Built to be the automotive default.
A price an agent cannot read is a price an agent cannot pay.
Live on the public card today: decode, search, specs — pending: value, transact, each behind a named gate on the candour slide.
The card meters twelve endpoints and the MCP server fifteen tools; this deck reads them as five verbs — decode, search and specs bundle the data reads. The card is the source of truth.
The interface agents buy through became a public standard — and this card is already on it.
Sales, BDC and desking were ours; the dealer licence, titling, DMV processing and F&I compliance stayed with Rocket’s licensed humans.
Why the model wins is the margin appendix’s migration gradient — human, agentic, generative, code; stage economics are qualitative, order-of-magnitude — the claim is the gradient, not a number.
B2A2D — developers build for the dealer market.
For the DMS and data-licensing incumbents, matching the open card is not a feature they can add next quarter — it is an inversion of the sales-contract base their distribution lives on. Each cell is a posted claim: the exact-match name serving card, docs and tools at auto.dev, and the separately held licensed dealer entity’s rail serving at cloud.motors.vin — terms and the capacity-binding instrument behind the entity gate. An entrant can copy the card; it cannot copy the transaction layer underneath.
Four gaps, four named gates — each posted with the condition that flips it. Across the record, the pending claims resolve through fifteen named gates; eleven post through just two instruments — the attested structure chart and the stack#1 §A5 disclosure, which posts with round terms. The rate amber is scoped to this five-verb card: the domain’s legacy metered-API usage figures stay on the domain, and checkable telemetry posts behind the telemetry gate in the surface record.
The round is issued by Drivly, Inc.; any estate engagement runs at the posted card price — no internal discount — with related-party terms behind the formal-structure attestation gate.
One operating company — Drivly, Inc. — carrying two brands: auto.dev is the rails, sold to dealers and the developers who build for them; Vin is the consumer retail experience built on those rails.
Everyday Motor Holdings LLC dba Cloud Motors is the separately held licensed dealer entity — operated under the Vin brand but held outside Drivly, Inc., so the regulated seat does not ride on the software company’s cap table; the holder of record and related-party terms post with the attested chart behind the formal-structure gate.
Drivly and the dealer entity both sit inside the studio estate whose finance and insurance rails the supply-side gate leans on — the same estate whose disclosure standard is the stack#1 record the round-terms gates cite. Lender, F&I and insurance supply can also be contracted directly with third-party providers on the same posted-price terms — the estate’s rails are the preferred route, not a dependency.
Stage economics are qualitative, order-of-magnitude — the claim is the gradient, not a number.
On the founder’s book:
— Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.comNathan Clevenger gets it. Read this book, or risk getting left behind.
Revenue, growth and the external/internal usage split post together behind this gate.
The card, the docs, the tools, and every claim state are public; gate instruments post with round terms. Green is checkable at its evidence URL; amber is pending and says so.