Right to repair and the fight over consumer prices

CNBC frames right-to-repair as more than a tech fight: it’s becoming an affordability and cost-of-living issue, and an increasingly political one, because being locked out of repairs forces expensive replacements.

For your household budget, the stakes are concrete. Every repair you’re shut out of is a full replacement you might not need — and every opaque service quote is a chance to overpay. OwnWise turns the right-to-repair tailwind into savings you can actually capture: it diagnoses the likely fault, flags whether it’s a safe DIY fix or a job for a pro, estimates the cost, and checks whether a warranty or protection plan should foot the bill.

The policy debate is about access; OwnWise is about what you do with it.