AI & Automation

Automation, honestly.
AI, where it earns it.

Most tow software calls everything “AI.” We don’t. Deterministic rules-based engines handle lien deadlines, fee math, and dispatch matching — same input, same output, every time. ML models handle the work that genuinely requires judgment: reading a VIN off a glare-streaked photo, predicting an auction hammer price, skip-tracing an owner.

Automation · Rules-Based

Deterministic engines.
No model. No guess.

If a vehicle has been in the yard for 30 days in California, the lien-sale notice goes out. Period. There is no model, no confidence score, no “the AI thinks.” This is the work that should never need a human decision — or a probabilistic one.

50-State Lien Engine

Per-state notice timing & sale windows

Notice timing, mailing requirements, sale-eligibility windows, and required forms encoded for all 50 states. Cron-driven; runs every morning against every vehicle.

  • Per-state rule definitions (statute citations included)
  • Deadline cascades · first notice → second notice → sale-eligible
  • Auto-generates state-correct notice forms (CA REG 168, FL § 713.78, etc.)
  • Certified-mail tracking + return-receipt confirmation
Smart Dispatch Matching

Truck capability & HOS-aware assignment

Weighted scoring with hours-of-service guardrails. Heavy-duty calls never go to a flatbed. Won't dispatch into an HOS violation. Re-balances mid-shift as ETAs drift.

  • Truck class, equipment, distance, current load, driver hours
  • Recompute on every truck status change
  • Manual override always available · audit-logged
  • Police-rotation order respected for rotation calls
Storage & Fee Calculator

Tiered rates · per-jurisdiction caps

Daily, hourly, indoor, outdoor, after-hours, holiday rate rules. State-by-state max-cap enforcement. Idempotent ledger writes mean no double-charging on retries.

  • Tiered rate tables · per-yard, per-class, per-time-window
  • State-specific cap enforcement (e.g., CA max storage rate by county)
  • After-hours surcharges · holiday calendar awareness
  • Audit-log on every fee evaluation
Compliance Watchdog

CDL · DOT · Insurance · Recall tracking

Cron-driven date evaluators across vehicle and staff records. Flags expiring CDL endorsements, lapsed insurance, overdue DOT inspections, and equipment recalls.

  • Driver: CDL class, endorsements, medical card, drug-test windows
  • Truck: DOT inspection, registration, IFTA, equipment recalls
  • Yard: insurance certificates, surety bonds, license renewals
  • Multi-threshold alerts (60d / 30d / 14d / overdue)
SLA & Rotation Timer

Priority-based ETA & auto-escalation

Real-time clock against the priority SLA matrix. Fires 75% warnings and post-breach escalations to supervisors. Police-rotation order tracked separately.

  • Per-priority ETA targets (Emergency / Rotation / High / Standard)
  • Live breach detection · supervisor notification at 75% & 100%
  • Police-rotation log · sequential dispatch enforcement
  • Defensible audit log for every assignment & reassignment
Late-Fee & Interest Engine

Configurable, idempotent, audit-logged

Configurable grace periods, flat or %-based fees, jurisdiction-specific caps. Inspects existing items to prevent double-charging. Same logic, every cycle.

  • Per-tenant fee rules · grace period · cap percentage
  • Idempotent ledger writes · safe to re-run
  • Full audit log per evaluation cycle
  • Refund / reversal workflow with 4-eye approval
AI · ML-Based

Where AI earns its keep.

Reading a VIN off a glare-streaked dashboard photo. Predicting an auction hammer price. Skip-tracing an owner across DMV records. These are problems where deterministic rules fail and ML genuinely helps. Here's exactly which models do what, and what their confidence thresholds are.

Vision

VIN & Plate Recognition

Reads VINs off dashboards, door jambs, and engine bays. Reads plates from any angle. Handles glare, rain, low light, and partial-view shots taken from a driver's phone.

  • Trained on millions of real VIN and plate photos
  • Cross-checked against NHTSA records on every read
  • DMV plate lookup confirms the match before saving
  • Low-confidence reads queue for a clerk to review
Vision

Damage Classification

Labels each photo with pre-existing vs. tow-related damage, severity, and location — with a defensible audit trail. Surfaces damage at intake, before release, so disputes don't happen.

  • Tags damage by area: bumper, door, fender, wheel, etc.
  • Pre-existing damage time-stamped at intake — not tow-related
  • Severity scored: cosmetic / minor / major / structural
  • Every AI tag is reviewable and overrideable by yard clerks
Pricing

Auction Hammer Price Prediction

Predicts hammer price by year, make, model, condition, and region. Suggests reserves. Flags vehicles likely to redeem before sale — saving wasted notice cost on inventory that will never auction.

  • Trained on years of regional auction data
  • Shows a price range, not a single number
  • Recalibrates monthly on your yard's actual auction outcomes
  • Reserve suggestions are advisory — yards always set their own
Skip-Trace

Owner Skip-Trace & Mailer Drafting

Cross-references plate, DMV records, insurance hits, and prior-address data to locate elusive owners. AI drafts certified mailers in the right legal format for each state — a human reviews every one before it goes out.

  • Searches DMV, insurance, and prior-address records
  • Drafts mailers in your state's required legal format
  • Every mailer reviewed by a human before mailing
  • Per-state language library reviewed by attorneys
Assistant

Operations Assistant

Ask: “How many vehicles are 30+ days in the yard?” or “Revenue by tow class last quarter.” Get a narrative + chart + sortable table. Chat with your live operational data.

  • Reads your live data — cannot change anything
  • Conversation history saved · pick up where you left off
  • Per-user usage limits keep costs predictable
  • Bring your own AI keys if you'd rather — encrypted at rest
Smart Triage

Intake & Smart Fields

Reads CAD descriptions and suggests tow class, equipment, and priority before a dispatcher touches it. High-confidence calls auto-dispatch. Low-confidence calls queue for review.

  • Suggests fields as the dispatcher types — accept or reject
  • Auto-dispatch threshold configurable per yard
  • Humans always in the loop — AI never assigns blindly
  • Learns from your team's accept/reject patterns over time
Why the split matters

If we tell you it's AI,
it's actually AI.

Sophisticated buyers can tell the difference between a model and a SQL query. We split the platform this way because conflating the two undermines the parts that genuinely are AI. When we say "the lien engine knows your state's rules," that's deterministic rules — and that's what you want it to be. When we say "the AI extracted the VIN from this photo," that's actually a vision model.

One platform. Two engines.

Rules where rules belong. AI where AI earns it. Both honestly labeled.

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