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Dealership & shop IT —
uptime you can bank on.

Dealerships and shops run on their DMS, parts system, and credit-card handling. Any outage costs real money. We build IT that stays up and audits clean.

Built for

Single-rooftop and multi-rooftop dealerships, independent service shops, body shops, and parts distributors with PCI obligations and DMS-critical operations.

Challenges we solve

What every Midwest
dealership IT lead worries about.

DMS uptime

When the DMS goes down, sales stop, service stops, parts stops. CDK, Reynolds, Dealertrack, Auto/Mate — we monitor, patch, and respond before the sales floor goes quiet. 1-hour RPO on the database, tested quarterly.

PCI compliance & card handling

Card data handling has rules. We document them and enforce them — segmented payment VLAN, point-to-point encryption, quarterly scans, attestation prep. Auditor-ready evidence on demand.

Dealership floor Wi-Fi

Sales tablets, service bay laptops, customer Wi-Fi, camera feeds, payment terminals — all on one physical network, properly segmented. Customer guests can't see sales, sales can't see payment, payment can't see anything else.

Parts, CRM & OEM integrations

Your DMS talks to parts, CRM, F&I, financing, and manufacturer portals. When something breaks the integration, every department feels it. We monitor those handoffs and keep them flowing.

Service-bay laptop fleets

Diagnostic laptops live in dirty bays with grease, dropped wrenches, and the wrong USB ports. We image, harden, and lifecycle them so a busted laptop doesn't take a tech offline for a day.

Customer data & F&I risk

Customer credit apps, SSNs, financing data — high-value to attackers. Encryption, access controls, audit logs, and dark-web alerts on every staff identity.

How we build it

The stack we deploy
in every dealership.

Monitoring & control

NinjaOne RMM + ThreatLocker

Live monitoring on POS, F&I, and service-bay endpoints. Zero-trust allowlisting on payment-handling devices.

Network segmentation

UniFi VLANs (staff / customer / payment / cameras)

Four separate broadcast domains, firewall rules between them. Customer guests can never touch payment.

Compliance reporting

Wazuh SIEM

PCI-aligned log collection, retention, and reporting. Quarterly scans and attestation prep.

Backup

Slide backup w/ 1-hour RPO

DMS database snapshots every hour, tested restores every quarter. Sales never lose more than 60 minutes.

Endpoint security

Huntress EDR + Avanan

24/7 managed detection and email defense — phishing and BEC targeting F&I and accounting.

Identity

M365 + MFA + dark web monitor

MFA enforced for all staff. Alerts when credentials show up in breach databases.

What changes when DMS goes down

Our outage runbook.

For every CoyotePack dealership, we have a tested runbook the second a sale-blocking system goes amber.

  1. 01

    Detection < 1 minute

    DMS health probe fails → automated alert to on-call. Standard 30-min critical SLA applies.

  2. 02

    Triage & communicate

    GM and sales manager get a text. We open a channel and post status updates every 15 minutes.

  3. 03

    Restore or failover

    If it's our infrastructure — we fix it. If it's vendor — we open their P1 ticket and execute the documented workaround.

  4. 04

    Post-incident review

    Documented root cause, prevention plan, and runbook update — sent to GM within 5 business days.

Other industries

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⊙ For Midwest dealerships ⊙

Ready for IT that
keeps the floor running?

Tell us your DMS, rooftop count, and compliance posture. We'll send a tailored proposal the same business day.