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The Intelligence Layer

The decision layer your DMS
was never built to be

Every dealer already has a DMS. None of them have a brain.
Louie connects to your existing stack and delivers the one thing no DMS ever could — operator judgment at scale.

▶ See Louie in Action
How it sits in your stack

Three layers. One missing piece.

Your existing data layer — unchanged
CDK Global Reynolds & Reynolds VinSolutions DealerSocket Tekion
Records deals — stores data — runs payroll — prints ROs
Decision layer — new
LOUIE
Operator knowledge, made executable — 30 years of deal instinct, running 24/7
Outcomes your DMS never delivered
F&I Intelligence Desk Decisions BDC Automation Fraud Detection Lender Playbooks
Higher gross — faster desk — better funding — zero ghost deals
No rip-and-replace

What changes. What doesn't.

Louie is an overlay. It reads your data — it doesn't own it, move it, or replace the systems that hold it.

Doesn't change
Everything you already built
Your DMS — CDK, Reynolds, Tekion stays exactly as-is
Your CRM — VinSolutions, DealerSocket, DriveCentric
Your staff workflows — no retraining, no new logins
Your lender relationships — Louie works with your existing paper
Your reporting structure — GL, payroll, compliance all untouched
Your DMS contract — no early termination, no migration cost
Changes immediately
What actually hits your P&L
Deal outcomes — AI-structured deals close at higher gross
Desk speed — pencil time drops when Louie pre-builds the structure
Lender match accuracy — right bank on first submission, fewer turns
F&I gross — word tracks and product sequencing surfaced per deal
Fraud exposure — stip anomalies and ghost profiles flagged before funding
BDC follow-through — every lead touched, every sequence tracked
Compatibility

Works with every major DMS & CRM

CDK Global
Core DMS
Reynolds & Reynolds
Core DMS
VinSolutions
CRM
DealerSocket
CRM / DMS
Tekion
Core DMS
Operator knowledge
"Louie doesn't connect to your DMS to learn your data.
It connects to deliver 30 years of operator knowledge
your DMS was never built to hold."
Live workflow

Watch a deal flow through Louie

Every step below runs in real-time — from lead intake to BDC armed — in under 90 seconds.

01
Deal enters
Sourced from VinSolutions lead
02
Lender playbook fires
Top 3 matches for deal profile
03
Desk recommendation
AI-generated structure
04
F&I word track surfaces
Context-aware script ready
05
BDC follow-up armed
Automated sequence loaded
Closed-loop intelligence

Louie learns from your outcomes

Every deal Louie structures, every lender it routes to, every trade appraisal it generates — the actual outcome gets logged. Funded or declined. Auction price vs. estimate. Structure that held vs. structure that got recut. That outcome record is the system improving on your store’s data, not generic training data from someone else’s operations.

📋
Deal structured
Louie recommends structure, lender, and terms based on live profile + market signals
📤
Application submitted
Deal goes to lender. Outcome — funded, declined, recut — logged against the recommendation
📊
Outcome captured
Funding result, stipulations, gross per structure — all stored in the intelligence layer
🎯
Next deal improves
Your lender-approval history feeds the next routing recommendation — not shared with other stores

Where this stands today: Outcome capture is live — every funded deal, declined application, and trade auction result is logged. Lender weights are recomputed nightly from that history and any lender with a >5-point approval rate drop triggers an alert. CDK and VinSolutions record what happened. LouieAuto routes differently because of it.

For platform acquirers
Louie doesn't compete with your install base. It makes it defensible.
Cox, Solera, DriveCentric already own the pipes. Louie is the intelligence layer they've never been able to build — operator-encoded, AI-native, and ready to bolt onto any existing DMS footprint.
Full catalog

Complete integration reference

Every system Louie reads, routes, or routes through — with current status.

DMS integrations

Core DMS

CDK Global

Read-only overlay against CDK data feeds. No rip-and-replace.

ARCH READY
Core DMS

Reynolds & Reynolds

ERA-IGNITE data-feed overlay. Louie sits alongside without disrupting GL.

ARCH READY
Core DMS

Tekion ARC

API-based integration; read-only intelligence layer.

ARCH READY
Core DMS

Dealertrack DMS

Read-only feed against Cox Automotive data exchange.

ARCH READY

CRM integrations

CRM

VinSolutions

Lead stream, ADF consumer, customer-record enrichment.

ARCH READY
CRM

DriveCentric

Lead routing with AI-reply handoff.

ARCH READY
CRM

DealerSocket

Lead and customer-record sync.

ARCH READY

Desking & finance tools

Desking

ProMax

Desk-workflow integration; Louie recommendations surface in ProMax.

ARCH READY
Inventory

vAuto

Market-pricing feed into aged-inventory module.

ARCH READY
Credit / F&I

RouteOne

Credit-app routing + lender-bulletin ingest.

ARCH READY

AI providers

LouieAuto routes requests across five LLM backends based on cost, latency, data-residency rules, and task type. No single-provider dependency.

LLM

Anthropic

Primary reasoning provider for high-quality lender routing and Whisperer queries.

LIVE (PRIMARY)
LLM

OpenAI

High-volume BDC email drafts, summary generation.

LIVE
LLM

Microsoft Azure OpenAI

Customer-residency-constrained inference in US regions.

LIVE
LLM

Google Cloud Vertex AI

Fallback provider; GCP-enterprise-contract customers.

LIVE
LLM

Ollama (local)

On-prem inference for dealers with data-residency or air-gap requirements.

LIVE

Operational infrastructure

Voice / SMS

Twilio

Inbound lead-call routing, SMS workflows, voice webhook handlers.

LIVE
Email

Resend

Transactional + marketing email delivery.

CONFIGURED
Analytics

Plausible

Privacy-preserving traffic analytics on marketing surface.

LIVE

Live data sources

Macro data

FRED (Federal Reserve)

Fed funds rate, 10-year Treasury, subprime auto delinquency, consumer sentiment.

LIVE
Fuel prices

EIA

Weekly retail gasoline prices from Energy Information Administration.

LIVE
Vehicle data

NHTSA VIN decode

VIN-to-spec decode for trade appraisal and inventory records.

LIVE
Consumer sentiment

University of Michigan

Consumer Sentiment Index (via FRED mirror).

LIVE

Every macro data indicator is auditable at the live moat endpoint: GET /api/moat/public.

LouieAuto is an API customer of the AI providers and data sources listed above. References to vendor names are factual descriptions of our technical integrations. Vendor marks are property of their respective owners; no endorsement beyond our customer relationship is implied.