Someone already paid to prove the process is worth more than the brand.
브랜드보다 프로세스가 더 값비싸다는 것을, 이미 누군가 돈을 들여 증명했습니다.
In 2025 an online used-car retailer stopped fighting franchise law and started buying franchised dealerships instead. It bought seven. At the first one, in Casa Grande, Arizona, monthly volume went from 30–50 units to more than 700 — the highest-volume store of its brand in the country.3
Same location. Same brand. Same franchise agreement. The only thing that changed was how the store sold cars. That is the clearest public evidence anyone has produced that this delta is process — and process can be software.
But buying stores one at a time is not a strategy the other 16,000 dealers can use. Arming them is. That is what EPIKAR is for.
This is the store we run, and the system that runs it.
Two minutes, shot in the Renault flagship store in Gangnam, Seoul. Not a render, not a mockup — the storefront customers use today.
Open the live storefront ↗
The CEO of Renault Korea handed us the keys to his flagship store.
Not a pilot. Not a kiosk in the corner. The whole store — staff, inventory, P&L. Here is what happened, and here is what it means for a store we do not operate.
A software company was given a dealership to run.
In Gangnam, Seoul, a Renault flagship store was handed to EPIKAR to operate. We did not install a module next to an incumbent system. We took responsibility for the floor, the staff, and the number at the bottom of the page.
Watch the opening of the store ↗6.2 cars per consultant. The national average is 3.1.
Operating margin reached 8.3% where the industry averages about 2%.2 Buyer conversion improved 42%, verified by Automotive News. Quotes were price-accurate 100% of the time, because the system retrieves from the live price book instead of generating a number from memory.
We proved it by operating. Now we license it.
Auto Gallery is our first US dealer running the same system — and the operator is their team, not ours. The platform was built to be handed over, which is the only reason a Seoul result is worth anything to a dealer in the United States.
Does this actually transfer?
It is the fairest question anyone asks us, so we would rather ask it first. Every number above came from a store EPIKAR operated directly. A dealer group buying a license is not buying our operators — they are buying the system their own team will run.
Direct operation is how we learned which decisions matter: what the system must never say, where a person has to take over and in which minute, which twelve minutes of a visit decide the sale. Those decisions are now product rather than staffing. We will publish independent-operation numbers when the sample is large enough to mean something — including if they are worse than Seoul's.
It runs inside your building, on your data, under your brand.
A unified record across dealers, customers, vehicles and aftersales, an OEM-specific data pipeline, and a model trained on automotive domain knowledge rather than adapted from a general-purpose chatbot.
Inference runs on a dedicated appliance inside the dealership. Raw personally identifiable information does not leave the building, which is what makes it possible to work across OEM programs without moving customer records anywhere.
Each deployment is tuned to one brand and one store: its models, its tone, its incentive structure, its escalation rules. Two dealerships never share a model, and they never share a database.
Price, spec, incentive and availability answers are retrieved at the moment of asking. If retrieval fails, the system says it does not know and hands off. One wrong number ends a visit.
Start with one number you can check.
확인 가능한 숫자 하나에서 시작하십시오.
Most US dealers begin in the service lane. It is the shortest path to finding out whether we are telling the truth.