Behind every vehicle on the road is a technician who made it possible.
TechGnarr advances the careers of automotive technicians and elevates the profession.
Every safe commute, every fleet vehicle, and every emergency response depends on work most people never see. It happens in shops and bays across the country, done by people who trained for years to get it right. Too often that work gets treated as replaceable labor instead of a profession.
Technicians have never had a shared path forward. No unified voice in an industry that runs on them. No single place to grow, connect, and shape what comes next, only scattered conversations, shop politics, and whatever an employer happens to offer.
TechGnarr exists to build a Community
TechGnarr is a professional home for the people who keep automotive service running. Technicians first, alongside the shop owners, educators, students, and industry professionals who back them.
Not a fan page. Not a discount code. A community built to last.
Private community
Monthly live Q&A
Partner discounts
Founding Member recognition
Voting on initiatives
Initiative Suggestions
The Membership
What it means to be a founding member
You’d be building this with us
TechGnarr isn't launching with a finished platform and a subscribe button. It's launching with a plan, a founder who's done the work, and a limited number of spots for the people willing to help build it from here.
Your rate locks the day you join and never moves, no matter how large the platform grows around it. Founders get full membership access, permanent Founding recognition, and a direct vote in what TechGnarr builds next.
Founding Member Tier 1
200 spots · $20/month, locked-in for as long as you stay active
Additional Founding tiers will open as TechGnarr grows, future spots, future pricing, same recognition for getting in early.
Built By a Technician
Curtis Gardner has spent more than 16 years in automotive service, which includes time as a Toyota Master Technician with Fred Haas Toyota World and as an Audi Master Guild Technician with Sewell Automotive Companies, where he was recognized as the top-performing service technician for three consecutive years.
Today, he works as a European automotive technician at The Garagisti, while using his platform to talk openly about the realities of the profession, career development, shop culture, compensation, efficiency, communication, and where automotive service is headed.
After years working inside both dealerships and independent shops, Curtis built TechGnarr to give technicians something bigger than content: a professional community built to help them save money, grow their careers, connect with the industry, and have a real voice in shaping the profession.
TechGnarr is one part of Gnarred LLC, the company Curtis founded to build a lasting home for the trades he's spent his career in.
For industry partners
The companies and brands that support technicians deserve a seat at this table too.