— Five Years · Same Crew

BUILT IN A GARAGE.
RUN LIKE A RACE TEAM.

Your Business started in a two-car garage with one orbital polisher, one set of microfibers, and one bad habit of caring too much about the cars rolling out the door. Five years later, the polisher count is up, the bad habit is unchanged.

Founded · April 2021 Cars Detailed · 2,840+ Crew · 6 technicians Bays · 4 climate-controlled

Founder polishing a car in original two-car garage

— Garage Bay 01 · 2021

— Origin Story

One garage. One stubborn opinion about clear coat.

Founder Reese Calder spent eight years selling parts at a body shop and watching $90,000 cars come back from "details" looking worse than they went in. Holograms. Towel-marred bumpers. Solvent-stripped trim. In the spring of 2021, he bought a Rupes 21 BigFoot, two boxes of pads, and a paint-depth gauge — and started detailing his own car the way the body shop never did.

Two months later he was doing his neighbor's. Six months in, he was doing the entire cul-de-sac. By the end of year one, he had a waitlist, a second technician, and a small commercial bay on the east side. The garage operation was the proof of concept; the shop is what happens when you scale it without losing the obsession.

Today, Your Business runs four climate-controlled bays, a six-person crew, and a mobile rig that carries water and 4,000-watt generators to driveways. Every job — driveway or bay — is logged the same way: pad list, depth readings, photo report, signed QC sheet. Same standard, every time.

2021Garage Bay OpensOne polisher, one customer, one waitlist forming.

2022Eastside Shop OpensTwo bays. First Gtechniq accreditation registered.

2023Mobile Rig LaunchesSelf-contained truck — water, power, full kit.

2024West Hills Shop OpensTwo more bays. Crew grows to five.

20262,840 Cars DetailedLifetime through April. Same polisher, refurbished twice.

THE CREW ON
THE PAD.

Six technicians. Three on correction, two on coatings, one on interior. Everyone does QC. Everyone is on the warranty.

— Founder

Reese Calder

Started the operation in 2021. Still on the pad three days a week, runs every multi-stage QC walk-through personally.

On Pad9 yrs

— Lead Correction

Marco Halstead

Came up from a body-shop paint booth. Runs every multi-stage paint correction in the shop. Concours show prep lead.

On Pad9 yrs

— Coatings Specialist

Selena Ozaki

Lays every Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra and Gyeon Mohs install. Runs the climate-controlled coating bay calendar.

On Pad6 yrs

— Interior Lead

Davian Pruitt

Steamer obsessive. Treats leather like a sommelier treats wine. Pulls smoke and pet odors that other shops give up on.

On Pad5 yrs

THE EQUIPMENT
BENCH.

The actual tools on the cart. We don't hide brand names — if it touches your car, you should know what it is.

— Polishers

Orbital + Rotary Stack

Three orbital diameters across the cart so we never reach for the wrong tool. Rotary on standby for severe oxidation cuts.

Rupes BigFoot 21 ×3
Rupes BigFoot 15 ×4
Rupes Mini 75 ×2
Flex Cordless Rotary ×1

— Coatings

9-Year Backed Stack

Authorized installer for the two coatings we trust to stand up to a nine-year warranty. We don't carry anything we wouldn't put on our own cars.

Gtechniq Crystal Serum Ultra 9 yr
Gyeon Mohs+ 5 yr
CarPro CQuartz UK 3.0 2 yr
Gtechniq EXOv5 Topper 2 yr

— Steamers + Extractors

Interior Heavy Lifters

Commercial-grade steam for headliners, leather, and stitched trim. Hot-water extractors for carpet and upholstery deep cleans.

Tornador Black Air Tool ×2
Vapor Steam · 320°F ×2
Mytee LiteII Extractor ×1
Bissell BigGreen ×1

— Measurement

Diagnostic Bench

What separates correction from polishing. Every panel measured before we put a pad on it, every reading logged in the customer file.

PosiTector 6000 Gauge ×2
Scangrip Sunmatch 4 ×3
3500K + 6000K QC Bay 2 stations
USB Macro Microscope ×1

— Mobile Rig

Self-Contained Truck

Drives to your driveway carrying its own water, its own power, and its own pad cart. Same standard as the bay, same QC walk-through.

120-gal Reverse-Osmosis Tank ×1
Honda EU3000 Generator ×2
Pressurized Foam Cannon ×2
4,000W LED Tower ×1

— Bay Climate

Coating Cure Suite

Coatings cure to spec only inside controlled humidity and temperature. Two bays are sealed and conditioned exclusively for that purpose.

Climate-Sealed Bays ×2
Humidity Hold · 45–55% ·
Temp Hold · 68–72°F ·
HEPA-Filtered Air ·

WALK
THE SHOP.

Six photos from the West Hills bay. The actual workspace your car would sit in. Lift bays, coating suite, QC inspection lamps.

— Bay 01 · Climate Controlled

— Pad Cart

— Wash Bay

— QC Lamps

— Coating Suite

— Mobile Rig

CERTIFIED.
REGISTERED. INSURED.

Every credential the crew holds. Verified by the manufacturer or governing body, not just claimed on a website.

Gtechniq Accredited Detailer

Gyeon Quartz Authorized Installer

Rupes BigFoot Trainer

CarPro Cquartz Pro Certified

IDA Certified Detailer

HOW WE
RUN EVERY JOB.

Four standards we hold every booking to — driveway or bay, base package or track-prep, sedan or supercar.

Measure First

Every panel gets a depth gauge before a pad touches it. We can't promise a result we haven't measured the room to deliver.

Show The Work

Every job comes back with a photo report — before, in-progress, after. The receipts, in case you ever want them.

Honest Scope

If a defect needs a body shop, we say so. If a coating won't hold on neglected paint, we say so. We win the long game by losing the wrong jobs.

Lifetime QC

Anything we miss in the QC walk gets fixed before keys go back. We don't release a car the customer isn't fully signed off on.

BUILT IN A GARAGE.RUN LIKE A RACE TEAM.