Honest answers.

Two consumer tiers: Quick Verdict is $79 and Verdict is $129 — both one-time, no subscription. The Shop License (for repair shops who want to run Verdicts for their own customers) is $2,997, one-time. No monthly fees, no upsells.

Quick Verdict ($79) is for the customer who has a symptom, a question, or a pre-purchase decision but doesn't have a written inspection PDF in hand. You plug in your VIN, mileage, what the car's doing, and any service history — the engine does the same deep mechanical reasoning, ranks the likely failure modes, names specific discriminator tests, and surfaces coverage you might qualify for. Verdict ($129) does all of that AND parses a full inspection PDF (every line scored individually) plus up to 10 photos for visual context. If you have inspection paperwork from a shop, use Verdict. If you're bringing a symptom or a pre-purchase question, Quick is the right call.

A 0-100 score, a plain-English recommendation, deep mechanical reasoning over your specific symptoms (not a generic "second opinion" punt), the top failure-mode hypotheses ranked by platform prevalence at your mileage, specific tests to confirm or rule each out, NHTSA recall + complaint cross-reference for your exact VIN, cost asymmetry analysis, and coverage hunt for TSBs, CSPs, and warranty extensions. Delivered to your email in about 30 minutes.

Everything in Quick, plus full inspection-PDF parsing (every line scored), up to 10 photos for visual context, line-by-line shop-quote analysis, vehicle valuation context with regional adjustments, repair-to-value math, and a maintenance roadmap of what tends to come next at your platform / mileage. Delivered to your email in about 30 minutes.

Refund requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Significant delivery delays, out-of-scope vehicles, and Verdicts with material concerns raised within 7 days are the typical situations we consider. Email smithperformanceproductions@gmail.com with your Verdict ID and we will respond within one business day. See /refund-policy for the full text.

Your score is a 0–100 read on whether the data on your specific vehicle says it's worth keeping money in. There are seven bands. 93–100 Strong (pristine condition; zero non-trivial findings). 85–92 Healthy (solid shape with minor wear items — maintenance, not concern). 76–84 Sound (good condition, ordinary maintenance items present). 68–75 Watching (real items to monitor; nothing failing today, but plan a service window). 58–67 Needs Attention (active concerns to address soon; meaningful work pending). 45–57 Significant Concerns (multiple active concerns or one severe one; real repair conversation). Below 45 Major Concerns (substantial active problems; significant repair, replacement, or strategic decision required). Two vehicles with the same score can have different reasons for that score — read the narrative; it explains which dimensions are dragging the score down or holding it up.

About 30 minutes from payment to delivery. Delivered to your email when ready.

By email. Subject line "Your RepairVerdict for [your car] is ready." Stripe Checkout collects your email at payment, so the same email used to pay is where the Verdict arrives.

Yes. Every Verdict has a shareable link. Send it to your mechanic, your spouse, the dealer you're trading into. Most customers do.

Yes. Every Verdict includes a dedicated PDF report you can download, print, or share.

Passenger cars and light trucks, model years 1995 and newer. Domestic, Japanese, Korean, and most European brands.

Motorcycles, RVs, heavy trucks (Class 7-8), commercial vehicles, all-electric vehicles, and pre-1995 classics. If we cannot generate a usable Verdict for an out-of-scope vehicle, a refund is generally appropriate — see /refund-policy.

Hybrids and plug-in hybrids are covered. Pure battery-electric vehicles aren't — yet. We're working on the data coverage.

Tell us in the intake. Significant modifications (lift kits, performance tunes, salvage history) shift the math; we account for what we know about, but if the modification is sub-rosa from our data, the Verdict will reflect a stock-equivalent baseline.

Yes. We don't sell or share your data. Your VIN, mileage, repair details, photos, and analysis are yours.

Verdicts are retained indefinitely so you can return to them. Email smithperformanceproductions@gmail.com to request deletion at any time — we honor it within 7 business days.

No. We deliberately don't share your data with shops. The whole product depends on you knowing the analysis is independent.

Your mechanic gets paid to fix things. Even when they're honest, the structural conflict means you can't fully trust the answer is in your interest. We have no financial stake in your decision.

Forum answers are anonymous and unverified. We pull NHTSA data for your specific VIN, run market value math for your region, and put a name on the analysis (Devon Smith, former shop owner). It's analysis, not anecdote.

CarFax tells you what happened to the car. We tell you what to do about it. The Verdict synthesizes the history, the current quote, and the math into a recommendation.

Another shop is also paid to fix things. They might be more honest than the first shop, but they're still in the same structural position. We're the one party with no financial interest in the outcome.

Devon Smith, a former auto-shop operator who pivoted after a motorcycle accident. He built RepairVerdict because he watched too many customers get talked into bad repairs — and watched others walk away from cars they should've kept.

The Verdict is produced by a large language model anchored against NHTSA data, market value lookups, and a structured prompt that Devon iterates on weekly. Every Verdict goes through internal review thresholds before delivery.

If you have material concerns about the Verdict, contact us within 7 days and we will review your request alongside the audit trail. Cars are mechanical systems with real variance — the Verdict is informational analysis, not a guarantee of any future outcome. We tell you the math; the math says what it says.

Yes — out-of-scope vehicles (motorcycles, RVs, heavy trucks, some rare configurations) are a typical refund situation. We would rather decline the order than ship a Verdict we cannot stand behind.