In 2024, I lost my leg and hip in an accident that should have ended everything.

The recovery wasn't pretty. The hospital stays, the surgeries, the moments where you stare at the ceiling at 3am wondering what your life looks like now — I lived all of it.

People came to visit and told me to take it easy. To be grateful just to be alive. To lower the bar on what I expected from myself.

I couldn't do it.

While I was still recovering, I was researching ceramic coatings. Reading about paint correction. Watching detailing videos at 2am when I couldn't sleep. Not because I had a plan — because I needed something to pour myself into that had nothing to do with what I'd lost.

Echelon Auto Studio started in a garage in Beckley, WV with a polisher, a pressure washer, and a wheelchair. No shop. No investors. No safety net.

Just a standard I refused to lower.

200 clients later — the work speaks for itself.

Every car gets treated like it's going in my own driveway. Paint correction that removes years of damage. Ceramic coatings that protect what you've invested. Full details that make people stop and stare in parking lots.

Because when you've had to fight just to keep going, you don't half-ass anything.

Echelon is growing. A real shop is coming. Tint. PPF. Land that belongs to us. Wealth that gets passed down — not borrowed.

We're not there yet. But every car we touch gets us closer.

I'm not building a detailing business.

I'm building something that lasts.

— Founder, Echelon Auto Studio