Motive Launches AI-Driven Maintenance Solution to Help Operations Teams Prevent Breakdowns, Increase Uptime, and Reduce Repair Costs

San Francisco — Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today announced the launch ofMotive Maintenance, a new AI-driven system that helps organizations track and manage maintenance workflows directly within the Motive platform. By unifying vehicle and asset health with repair workflows and spend, Motive Maintenance provides organizations with a single real-time view of their entire fleet maintenance operations—from fault codes detected on the road to repairs completed and costed in the shop. Now, teams can identify issues earlier, improve vehicle uptime and asset utilization, and significantly reduce repair costs.

For physical operations leaders, downtime means lost capacity, disrupted service, and reduced margins. Organizations lose nearly9 daysper vehicle each year due to unplanned downtime, with estimated losses of $448 to $760 per vehicle per day. Additionally, ina new study by Motive, fleet professionals ranked rising repair and maintenance costs as their top operational challenge. Only 13% of respondents said their fleet management technology systems are well-integrated and automatically share data across platforms. As a result, most teams still operate with disconnected maintenance workflows, reacting to emergencies while overpaying for parts and labor.

"Teams shouldn't have to learn about a breakdown from a roadside call—they should have early insight and the ability to act to prevent costly failures," said Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive. "With Motive Maintenance integrated directly into the broader Motive platform, organizations gain comprehensive, early visibility into vehicle health, enabling them to proactively address issues before they escalate into costly breakdowns. This means fewer breakdowns, less downtime, and real savings on every vehicle and asset."

"Before Motive Maintenance, what happened on the road and what happened in the shop were two separate records," said Luke Crawley, Fleet Manager at H&R Agri-Power Inc. "Now, inspections, fault codes, and work orders run through a single system, issues surface earlier, more assets stay running, and we can finally see the true cost of operating our fleet. Instead of paying emergency costs when breakdowns occur, we'll be able to fix issues ahead of time, achieve higher uptime, save hundreds of hours each week, and significantly reduce the cost of keeping our fleet running."

One platform, unified maintenance operations

Motive Maintenance is an AI-driven system that connects vehicles or assets, drivers, maintenance, and the back office into one integrated platform, enabling teams to identify issues earlier, fix them faster, and understand the true operational cost of every vehicle and asset. Fault codes detected on the road are converted into prioritized work orders in the shop, inspection defects are never missed, and repair costs are aggregated into an accurate total cost of ownership (TCO) view.

With Motive Maintenance, organizations can:

• Keep vehicles and drivers safe with proactive diagnostics:AI fault code diagnostics instantly translate complex codes into plain-language explanations, flag critical issues, recommend repairs, and prompt drivers to take safe actions. Severity-based prioritization automatically ranks issues, enabling teams to focus on what matters most. Health insights combine defects found during inspections and service schedules with vehicle and asset availability, giving teams clarity on what needs attention.
• Fix vehicles and assets faster with AI-driven automated workflows:Automationconverts inspection defects, fault codes, and service reminders captured in the Motive Driver App into digital work orders, ensuring critical repairs are never missed. AI-powered invoice scanning reduces manual data entry by auto-populating accurate repair record line items, saving significant administrative hours.
• Reduce costs with comprehensive spend visibility:Maintenance pulls fuel spend from Motive Card and combines it with repair and maintenance costs for every vehicle and asset—giving customers the ability to see the true operational cost of each vehicle.
• Stop overpaying for repairs, parts, and aging vehicles:Motive Maintenance's proactive warranty tracking helps teams avoid paying for covered repairs. Multi-location inventory tracking prevents over-ordering parts, and data-driven replacement analysis pinpoints the optimal time to retire a vehicle, preventing it from becoming a "money pit."

Motive Maintenance boosts uptime and lowers operating costs per vehicle and asset

With Maintenance, Motive now offers seven products on asingle AI platform—Driver Safety、Fleet Management、Equipment Monitoring、Spend Management、Workforce Management、Operations IntelligenceandMaintenance. Physical operations leaders no longer need to switch between different solutions for each department—they can now manage drivers, vehicles, equipment, spend, and maintenance workflows in one place.

This integration delivers measurable results. In the2026 Motive ROI Report, all respondents reported an average 18% improvement in vehicle uptime, while theIDC Business Value White Paper, "The Business Value of Motive: Precision AI for Fleet Safety",found that respondent organizations achieved over $1.8 million in annual safety savings on average, partly due to an average 95% reduction in at-fault collisions. By bridging the gap between the road, the shop, and the back office, Motive Maintenance helps teams keep more vehicles and assets running and lowers the total operating cost per vehicle. It transforms maintenance from a reactive cost center into a competitive advantage for every organization that keeps the world moving.

Motive Maintenance is now available across the United States and Canada. To learn more or request a demo, visitgomotive.comand read theMotive Maintenance launch blog。

About Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more efficient, and more profitable. For the first time, safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their employees, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves nearly100,000 customers, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk, across a wide range of industries, includingtransportation and logistics、construction、energy、field services, manufacturing,agriculture、food and beverage, retail,waste servicesandthe public sector。