Live in production at mundelein.autos— the founder's own store

Run your dealership like a tech company.

DexDMS is the AI-native operating system for independent dealers. One login replaces your DMS, CRM, syndication tool, recon board, and pricing guesswork — and answers every lead in seconds, not hours.

Runs on your own inventory feed · Live in days, not quarters · No setup fees to see it

Wired end-to-end withGoogle Vehicle AdsMetaTwilioDealersLinkADF / SFTPPostgres
Why dealers switch

Your current options were built for someone else.

Enterprise DMS platforms sell to 50-store franchise groups. Point tools solve one problem and create a data silo. DexDMS is built for the independent dealer — from one.

Enterprise DMS platforms

Built for franchise mega-groups
  • Quarter-long onboarding, consultants, training fees
  • Priced for 50 rooftops, sold to you anyway
  • AI is a press release, not a feature you can touch
  • Your data lives in their silo, export on request
Overkill you rent forever

Point tools + spreadsheets

A CRM here, a pricing tool there
  • 4–6 subscriptions that don't talk to each other
  • Your team is the integration — re-keying daily
  • Leads answered whenever someone's free
  • Recon lives on a whiteboard; aging is invisible
Cheap pieces, expensive gaps

DexDMS

Built for independents, by one
  • One login, one database, live in days
  • AI-native: leads scored & answered in seconds
  • Your data, your Postgres — export anytime
  • TCPA & FTC compliance enforced in the kernel
One system, priced for one store
<60slead response timevs. hours on a busy Saturday
0→1tools consolidatedDMS · CRM · syndication · recon · pricing · compliance
Daysto go fully livevs. quarters for enterprise DMS
100%your data, exportableDB-first · standard formats
Product

Everything the store runs on, in one system.

Leads answered before your competitors open the appAI

Every lead from every channel lands in one pipeline, gets scored instantly, and receives a drafted reply — consent verified on every message, human approval on every send. The response-time studies are brutal: after 5 minutes, most leads are gone. DexDMS answers in seconds.

score 87 · hotconsent ✓1-tap approve
leads · live10:42:08
[in] M. Herrera → '21 RAV4 XLE · Marketplace
[ai] consent verified ✓ · score 87 HOT
[ai] reply drafted · test drive proposed Thu 6pm
[you] approved · 1 tap → appointment set

Inventory that can't go dark

DB-first architecture: your cars sync from the feed into your own database, so the storefront never depends on a vendor's API being up. Stale feed? Graceful fallback. Saturday-proof by design.

feed → db → sitesync 4 min ago47/47 ✓
inventory · sync07:00:14
$ dex sync --feed dealerslink
→ 47 vehicles ingested · 312 photos
→ 6 price updates applied
→ storefront revalidated mundelein.autos

One click to every sales channel

Meta, Google Vehicle Ads, marketplaces, ADF leads and feeds over SFTP — the automotive standards wired end to end. The whole lot, everywhere, in under a minute.

publish --all47/47 in 41s
syndication11:02:33
$ dex publish --all
→ Meta · Google VLA · marketplaces · ADF/SFTP
→ 47/47 units syndicated in 00:00:41

Recon, pricing & compliance on autopilotAI

Stage history and aging flag stuck cars before they eat margin. Market-aware deal ratings price every VIN to move. And TCPA/FTC compliance is enforced at the send layer — STOP honored on every path, secrets encrypted, nothing to renew or remember.

aging: day 9 ⚠market: good dealSTOP honored
recon · pricing13:15:51
[recon] '19 Silverado · detail → flagged
[pricing] repriced −$400 → GOOD DEAL · turn est. 22d
[compliance] outbound sms → consent gate PASS
Do the math

What the old stack costs you every year.

Drag the sliders — estimates are illustrative. Bring your real numbers to the demo and we'll do it properly.

Your store today

Rough numbers are fine.

Estimated first-year impact

$48,960
Software consolidation savings$12,960/yr
Hours returned to selling546 hrs/yr
Extra deals from sub-minute response*+24/yr

*Assumes a modest 8% lift from answering in seconds instead of hours. Illustrative, not a guarantee.

Get my real numbers
Built different

The founder is customer zero.

CJ VladyOwner, NW Motors · Mundelein, IL
Founder, DexDMS
“I didn't build DexDMS to sell software. I built it because my own store needed it — every feature exists because we hit the problem on a real lot, that week. If it breaks, my dealership feels it before yours does.”

Verify it yourself — the live storefront runs on DexDMS: mundelein.autos

FAQ

What every dealer asks first.

Is the AI texting my customers legally?

Every outbound message passes a consent gate before it sends — STOP is honored on every path, always, and the AI drafts while a human approves. TCPA compliance is enforced at the send layer, not offered as a setting.

What happens to my data if I leave?

It's your database — inventory, leads, history. Export everything, anytime, in standard formats. We win by being better, not by locking the door.

How painful is switching from my current DMS?

You don't rip anything out on day one. Point your existing inventory feed at DexDMS and run both in parallel — most stores are fully live in days, and nothing goes dark during the cutover.

Do I need an IT person?

No. Channels — Twilio, Google, Meta, SFTP partners — are configured from the admin panel with guided setup. If you can list a car, you can run DexDMS.

What does it cost?

One subscription that replaces four to six. Priced for independent stores, not franchise groups — bring your current software bills to the demo and we'll put the comparison in writing.

Is this actually running anywhere real?

Yes — it runs the founder's own dealership every day at mundelein.autos. That store is customer zero, and it can't afford downtime any more than yours can.

20 minutes · your inventory

See your own lot running on it.

Bring your inventory feed to the demo. Your cars, your leads, your numbers — not a canned sandbox.

No setup fees to see it. Keep your current stack running in parallel until you're sure.