First call
Locksmith
Cut and programmed a new key. The car still didn't start.
Amount paid
$220
Problem not found
Her car wouldn't start. She assumed it was the key, because the key is the part she touches. It wasn't the key. It's almost never the key.
First call
Locksmith
Cut and programmed a new key. The car still didn't start.
Amount paid
$220
Problem not found
Second call
Mechanic
Charged to look at it. Told her it was electrical.
Amount paid
$120
Problem not found
Third call
Auto electrician
Said the modules needed configuring, and to call a specialist.
Amount paid
$95
Problem not found
Fourth call
Module specialist
Ran a diagnosis, then sent her to the dealer anyway.
Amount paid
$250
Diagnosis only
Fifth call
Dealership
Found it and fixed it. A failed body control module.
Amount paid
$840
Solved, eleven days later
Built on 15,000+ locksmith and diagnostic jobs at 4Keys, across Miami and Atlanta
$1,525
Spent before anyone could tell her which part had failed. The part itself costs about $180.
Undercover study by RepairPal, reported by ABC7. Gap closing verified by field experiment: Busse, Israeli & Zettelmeyer, Journal of Marketing Research, NBER 19154.
11+
Days without a working car, seen by five different trades, and it still ended at the dealer because nobody had told her what had actually failed.
The gap closes the moment you know what is actually wrong with your car and what it should cost.
The problem was never being a woman. It was walking into the conversation with nothing to go on about your own car. That is the entire reason this product exists.
15,000+
Cases behind the insight. Every one of them a phone call, taken one at a time, working out what had actually failed.
Whether the car has already stopped or something is quietly starting to fail, you get one sentence you can act on.
An answer in seconds, not across eleven days and five visits.
Plug it in under the dashboard once, then leave it there for good.
Costs less than a single service call for the wrong problem.
No codes to go and google. No guessing which trade to call first.
Not error codes. Not a technician's dashboard. Written so a twelve-year-old could follow it, because you shouldn't need a mechanic to understand what the mechanic is saying.
Design mockup, not the finished app. These screens are a prototype we built to work out what the app should say. The product is still in development.
The app rules parts out as well as in, so you know what is fine before you know what is broken. Then it tells you who actually repairs it and what that normally costs.
Your right brake light is out. In Georgia that's a ticket, and the bulb costs about $12.
One of your spark plugs has stopped firing. You're losing power and burning more fuel. Worth booking this week.
Your battery is getting weak. It will probably still start tomorrow. It probably won't next week.
The device stays plugged in and paired to your phone, so when something begins to fail you hear about it while the fix is still small and you are still in your driveway.
All brands. All models. Back to 1996.
No codes · No graphs · Nothing to figure out
A small device plugs into the port under your dashboard, the one every car sold in the US has had ever since, and pairs with the app by itself. That is the whole setup. After that you just drive.
Every reader on the market was built for the shop. They tell you what the code is. None of them tells you who to call, what it should cost, or what is about to fail.
Every line of it is correct. Not one of them tells her what to do next.
Cylinder 1 is not firing. The engine shakes and wastes fuel.
You need an engine diagnostics technician — not a mechanic, and not a locksmith.
It normally runs $120 to $420, and takes one to two hours.
Three lines. She can act on all three.
Both are reading the same engine. Only one of them was built for the person standing next to it — and only one says anything at all before the light ever comes on.
These are three of them. There are many more, and some are a lot worse.
Get early accessYou can't see your own brake lights, so you usually find out when an officer does.
Caught the same day, it's a $12 bulb.
Batteries get slower for weeks before they die, and the car hides it from you. Found in a parking lot, it's a tow.
Found at home, it's a Saturday errand.
You get in, turn the key, and nothing. With no idea what failed, you call the wrong trade first. That is where the real headache starts. Sound familiar?
With the device you would already know — and keep the time and the money instead of the headache.
Once when it arrives, then only when it matters. Retail price $60 to $90.
Get early accessThe port is under the dashboard on the driver's side. Every car built since 1996 has one.
Plug it in
It reads the car and answers in one screen, in plain words rather than a list of codes.
Open the app
The app names the trade that actually handles it and what the repair normally costs.
Know who to call
“Most of the women who called us were guessing at what was wrong. Guessing is expensive: they either overpaid, or made it worse.”
Luisa has been taking those calls for three years at 4Keys, across Miami and Atlanta, and after more than 15,000 jobs the same thing sits underneath almost all of them. Not carelessness, and not the car. Simply that nobody had ever explained to her what she was looking at, and the person she calls to find out is usually the person selling the repair.
She started Qorinca to put three plain facts in that woman's hands before she picks up the phone: what is actually wrong, which trade repairs it, and what that repair costs on the open market. With those three she has enough to make the right decision herself, and nothing left for anyone to take advantage of.
The device does it without being asked, and it does not wait for the car to break down. A battery weakening for weeks before it strands her. A brake light she cannot see is out, and a patrol car can. A repair she can price before she calls anyone. Knowing those things early is the difference between an errand she planned and a night she did not.
15,000+
Jobs behind the insight
1
Obvious need nobody served
100%
Woman-owned
$1,525
One call
The repair was never the expensive part. $685 went to four people who could not fix it, and by the time she reached the fifth she had no diagnosis, no alternative and no idea what the job was worth. That is what she paid for.
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First
She would have walked in already knowing what had failed and what that repair normally costs. That is precisely the difference the field experiment measured.
Eleven days
Same day
She knew what had failed the morning it failed, so the car went to one place and came back.
One notification on a Tuesday. That was the whole event.
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