Our Mission
To make every car-buying interaction intelligent, transparent, and genuinely helpful — for both the buyer sitting on their couch and the dealer closing the deal.
We do that through the TD Engine™ — our proprietary automotive LLM trained on 50M+ vehicle transactions, VIN-level specifications, and real-time market data. It's not a chatbot. It's the operating system for the next era of automotive retail.
"We started TestDrive AI because we watched brilliant dealers lose deals every day not because of price or product — but because the buying experience was broken. We fixed it."
What We Stand For
Six principles that guide every line of code, every feature, every conversation.
Transparency First
No dark patterns. No hidden fees. No fake urgency. Buyers get real prices, real availability, real information.
AI With Purpose
Every model we deploy must demonstrably help a buyer or dealer — not just generate impressive demos.
Privacy by Design
Consumer PII is never sold. Period. Our security architecture treats data like a bank, not an ad network.
Dealer Partnership
Dealers aren't our competitors — they're our partners. We amplify their expertise rather than replace it.
Relentless Improvement
60% close rate today becomes 70% tomorrow. We ship weekly, iterate daily, and measure everything.
Buyer Advocacy
We succeed when buyers find the right car, at the right price, with zero regret. That's our north star.
Our Journey
Alex and Jordan quit their jobs to solve automotive retail's AI gap. First lines of TD Engine™ code written.
Raised $750K from automotive angels. First 3 engineers hired. Core NLP pipeline built.
First 5 dealer deployments in Austin and Houston metro. Initial close rate data: 47%.
15 dealers live. Close rate reaches 60%. 50%+ CAC reduction confirmed. Seed extension closed.
$3.5M Series A opens. National expansion plan finalized. Enterprise dealer group conversations begin.
Full platform live beta active. 25+ dealers. TD Engine™ v2.4 deployed. Ready to scale nationally.
Join Us in Reinventing
Automotive Retail
Whether you're a dealer, investor, or engineer — there's a place for you in the TestDrive AI story.