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Drop in your inventory
Every car, every stat, straight from your DMS or spreadsheet. One upload. The machine reads VINs, trims, and mileage so you don't retype them into captions.
SECTION F · TRANSPORT
CLASSIFIEDS & NOTICES
FORECOURT
VOL. I — MMXXVI
AD AUTO-REWRITTEN 00:00:00
CLASSIFIED · FOR SALE · SEDAN
SPECIMEN
Full lot.
Someone else’s feed.
FORECOURT — the machine that writes tomorrow's ad, picks tomorrow's car, and edits tomorrow's video. You film 20 seconds on any phone. That's the whole human job. Publish-ready everywhere in ~20 minutes.
- TODAY'S PICK
- 2019 Civic Sport · 62,140 mi
- THE HOOK
- “Runs like the day it left the lot.”
- FORMAT
- Vertical Reel · 0:22 · captions burned in
- POSTED TO
- Instagram · YouTube Shorts · TikTok
Illustrative specimen listing — no real vehicle is being offered here. Forecourt rewrites this ad on a timer. That's the product.
Pilot dealers being onboarded now · five slots
THE MARKET, IN FIGURES
All sourced. No rounding up.
41%
more lead forms on listings that carry video
Cox Automotive
3.2×
up to 3.2× VDP conversion with video on the listing
Cox Automotive
95%
of dealership sales reps still don't use video tools
Industry research (Cox)
44B+
views under #CarTok — buyers are watching car video already
#CarTok, TikTok
And a note from the ledger: on dealer audiences, social-video cost-per-lead runs well under Google Ads. (Attribution light, on purpose.)
№ 01
The Gap
Every one of your cars has a photo.
Almost none of them have a video.
The modern car buyer scrolls Reels and Shorts the way they used to walk your lot — slowly, comparing, getting a feel. That walk now happens on a feed that racks up 44 billion views, and your dealership isn't on it.
Not because you don't want to be. Because posting video every workday means someone has to choose the car, write what to say, shoot it, edit it, and remember to post it — and your best salesperson is already selling.
The studios that promise to fix this demand skills and setup your lot won't do. The editors are great — for a human with 60–90 spare minutes a video.
Winning dealers post every workday. Most independents can't. That gap is the product.
№ 02
How the machine works
Five columns, in order of the work. Read them left to right; you do the fourth one.
2
Connect your socials
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok — once, with API keys. Your accounts, your keys, your brand. Nothing posts without your say-so.
3
The system decides
Which car, what to say, which format — tuned to what your community actually watches and what's trending this week. You didn't pick the car. It did.
4
Your staff films 20 seconds
Raw phone footage. Walk the car, talk the hook the machine wrote. No creators required — any staffer with a phone runs it.
5
~20 minutes later, it ships
A finished, publish-ready video — vertical-first for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, plus a landscape cut that's VDP-ready. Auto-posted or queued. Then the analytics feed tomorrow's pick.
INVENTORY
+ TRENDS
+ TRENDS
→
THE MACHINE
DECIDES
DECIDES
→
STAFF FILM
0:20
0:20
→
RENDER
~20 MIN
~20 MIN
→
IG · YT · TT
+ VDP
+ VDP
↺ analytics feed the next pick
Illustrative diagram — the real pipeline runs in your stack, not a dashboard screenshot.
№ 03
What's under the hood
01 Trend-driven car selection
The machine watches what your community finishes, rewatches, and shares — and points the camera at the car most likely to earn it. A slow mover with a hot search trend beats a fast mover with nothing to say.
02 VIN-aware scripts
Trim, mileage, options, price — read from the vehicle itself and worked into a script that sounds like your best closer, not a template. The hook line up top? That's the machine's handwriting.
03 One-to-many publishing
Film once. Out come the 9:16 reel, the Shorts cut, the TikTok version, and the landscape embed for your VDP. Sized, captioned, and queued across platforms in one motion.
04 The analytics loop
Watch-time and leads close the loop. What buyers watched tonight changes what gets filmed tomorrow. A feed that learns beats a feed that posts.
05 No creators required
No videographer, no editor, no "social person." The decision-making is the software's; the twenty seconds is anyone's. Your front desk can run it on a Tuesday.
06 Auto-translation FUTURE
Queued next: one script, many markets — Spanish-first cuts for the lots that need them. On the roadmap, not yet in the pilot.
Twenty minutes.
That's the cap on your part of the deal — from the first second of raw footage to a finished video on the feed. Everything else is the machine's.
№ 04
The zero-edit gap
Three ways dealers do video today. Two of them are still hiring. (Competitor names are theirs, used for plain comparison.)
Editors CapCut · Canva
- Fine tools
- A human chooses the car
- A human writes the script
- A human edits every cut
- A human remembers to post
Four decisions still land on your staff — every video, every day. 60–90 minutes each.
Enterprise suites Impel · CARVID · Spyne
- Powerful back ends
- Demand staff skill
- Demand setup your shop won't do
- Built for fleets, not independents
The tools work if you already have the team. That was the problem, not the premise.
Forecourt this ad is about us
- The machine picks the car
- The machine writes the script
- The machine edits every cut
- The machine handles the posting
- Your part: 20 seconds of phone footage
The zero-edit, no-creators-required option. Now onboarding pilot dealers.
№ 05
The ROI column
Your current costs
vs. a free pilot.
This calculator does the honest math on the status quo — the creator rate you actually pay, the agency retainer on your books, the hours your staff lose to CapCut. Forecourt's side of the column is simple: the two-week pilot is free. Full stop. Pilot pricing is discussed with pilot dealers, not printed here.
Sliders move the numbers live. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere — this runs entirely in your browser.
Your video bill, monthly
$0
Staff hours burned, monthly
0hr
During the free two-week pilot
$0— and ~0 staff-hours
Over twelve months at these settings
$0
Assumes 4.33 weeks per month. Video: ~20 sec of phone footage per car, ~20 min turnaround.
№ 06
What a pilot dealer gets
THE OFFER · NO CARD, NO CONTRACT
A free two-week pilot. Five slots.
- Your inventory in the machine, your socials connected, first videos shipped — inside the two weeks.
- The system picks, scripts and posts; any staffer films the 20 seconds.
- Vertical-first cuts plus a VDP-ready landscape version of everything.
- Analytics from your real accounts, reviewed together at the end of the fortnight.
- You keep every video we make, win or lose the trial.
Claim a slot by email
We'll reply with a 15-minute setup call. Pilot onboarding is open now.
NO. 5 / 5
INGENUITY STUDIO
From Ingenuity Studio — a small, sharp AI product shop built by Joel, Akarsh and Prem. Also behind clip-studio, the self-serve gaming-montage editor. Forecourt is our first bet for the lot.
№ 07
Questions from the desk
Do I need a videographer?
No. That's the point. Any staffer with a phone can film the 20 seconds — walking the car, reading the hook the machine wrote. There's no creator to hire and no editing skill to find.
Whose footage is it?
Yours. Every frame comes from your lot and your phones; every finished video comes out of your pipeline. Pilot or not, you keep everything we make together.
What about my platforms?
Instagram, YouTube and TikTok connect once, through your API keys — your accounts, your login. Posts go out on your schedule, auto-posted or queued for your review, plus a landscape cut sized for your VDPs.
How fast, really?
About 20 minutes from raw phone footage to publish-ready video, most days. The deciding — which car, what hook, which format — happens before you've had coffee.
What does it cost?
The two-week pilot is free — no card, no contract. After the pilot we'd discuss pricing with you directly; we're not printing a number here that we haven't agreed with a dealer yet. The ROI column above prices the thing you're already paying for instead.
Is this live everywhere today?
It's in pilot — that's who you'd be first. Forecourt runs on a dealer's real inventory and real accounts during the two weeks, and the pilot dealers' results are what we're building the next version from.
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Sell the next car
on the feed.
Five free two-week pilot slots for the first dealers. Empty the excuse; fill the feed.
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