The intelligence
It's not a feed. It's a demand read.
Anybody can pull a list of cars. The signal that matters is demand — and every car gets a demand score that bakes in the two reads a 30-year buyer makes on instinct: how hot it is in your market, and how motivated the seller is. That brain lives in the cloud.
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A live demand index
Every private-party car we pull gets read against what's actually selling in your market — not a national average. Your buyer sees what's hot where you sell, today.
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The motivation tells
Private sellers ask high. A thin spread isn't a miss — it's the signal. And a car that's sat 10+ days is a seller getting ready to deal. We surface that, because a 30-year buyer reads it on instinct.
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The eye, encoded
The judgment that takes decades to build — what's worth chasing and what's a trap — runs as the brain behind the board — thirty years of buying encoded, and it's patent pending. That's the part a software startup can't copy. They don't have the eye.
AutoIQ is the separator. Our vision engine reads the listing's photos the way you read the row — the full gallery on both sources, Marketplace included — flagging dealer cars and grading condition off what the seller actually posted, and telling you straight when a picture won't support a call. The feeds only read the words. AutoIQ reads the car.
If it isn't in the pixels, it isn't a finding
AutoIQ reports only what the photos prove — and says “not assessable” before it ever guesses. No invented tread depth, no phantom mileage, no “probably.” If we can't prove it from the picture, we don't say it — because if we tell you the tires are shot, we'd better be able to show you.
While everyone else begs the public to sell them a car, AutoIQ goes the other way — it hunts the right private-party cars at the right moment, reads every photo like a 30-year buyer, and puts the cream puffs on your floor before the other guy even wakes up.
The number the seller left out
A Marketplace post is often a price and three words. No mileage, no VIN, no title status — and a car with no odometer on it is a car your buyer can’t put a number to. So we don’t wait for the seller to type it. We open the listing itself and pull the odometer, the VIN and the title status off the page. Last night that came back on 99 out of every 100 cars we pulled. The feeds hand your buyer a blank mileage field and still call it a lead.
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The hidden gem
The clean, well-kept, in-demand car from a private seller who's ready to deal — buried under a three-word post and one dark photo. The other tools never see it; they only read the words. AutoIQ reads the pictures, sees the car for what it really is, and floats it to the top with a 💎. That's the one you buy before the other guy even knows it's there.
It earns the 💎 — and shows you the receipt
In demand
It's actually wanted where you sell — not a national average.
Clean in the photos
AutoIQ grades the body and tires off the real pictures, 0–100.
Seller's motivated
It's been sitting long enough that they're ready to make a deal.
All three on the card, in plain English. No black box — your buyer sees exactly why.
We're not vAuto — keep your number. Your buyers already trust it, and they should. Auto Oracle just makes sure they only spend it on cars worth buying — not the morning burned on stuff that was never desirable.
