LVL Up Auto provides independent vendor intelligence for car dealerships, letting them paste their website URL to instantly see their full technology stack, costs, and auto-renewals. The platform tracks 700+ vendors across 21 categories and scores them on public signals, enabling dealers to compare their stack against nearby stores. Results can be connected to Claude or ChatGPT for natural-language queries about renewals, gaps, and vendor performance.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Data & Analytics
- Automotive Technology
- Retail Technology
- Sales Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Car dealerships often run dozens of software tools and subscriptions without a clear view of their full vendor stack, what each costs, or which contracts auto-renew soon. This lack of visibility leads to overspending, redundant tools, and missed opportunities to adopt better solutions that nearby competitors are already using.
Solution
LVL Up Auto provides an independent vendor intelligence platform that scans a dealership's website and detects its live technology stack in about 60 seconds. The platform scores 700+ vendors across 21 categories using a transparent 0-to-100 methodology based on public signals like capability depth, active development, integration fit, ease of evaluation, and focus. Dealers can compare their stack against nearby stores to identify gaps and see where they stand competitively. The results can be connected to Claude or ChatGPT, allowing dealers to ask natural-language questions about renewals, vendor performance, and category coverage. All scores are computed from public data and cannot be bought, ensuring unbiased comparisons.
Target Audience
Primary users are car dealership owners, general managers, and digital marketing directors who need to audit their technology spend, identify gaps, and benchmark their vendor stack against nearby competitors.
Features
- Automated website scanning that detects a dealership's live vendor stack in approximately 60 seconds without requiring signup or sharing data
- 700+ vendors tracked across 21 categories, each scored on a 0-to-100 scale using a publicly documented methodology
- Scoring weights capability depth (35 points), active development (25), integration fit (15), ease of evaluation (15), and focus (10)
- AI-native integration with Claude and ChatGPT, enabling conversational queries about renewals, spend, and vendor comparisons
- Privacy-preserving benchmarks that only display figures when at least five dealers contribute to a given data point
- Distinguishes between model-detected AI capabilities and independently verified ones, capping autonomy scores at what evidence supports