Policy once
The dealership defines the safe lane.
Eligible signals, unit-fit rules, evidence minimums, consented channels, quiet hours, frequency limits, ownership, and action scope become one store policy.
DealPassport Opportunity Flow by DealerCRM
Opportunity Flow is reverse digital retailing: DealerCRM continuously finds supported customer-to-unit paths and Automatic mode can open a protected DealRoom and re-engage without routine person-by-person release. The dealership sets the rules once. Every action still has to pass current inventory, evidence, consent, timing, ownership, disclosure, and rooftop-readiness checks.
Automatic is policy-bound · Shadow is the safe default · Draft is optional · Exceptions alert the right dealership people
Recent active interest tied to one current same-rooftop unit.
The exact current SUV tied to the customer’s activity, with its evidence-backed fit reason.
Consent, channel, local time, frequency, inventory, and Sales owner passed.
Why it sells more units
Opportunity Flow turns customer signals, current inventory, evidence, and dealership policy into a continuous operating loop. The team defines the boundaries once. Routine work inside them moves automatically; people see policy performance and the exceptions that need judgment.
Policy once
Eligible signals, unit-fit rules, evidence minimums, consented channels, quiet hours, frequency limits, ownership, and action scope become one store policy.
Continuous discovery
Supported customer-to-unit opportunities can be evaluated as signals and inventory change—not only when someone remembers to open a list.
Automatic fit
Each option carries the evidence-backed fit reason and its authoritative physical-unit identity, never an unexplained recommendation.
Evidence honesty
Opportunity Flow never turns a match into a payoff, incentive, payment, credit result, approval, or reservation claim without the typed evidence.
Guardrail stop
The opportunity becomes an Exception with the exact reason, owner, and Not sent receipt. It cannot route around policy.
Exception-only attention
Automatic work does not wait in a person-by-person approval queue. Teams tune policy and resolve the few cases that truly fall outside it.
DealRoom · protected remote desking
DealPassport is not a one-way offer page. It is the durable deal record; DealRoom is the protected workspace where a customer and dealership exchange visual number changes, versioned proposals, counters, plain-language explanations, evidence, messages, and conditions without losing who changed what.
Visual number playground
They can change a target payment, down payment, term, purchase price request, or their own trade estimate. The number panel changes beside the OliviaAI conversation and labels exactly which assumptions moved.
Proposal and counter
Explicit numbered versions carry price, out-the-door amount, payment, down payment, term, trade, and conditions—not overwritten chat fragments. Accept, decline, counter, and dealership response stay on the same record.
OliviaAI explanation
OliviaAI explains what changed and why in everyday language. Verified dealership math decides the numbers; OliviaAI never invents a rate, approval, trade offer, or financial authority.
Dealer exception
If verified evidence or configured authority cannot support the request, the DealRoom records what the customer tried, stops the automatic money move, and creates an owner-and-manager alert for a dealership response.
Staff workspace
DealRoom Activity separates live rooms from exceptions. Authorized staff can send a public response, keep private internal notes, take over at any moment, or release the conversation back to OliviaAI.
Conditional next step
The first protected customer handoffs are a secure credit application and trade details/photos, and only after the customer chooses to start. Deposit, confidential documents, and requests for new dealership photos remain dealership steps until their own consented flows are ready.
Operating model
Automatic is the primary operating mode for certified actions. These are not four mandatory steps. Shadow and Draft are optional dealership settings; Exception is the system's fail-safe stop. New rooftops begin safe and unlock actions only as their data and policy are certified.
Primary · Automatic
Opportunity Flow detects, selects, prepares, and re-engages without routine human release when every evidence, consent, channel, timing, frequency, ownership, and inventory gate passes.
Optional · Shadow
Use Shadow to test a store's criteria and data readiness. The same six-part receipt is recorded with a clear Not sent result.
Optional · Draft
A dealership may deliberately hold selected policy categories for a person. Draft is a choice for those categories—not the default release path for all work.
Fail-safe · Exception
Stale inventory, missing consent, quiet hours, frequency, ownership, evidence, or any other hard gate produces the exact reason and sends nothing.
Exact Opportunity Flow workflow
The dealership makes the policy decision once. Opportunity Flow keeps applying it, with a plain-language receipt for every opportunity and a hard stop whenever a rule fails.
Define which triggers qualify, what evidence is required, which units may be selected, allowed channels and hours, contact frequency, owner rules, and action scope.
Customer signals and current inventory are matched inside tenant, rooftop, ownership, safety, and physical-unit boundaries.
The receipt names each selected current unit, why it fits, what is verified, and what remains unknown.
Consent, channel, quiet hours, frequency, owner, inventory freshness, collision state, and required evidence must all still pass.
A fully supported opportunity can prepare and send the customer-safe DealPassport. One failed rule produces a Not sent Exception with the exact reason.
Trigger, unit fit, evidence, guardrail, owner, and delivery stay together. Customer choice, fact update, or contact request returns to that same record.
Evidence rail
Stages are monotonic and advance one supported step at a time. The label tells the dealership and customer what kind of claim the plan can honestly make.
| Stage | What it means | What it does not mean |
|---|---|---|
| Matched | A current unit is directly linked to traceable active customer interest. | No broader needs-fit, economic claim, approval, or hold. |
| Illustrated | A labeled list price or exact-unit AutoPencil illustration can be shown. | Not a final payment, incentive promise, or credit decision. |
| Verified | The dealership has verified the attached facts and source. | Not automatically prequalified or approved. |
| Prequalified | Reserved vocabulary for a typed prequalification source artifact. | Disabled in the current canary; a note is never evidence. |
| Approved | Reserved vocabulary for validated approval evidence. | Disabled in the current canary; not the same as manager link review. |
| Reserved | Reserved vocabulary for a validated inventory-hold artifact. | Disabled in the current canary; a preference never reserves inventory. |
| Sold | Reserved vocabulary for completed transaction evidence. | Disabled until the sale source can be validated atomically. |
Fabricated training data
Everything below is intentionally fabricated. It demonstrates the Automatic operating model without using a real customer, phone number, email address, VIN, credit result, or dealership transaction. Automatic action is available only where the rooftop policy and required data gates are configured and enabled.
Demo Store · every required policy gate passed · 1 customer-safe plan sent
Recent traceable interest in a current mid-size SUV.
One exact current Touring SUV · direct unit lineage with verified identity and availability.
Verified: identity, availability, source, seating, towing. Unknown: payoff, incentives, executable payment.
Consent, SMS channel, local send time, frequency, inventory, and owner all passed.
Current assigned Sales owner remains accountable for the customer.
Known outcome: seat six, carry sports gear, tow at least 5,000 lb, and find a structure near a $625 target. Verified dealership math—not a guessed grid—controls every illustrated result.
Current online price · Best cargo flexibility while meeting the stated towing need.
Current online price · Adds the comfort package preferred during the demo visit.
Designed for every dealership type
These synthetic needs show the cross-vertical target design. Automatic mode enables only the actions a rooftop's inventory identity, source lineage, fit data, safety state, ownership, consent, and dealer policy can substantiate. Unsupported work stays Shadow, optional Draft, or an exact-reason Exception.
Synthetic need: six seats, winter confidence, 5,000 lb towing, and a known monthly boundary.
Synthetic need: sleeps six, fits a 32-foot site, carries two workstations, and stays within tow capacity.
Synthetic need: family cruising, shallow-water access, trailerable length, and storage for fishing gear.
Synthetic need: two riders, trail use, trailer fit, and a bundle option for the machine and accessories.
Synthetic need: acreage, terrain, attachment needs, service access, and a realistic work-season deadline.
Roles and permissions
A broad job title never becomes a shortcut around scope. DealerCRM checks the permission key and the record-level relationship before returning or changing a DealPassport.
Is the data enough?
Eligible rooftops can use direct, traceable customer-to-unit opportunities now. Automatic action enables store by store and action by action only when policy, DealRoom disclosures, consent, channel, timing, frequency, ownership, inventory, and evidence can support it without guessing.
Safety and compliance
The customer can explore and negotiate the customer-safe deal structure while internal economics, credit sources, employee data, and private notes remain structurally outside the public projection.
Questions dealers ask
Automatic is the primary operating mode. The dealership sets its criteria once, then eligible work moves continuously without routine person-by-person release. Shadow is optional testing, Draft is an optional dealership policy, and anything outside the rules self-stops as an Exception with the exact reason.
Exact-lineage opportunities at explicitly certified rooftops. Opportunity Flow revalidates the source, physical unit, safety state, active owner, collisions, disclosure, consent, channel, local time, and contact frequency. Depending on the dealer policy it records Shadow, prepares Draft, or opens and sends an Automatic DealRoom. The manager queue remains a canary and exception surface; it is not a release requirement.
Only in Automatic mode at an enabled rooftop, and only when the dealership's action policy plus every required consent, approved channel, local send time, frequency, ownership, inventory, collision, and evidence gate passes at action time. One failure creates a Not sent Exception.
Shadow is optional testing: Opportunity Flow evaluates and records the receipt but never contacts the customer. Draft is an optional dealership choice for a policy category that should prepare a private Passport and wait. Neither is a mandatory step before Automatic work.
The exact rule that stopped the action, the trigger, selected unit and fit, verified and unknown facts, owner, and a Not sent delivery state. An Exception cannot silently route around the failed guardrail.
Yes. The manual builder remains for a known customer-and-unit edge case. It is not the primary operating model and it does not turn Automatic mode into a standard release queue.
No. Rank prioritizes a supported evidence match. It is not verified economics, a credit result, approval, a reservation, a final payment, or a prediction that the customer will buy.
DealPassport is the durable purchase-plan record. DealRoom can carry labeled listed pricing, a verified AutoPencil illustration, or dealership terms. The evidence label and action-specific disclosure tell the customer what kind of number they are seeing. A payment illustration is not a credit approval or final contract.
No. Manager permission to share is a review decision. Approved is a later economic evidence stage. Creating or rotating a customer link never advances the evidence stage by itself.
No. Dealer-owned customer evidence, available inventory, and customer-safe source facts form the evidence boundary. Unknown payoff, incentive, credit, lender, and executable payment data remains missing until a trusted source supplies it. Missing required evidence becomes an Exception, not a guess.
One to three distinct physical units. This keeps the decision useful without turning the plan into another inventory search result page.
Yes—when verified calculation evidence is available. They can change a target payment, down payment, term, purchase-price request, or their own trade estimate and see the visual numbers change beside OliviaAI's plain-language explanation. Preview does not write a deal. Submitting a meaningful scenario creates a versioned customer request or an exact dealer Exception.
DealerCRM does not pretend it can approve it. The DealRoom saves what the customer tried, the verified result or missing evidence, the remaining gap, and the exact stop reason. The assigned owner and configured exception recipients receive a separate staff alert, and the room appears under Needs attention for a dealership response.
Yes. Inside exact verified price authority, Opportunity Flow can return a complete revised price offer automatically; otherwise an authorized person can respond with new terms, a public explanation, or a typed condition. Customers can deliberately open the existing secure credit-application or trade-details/photo flow. Deposit, confidential document, and new dealership-photo requests remain staff steps until their protected completion flows exist. Private internal notes never enter the customer view.
The dealer publishes a bounded rate rule by program, term, vehicle condition, and allowed spread. It becomes usable only after a durable qualifying provider result proves the approved amount, term, buy rate, consent lineage, and expiration. The customer sees only the eligible sell APR and resulting payment. Buy rate, spread, reserve, and internal margin never enter the public DealRoom.
DealRoom has its own versioned disclosure system, separate from printed AutoPencil disclosures. Platform-required language and the dealership's rooftop-specific language are combined for the exact action—view, scenario, offer, counter, acceptance, condition, or conversation—and the resolved version and hash travel with that customer-visible record.
Yes. DealRoom Activity shows active rooms and open exceptions with the customer, unit, current number summary, latest material event, and store-local time. Authorized staff can take over immediately; that state pauses automatic customer messages. They can later release the room back to OliviaAI after the current policy is rechecked.
They can select an offered unit, update safe facts, work through visual scenarios, converse with OliviaAI, submit a counter, accept or decline the current open proposal, and request a person. They cannot add inventory, advance an evidence stage, approve credit, reserve a unit, alter identity, set buy rate, or view internal dealership data.
Every mutation carries the version the editor saw. If a teammate or customer has already created a newer version, DealerCRM rejects the older write and asks the person to reload instead of silently overwriting the new work.
DealerCRM rechecks the authoritative inventory record before a link is created, whenever the customer opens the plan, and again before accepting a selection. A sold, booked, stale, or otherwise non-offerable unit is marked unavailable and cannot be selected. The historical snapshot remains in the evidence record; the dealership can archive the plan and prepare a new reviewed path.
DealPassport itself and the evidence model are designed for every unit-dealership vertical. The automatic canary is enabled only where that rooftop's inventory identity, source lineage, safety state, owner, and vertical data have been certified. The cross-vertical examples on this page are synthetic target workflows, not a claim of universal current data coverage.
The graduation metric is incremental retail units per 100 eligible opportunities using an immutable holdout comparison and the same delivered-deal source for both groups, segmented by store and vertical. The current high-confidence canary records workflow events such as drafts, shares, customer choices, fact updates, and contact requests; DealerCRM does not present those diagnostics as causal sales lift.
Rank the work. Keep the judgment.
Talk with OliviaAI, explore a private DealerCRM sandbox, or open the full product tour. See how Opportunity Flow applies dealership policy continuously, explains every decision, and separates Automatic actions from exact-reason Exceptions.