Acquisition + Retail Super-Intelligence · v3.2

Acquire the right cars. Then sell them faster than anyone in your market.

AutoClaw scans live auction lanes and bids on the units your store actually turns. Cortex — the retail intelligence layer — then scores every car on your lot against live demand, your CRM leads, GA4 shopper behavior, and the Google Ads market. One closed loop. Every VIN, every signal, every action.

See it on your inventory → Watch the loop in motion
Lanes scanned14 / day
VINs scored22.4k
Avg. days-to-turn ↓18.2
AutoClaw Cortex emblem
Cortex score, per VIN
Cortex · Retail
Synced
Inventory layer
Inventory layer
Inventory layer
AutoClaw · Lanes
Cortex · Retail
Push
Manheim live · 47 lanes
Auction Unit
Cortex match
Margin Δ
Decision
2023 Ford Explorer XLT 4WDLANE 2 · M'HEIM ATL · 38k mi
● 94 HOT
est. front$2,840
▶ AUTO-BID
2022 RAM 1500 Big HornLANE 7 · ADESA NY · 22k mi
● 81 GOOD
est. front$1,920
▶ AUTO-BID
2021 Honda Accord SportLANE 4 · M'HEIM ORL · 51k mi
● 58 SOFT
est. front$640
— SKIP
2020 Toyota 4Runner SR5LANE 11 · M'HEIM DAL · 44k mi
● 89 HOT
est. front$3,210
▶ AUTO-BID
2019 Chevy Tahoe LTLANE 3 · ADESA HOU · 78k mi
● 34 COLD
est. front-$210
— SKIP
Showing 5 of 312 active units · 47 lanes ▶ Auto-bid: ON
scored vs. your turn DNA
Native, two-way integrations
Manheim
ADESA
Google Ads
Merchant Center
GA4
DealerSocket
VinSolutions
CDK
The Architecture

One headline product. One brain. A menu of execution channels.

AutoClaw is the imagination grabber — the autonomous acquisition engine that buys the right cars. Cortex is the brain that scores every VIN against live demand. The execution layer is the menu of places Cortex pushes that intelligence: search, social, calls, identity, and your sales team.

01 AC Acquisition

AutoClaw

Streams live Manheim and ADESA lanes. Scores every unit against your store's actual turn DNA. Auto-bids on the cars Cortex says will move fast and gross hard. The unfair advantage at the front of the funnel.

02 CX The Brain

Cortex

Scores every VIN on your lot against live market demand, your historical turn rate, real-time shopper behavior, and current ad market conditions. Proprietary demand index built on your data — not a license fee to a third-party market provider.

03 ⇆ Execution Layer

What Cortex actually does with the intelligence.

A menu of channels Cortex pushes to. Each one is a place dealers usually pay another agency to run separately. We run them as one connected loop.

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SearchGoogle Ads + Merchant Center
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SocialMeta retargeting + lookalikes
☎
CallsCTM + DNI + caller remarketing
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IdentityAnonymous visitor → email
✦
LeadsCRM match + sales hand-off
The Gap

You buy on instinct. You sell on guesswork. And the floorplan clock never stops.

Your buyer leaves the lane with units they "feel good about." Your manager pushes Google Ads dollars at whatever caught their eye this morning. Your CRM leads sit unmatched to the metal on your lot. Anonymous shoppers visit your site and disappear forever. Every disconnected step is a margin leak.

Without AutoClaw + Cortex

  • × Auction buys chase volume, not your store's actual turn pattern
  • × Manager guesses which units to push to Google Ads
  • × 95% of website visitors stay anonymous forever — no email, no identity
  • × Inbound calls untracked to source — best leads in the building, invisible
  • × Aged units bleed floorplan with zero attention

With AutoClaw + Cortex

  • ✓ Only buy units that score against your real turn DNA
  • ✓ Every VIN auto-scored daily on demand, supply, intent, cost
  • ✓ Identified visitors recaptured via email + Meta lookalikes
  • ✓ Every call tagged to source, VIN, and shopper history
  • ✓ Aged units trigger automated rescue sequences before 60 days
The Platform

One headline engine. One brain. Five execution channels.

AutoClaw acquires. Cortex scores. The execution layer pushes the intelligence into every channel your dealership runs — or into channels most dealers don't even know are available.

01 · Acquisition
AC · Lane streaming + Turn DNA + Auto-Bid

AutoClaw — the autonomous acquisition engine

Streams Manheim and ADESA lanes in parallel. Pulls 24 months of your DMS sales to learn your store's turn DNA — which makes, trims, payment tiers, and price bands you actually move fast. Auto-bids on units that pass the Cortex score under a hard ceiling you set. Every bid carries a reason code you can audit.

Manheim Simulcast · ADESA Live · CDK / Reynolds / DealerTrack
02 · The Brain
CX · Demand × Supply × Intent × Cost

Cortex — the proprietary retail intelligence layer

Cortex's own market model — fed by live Google Ads search volume, local CPC, GA4 VDP behavior, your turn velocity, your historical front-end gross, and live ad market conditions. Your data, your scoring. Every VIN on your lot gets a single score every fifteen minutes.

GA4 · Google Ads API · DMS · CRM · Cortex Demand Layer
03 · Execution Layer
03.1 / Search

Google Ads + Merchant Center

Hot units get instant search ad allocation. Cold units get rescue creative or paused. GMC feed monitored 24/7 — disapprovals fixed in minutes, not weeks.

Google Ads API · Merchant Center
03.2 / Social

Meta retargeting + lookalikes

VDP visitors and identified shoppers pushed to Meta as custom audiences. Lookalike audiences seeded from your highest-intent buyers. Hashed before transmission — never raw email or phone.

Meta Custom Audiences API
03.3 / Calls

CTM + Dynamic Number Insertion

Every traffic source gets its own phone number. Every call tagged to source, keyword, audience, and matched VIN. Callers automatically pushed back as remarketing audiences in Google + Meta.

CallTrackingMetrics · CallRail
03.4 / Identity

Anonymous visitor identification

Most dealers don't run this. Identifies ~30% of anonymous VDP visitors by email — feeds them into Meta lookalikes and into email recapture sequences on a separate warmed sending domain to protect your main email reputation.

VisualVisitor · Customers.ai · RetentionLeadPost
03.5 / Leads

CRM lead match + sales hand-off

Every CRM opportunity matched to specific VINs by make, year, payment range. Sales sees the heat map. Marketing knows which units don't need spend. Cortex enriches the CRM record — never overwrites the salesperson's notes.

DealerSocket · VinSolutions · Elead
Per-VIN Decision Surface

From the lane to the lot in one view.

This is the live screen for a unit AutoClaw spotted in Manheim Lane 2 this morning. Cortex scored it before the gavel dropped. Auto-bid fired. Now it's on its way to your store with a sell-side plan already drafted across every execution channel.

2023 Ford Explorer XLT 4WD

VIN · 1FMSK7DH•KGB42119 · Manheim ATL · Lane 2 · Acquired 9:42 AM

AutoClaw · Acquisition

$24,800
▼ -$1,420 vs. ceiling
Cortex bid ceiling$26,220
Won at$24,800
Est. recon$640
Total to lot$25,440
AutoClaw · Manheim · 12s ago

Cortex · Demand

94 / 100
▲ +14 vs. 7d
Local search vol2,140 / mo
CPC (local)$1.42
Your turn rate22 days
Front avg (12mo)$2,840
Cortex Demand · 8s ago

Shoppers + Calls

23 calls
▲ +9 this week
VDP views (GA4)1,420
Calls from Google11
Calls from Meta8
Calls from blog4
GA4 · CTM · 4s ago

Identified + Leads

412 identified
▲ +118 this week
Deterministic match86
Probabilistic match326
CRM leads matched14
Avg payment target$612 / mo
VisualVisitor · CRM · 4s ago
▸ Cortex recommends — push to 4 channels
Launch Friday at $32,490 · $45/day Google Ads · Meta lookalike from 412 identified shoppers · Caller audience refresh (23 callers → Google + Meta retargeting) · Klaviyo recapture sequence to 326 probabilistic emails via news.dealername.com.
How the Loop Closes

Five inputs. One brain. Five outputs. Every fifteen minutes.

Signals flow in from the systems you already use. Cortex scores. Actions flow back out to every channel your dealership runs.

Signal In

Manheim + ADESA
DMS + Turn DNA
GA4 (server-side)
Google Ads API
CTM call events
VisualVisitor IDs
CRM lead stream

The Core

Cortex Scorecard
Every VIN · every 15 min
demand × supply × intent × cost

Action Out

Google Ads (budget + audiences)
Meta Ads (custom audiences)
GMC (feed health)
Email (warmed subdomain)
CRM (enriched records)
AutoClaw (bid ceiling)
autoclaw_cortex.log · live
[AUTOCLAW]Streaming · Manheim ATL Lane 2 · 2023 Ford Explorer XLT detected
[CORTEX]Match against turn DNA · score 94/100 · bid ceiling $26,220
[AUTOCLAW]Auto-bid fired · won at $24,800 · $1,420 under ceiling
[CORTEX]Pre-flight plan drafted · launch $32,490 · 14 CRM leads pre-matched
[CORTEX]CTM · 23 callers identified for this VIN class · pushing to Google + Meta as retargeting audience
[CORTEX]VisualVisitor · 412 identified shoppers · 86 deterministic · 326 probabilistic → warmed subdomain
[CORTEX]Meta lookalike seeded from 86 deterministic identities · GMC feed scan 2 disapprovals · ETA 8min
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Active retail listings in the AutoClaw index — CarGurus + Cars.com, refreshed hourly
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Refresh cadence on every retail signal — comps, demand, traffic
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Cortex scores per VIN — retail comps, demand, traffic, leads, AI
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From connection to first Cortex scorecard on your inventory
Get Connected

Connect your stack. See your lot in 48 hours.

One platform. Acquire + sell. Live in 48 hours.

One discovery call. We map your DMS, CRM, GA4, Google Ads, Merchant Center, and auction credentials. 48 hours later, AutoClaw is bidding in lane and Cortex is scoring every car on your lot.

Book a 20-min walkthrough →
No rip-and-replaceSits on top of your existing stack
48-hour go-liveFrom connection to first auction bid
Recommend-before-automateYou approve every bid until you trust it
Common Questions

What dealers ask before signing.

01
Do I need both AutoClaw and Cortex, or can I run one?
You can start with either. Cortex alone gives you per-VIN intelligence on the cars already on your lot. AutoClaw alone scores auction units against your turn DNA. The real lift comes when they run as a closed loop — Cortex tells AutoClaw what to buy, AutoClaw feeds Cortex what to sell.
02
Does this replace my existing market-data provider?
Cortex is its own retail intelligence layer — your data, your scoring, no third-party market provider in the middle. Most dealers consolidate within the first 90 days once Cortex has 30 days of their own history to score against. You can run Cortex alongside any existing tool for a parallel benchmark in the first cycle.
03
How long does setup take?
One 30-minute discovery call, then we map your accounts ourselves. Most stores see their first live Cortex scorecard within 48 hours. Auction integration is a separate one-week onboarding because Manheim and ADESA credentials require manual provisioning.
04
Will AutoClaw actually bid on cars automatically?
Only with your approval rules in place. Default mode is recommend-only — every bid requires a click from your buyer. Once you trust the engine, you can turn on auto-bid per make/model band with a hard ceiling. Every bid carries a reason code you can audit.
05
Who owns the data?
You do. Every API connection is OAuthed to your accounts. Cortex processes — we don't resell, repackage, or share with other dealers in your market.