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Looking for feedback on an AI tool for sourcing vehicles (dealer perspective)

nathan-britten

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I’ve been working on an AI tool that learns how a dealership buys stock and generates a daily shortlist of vehicles from across multiple auction platforms. The goal is to reduce the time spent trawling through listings and instead surface the small number of cars that are most likely to be good buys based on your past purchases and current market data.

It goes a bit beyond basic filters — it applies rules at a make/model level, looks at things like mileage vs age, condition, pricing vs market, and ranks everything into a daily “top picks” list.

Roughly how much time are you spending each day going through listings? Do you think it would realistically save you time, or would you still want to go through everything yourself?

More details on how it works here:
Vehicle Recommendation Engine | Boring Automation
 

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  • A dealer software developer pitches an AI tool designed to automatically surface the best vehicle acquisition opportunities from auction platforms by learning each dealership's buying patterns and applying sophisticated ranking logic, then requests feedback from dealers on whether such a tool would meaningfully reduce their daily sourcing time.
  • The key inquiry centers on whether dealers would trust an AI-curated shortlist or prefer to maintain manual control over inventory sourcing decisions.
  • The thread appears to be in early-stage feedback collection with no substantial responses yet.

A dealer software developer pitches an AI tool designed to automatically surface the best vehicle acquisition opportunities from auction platforms by learning each dealership's buying patterns and applying sophisticated ranking logic, then requests feedback from dealers on whether such a tool would meaningfully reduce their daily sourcing time. The key inquiry centers on whether dealers would trust an AI-curated shortlist or prefer to maintain manual control over inventory sourcing decisions. The thread appears to be in early-stage feedback collection with no substantial responses yet.

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