VIN Index tracks the questions shoppers are asking, reads the pages winning those answers today, and builds yours to beat them. All from the inventory feed you already have.
Free, no card, about a minute. Or see how it works.
“which dealerships near me work with bad credit?”
The answer names
The questions buyers now ask AI
Most reliable SUV under $20,000?
asked in ChatGPT
Best first car for a teenager?
asked in Copilot
What should I buy instead of a RAV4?
asked in Perplexity
Cheapest AWD crossover to own?
asked in Google AI
Is a 2019 Forester a good buy at 75k km?
asked in ChatGPT
Best used truck for towing under $30k?
asked in Copilot
Which hybrid holds its value best?
asked in ChatGPT
Good family minivan near me under $25k?
asked in Google AI
What does a fair all-in price look like?
asked in Perplexity
Best car for a new driver in the snow?
asked in ChatGPT
Every one of these already gets an answer, and the answer names somebody.
Why now
Shoppers used to type used trucks near me into Google and scroll. Now they describe their situation to an assistant and ask what to buy and who to buy it from. The assistant answers with a handful of names.
Cars.com, 2025
Cox Automotive, 2025
Pew Research, 2025
The dealers those answers name get the buyer. The rest never hear that the shopper existed.
Learn
Ask an assistant who finances bad credit in your city, or which dealership is worth the drive, and you get an answer today. It usually names a listing site you already pay, a forum thread, or the store down the road. You are not in it, and nothing tells you it is happening.
No page of yours answers “which dealers near me work with bad credit?”
You were not named in 6 checked answers for this question.
Build this pageNo page of yours answers “what do I need to get approved same day?”
Searched 4 times by ChatGPT while answering your tracked questions.
Build this pageSet your lender rates for all four credit bands
Dealer-configured rates are one of the three requirements of AI-Ready Verified, which decides how your listings group on the network market pages.
Set ratesNo page of yours answers “best first car for a new driver near me”
You have 11 vehicles under $15,000 in stock.
Build this pageCited answers state what credit score qualifies. Yours does not.
5 of the 7 cited answers state this. Yours does not.
Answer in 30 secondsNo page of yours answers “which lots near me do their own financing?”
Your site already says: “In-house approvals on every vehicle we sell.”
Build this pageThe real buying questions in your market, re-asked on ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity and Gemini on a schedule. Every run stores which dealerships and which sites the assistant named, so the gap stops being a hunch and starts being a number you can look at.
One query still names an aggregator. That is the gap, and it is the next page we build.
sample queries, illustrative · re-checked weekly on Core, daily on Pro
We ask the engines your buyers’ questions and show you who got named. No feed, no card.
Build
Two things, from one feed.
Your cars
The full spec, the price, whether it is still on the lot, and who has it. Most AI crawlers cannot run JavaScript, so a normal dealership website hands them almost nothing. These pages hand them everything.
Your answers
Who works with bad credit, who takes a trade with money owing, who is open Sunday. No feed can answer those. We read the pages winning them today, then build you one carrying what they do not have: your real rates, your process, and the cars on your lot that qualify right now.
A question with no vehicle in it
“which dealerships near me actually work with bad credit?”
Who answers it today
1,400 words · 6 stats · undated
12 replies · no rates
600 words · no stock
Your dealership has no page that answers this.
The page VIN Index builds
publishedKinds of fact this page states
12
Illustrative sequence. And when a question is one no single dealership can win, it says so and points you at the one you can.
See how a page gets builtSee how it worksLand
Every inquiry your pages earn arrives stamped with the assistant that sent it and the car it was about, so you can draw a straight line from the feed you connected to the buyer who walked in.
sample stream, illustrative · hit type × platform · never an estimated traffic number
The shopper arrives somewhere with your name on it, not a marketplace tile, and the inquiry form goes to you.
Every inquiry arrives stamped with the assistant that sent it and the car it came from, so you can draw a straight line from the feed you connected to the buyer who showed up.
Shoppers sent by AI, searches run against your inventory, and platform checks on your listings, each tied to a platform and a vehicle. Never an estimated traffic number, because no honest one exists.
Maple Ridge Auto’s AI visibility, trending up
+5.2%Shoppers sent by AI
before VIN Index, dashed
sample dashboard, illustrative · confirmed events only
Plenty of tools can show you a gap and hand you homework. Here, every gap connects to the machine that closes it: the page gets built, your live cars and real payments back it, and the lead lands in your CRM.
Whose shopper
Listing sites put your car next to your competitors’ and spend the visit nudging your shopper elsewhere. That is the business model, not a flaw in it.
Your VIN Index pages carry your inventory and nobody else’s. We never rate your deal, never flag your price as high, and no dealer can pay to have their cars ranked above yours. You pay us; nobody else does, and every inquiry your pages earn comes straight to you, never resold, shared or brokered.
You
get the inquiry, with the AI source attached, in your CRM.
The shopper
contacts you directly through your own page.
No competitors
on your pages, and no carousel pulling the shopper to another lot.
Around your vehicle
Listing sites
Competing dealers’ listings and “similar cars” suggestions.
VIN Index
Just your vehicle, cited as the source.
What they optimize for
Listing sites
Traffic, impressions, and clicks across every listing.
VIN Index
Getting the shopper to your vehicle and your store.
Where your shopper goes next
Listing sites
Any other dealer on the platform.
VIN Index
To you.
How it makes money
Listing sites
Paid placement and ad impressions. You compete for attention on your own car.
VIN Index
A flat monthly rate. You are the answer, not one of twenty.
The inquiry
Listing sites
Routed through the marketplace.
VIN Index
Comes straight to you with the AI source attached.
Listing sites sell attention across every dealer on the page. VIN Index makes your vehicle the answer, so the shopper comes to you.
Pricing
Free
$0no card
Your used inventory listed with AI-readable vehicle pages and complete vehicle information, discoverable by AI assistants. Unlimited vehicles.
Founder Core
First cohort only$249/mo
The full fight at any lot size: always-on enrichment, your own agent endpoint, syndication feeds, weekly checks on the questions that matter in your market, and every lead in your CRM. $199/mo paid annually. Your rate is locked from the day you check out.
Founder Pro is $499/mo, or $399 paid annually, and adds the query-level funnel, a custom domain, and financing tools inside the chat. Pro rooftops get hands-on setup, so they go out by application. When the founder cohort closes, the standing ladder is Core at $499 and Pro at $699. New-vehicle territories are sold separately. See full pricing.
Free, no feed, no card, about a minute. We ask ChatGPT, Copilot and Google AI the questions your buyers ask, show you who got named, and grade what they can read from your inventory today.