their repair data from two vendors and pays for it forever. We built our own and gave the web version away. That single decision is why our products can include things competitors have to charge extra for.
Ship it into a real shop first
Speedish Automotive is a working European repair shop, not a demo account. Features go in there before anyone else sees them. A service advisor with four cars waiting is the harshest product reviewer alive, and we have one on staff.
Price like a customer, not a spreadsheet
No per-seat fees. No implementation consultants. No twelve-month contract to get a discount that should have been the price. Add the whole crew on day one and pay the same as the shop next door with two techs.
Run our own metal
Every product here is self-hosted on hardware we own, in a building we control. No platform can deprecate us, rate limit us, or triple our bill on a Tuesday. When the marginal cost of a feature is electricity, we can afford to include it.
11
software products
1955
earliest model year covered
$0
to use the data on the web
1
server, ours
04 / Who is behind it
A shop owner who got tired of waiting.
Speedish Software is Chris Hackleman. The order of events matters: first a European repair shop in Danville, Indiana, then the frustration of running it on software written by people who have never opened a hood, then a decision to stop complaining and build the replacement.
ShopBase came out of that. The Open Labor Project came out of refusing to pay $180 a month for numbers that should be public. Cullinan Academy came out of homeschooling five kids and finding nothing that actually adapted to any of them.
It is a small operation on purpose. You will not get routed through a support tier. When you write in, it lands in an inbox that a person who built the thing actually reads.
Come use something we made.
Start with the free data, put the shop on ShopBase, or hand a kid Cullinan Academy for two weeks. All three take about a minute and none of them ask for a card.