One technician, one problem.
I am an automotive technician and shop manager in Kanata. I have spent enough Octobers walking a shipping container with a work order in my hand, looking for a set that was meant to be on the third shelf, to want it to stop.
When I looked at what was available to fix it, the quote was in the thousands a year for something built for a dealership — a system that assumes a parts department, an integration project and a handheld scanner. The shop I was in tracked a few hundred stored sets on a whiteboard, because the whiteboard was free and it mostly worked. Treadstock is what I wrote instead.
It does one job. A set goes away in about ninety seconds with a label or a chalk mark, any set is findable in ten by part of a name, and on Monday morning it tells you who is due back and whose tread is finished. It runs on the phone in a tech’s pocket and it keeps working with no signal, because a lot of these tires live in a container out the back where there is none.
What that means for your shop
It is not a dealership system
No repair orders, no invoicing, no integration project. It does storage and stays out of the way of whatever you already run the shop on.
Your records are yours
Sets, history and photographs export to a spreadsheet any time, without asking us, and without needing us to still exist.
Built where it is used
Every screen has been changed because somebody holding four tires said it was wrong. The changelog in the app says what changed and why, release by release.
Where it is going
Honestly rather than ambitiously: the next real step is the Pro work in spring 2027 — reminders to your customers, storage-fee invoicing, more than one location in one account. That is a season rather than a date, because every one of those touches somebody outside your shop.