Founding design partner
Built inside the dealership. Proven one workflow at a time.
RooftopOS is developed against a store that sells cars for a living, in the ordinary course of business — not in a demonstration environment.
What is deployed
Harte INFINITI, running acquisition in production.
- Location
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Store type
- Single-rooftop franchised import dealership
- Scope
- 1 rooftop
- Deployed application
- AutoCurbLive
The operational problem
Retail-worthy vehicles were leaving through channels the store did not control, and the three direct-buy paths ran as three separate habits with three separate paper trails — no single record of what was offered, by whom, on what basis.
What was deployed against it
AutoCurb runs on the dealership's own domain and under its own brand, with appraisal authority enforced as a role and every adjustment, approval and consent attributable to a person and a time. The desk, the service lane and the accounting office all use it daily.
Acquisition console
Off-street, service lane, and in-store trade in one pipeline.
- All
- New
- Appraisal
- Offer
- Accepted
- Check request
| Vehicle | Lane | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 Toyota RAV4 XLE AWD2T3P1RFV5MC164821 | Service Lane | Appraisal |
| 2020 Honda CR-V EX-L2HKRW2H85LH123456 | Off-Street | New |
| 2019 Ford F-150 Lariat1FTFW1E48KFB12345 | In-Store | Appraisal |
| 2022 Subaru Outback Limited4S4BTENC3N3109876 | Service Lane | Offer |
| 2021 Lexus RX 3502T2HZMDA6MC123456 | Off-Street | Accepted |
- Source
- Service Lane
- Status
- Appraisal
- Owner
- Used-car director
- Submitted
- 2026-03-04
- VIN
- 2T3P1RFV5MC164821
Valuation — modeled range
Modeled$20,200 – $22,400
Modeled range. Assumptions drive this output. It is produced from the assumptions a dealership enters for its own rooftop, and it is neither live production data, a measured result, nor a figure RooftopOS stands behind as the value of any vehicle.
Model inputs
- Book source and waterfall configured for the rooftop
- Comparable context for the same year, trim and drivetrain, over a window the store sets
- Reconditioning assumption for the lane the vehicle arrived through
- Condition evidence captured at intake
- Market adjustment the store sets and can see inside of
Human review
- Appraiser
- Reviews the evidence and the range
- Approver
- Used-car director, attributed and timestamped
The range is a starting position for the appraisal conversation. The number the store offers is set by a person, and the console records who set it.
Condition evidence
- Front 3/4
- Driver side
- Odometer
- Tires
- Damage
Guided capture set. Customer photography is consumer data and is not published on this site.
What the partnership answers
Four questions a working store answers that a demo cannot.
Whether the workflow survives a working week
An acquisition step that only holds on a quiet Tuesday is not a step. The partnership tests whether approval, valuation and consent stay in order through a store's ordinary week, including the days nobody has time for software.
Whether three acquisition lanes can share one record
Off the open web, off the service lane, and from a customer in the showroom are three different conversations. The partnership answers whether all three can reach one vehicle record without any being flattened into the shape of another.
Where authority actually has to sit
Who may adjust a number, who approves it, and what must be attached before an offer leaves are configuration questions with real consequences. They get settled against a real desk rather than an assumption about one.
What has to be reconstructable a year later
The record's value is tested by the questions that arrive long after delivery. The partnership is where it becomes clear which events, documents and approvals must be retained for that to be a lookup rather than an investigation.
Measurement method
Outcome measurement begins with a written baseline and agreed success criteria.
Metrics chosen after the fact are not evidence. A result publishes with its methodology, sample and window, once the dealership has approved it.
- 01
Observe
Sit with the workflow as the store runs it and write down where the record breaks.
- 02
Deploy
One application into the ordinary course of business, configured to the store.
- 03
Baseline
Record how the store performs now, and agree success criteria before go-live.
- 04
Review
Read progress against those criteria with the people whose work is measured.
- 05
Decide
Compare the result to the baseline, then expand, adjust, or stop on the evidence.
Evidence before expansion.
A scoped sixty-day evaluation on one rooftop, with a measured baseline at the start, success metrics agreed in writing before go-live, two formal reviews, and a deployment decision at the end.
This is an evaluation, not a trial. It is designed so that at day sixty both sides are looking at the same numbers and the decision is obvious to whoever has to sign it.
What the store brings
- An executive sponsor at the store — GM, GSM, or owner
- A named day-to-day owner who will be in the product
- Access to the inventory feed and the website that publishes advertised prices
- Agreement to establish a baseline before go-live, and to review at day thirty and day sixty
Commercial terms
- One rooftop.
- Commercial terms for the evaluation period are set in the scoping conversation and confirmed in writing before it starts.
- Nothing converts automatically. Deployment starts when you sign an order form.
- Your data is yours throughout, and is exported on request at any point, including after the evaluation ends.