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The exotic car market
runs on guesswork.
We built the fix.

People are making six-figure decisions — at auction, at the curb, in a dealer showroom — with nothing but forums, CarFax, and gut feel. A $100 billion asset class with no real data layer. No intelligence engine. No single source of truth.

Point your camera at any exotic car. Get make, model, trim, production numbers, real auction-backed market value, and full history — in seconds.

That gap was always going to get filled. We shipped it first.

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The Gap

No single tool consolidates exotic car ID, specs, auction comps, and rarity scoring. Identification, valuation, and transaction are three separate products. We built all three as one.

The Shift

Online auctions surpassed live auctions for the first time in 2025. Nearly half of major auction house bidders this year are first-timers. The market is going digital and the infrastructure is not there yet.

The Timing

Vision AI and OCR are finally accurate enough to make camera-first identification real, not a demo. A digital-native collector wave is entering the market at exactly the volume needed.

The Moat

Proprietary comp database, community search-trend signals, and builder provenance data compound with every scan. Speed and data volume are the defensible lead.

The Product

Point your camera.
Know everything.

SupercarIQ is a live PWA at supercariq.com — no App Store required. Three identification paths, two intelligence layers, one product that has never existed before.

Google tells you the horsepower. SupercarIQ tells you the production run, the collector grade, what it sold for at Bring a Trailer last month, and whether the color carries a premium. That is a categorically different product.

"A car encyclopedia, an auction house, and an intelligence analyst — all in your pocket at once."

Auction Comp Records
1,174+
Auction Sources
6
BaT · C&B · RM · Hagerty · PCM · Gooding
Makes Covered
20+
OEM Paint Codes
548+
Five identification paths
01
Snap it
Point your camera. One photo — AI cross-references Google Vision + Claude for make, model, trim, year, and known package configurations.
02
Upload
From your camera roll. JPEG, PNG, HEIC. Ideal at auction previews when you need to research before the lot hits the block.
03
Type it in
Natural language accepted. "2019 991.2 GT3 RS Weissach" routes to the right decode engine instantly.
04
Say it
Voice search for car shows when your hands are full and the clock is running.
05
VIN decode
Collector mode. 17-char decode against NHTSA — full factory build sheet, options, and recall history.
Intelligence layers
HammerIQ
Closed-sale comps from BaT, Cars & Bids, RM Sotheby's, Gooding, Hagerty, and PCarMarket. Real price velocity. Color-premium data. Collector grade and investment rating.
My Garage
Every scan auto-saved into vaults: Own / Had / Watching / Dream. The first digital garage that actually knows your cars.
Social Studio
AI-drafted, platform-native captions for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn — from a scan, in under 60 seconds.
Buy · Sell · Trade
Peer-to-peer marketplace built on top of the intelligence layer. Every listing backed by data.
Market Opportunity

A $100B asset class.
No data layer. Until now.

The collector car market is not a niche. It is institutionalizing, going digital, and being handed to a new generation of buyers who expect immediate, data-backed answers. The tools have not kept up. That is the entire thesis.

Global Collector Car Market
$100B+
asset class · growing 8–12% annually
Online Auction Volume 2025
$2.5B
surpassed live auctions for the first time
U.S. Car Enthusiasts
40M+
self-identified (SEMA 2024)
New Auction Bidders 2025
~50%
first-time entrants at major houses
Why Now — AI

Vision AI and OCR are finally accurate enough to make camera-first identification real, not a gimmick. Two years ago this was a demo. Today it is a production app in the hands of early users.

Why Now — The Buyer

A digital-native collector wave is entering the market at exactly the volume needed to support a platform business. They do not call dealers. They expect apps.

Why Now — The Data

Auction data has gone structured and public. BaT, Cars & Bids, and PCarMarket make real comp data parseable for the first time. The source material for the engine exists now.

Competitive Landscape

Three tools.
One flow.
Nobody else.

No existing product combines identification, valuation, and a marketplace in one mobile-first flow. Every competitor today owns just one piece of the stack — and stops there.

SupercarIQ is the only product that starts with a camera or a VIN and ends with an identified, valued, transactable car. One flow. Not three separate tools.

Spotting & Community
AutoRadar · AutoSpotterX · CarSpotter · MotorTrend Car Spotting

Gamified and social — leaderboards, XP, rough AI-estimated pricing at best. None decode a VIN into a full build sheet or pull real closed-sale auction comps. Community without data.

Valuation Tools
Hagerty Valuation · CLASSIC.COM · NADA Guides · Collector Car Market Review

Trusted data, but desktop lookup only. You already need to know the make, model, and VIN before you can use them. The deepest data sits behind a paid membership. Camera-first identification does not exist here.

Marketplaces
Bring a Trailer · Cars & Bids · duPont REGISTRY

Built for listing and bidding, not identification or valuation. Buyers still leave the platform to check if a price is fair. Transaction without intelligence.

Capability
AutoRadar / Spotting Apps
Hagerty / Valuation Tools
BaT / Marketplaces
SupercarIQ
Camera-first ID
✓ rough
✓ full
VIN build sheet
partial
✓ NHTSA
Closed-sale auction comps
✓ desktop
✓ own only
✓ 6 sources
Real-time comp access
members
✓ live
Collector grade / rating
Hagerty only
My Garage / vaults
watch list
✓ full vaults
Peer-to-peer marketplace
Social content generation
✓ 6 platforms
Mobile-first / PWA
partial
✓ zero app tax

"Spotting apps have community. Valuation tools have data. Marketplaces have transaction. SupercarIQ has all three — in a single mobile-first flow that starts with a camera."

Business Model

Freemium SaaS.
Zero App Store tax.

SupercarIQ is a Progressive Web App — Apple and Google take nothing. Every subscription dollar retained. Free tier drives organic acquisition; paid tiers monetize the users who need the full intelligence layer. Social Studio compounds acquisition cost down with every scan.

Car Spotter
5 scans/day · community access · basic specs
Free
Pro Driver
50 scans · full intel report · auction comps · PDF export
$4.99/mo
Crew Chief
Unlimited scans · Market Intel Hub · earliest access
$9.99/mo
Pilot Program — Active Now

Founding-member annual pricing locked for the life of the subscription: Pro Driver $39.99/yr · Crew Chief $79.99/yr. Time-limited. Converts at standard monthly rate on renewal.

Revenue streams
Freemium subscriptioncore engine — live
Buy · Sell · Trade marketplacelisting/transaction — live
Specialist builder placementsdirectory — live
Data licensingauction houses, insurers, dealers — roadmap
White-label intelligence APIOEM + enterprise — roadmap
Five-Year Conservative Model
Year
Users
Paid
ARR
Y1
2,500
250
$22.5K
Y2
15,000
2,250
$202K
Y3
60,000
12,000
$1.08M
Y4
200,000
50,000
$4.49M
Y5
500,000
150,000
$13.5M
Y5 ARR Target
$13.5M

Conservative base. 10% free-to-paid conversion. Blended ARPU $7.49/mo. No enterprise, licensing, or marketplace revenue modeled. Upside levers: dealer fleet, OEM data licensing, white-label API, event partnerships, international expansion.

Founder

The person who ran
the operation
built the software.

Gavin Brooks. AT&T national sales leader. 9x Presidents Club. $1.2B+ in career revenue. 26 years in enterprise technology. Then went independent and built eight production apps in 12 months using an agentic engineering model — directing Claude, v0, and AI tooling as a force multiplier on deep domain knowledge.

SupercarIQ is not a side project. It is built by someone who has physically managed $80M+/month in exotic vehicle throughput — running the DRX Lot Assistant platform for duPont REGISTRY — and decided the tooling needed to be rebuilt from scratch.

The insight is domain-specific. The speed is agentic. Eight apps, one architect — that ratio is the product.

Career Revenue
$1.2B+
Exotic Throughput
$80M+/mo
duPont REGISTRY DRX platform
Apps Shipped
8
in 12 months · one architect
Enterprise Experience
26 yrs
AT&T · T-Mobile · Apple
Credentials that matter for this specific market
Domain operator, not an outsider

Managed DRX Lot Assistant for duPont REGISTRY — the platform that moves $80M+/month in real exotic inventory. SupercarIQ was built from inside this market.

Agentic engineering model

All eight Paddock20 applications are shipped and maintained by one architect directing AI coding agents. This is not a staffing story. It is a leverage story — enterprise-grade judgment at startup speed.

Revenue operator, not just a builder

AT&T national sales leader. 9x Presidents Club. $884M lifetime team revenue. 587 employees across 22+ cities. Built organizations that sold at scale. Commercial DNA is in the product.

Motorsport operator

Founder of GoTime Motorsports. Tires & Timepieces event operator — $64M+ in display assets. Cyber Grand Prix. The domain network and events infrastructure are already operational.

Traction · Roadmap

Pre-Revenue · Usage Phase

SupercarIQ is live with the full intelligence stack in the hands of early users. We are pre-revenue by design — focused on usage and retention before pushing monetization. Insert real registered user count, scan volume, and weekly actives here before publishing.

What is live today

Full AI scan engine — photo, upload, text, voice, VIN
HammerIQ — 1,174+ closed-sale comp records · 6 auction sources
My Garage — vault system (Own / Had / Watching / Dream)
Social Studio — 6-platform AI caption builder
Buy · Sell · Trade marketplace — live listings
Specialist builder directory — RWB, Singer, LB, Gunther Werks, Novitec
Stripe billing — free, Pro Driver, Crew Chief, annual and monthly
Pilot Program — founding-member pricing active
PWA — iOS, Android, desktop · zero App Store tax
Full SEO stack — sitemap, structured data, OG images
CCPA-compliant privacy controls — affiliate opt-out toggle live

What is next

Phase 1 · Q3 2025
Comp database expansion to 5,000+ records
Car show mode — offline-first scan experience
Native iOS + Android shell wrappers
Phase 2 · Q4 2025
Dealer + fleet enterprise pricing tier
Embeddable IQ Widget for dealer websites
VIN decode API integration (OEM lookup)
Phase 3 · 2026
SupercarIQ Intelligence API — white-label
OEM data licensing partnerships
International expansion: UK, Germany, UAE
Pre-Seed Round Open

The round is open.
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Raising pre-seed via SAFE. Terms structured with counsel before close. Request the full deck and data room — response within one business day.

Structure
SAFE · terms TBD
Stage
Pre-Seed
Status
Round Open

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