After 1.5 years of establishing SHIFTR as the go-to source for stick shift lessons throughout California and Washington state, we are offering the opportunity to purchase our business and continue to succeed like we have with our proven operating model. With low operating costs, high margins, and an extremely flexible work schedule this opportunity is perfect for a first time business owner or for an entrepreneur who wants to continue to grow the business and expand it further. If you already own a traditional driving school and would like to add manual transmission lessons as a new vertical to your product offerings, this would be an excellent opportunity for you as well.

We started our journey 7 years ago when we opened a stick shift driving school in the San Francisco Bay Area called Shift Bay Area. Our style of teaching and our way of operating enabled us to be extremely successful in 2018, and within a year we went from offering stick shift lessons at 1 training location in the San Francisco Bay Area to 6 different training locations. Over the next 4 years we dominated our market and became the leading stick shift driving school.

In 2020 we took the same model that we created in the San Francisco Bay Area and applied it to the Sacramento area by opening Shift NorCal. As a result we saw success and market dominance, and we grew to operating in 10 different training locations across the Sacramento area as well.

Over the years our business continued to grow and we knew we had to expand beyond Northern California, and that's when we created SHIFTR. As a test of our business model we sold the Shift Bay Area business at the end of 2023 and opened 12 training locations across the Los Angeles and San Diego areas under SHIFTR. In 2024 and 2025 we've seen steady business growth and market dominance across these areas, and we're confident in our business model. As a test of our expansion capabilities outside of California, we recently expanded into the Seattle area and have seen our model succeed there as well.

SHIFTR's lessons are very different from our competition in the way we operate:

1. We perform all lessons on quiet open roads instead of parking lots, which means that our lessons are more fun and educational.

2. We don't have any age restrictions on our customer base (the competition requires customers to be 18 years or older), and we don't force the customer to provide automobile insurance (we provide insurance for the lesson). This enables SHIFTR to dramatically increase our customer base by including customers who are licensed and are under 18 years of age, and we can provide services to customers who don't currently own a car (and as a result they don't carry any personal automobile insurance).

3. We offer a convenient way for customers to quickly book a date and time for their lesson online based on the availability of our instructors. The competition has customers pay for a lesson without the customer knowing when their lesson is going to take place, with which instructor they'll be taking the lesson, and in what type of car they'll be learning. We offer transparency that the competition doesn't, and this builds customer trust.

Our lesson pricing is competitive, and our customers understand that with us they are receiving a superior experience. We currently offer the following lessons:

- End-to-End Stick Shift Lesson: a 2 hour lesson that costs $299
- Custom Stick Shift Lesson: a 1 hour lesson that costs $199

Learn more about SHIFTR, our lessons, and how we operate at https://www.helloshiftr.com
We've also been featured in The Wall Street Journal.

We developed the Southern California market and have a consistent revenue stream, and have now begun developing the Seattle area market. There are unlimited opportunities for expansion within the entire United States, and this opportunity would be perfect for an entrepreneur who would like to be hands-on and who would like to take this business to the next level.