CarKonnect BuyerFinder

Step 1 / Vehicle intelligence

Capture the stock profile

These inputs control route scoring, buyer matching and recommendation warnings.

RequiredMake · Model · Year · Mileage

A

Lead & location

Connect the search to the customer and route region.

Lead ID Registration Location Postcode

Phase 9 / HPI-assisted Intake

Auto-populate from stored HPI data

Enter the registration, then pull vehicle facts, valuation anchors and risk markers from the HPI backend. Buyer Finder still makes no paid HPI API call.

Stored HPI only

B

Core vehicle details

The base facts the engine uses to classify the vehicle.

Make * Model * Year * Mileage * Body type Fuel type Transmission Estimated value (£) Customer wants (£) Minimum acceptable (£)

C

Condition & selling context

This determines whether to favour trade, PCO, salvage, van, prestige or private routes.

Condition MOT status PCO / PHV status Cat marker Service history Number of keys Outstanding finance Warning lights Seller priority

Damaged Non-runner Van / Commercial Prestige / Performance EV / Hybrid

Vehicle notes

Phase 9.1 / Case control

Duplicate protection

Check whether this registration already has a case, HPI import or route run before continuing.

Awaiting registration

Enter a registration, then check the case. Buyer Finder still uses stored backend data only.

Decision engine

How it routes

1Classify stock

Mainstream, PCO, prestige, van, damaged, EV/hybrid or specialist.

2Score buyer fit

Make/model, condition, value, region, source confidence and speed.

3Separate route types

Commercial buyers, private routes and communities are kept distinct.

4Learn from quotes

Real offers feed the evidence base over time.

Quick test

Demo vehicles

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No route generated yet

Complete the vehicle intake, then run the buyer route engine.

Step 3 / Seller reality check

Evidence-based value expectation engine

Pull stored HPI/vehicle intelligence, compare the customer target against route-based market bands, and produce a customer-safe explanation.

Registration Customer wants (£) Minimum acceptable (£) Lead ID Customer / pricing notes

Value bands

Route-based realistic ranges

No reality check built yet.

HPI bridge

Stored intelligence status

Bridge not checked yet.

Customer position

Expectation gap

Enter the customer target and build a check.

Customer-safe output

Reality summary

The customer-safe summary will appear here.

Phase 9.3 / Seller handling

Conversation script

Build a reality check or click Generate seller script to create copy-ready staff wording.

Step 3 / Quote intelligence

Evidence engine

Track real net offers, compare buyers, flag weak quotes, and feed proven buyer performance back into route scoring.

Buyer performance

Top proven buyers

No quote evidence loaded yet.

Lead outcomes

Best offers by lead

No lead quote summaries yet.

Risk control

Outliers & QA

No quote risks loaded yet.

Evidence capture

Manual quote log

Record buyer offers manually when they come from phone, email, WhatsApp or buyer portals.

Lead ID Buyer ID Company Scenario Initial quote (£) Fees (£) Deductions (£) Accepted? Payment speed Collection method Outcome notes

Step 5 / QA automation

Data quality control centre

Run automated checks across buyer routes, source links, quote logs, duplicate records, stale verification dates and backend readiness before the team relies on recommendations.

Open issues

Priority QA queue

No QA status loaded yet.

Automation

Trigger controls

Trigger status not loaded yet.

The daily trigger runs the lightweight QA sweep only. Link checks are intentionally manual/capped to protect free Apps Script quotas.

Coverage

Queue breakdown

Source—

Routes—

Quotes—

Step 6 / Operational tools

Turn recommendations into action

Create buyer outreach drafts, customer-safe summaries, internal route notes and follow-up tasks from the current recommendation result.

Run ID Lead ID Customer priority

Generated output

Latest outreach drafts

No operational pack generated yet.

Follow-up queue

Open tasks

No operational tasks loaded yet.

Customer summary

Latest customer-safe draft

Generate a pack to create a customer summary.

Manual action

Add follow-up task

Company Task type Priority Owner Notes

Phase 9.4 / Ops tracker + outcome learning

Track buyer contact, best offers and final outcomes

Record which buyers were contacted, what they offered, the final route and the final achieved price. This creates a clean learning trail without any paid HPI API call.

Buyer tracker

Log buyer contact / offer

Company Buyer type Method Status Initial offer £ Final offer £ Follow-up due Owner Notes

Outcome learning

Log final case outcome

Actual/final route Final achieved price £ Outcome status Time to outcome days Owner Reason / learning note

Latest buyer activity

Buyer contact tracker

No buyer contacts logged yet.

Learning log

Latest outcomes

No outcomes logged yet.

Case timeline

Current case activity

No current case activity yet.

System health

Backend status

Check route coverage, QA risk, usage and bootstrap diagnostics.

BuyerFinder guide

Route intelligence workflow

Use this companion app to find and evidence the best buyer routes, then import them into the main Sale Facilitation workspace.

No paid HPI calls

1Run the vehicle

Enter the VRM and vehicle profile, use stored HPI context where available, then run Find buyer routes.

2Review Phase 10

Check the command centre, first-wave queue, buyer grades, evidence score, warnings and staff actions.

3Rebuild intelligence

Use Admin, Rebuild buyer intelligence after major buyer route, source, quote or outcome changes.

4Import to Sale

Open the main Vehicle Intelligence app, load the matching Sale workspace and press Import BuyerFinder Routes.

5Collect net offers

Contact first-wave buyers, record gross offer, fees, deductions, net customer amount and conditions.

6Improve the database

Log quotes and outcomes. BuyerFinder becomes more accurate as real buyer behaviour is recorded.

Deployment functions: Run CK_setupPhase11BuyerDatabaseExpansion, CK_rebuildBuyerDatabaseIntelligence, CK_getPhase11BuyerDatabaseDiagnostics and CK_runStableSelfTest after updating BuyerFinder.

Buyer route command centre.