We’re excited to share a major milestone for AutoAcquire AI: the USPTO has published our patent pending covering our automated instant cash offer technology, titled “AI-Powered Vehicle Offer Platform” (published February 5, 2026). (Justia Patents)
Why does this matter? Because instant offers have become the consumer-facing “price surface” for vehicle sellers—and dealers have been forced to choose between two bad options: accept third-party dictated values (and margin pressure), or attempt to build complex internal systems that rarely scale. Our patented approach is designed to flip that reality: dealers can create, control, and syndicate their own instant offer logic—at scale—backed by real-time market intelligence and AI.
The Core Breakthrough: Dealer-Controlled Instant Offers, Automated End-to-End
At the heart of AutoAcquire AI is iOffer—our normalized “Instant Offer Market Value” that reflects what a vehicle is likely to receive in the instant-offer market (think CarMax / Carvana-style instant offers), but with dealer control built in.
Our platform takes that core value layer and turns it into something dealers can actually operationalize:
- Generate an instant cash offer in real time
- Adjust strategy by segment or profile)
- Syndicate those adjusted values across campaigns and channels
- Deliver offers via API or embedded experiences—without handing leads to third parties
This “control + automation” combination is exactly what our patent publication focuses on. (Justia Patents)
1) An AI-powered offer platform (ML + Generative AI)
The application describes an offer platform that includes an engine with predictive machine learning and generative AI components to support creating and delivering automated vehicle offers. (Justia Patents)
2) A “builder” interface that lets dealers tune their strategy
A key part of the publication is the builder: an interface that lets a user segment the market and apply adjustments—often described as UI controls (“dials”)—so a dealer can be aggressive in one segment and conservative in another. (Justia Patents)
This matches how we talk about iOffer internally: dealers can tune strategy by segment—e.g., push harder on trucks, soften on highline SUVs, adjust by market conditions.
3) Turning dealer preferences into a syndicated algorithm via API
The patent publication describes transmitting dealer preferences “behind the scenes” into an algorithm that can be syndicated to external sources via a cloud-based API feed—so the dealer’s offer logic is consistent wherever the offer appears. (Justia Patents)
4) Instant offers delivered across channels (website, campaigns, software, API)
The publication explicitly describes output delivered through components, and applications**—and even lays out workflows that include consumer interactions, offer certificates, and marketing-driven offer delivery. (Justia Patents)
Why This Matters for Dealers
Most “instant cash offer” tools are really just lead widgets wrapped around someone else’s value—often with hidden incentives that don’t align with a dealer’s margin goals. Our approach is different by design:
Keep control
AutoAcquire’s ICO is built to keep the dealer in control—your market, your logic, your brand—powered by our patented iOffer Algos™.
Stay competitive without racing to the bottom
Instead of static, one-size-fits-all pricing, dealers can align offers to their actual inventory needs and strategy—down to the segment level.
Scale without operational drag
The entire point is to help dealers move from manual, fragmented acquisition to a system that can automate offers and distribution at scale—without adding complexity.
Why This Matters for Partners and Integrations
If you’re a platform, marketplace, or technology provider serving dealers, the patent-published architecture also vvested in heavily: “Acquisition, now API-ready.” (autoacquireai.com)
That means partners can plug in:
- Real-time valuations
- Dealer-configurable offer logic
- Offer delivery plus a foundation that supports automation beyond pricing (autoacquireai.com)
The People Behind It
The publication lists the applicant as Sell Your Car, Inc. and names the inventors as Kris Ross and Anthony Monteiro. (Justia Patents)
Internally, we’ve been celebrating this milestone as the “AI Powered Instant Offer Engine” becoming patent-protected technology in our stack.
What’s Next
AutoAcquire AI is building the buy-side operating system for used cars—with iOffer as the truth layer and automation as the execution layer.
This patent publication is an important marker on that path: it formalizes the core invention behind how we generate and distribute automated instant cash offers—while keeping dealers in control.
If you want to see it in action—whether you’re a dealer group looking to scale acquisition, or a platform looking to embed enterprise-grade offers—AutoAcquire AI’s Instant Cash Offer platform is built to plug in fast and perform in the real world. (autoacquireai.com)
Ready to test iOffer against your current values? Let’s run it side-by-side and prove it in your market.
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