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The lane is a bidding war stacked with fees. The best cars never go there.

Patent Pending·Buy-side acquisition intelligence for used-car dealers·Built by a 30-year car guy

They're sitting in driveways right now — and Auto Oracle is the easy button that sources them straight from the seller. No lead to wait on, nobody asking you to come look: we come to them, already knowing its condition and which ones are worth the drive. We solved the part of Facebook Marketplace that fights you.

✓ Removes 97% of dealer cars

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.

We don't sell you leads to chase. We tell you which cars to avoid — and which ones are the cream puffs.

No spam — just the cars worth buying in your backyard.
Ranked by live demand · powered by Google Trends
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2022 Nissan Murano — AutoIQ caught an active brake warning on the dash 🔍 AUTOIQ CAUGHT IT
2022 Nissan Murano
$13,900
Private seller · Elkhart, IN · listed today · FSBO ✓ dealer-filtered
AutoIQ desk read · reads the photos, not the ad →
  • MECHANICALActive brake warning — amber brake light + warning symbol lit on the dash
  • CLEANBody panels straight, door and quarter gaps even across every angle
  • CLEANPaint uniform gloss — no fade or oxidation front to back
  • CLEANRockers and wheel arches show solid metal — no rust bubbling
  • TIRESTires not clearly assessable in the photos — check tread on the visit
The ad never mentioned the brake light. AutoIQ read it right off the dash — before your buyer ever made the drive.
$500 /mo · per location
Founding 100 — locked for life. After the first 100 fill, the rate goes up.
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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 set on Craigslist, the lead photo on Facebook — 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.

💎 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.

How the tool operates

Every private seller we can find, on one board

Scan

Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist — your whole market, all day.

Filter

AutoIQ reads the photos — stock shots, dealer lots, plate frames — to catch the dealer cars text alone misses. What's left is real private sellers.

Rank

Each car scored by the demand index + the motivation tells, so the best of them rise to the top.

Board

It all lands on your buyer's board — claimed, called, and worked from one screen.

What your buyer sees
Your buyer's boardranked by demand
2019 Ford Edge ST
$12,980 · 41k mi · 📍 Lansing · listed today
94demand
Facebook Marketplace ✓ dealer-filtered🔥 hot in your market
AutoIQ: driveway car, single phone shot · condition 88 · tires show even tread · Panels straight, gaps even, paint matches front to back
Contact seller✋ Claim
2020 Chevy Equinox LT
$18,025 · 38k mi · 📍 Howell · listed 12 days
87demand
Craigslist ✓ dealer-filtered⏳ seller getting motivated
AutoIQ: condition 71 · ⚠ rust on rocker panel, scuffed rear bumper · tires worn
Contact seller✋ Claim
The big part

How your acquisition manager runs the day on it

This isn't a list you dig through. It's what turns one rooftop into a buying center — the whole floor claiming, calling, and closing off one board. The working-the-lead discipline I've built over and over, baked in. Open it at 9, work it till close.

The board's already built 9:00 AM

No scrolling, no 50 open tabs. Today's private-party cars in your market are already scanned, filtered, and ranked waiting on the board.

Claim what's worth chasing SHARK TANK

Your buyer claims the cars worth the call. First to claim owns it — no two buyers calling the same seller, no stepping on each other across rooftops.

Work the seller BEFORE IT'S COLD

Call, text, work the deal, move it down the pipeline — all from the card. The good ones go fast; you're there first, not the third dealer to call.

Nothing rots THE LAZY TAX

A claimed lead that sits unworked gets flagged and surfaced back up. No car dies in somebody's inbox. The manager sees who's working and who's sitting.

You get the right cars, not the runaround THE PAYOFF

Your buyer brings you the desirable ones — the cars worth owning — instead of a pile to sort through. Pull vAuto on the handful that matter, not the whole morning. The store buys more off the street, cheaper than the lane.

Why us

Built by a car guy, not a software lab

This wasn't built in a sprint by people who've never bought a car. Every read in it is a call a real buyer has to make — not a guess from someone who's only seen the spreadsheet.

We don't replace your tools. Put your stretch number on it and hit save — same tool, same you. We just make sure it's a car worth it — dealers and junk stripped out before your team ever signs on.

The other tools

  • Dump a raw feed on you — the cars, none of the read
  • A national number that doesn't know your market
  • Built by software people who never sat on a buy desk
  • Per-seat, per-lead pricing that punishes a busy floor

    • Auto Oracle AI

  • A demand read on every car, tuned to where you sell
  • 30 years of buy-desk instinct, encoded in the cloud
  • A board your whole floor works — claim, call, close
  • $500 per rooftop — work it as hard as you want
    • From the desk of a car guy

    I've spent thirty years learning which car at which number actually makes money. I put it in a tool — for the old dogs who don't have time to scroll, and the new generation that never got to learn it.

    To the old dogs: you already know the good metal left the lane and it's sitting in driveways now. You don't need me to find it — you need to get there first, without living on your phone. This does that.

    To the new generation: you've got the instinct for Marketplace. What you haven't built yet is the eye for what's really worth chasing. I built mine in — so you don't learn it the expensive way.

    And it runs on the BDC culture I've built and rebuilt my whole career — every lead claimed, every seller called, nothing dropped on the floor. The feed is the easy part. Making sure your people actually work it is what puts cars on the lot. That's what the other guys don't sell you. That's what you're paying for.

    I've run a desk by myself for a week straight. If I'd known every car my buyer set in front of me was already the best of the best — dealers stripped out, junk gone, only what's worth my time — I'd have dropped everything. That's what this is.

    The Lifer
    30 years in the car business · Auto Oracle AI
    Pricing

    One flat price. Easy out.

    No per-car fees. No per-lead fees. No per-seat tax. If it doesn't put cars on your lot, you shouldn't pay for it — so you don't.

    $500/mo per location
    Founding 100 — locked for life. After the first 100 fill, the rate goes up.
    Founding 100 only — your $500 is locked in for life.
    It works day one. The 7 days is yours — run it and decide it's worth the investment.
    • Every private-party source we cover — Marketplace and Craigslist
    • The live demand index + motivation tells on every car
    • Claim-and-work buyer board for your whole floor
    • Built to run in any U.S. market — your ZIP, your radius
    • 7 days free — run the whole tool, then decide
    • Sign up or cancel anytime — self-serve, no calls, no hoops
    • Running a group? Multi-rooftop pricing — let's talk.
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    Get your day back. Buy more cars off the street.

    Tell us where you sell — we'll show you the private-party cars sitting in driveways around your store right now. A car guy reaches out personally.

    No spam, no auto-dialer — a real person reaches out.