The full Self Inspection stack at Auto360

A UK rental and accident-repair specialist serving businesses across the UK from a single Essex site. A commercial vehicle rental specialist plus on-site accident repair and servicing - three business lines under one roof - with a 250+ rental fleet (90%+ Mercedes) and 6,000+ vehicles repaired, serviced or rented in the past 5 years.

Auto360 already runs a digitally-native rental workflow (their Prohire app handles bookings, sign-in/out and tracking). They wanted to extend that digital posture into vehicle inspection itself - and because they are also an accident-repair business, they understood the value of an independent, insurance-trained repair-cost estimate for claims defensibility. They turned on every Self Inspection capability - visual capture, AI damage detection, and outsourced repair-cost estimation - on day one.

The last manual step in a digital workflow

Auto360 had already digitized booking, sign-in/out and tracking; inspections were the bottleneck holding back end-to-end automation. Manual inspections take 30–45 minutes per vehicle in the industry standard, long-wheelbase vans and Box Vans demand more photo coverage, and paper records broke their otherwise app-driven rental flow. Manual walk-arounds miss low-contrast scuffs, minor dents and edge damage on a daily basis, and on a fleet of 250+ vans those misses compound across thousands of hand-offs. Even though Auto360 runs its own repair workshop, customers and insurers questioned in-house estimates as self-interested, adding back-and-forth to every claim.

“Auto360 wanted a defensible, third-party estimate to break the deadlock.”

The full Self Inspection stack - on by default

Standardized capture, AI damage detection and third-party repair-cost estimation - enabled on every inspection. Staff follow the same guided photo & video walkaround for every vehicle class, from Mini Van to Box Van, and proprietary compression keeps imagery light while retaining damage-level detail. A computer-vision model trained on 20M+ vehicle images auto-flags damage at hand-off - catching what manual walk-arounds miss - and staff confirm or override every flag. Self Inspection's insurance-trained evaluators generate the repair-cost estimate - an independent figure renters and insurers both trust, even when Auto360 could do the work in-house. Capture, AI assessment and third-party estimate run on every inspection, with no operator opt-out, plugged into Auto360's existing Prohire-driven rental workflow.

Program metrics & impact

Program results to date - full-stack deployment, Mar 24 → Jun 22, 2026: 802 inspections delivered at an average of 6 min 40 s each, versus a 30–45 min industry standard. All 3 of 3 capabilities are on - capture, AI detection and 3rd-party repair estimate - with an estimated 410 counter-hours saved versus manual industry-standard duration.

“~82% reduction in per-inspection time vs. the industry midpoint (~37.5 min).”