Digital work forautomotive.
Almost every automotive business in Kenya runs its shopfront on Instagram. It works, up to a point: the feed is current, the DMs come in, and the phone rings. What it cannot do is answer a buyer who is searching for a specific part, a specific service, or a specific make at eleven at night.
The businesses that pull ahead are the ones where a buyer can confirm something for themselves — that the part fits, that the yard does that kind of repair, that the wrap will look like the one in the photograph — before they have to ask a human.
What usually goes wrong
- Stock that only exists as three thousand Instagram posts, unsearchable the moment it scrolls past
- The same fitment question answered by hand twenty times a week
- Quotes for the same job coming out differently depending on who wrote them
- Enquiries split across DMs, WhatsApp and a phone nobody answers on site
- No way for a buyer to judge the quality of the work before arriving
How we approach it
- Put the thing being bought — the part, the service, the finished job — where search can reach it
- Let the buyer self-qualify: fitment, scope and process visible without asking
- Funnel everything to one channel, usually WhatsApp, because that is where the reply will actually happen
- Photograph the work properly, since in this sector the finish is the product
Work in this sector
- AutomotiveCustom Skinz AutoWhatsApp-first site built to turn passing interest into a booked wrap.Read the case study
- Auto partsKen Direct ImportsOEM parts catalogue built so a buyer can confirm a part fits before asking what it costs.Read the case study
- Accident repairJentrix Auto GarageAccident repair yard in Ruaka. The whole site funnels toward one action: send a photo of the damage.Read the case study
Questions from this sector
- Can you build a parts catalogue that shows fitment?
- Yes — that is exactly what we built for Ken Direct Imports, so a buyer can confirm a part fits their vehicle before asking what it costs. It removes the single most repeated question in the parts trade.
- We already get plenty of work from Instagram. Why bother?
- Then keep Instagram. The gap is search: nobody googling for a specific part or repair lands on a grid of posts. A site does not replace the feed, it catches the demand the feed cannot reach and answers the questions you are currently answering by hand.