Bolt-on recon control

Your recon line,
on the gauge.

The recon workflow you know, plus the ML overlays legacy tools don't have. Stuck-flag detection, time-to-line forecasts, and AI photo condition scoring. With a supported DMS integration, every stage change goes to your DMS. Keep the tool you already run. $499/mo per rooftop, or $399/mo if you already use DealerDash.

Example, not a customer result
0 daysfaster to line
$0kept per car
$32,400a year

At 30 cars a month and an assumed $30/day holding cost per car. Try your own numbers.

The demo needs no signup and runs on sample data. Or drop a Rapid Recon, CDK or Reynolds CSV, or any spreadsheet you keep, to see what your own recon times are costing, worked out in your browser.

Recon control
Sample board
Median TTL
9
days
Holding cost
$30
/car/day, assumed
Stuck now
4
cars
ROI
5.4×
example, Standard plan
3
Detail
2
Mech
2
Photos
2
Front
Example: $32,400 / yr
Founding dealer offer

For our first 5 dealerships: white-glove setup, and half price for the first year.

01The problem

The margin leak hiding in your back lot

Every day a car sits in recon, depreciation and floor-plan interest eat into its gross, and nobody sees the bill until the car finally sells.

Example: 30 cars a month, 12 days to the line
$30/car/day
assumed holding cost: depreciation plus floor-plan interest. Set your own in ReconOS.
$360/car
for one car that takes 12 days to reach the front line
$129,600/yr
in holding cost at 30 cars a month
$32,400/yr
back if each car reaches the line 3 days sooner
02The fix

Don't rip and replace. Bolt ReconOS on top.

Already running a recon tool, CDK, or Reynolds? Keep them. Plug ReconOS in for the things they don't do: ML insight, real-time status sync, and a price that makes sense.

ML overlays no one else ships
Stuck-flag detection finds cars sitting too long. TTL forecast predicts ready dates with confidence bands. AI scores photo condition automatically.
Stage changes out to your DMS
Every stage change goes out as a signed webhook in CDK, Reynolds or Dealertrack payload shape, to the endpoint your DMS integration partner gives you. Retried and audit-logged. Stop double-keying status.
$499/mo, or $399 with DealerDash
Layer us on top of the tool you already pay for, and cancel either one with no migration cost.
Self-hosted option
Run the entire stack on your own Postgres + Docker, for groups whose IT team wants the data in house.
03The AI edge

The AI your recon tool doesn't have

Legacy recon tools run the workflow. ReconOS runs the workflow and does the work. It grades photos, writes listings, reads VINs, and flags the cars that are stuck. Built in, with no extra tools and no extra logins.

Photo condition scoring
Every uploaded shot graded 0 to 100 with a written summary and condition flags. Catch rough cars before they reach the line, with no manual grading.
Listings that write themselves
Market-ready headline, body, and feature bullets generated from the car's facts and its photo condition. Edit, then post to AutoTrader or CarGurus.
Snap the VIN
Point the phone at the windshield plate. AI reads the 17-digit VIN, validates the check digit, and decodes year, make, and model on the spot.
Text DONE, the car moves
Techs reply DONE to the notification text and the car advances to the next step. STATUS lists what's on their plate. No app to open on the floor.
Guided inspection
Walk the car through a multi-point check on the phone. Every item you fail or flag becomes the recon work list and feeds the cost estimate.
Stuck-flags + ready dates
ML flags any car sitting past your own stage median and forecasts each one's frontline date with optimistic / expected / pessimistic bands.
04The workflow

Four stages. One control surface.

Every car moves through the line. ReconOS shows exactly where each one is, who's on it, and what's blocking it.

01
Detail
Wash · vacuum · condition
02
Mechanical
Diagnose · repair · parts
03
Photos
Studio · listing copy
04
Frontline
Listed · ready to sell

See which step every car is in

Open the board on your phone. See which cars are stuck (red), on track (green), or waiting on parts. No whiteboards, no guessing.

Notify the right person automatically

Parts arrive → tech gets an SMS. Car hits Photos → photographer's queue updates. Sits >4 days → GM gets a flag. No status meetings.

Measure improvement, prove ROI

Median time-to-line trend over weeks, against a reference benchmark set and across your own rooftops. The numbers that justify keeping us, or firing us.

05The boards

One system, five boards.

Every store starts with used-car recon. Add a board when you need one. Each gets its own steps, time limits and reports, on the same screens your team already uses, and customer cars never get mixed into your inventory.

  1. Used-car recon

    Trades and auction buys, from arrival to the front line.

    1. Inspection
    2. Mechanical
    3. Detail
    4. Frontline
  2. New-car prep

    New units off the truck to ready for delivery.

    1. Received
    2. PDI
    3. Accessories
    4. Detail
    5. Ready
  3. Service lane

    Customer repair orders, timed in hours. Customer cars stay out of your inventory.

    1. Write-up
    2. Approval
    3. Parts
    4. Repair
    5. Quality check
    6. Pickup
  4. Wholesale / auction

    From the decision to the money received, kept out of your retail numbers.

    1. Decided
    2. Transport
    3. At auction
    4. Sold
    5. Title & payment
    6. Paid
  5. Body shop

    Your own cars in for body work, plus customer collision jobs if you turn them on.

    1. Estimate
    2. Insurer
    3. Parts
    4. Body
    5. Paint
    6. Delivered

Contracts-in-transit and F&I boards come with starter steps too. Every board is on every plan.

06Past the front line

From the back lot to the sales desk

Recon gets the car ready. These keep it found, priced right and in front of shoppers, and bring your existing spreadsheets with you.

Lot locator
Name your zones: front line, service drive, back lot. Whoever moves a car taps "Park here" on their phone. Every car has a "Where is it?" button, with directions in Maps when the phone shared its location.
Aged inventory alerts
Turn it on and set your lines: 30, 45 and 60 days to start. A car past a line gets a chip on the board with the suggested next step: review the price, drop the price, or wholesale it. Managers hear about each car the day it crosses.
Shopper pages and CRM hand-off
Publish a car's page with its photos and recon work, and text a shopper a personal link. Managers see who looked, who came back and which shoppers are hot leads. Shoppers who ask to be contacted go to your CRM in the standard ADF format.
Customer appraisal report
The evidence behind a trade-in offer on one printable sheet: inspection results, photos, recall status and the work the car needs. Your costs, margins and staff names stay off it. Hand it across the desk or save it as a PDF.
Imports from any spreadsheet
Match a file's columns once and save the mapping; the next export maps itself. Rapid Recon exports are recognised as they are. Upload your DMS's open repair-order report and the ROs land on the service lane.
Built for the shop floor
Checklists and time targets on every step of every board. Vendors get their own sign-in. On a phone, a move made without signal waits for Retry instead of vanishing, Undo takes back a wrong move, and "My cars" shows a tech their own work.
07See it live

Click around the real product.

Pre-seeded with sample recon data: cars at vendors, ML stuck-flags lit, per-task SLA breaches, daily shop report. Then drop your own Rapid Recon, CDK or Reynolds export, or any spreadsheet you keep, on the compare page to see your real time-to-line and what it costs. It is read in your browser and never uploaded. No signup.

ML overlays live
Stuck-flag + TTL forecast on real cards
Your own numbers
Drop a CDK / RR / Reynolds export on the compare page
Vendor cycle-time
Sublets, @vendor badge, analytics chart
08Run the numbers

How much could ReconOS save your shop?

Adjust the sliders. Numbers update live.

30
5200
12 days
5d25d
3 days
1d8d
You'd save about
$32,400
per year, per rooftop
ReconOS pays for itself in
6 days
Standard plan, $499/mo

An estimate, not a guarantee. Calculation: cars/mo × 12 × $30/day × days saved. $30 a day is an assumed holding cost per car (depreciation plus floor-plan interest), not your store's number; ReconOS lets you set your own. ReconOS costs $499/month, or $399/month for existing DealerDash customers.

09Pricing

Simple pricing.

Every plan is per rooftop with unlimited users, and every plan gets every feature on this page. What changes between plans is the price, DealerDash valuations and support. New accounts start with a 30-day free trial, no card needed. In the example above, Standard pays for itself in about 6 days of savings.

Every plan includes

  • Unlimited users, techs and parts vendors
  • All five boards: used-car recon, new-car prep, service lane, wholesale, body shop
  • Recon board with drag-drop, checklists and time targets
  • Lot locator and aged inventory alerts
  • Shopper pages and CRM hand-off in ADF
  • Spreadsheet, Rapid Recon and repair-order imports
  • SMS + email notifications
  • Vendor logins and parts vendor performance tracking
  • Time-to-line against reference benchmarks
  • Multi-rooftop reporting
  • NHTSA VIN decoding
  • Works on any phone, no app to install
DealerDash Bundle
$399/mo per rooftop
Existing DealerDash customers only. Everyone else: Standard, $499/mo.
  • Everything every plan includes
  • Auto-fills from DealerDash valuations
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Standard
$499/mo per rooftop
For dealers without DealerDash yet
  • Everything every plan includes
  • Standalone, no DealerDash required
  • Free upgrade path to DealerDash valuations
  • Priority email support
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For groups with several rooftops
  • Everything in Standard, for every rooftop in your group
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Why dealers switch to ReconOS

How ReconOS stacks up against the way most shops run recon today.

FeatureLegacy recon tool
Per-rooftop SaaS
ReconOSWhiteboard /
Spreadsheet
Modern mobile UXPartial✓✗
AI photo scoring + listing copy✗✓✗
DealerDash valuation integration✗✓✗
SMS + email notifications✓✓✗
Time-to-line analytics✓✓✗
Time-to-line benchmarksNetwork onlyReference set✗
Separate boards: recon, new-car, service, wholesale, body shopVaries by vendor✓Separate sheets
Lot locator (zones, Park here, directions)Varies by vendor✓✗
Vendor loginsVaries by vendor✓✗
Leads to your CRM (ADF)Varies by vendor✓✗
Setup timeVaries by vendorSame dayNone
Price (one rooftop)Quoted by the vendor$499/mo ($399 with DealerDash)$0, plus the holding cost of every slow day

Common questions

How long until I'm up and running?

You can be tracking cars the same day you sign up. Bring in your active inventory by pasting a CSV or connecting your DMS feed, and we'll train your team on a 30-minute call.

Do my techs need to learn anything?

Drag a card from one column to the next. That's the whole training. Techs who'd rather not open the board can reply DONE to the notification text and the car moves to the next step. Questions go to hello@dealerdash.ai.

What if I'm already on another recon tool?

From Rapid Recon, your history imports directly (Settings, Import from RR), so your time-to-line trend starts full. From any other tool, your active inventory comes in by CSV or DMS feed on day one; history from those tools is not imported yet. Most dealers run both for 30 days side-by-side, then drop the old tool when they're confident.

Does it work on my phone?

Yes. The whole app is mobile-responsive. Your GM checks the dashboard on the way to work, your techs update cards from the bay, your photographer queues from the studio iPad. No app to install.

Is my data safe?

All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Each dealer's data is isolated, with no cross-customer access. We never sell dealer data. The benchmark you're compared against is a fixed reference set we supply; it is not built from any customer's data, yours included.

What if I want to cancel?

Cancel any time, no contract. An owner can download all of the dealership's data as CSV files from Settings, before or after cancelling, so nothing is locked in. We keep your account's data after you cancel, so you can pick up where you left off, until you ask us to delete it.

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Try it free for 30 days.

Start a free trial now, no card needed. Or leave your details and we'll call you to walk through it first.

Founding dealer offer: for our first 5 dealerships, white-glove setup and half price for the first year.