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SupercarIQ mobile app showing live auction data and AI vehicle identification scan
AutomotiveAIConsumer Product

SupercarIQ™

Point it at a car and it tells you what the car is. Five ways in: scan a photo, look up a VIN, say it out loud, type the specs, or watch a live auction. It answers in under a second, with live market prices.

5
Input modes supported
Photo, VIN, voice, spec, auction
<1s
Vehicle identification time
In production on real hardware
3
AI model fallback chain
Confidence-threshold routing
100%
Market data integration
Live auction feeds connected

The Problem

Exotic Car Knowledge Lives in People's Heads.

The collector market runs on who knows more. Buyers who can read a car win. Buyers who cannot get taken, on price, on history, on condition. Dealers carry years of it in their heads, and no app had ever put that in your hand at the moment you need it.

One tool that names the car, prices it, and reads the market. It has to work for a first-time buyer standing in front of a car they cannot place. It has to work just as well for a pro moving fast at an auction.

The hardest part was not the AI. It was designing five input modes that each felt native to how a person engages with a car in the moment — and making sure the system could route confidently between them without exposing the fallback logic.

How It Was Built

The Build,
Phase by Phase.

01

Research

Map How Experts Identify Cars.

First we watched how collectors and dealers actually do it. Naming a car is never one question. It is a look, a half-remembered spec, and a sense of the market, all at once. The five ways in came from that, not from a feature list.

02

AI Architecture

Three-Model Chain With Confidence Routing.

One model is one point of failure. So the engine runs three in a chain, and each hands off to the next when it is not sure enough. You get an answer in under a second, and when it is unsure it says so instead of guessing wrong.

03

Data Integration

Live Market Data, Not Static Comps.

Price a car on old sales and you are already wrong. This reads live auction feeds, so you see what is clearing today, not six months back. That is the difference between something you look things up in and something you decide with.

04

Delivery

Consumer UX on Professional-Grade Intelligence.

It had to pass two tests at once. A first-time buyer should get an answer in thirty seconds. A pro should trust that answer at a live auction. Both need the same thing: hide the hard parts, but never dumb down the result.

Architecture

Five Inputs.
One Intelligence Layer.

The smart part can never be the slow part. Every model, every lookup, every fallback is tuned on one assumption: you are standing in front of the car right now.

AI ModelThree-model fallback chain
Input modesPhoto, VIN, voice, spec, auction
Confidence routingThreshold-based, not static
Market dataLive auction feed integration
Response timeSub-second identification
PlatformMobile-first consumer app

The Result

Five Modes. Zero Guessing.

SupercarIQ gives you five ways in, each built for a different moment. The engine answers in under a second, live. Prices come from auctions as they happen. And it never fails quietly: every answer carries a confidence score, so you know how far to trust it.

The goal was never to build a better lookup tool. It was to give someone with no expertise the same informational footing as someone with twenty years of it — in under a second.

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