The latest features and improvements, in plain language. We build in the open and ship often, so check back, or connect your AI assistant and let it keep up for you.
Vendors with an innovation score can now embed a live Verified Rank badge on their own website. It shows your current score and category rank straight from LVL Up and updates on its own. Scores reflect our independent scoring and can never be bought.
Drop a single image snippet on your site to display your live LVL Up score and rank
The badge refreshes automatically as your score changes, no maintenance
Links back to your LVL Up profile so dealers can see the full picture
Built on independent scoring, so a badge is something you earn, not something you can pay for
Vendors earn their place in the public directory. A tool that is not yet in our public catalog stays private to the dealership using it until enough dealerships run it, then it graduates into the directory, comparisons, and rankings automatically. This keeps the lists you rely on credible.
Unproven, one-off tools stay out of public listings until at least three different dealerships run them
Once a tool crosses that bar, it is promoted into the directory, comparisons, and rankings on its own
Keeps the public lists clean and trustworthy for both dealers and vendors
Vendor cards and profiles now show real company logos, and profiles list the OEM brands each vendor is certified for. Franchise dealers can confirm at a glance whether a vendor is approved for their brand.
Actual company logos on every card and tile, with a clean lettered placeholder when we do not have one
OEM certification chips on vendor profiles with the program name and level
Easier to scan the directory, category, brand, and ranking pages
Brand guides show how many vendors are OEM-approved for each franchise
We tightened how pooled vendor, benchmark, and contract data is exposed so it can never reveal a single dealership's private details. Benchmarks and adoption numbers stay anonymized.
Any benchmark you see is pooled across at least five dealerships, medians and ranges only
Community adoption shows only a count of dealerships, never which specific ones
Public benchmark lookups can only ask about a category, never about a named dealer
Plain-language privacy and terms pages cover what we collect, Google sign-in data, deletion, and your California privacy rights
Quiet safeguards keep the free comparison tool fast and protected from bulk scrapers
Connect LVL Up Auto to the AI you already use, like Claude or ChatGPT, then just ask it to pull your vendor stack, compare you to peers, and flag renewals. Connect once in about a minute, choose exactly what it can do, and turn it off any time.
One-click connect from Claude or ChatGPT, no key to copy or paste
Your AI can answer real questions: what is in my stack, how do I compare, what renews in the next 90 days, what could I switch to
Choose exactly what it is allowed to do: look things up, or make changes
A connection can never see customer info, billing, or your login, and can never create more connections
See every connection, when it was last used, and an activity log of what your AI has been doing
Turn any connection off in one click and your AI loses access instantly
If you run a dealer group, you can connect your AI to all your stores at once or limit it to a single location. An all-stores connection can look across every rooftop and asks which store to act on before making any change.
Choose All my stores or a single location when you connect
Your AI can look across every rooftop with one connection
Before any change, it asks which store so nothing happens to the wrong one
Single-store accounts are pinned automatically and never see the picker
A documented API so you, or a software vendor you work with, can pull dealership data into your own tools: vendor stack, peer benchmarks, contract renewals, alternatives, and vendor search, plus write actions to add or edit vendors and log performance numbers.
Pull your stack, renewals, benchmarks, alternatives, and vendor search programmatically
Write actions to add or edit vendors and log your own performance numbers
Same engine as the AI assistant, so both behave identically
An importable schema lets tools like ChatGPT Actions wire up automatically
Every request is scoped to your store and to the powers you granted
Your AI can take a messy vendor list, like a column pasted from an accounts-payable export, and match each name to the right vendor in our directory. It handles common abbreviations and corporate suffixes, and shows you close matches instead of guessing.
Matches up to 200 names at once against the catalog
Understands shorthand, so VinSol finds VinSolutions and CDK Global, Inc. finds CDK Global
When it is not sure, it shows close matches for you to confirm
Never silently adds a vendor it could not confidently match
The home page leads with one clear promise: connect once to the AI you already use, then just ask. Paste your dealership website right at the top to run a free comparison, see what technology nearby stores run, and watch short demos of the assistant at work.
Paste your dealership URL at the top to start a free scan instantly, no login
We find your dealership and nearby rivals automatically, no competitor URLs to track down
A three-step explainer plus example conversations show exactly what you get
A motion gallery plays short looping demos of each key moment
An independent-by-design section explains why a neutral comparison matters
Your comparison shows immediately after the scan with no email or signup wall in the way. Emailing yourself a copy is an optional choice after you have already seen everything.
Full result revealed before any ask for your email
Save and finish your profile in one click to unlock the full benchmark
Pick the specific rivals you want to compare by name
Email me a copy is a post-result option that never blocks your value
The comparison headline is always truthful. If rivals run categories you do not, it says how many and lists them. If we could not read a competitor's site, it says so per competitor instead of pretending you are ahead.
Tells you exactly which categories rivals cover that you do not
Says clearly when a competitor site could not be read, never a false you are ahead
Prompts you to rescan if your own site could not be read
Only says you are keeping pace when every rival was genuinely detected and you truly have no gaps
Below your stack comparison you see a benchmark for your category, like cost per lead versus dealers your size, shown as an anonymized peer distribution. Save your profile to unlock the exact figure.
Benchmarks only ever show pooled, anonymized peer data, never a single store
No figure appears unless at least five dealers have contributed
The whole product moved to one polished, consistent look with a dark mode and a light mode you can switch between. It respects your device preference the first time you arrive.
One consistent, easy-to-read look across every screen
A single sun and moon toggle to flip between dark and light
Remembers your choice on your next visit
Matches your device dark-or-light preference on first arrival
We strengthened the sign-in and connect-your-AI flows so they can only ever return you to a real LVL Up page, never to an outside site dressed up to look like us.
After you log in or confirm your email, you always land on a real LVL Up page
An application that asks to return you somewhere it did not register is stopped
Nothing is authorized when a return address does not match
Trust hardening across login, email confirmation, and the connect flow
The free assessment now confirms your detected tools with one tap instead of typing, gives you an honest maturity score out of 100, and removes the made-up dollar-savings numbers that used to appear.
Confirm or remove detected tools as one-tap chips, no manual entry
An honest 0 to 100 maturity score labeled Emerging, Developing, or Advanced
No invented savings figures anywhere in results, the shared report, or the PDF
When a dollar amount appears it is a clearly labeled typical industry range, and we show nothing rather than guess
Your results lead with what you just unlocked and your top moves ranked by impact
On your dashboard, four fast tap-to-answer questions capture what a website scan can never see: your marketing budget, how you handle contracts, how connected your tools are, and how you report. Each answer unlocks a specific peer benchmark.
Four quick questions, each shows exactly which benchmark it unlocks
Captures budget, contracts, integration, and reporting that a scan cannot see
Unlock your cost-per-lead versus same-size dealers and renewal tracking
Checks itself off automatically and keeps your dashboard in sync
Create your account or log in with one Google click, and if you ran a scan as a guest first, your dealership, stack, and results follow you in automatically so you never start over.
One-click Google sign-in, no password to set
Email and password still work if you prefer them
A scan you ran before signing up is attached to your new account automatically
Start using your account right away without waiting on a confirmation link
A get-set-up checklist walks you through seeing your stack, a few quick questions, and connecting your AI, and checks itself off as you go
Sign-up confirmations, password resets, welcome emails, and your assessment report now send through a reliable provider, so they land in your inbox quickly and consistently.
Confirmation, reset, and welcome emails delivered reliably
Gentle nudges if you leave a scan unfinished, and a periodic check-in
Renewal warnings as a vendor contract approaches its deadline
A monthly stack health summary, practical and not spammy
Browse every dealership technology vendor we track in one place. Search by name, filter by category, sort by score or A to Z, and open any vendor for a full profile with score breakdown, certifications, and acquisition history.
Search, filter by category, and sort across the full vendor catalog
Every vendor has its own profile with overview, company info, and website
See acquisition and rebrand history so consolidation does not confuse you
Browse vendors by technology category, by OEM brand, and by state
Sign in free to unlock products, capabilities, and integrations on any profile
Every vendor gets a single 0 to 100 Vendor Score so you can size up a provider at a glance, plus a breakdown of the five things behind it. Scores refresh weekly and cannot be bought.
A clear 0 to 100 score on every vendor profile and tile
See the five drivers: capability quality, freshness, integrations, ease, and focus
Category rank and percentile, like top 10 percent in CRM
Scores and trends recalculate automatically every week
When your stack is connected, a profile flags which of a vendor's integrations touch tools you already run
Free, public pages to compare any two dealership vendors side by side, see the best alternatives to a vendor you run, and browse ranked best-in-category lists. No login, no sales rep needed.
Side-by-side comparison of any two vendors with an independent score for each
See the platforms dealerships move to when they leave a vendor, ranked by fit
Ranked best-in-category lists for CRM, DMS, websites, and more
No vendor pays for placement, and titles always show the current year
Shared links unfurl with a branded preview naming the vendors
A public Trends area shows which technology categories are gaining ground and which are slipping, with a score chart, top movers, and most-common features for every category. A one-stop read before a renewal or RFP.
See the categories climbing and falling the most across the market
Each category has its own page with a month-over-month score chart
Mini trend lines turn green, amber, or red so direction is obvious at a glance
Hot and Trending Up flags spotlight vendors picking up speed
Vendors see a Market Position panel showing their score versus the category average
See every vendor your dealership uses, grouped by category, in cards or a sortable table. Track each contract, cost, renewal date, and rep contact, and export the whole stack to PDF or spreadsheet.
Your dashboard opens with vendor count, total monthly spend, a per-category breakdown, and up or down trend arrows versus last month
Record cost, contract dates, notice period, auto-renew, and private notes per vendor
Keep your vendor reps and account managers next to each contract
Export a clean PDF or CSV, with contracts expiring within 30 days highlighted
Archive a vendor to keep its history, or remove it with a confirmation step
Never let a contract sneak up on you. LVL Up emails you 60 and 30 days before a vendor contract expires, shows upcoming expirations on your dashboard, and gives your stack a single 0 to 100 health score with a peer comparison.
Automatic renewal reminder emails at 60 and 30 days, with the same alert in-app
A dashboard card lists contracts coming due within 90 days, color-coded by urgency
A 0 to 100 stack health score across coverage, integration, governance, cost, and stability
See how your stack compares to similar dealerships
Automatic monthly snapshots power real month-over-month trends
View the technology detected on competitor dealerships, grouped by category, and instantly see the gaps they have that you do not, plus your own advantages. A fast way to benchmark against the lot down the street.
Competitor stacks grouped by category from a website scan
Instantly see gaps and advantages versus each rival
Captured automatically when you run a free competitive scan
An honest note that this reflects detected technology, not the full stack
If your dealership belongs to a group, get a roll-up across every location: who has been assessed, each store's health and brands, a side-by-side comparison, and a vendor-overlap map showing where you are standardized versus fragmented.
One roll-up across every store, assessment status, health, and brands
Side-by-side comparison once two or more stores are assessed
A vendor-overlap map flags categories standardized green versus fragmented amber
Share a branded invite link that routes your other stores straight into free signup
Appears automatically only when your account belongs to a group
A bell in the top bar surfaces alerts about expiring contracts, news from the vendors you use, competitor changes, health-score moves, and group activity, with a full page to filter and manage them.
One bell with unread alerts across contracts, news, competitors, and health
Open the dropdown for the latest, or the full page to filter by type
Mark items read and click straight through to the relevant page
Updates automatically so you see new alerts without refreshing
Software vendors can claim their company profile in under two minutes, earn a Verified Vendor badge, and manage their listing from a vendor dashboard. Claiming is instant with no approval wait.
Find your company and claim ownership of your profile instantly
A green Verified Vendor badge shows dealers your profile is company-maintained
Manage your listing from a vendor dashboard
See your Market Position: your score versus the category average and your trend
A dedicated For Vendors page explains the score and what you get
A free, public feed of the latest moves across dealership technology vendors: acquisitions, product launches, funding, OEM approvals, rebrands, pricing changes, shutdowns, and leadership changes, all in one place and updated daily.
One place to track the companies that power your dealership, no login required
Filter the feed by what happened, like only OEM approvals or only funding
Tracked automatically every day across vendor announcements and blogs
Only confirmed, verified events are shown, with a link to the source
On your dashboard, a card surfaces news about the vendors you actually use
Our public vendor, comparison, and news pages are open to AI answer engines like ChatGPT search and Perplexity so they can cite us, while bulk AI-training crawlers are blocked. You get discovered through AI search; the underlying data stays protected.
AI answer engines can read and cite our public pages
Bulk AI-training crawlers are blocked
Fresh vendor news is fed to Google News
Links from our previous site redirect to the matching current pages, so old bookmarks still work
Comparison, alternatives, and best-of pages are registered so search can find them
Enter your dealership website and we detect the technology you run, build your vendor stack for you, and score how mature it is, all in about three minutes. No credit card, and your vendors are never notified.
Just enter your website. We detect your tools and build your stack automatically, no manual data entry
Watch the scan run live, then confirm or remove detected tools with one tap
Get an honest maturity score out of 100 with your top moves ranked by impact
Answer a few quick marketing and operations questions to sharpen the result
Pick up right where you left off, and get a private shareable link plus a one-click PDF of your results