Can AI value trade-ins and find cars to buy in my service lane?
Auto Advisor's Appraisals agent mines your service drive for buy candidates, well-maintained vehicles above a value floor and under a mileage ceiling, and records a draft appraisal with a value band and the customer's recent service spend with you. Every dollar comes from deterministic math stamped as an estimate; a human always makes the offer.
What does the Appraisals agent actually do?
Puts an estimated value band on every trade and spots the well-maintained cars already in your bays that are worth an offer.
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Mines the service drive: scans service-side vehicles, selects buy candidates with a clear policy (a valuation floor and a mileage ceiling), and records one draft appraisal per flagged unit.
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Queues a draft acquisition lead per candidate carrying the value band, the equity band, and the customer's recent service spend on that vehicle.
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Values a trade-in or acquisition on demand with deterministic math, stamped as an estimate.
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Writes a short rationale note around the fixed figures; the AI never sets or changes a number.
What it reads to do the work
- Your service-side vehicles, service orders, and customers
- The Showroom capability flag on your store
- The autonomy mode you set for it (Off writes nothing)
How do I stay in control of what it does?
Every agent runs in the mode you choose, Off, Approve, or Auto, and every agent starts in Approve so a human signs off before anything happens. Here is what Appraisals can do, with the gate on each action, and the rails that hold in code, not in a policy document.
The actions, and their gates
- Record a draft appraisal per flagged unit, one per vehicle per dayRuns logged, no tap needed
- Queue a draft acquisition lead for the owner; the human makes the offerYou approve it
The guardrails, held in code
- A fail-closed Showroom gate refuses before any read or AI spend.
- Every dollar comes from pure valuation math and is stamped as an estimate; the rationale writer is forbidden from inventing or changing numbers.
- A cap of five acquisition drafts per run, idempotent per vehicle per day.
- The human always makes the actual offer.
What does Appraisals not do yet?
Every claim on this page maps to shipped, tested code, and the same discipline applies to the limits. Here is where the edge of the product is today, stated plainly, so nothing on your shop rests on a promise.
- Valuations are a deterministic depreciation curve on age and mileage, stamped as estimates; they do not yet price by make and model and do not read a live market feed, so your appraiser sets the real number.
- It runs when triggered from the Showroom, not yet on a timer.
Which numbers does Appraisals actually move?
Only measured numbers are listed here; a metric the product does not compute does not get claimed.
- Buy-from-service-drive units flagged per run
- Appraisal drafts recorded (visible in the Showroom watchlist)
The rest of the crew
Appraisals is one of fifteen agents. Each has its own charter page, its own autonomy dial, and the same honesty rule.
Put Appraisals to work in your shop.
Request a Service-Drive Audit. We map exactly where the crew recovers time and revenue, on your numbers, in a live demo on sample data.
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