Four things happen every night, whether you are logged in or not.
Auto Oracle hunts private-seller cars across Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and Kijiji, strips the dealers out, reads every photo the seller posted, and scores what is left against your market. Your buyer walks in to a clean board instead of a junk feed.
1 · It hunts
Your whole market, all day, U.S. and Canada. Not a feed you subscribe to — we go and get them.
2 · It strips the dealers out
Private sellers only. A dealer posing as a private seller does not say so in the ad — he gives himself away in his own photographs, and in how many cars he has out at once.
3 · It reads the photos
AutoIQ opens the whole gallery, not the cover shot, and calls condition like you would — cream puff or rust bucket — and writes it on the card.
4 · It scores
An Oracle score, 0–100, ranks each car by how badly you want it in your market right now. Highest first.
The board also refreshes on a timer and cards re-sort as scores update. If a card jumps, that is the board re-ranking, not a glitch.
The dealers it catches do not come back.
When it catches one, we do not just skip that listing. The seller is barred. Every car he posts after that is gone before it ever reaches your buyer’s board. Your floor never calls him, never sets an appointment with him, never loses another morning to him.
Every other tool in this business will tell you it filters dealers. Ask them what happens the second time.
The Outreach Agent makes the first contact.
Turn it on and the agent messages private sellers on Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji from your buyer’s own account, in your buyer’s own browser. It opens by saying who is buying: your store, a dealership, and that you pay on the spot once you have seen the car. Then it asks for what the ad left out, the VIN or a yes on the miles, the way a real buyer would. Never “is this still available.”
- It answers the seller back. It reads the reply and keeps the conversation going, the way your buyer would.
- It never names a number. Ask it for a price and it asks for the VIN instead. Nothing gets quoted sight-unseen — the number stays your desk’s call.
- It says it is a dealer, up front. Every first message names your store as a dealership, and it says so again if the seller asks.
- It never sends the same message twice in a row. It rotates real ways of asking for the VIN and the miles, and leans toward the ones sellers answer.
- Stop means stop. A seller who says no is never messaged again.
- One follow-up, then it stops. If the seller goes quiet, it checks back once, on day three, in the seller’s afternoon. Never after the seller has answered.
- It hands the car to your buyer. Once it has the VIN and the miles, the car lands on your buyer’s work list with the whole conversation attached.
The agent sends nothing from our servers. It runs only while your buyer’s browser is open, under a daily cap, and you agree to the Outreach Agent terms before it sends anything — because it is your account doing the talking.
Anatomy of a card
The card is the whole game. Learn to read one and you can read the whole board in seconds.
| On the card | What it is |
|---|---|
| Buy band | The headline verdict — Strong Buy, Buy or Hold. The fastest read on the card. |
| Oracle score | 0–100. How badly you want this car in your market right now. Green at 80 and up, blue at 60 and up. |
| AutoIQ photo read | The dealer’s-eye condition call, colour-tagged: green clean, yellow watch it (tires, lights, glass), red real money (rust, body, frame). |
| The facts and badges | Year, make, model, price, miles, location, days listed, plus dealer-filtered, demand, gem, condition and high-value flags. |
| The action rows | Claim it, greenlight or redlight it, give feedback, and drive it down the pipeline. |
Every button on a card
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Claim | Calls dibs. A new lead becomes yours so two buyers do not double-call the same seller. Once claimed it shows your name. |
| Mark Contacted | The status driver. Walks the car down the pipeline one tap at a time: Claimed → Contacted → Appointment → Bought. |
| Greenlight | Flags the desk: I want this one, back me. Lights the card green for everyone. |
| Redlight | Kills it. Pulls a car you have decided to pass so it stops cluttering the board. |
| Good call / not a gem | Tells the system whether the diamond was real. This is how AutoIQ’s eye gets sharper. |
| Dealer | Caught a dealer that slipped the filter? One tap drops it, teaches the filter, and bars that seller. |
| Outcome | Logs what actually happened — bought, lost, price. Closes the loop so the board learns from real results. |
| Request ACV | Sends the car to the desk for a number. |
The four tiles at the top of the board
New leads are fresh and unclaimed. Working are claimed and in motion. Appointments are booked. Aging are claimed but sitting too long — that number turning red is the nudge to move it or release it.
If it is not in the pixels, it is not a finding
AutoIQ reports only what the photographs prove, and says “not assessable” before it ever guesses. No invented tread depth, no phantom mileage, no “probably.” If we cannot prove it from the picture, we do not say it — because if we tell you the tires are shot, we had better be able to show you.