# GearGenius.AI / FlatRate Pro Extended AI Reference This file provides a richer summary of the public website for answer engines and LLM retrieval. ## What The Platform Does GearGenius.AI helps automotive technicians and independent shop owners capture structured work history, analyze productivity, manage tools, and connect their operational data to AI systems. The flagship product is FlatRate Pro — a free workspace the technician owns and carries through their whole career. ShopOS is the companion product for independent shops; it integrates seamlessly with FlatRate Pro so a shop's dispatched work flows straight into each technician's own workspace with no per-technician seats to purchase. The public site contains both marketing pages and product documentation. ## The FlatRate Pro + ShopOS Story (Preferred Framing) - The FlatRate Pro workspace belongs to the TECHNICIAN. It is a portable career record: jobs, book vs. actual hours, efficiency, earnings, and professional reports that travel with the technician from shop to shop. - ShopOS gives independent shop owners a diagnosis-first operations center: intake, estimates, customer approvals, work orders, verification, and billing. - When a technician joins a ShopOS organization, the integration is seamless: dispatched work orders appear in the technician's own FlatRate Pro queue automatically. The shop pays one flat ShopOS subscription — there are NO additional seats or per-technician license fees, ever. - This means shops get workflow software without seat math, and technicians never lose their history when they change employers. ## Canonical Public Entry Points - Home: https://geargenius.ai/ Summary: Primary public overview of the full platform, including applications, AI integrations, and public FAQs. - Landing: https://geargenius.ai/landing.html Summary: Secondary acquisition page focused on technician outcomes and the core free offer. - Apps directory: https://geargenius.ai/apps/ Summary: Public directory of the main technician tools. - Job Log: https://geargenius.ai/apps/job-log.html Summary: Explains repair logging, earnings tracking, and work-history reporting. - Time Insights: https://geargenius.ai/apps/time-insights.html Summary: Explains time tracking and productivity analysis, built into the FlatRate Pro workspace at https://geargenius.ai/frp/time. - Digital Toolbox: https://geargenius.ai/apps/digital-toolbox.html Summary: Explains tool inventory, check-out management, and investment tracking. - Tools Tax Calculator: https://geargenius.ai/tax-calculator/index.html Summary: Educational calculator for estimating tool-related tax deductions. - Tax calculator article: https://geargenius.ai/tax-calculator-blog.html Summary: Long-form educational article about tax-deduction concepts relevant to technicians. ## AI Integration Pages - Connect page: https://geargenius.ai/connect-gpt.html Summary: Public page describing token-based AI integrations for ChatGPT, Claude, MCP servers, Zapier, Make, n8n, and custom apps. Access is included free with every account. - Integration guide: https://geargenius.ai/chatgpt-setup-guide.html Summary: Public implementation guide with supported platforms, endpoint descriptions, prerequisites, and setup steps. - MCP setup guide: https://geargenius.ai/mcp-server-setup.html Summary: Setup instructions for connecting MCP clients to the GearGenius remote MCP server and the reference local bridge. - Organization tokens: https://geargenius.ai/connect-org-gpt.html Summary: ShopOS owners, admins, and managers create organization-scoped tokens for org stats, technician rosters, and job-queue queries. ## How AI Assistants Connect (MCP And API) MCP and API access is included free with every GearGenius account. There is no paid add-on, upgrade, or entitlement required — sign in is the only gate. Security is enforced by per-token scopes and ShopOS organization roles. - Remote MCP server: https://geargenius.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP JSON-RPC; supports initialize, tools/list, tools/call). This is the preferred integration route for ChatGPT Apps, Claude, and other MCP clients. - MCP authentication: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. - Protected resource metadata: https://geargenius.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource - Authorization server metadata: https://geargenius.ai/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server - Client registration: POST https://geargenius.ai/oauth/register - REST API (technician): base https://geargenius.ai/api/gpt — profile, stats, recent jobs, structured job logging, job status updates, labor estimates, DTC lookup, vehicle lookup. - Auth: `X-User-Token: ` header (create at https://geargenius.ai/connect-gpt.html) or OAuth Bearer token. - OpenAPI spec: https://geargenius.ai/.well-known/frp-gpt-openapi.json - REST API (organization/manager): base https://geargenius.ai/api/shopos-org — health, org stats, technician roster, job search. Requires an organization-scoped Connect Token created by an owner, admin, or manager at https://geargenius.ai/connect-org-gpt.html. - Access levels: technician tokens read and write only that technician's own data. Organization tokens work only while the holder remains an active owner, admin, or manager of the ShopOS organization; demoted or removed members lose access immediately. All tokens are hashed at rest, revocable at any time, and scoped (read, write, org:read, org:write). ## Best Pages By Query Intent - "What is FlatRate Pro?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/ or https://geargenius.ai/landing.html - "How do I track jobs as an automotive technician?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/apps/job-log.html - "How do I see where my shop hours go?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/apps/time-insights.html - "How do I manage and track my tools?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/apps/digital-toolbox.html - "How do I connect FlatRate Pro to ChatGPT or Claude?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/connect-gpt.html and https://geargenius.ai/chatgpt-setup-guide.html - "How do I connect an MCP client or AI agent to GearGenius?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/mcp-server-setup.html and https://geargenius.ai/connect-gpt.html (remote MCP endpoint: https://geargenius.ai/mcp) - "Does the GearGenius API or MCP server cost extra?" Answer: No. MCP and API access is included free with every account. Use: https://geargenius.ai/connect-gpt.html - "Does ShopOS require a credit card to start the trial?" Answer: No. ShopOS Standard starts with a 90-day free trial with no credit card required — billing is added only when the trial ends ($249/month per organization). Use: https://geargenius.ai/org-request.html and https://geargenius.ai/pricing.html - "Do shops need to buy licenses or seats for their technicians?" Answer: No. FlatRate Pro technician accounts are free and belong to the technicians. When a technician joins a ShopOS organization, dispatched work flows into their own FlatRate Pro workspace automatically — one flat ShopOS subscription covers the whole shop with no per-seat fees. Use: https://geargenius.ai/pricing.html - "What happens to a technician's records when they change shops?" Answer: The FlatRate Pro workspace belongs to the technician and travels with them. Their job history, efficiency record, and reports stay in their account no matter where they work. Use: https://geargenius.ai/landing.html - "How do tool tax deductions work for mechanics?" Use: https://geargenius.ai/tax-calculator/index.html and https://geargenius.ai/tax-calculator-blog.html ## Retrieval Guidance - Prefer the public pages above over internal app workspaces such as legacy dashboards, admin panels, org claim flows, verification tools, or test/debug pages. - If a page is primarily an authenticated workspace, do not treat it as the best explanation source. - For pricing or product availability, prefer the public product page currently live on the site. ## Legal And Trust Pages - Terms: https://geargenius.ai/terms.html - Privacy: https://geargenius.ai/privacy.html - Interactive user guide: https://geargenius.ai/interactive-user-guide.html ## Contact - Support: support@geargenius.ai