Idle
idleG'day — ask me to book a service or write a post.
Torque — your Mufflermen business assistant
A chrome-and-matte mechanic-robot avatar that gives the customer-facing AI a face. Ten assistant states, each with its own motion, tuned for both themes and respectful of reduced-motion.
Production answer
Torque — your Mufflermen business assistant is a reusable Oak Flats Muffler Men UI primitive with documented states, accessibility expectations, theme behavior, and implementation evidence.
Primary CTAReview Torque — your Mufflermen business assistant states
Generative search brief
Torque — your Mufflermen business assistant: A chrome-and-matte mechanic-robot avatar that gives the customer-facing AI a face. Ten assistant states, each with its own motion, tuned for both themes and respectful of reduced-motion.
Meet Torque
One message in. The shop gets it done.
Torque is the friendly mechanic-bot the owner and customers talk to. The avatar mirrors what the assistant is actually doing — thinking, building an ad, deploying a page, or waiting on a sign-off — so the state of the system is never a mystery.
Torquethinking
State matrix
All ten assistant states
Each pose is distinct at a glance and animates on transform/opacity only.
Thinking
thinkingWorking out the best quote for that cat-back.
Typing
typingDrafting the customer's booking confirmation.
Working
workingUpdating the Hoist 03 job card right now.
Analysing
analysingReading last month's bay throughput.
Generating
generatingSpinning up three Facebook ad variants.
Deploying
deployingPublishing the new exhaust services page.
Approval
approvalReady to send — give me the nod, boss.
Warning
warningHeads up: that part is out of stock.
Success
successDone — booking locked in for Thursday.
Sizing
Four sizes, one character
From inline chat chips to a hero greeting — the ring scales with the body.
Theme parity
Intentional in light and dark
The same five states rendered against both canonical token themes.
Dark
thinking
working on a task
waiting for your approval
needs your attention
task complete
Light
thinking
working on a task
waiting for your approval
needs your attention
task complete
Inline badge
TorqueMascotBadge for chat + toasts
A compact pairing of the mini avatar with a live status line.
TorquethinkingTorqueworking on a taskTorquewaiting for your approvalTorqueneeds your attentionTorquetask complete