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ARGUS360

The independent audit and revenue layer
for automotive retail.

Argus360 plays defense from outside the store, looking in. It is built to document what a dealership actually said and did, grade it against policy and law, and put the proof on the record. The report card is the product.

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01The report card

A grade a principal can act on.

Every audit cycle ends in a report card: a graded, sourced account of how the store performed on the phone, on the floor, and in the paperwork. It reads like a document, not a dashboard, because it is built to be handed to a general manager, a compliance officer, or counsel.

The principal decides what to do with it. Argus360 supplies the evidence, not the verdict.

Argus360 report card: graded audit results across phone, floor, and paperwork.
Product concept. Design partner build in progress.
Argus360 findings view: each finding paired with its timestamped evidence.
Product concept. Design partner build in progress.
02Findings and evidence

Every finding carries its receipt.

Argus360 is built to run AI-conducted mystery shops and audits across a store's real customer interactions. Each finding is designed to be paired with a timestamp, a transcript excerpt, and the rule it was graded against. Nothing in the report asks to be taken on faith.

Recording is done lawfully by design. The platform's consent framework tracks one-party consent rules state by state, with counsel review built into the dataset.

03Recovery and network view

Defense built to pay for itself.

Findings are designed to feed a recovery pipeline: missed appointments, mishandled leads, and process leaks that cost the store real revenue. For multi-rooftop groups, a network rollup is designed to show every store on one screen, graded on the same standard. Both are coming next; the audit and scoring path is complete.

  • Recovery pipeline, coming next: built to turn findings into recaptured revenue
  • Network rollup, coming next: built to grade every rooftop against one standard
  • Positioned alongside compliance platforms, not against them
Argus360 recovery pipeline view.
Argus360 network rollup across rooftops.
Product concept. Design partner build in progress.
04Deployment

Designed to land in 30 days.

Designed to land in 30 days and go live in under six weeks, contract to first Report Card. Argus360 requires no in-store installation, which is why the timeline is short.

In beta at the founders' store. General availability anticipated Q4 2026.

30 days
Designed to land
Contract to deployment. No in-store installation, no DMS integration, and no change to how the store operates.
Under 6 wks
Designed to reach the first Report Card
Contract to the first graded, sourced Report Card in the dealer principal's hands.
05Why now

The enforcement climate changed in 2026.

97
Warning letters in one day
Identical FTC warning letters sent to 97 auto dealer groups on March 13, 2026, carrying no individualized findings. A letter is not a finding of wrongdoing.
$3.1M
Civil penalty, plus full refunds to eligible consumers
Source: FTC and Maryland Attorney General, Lindsay Automotive Group, April 2, 2026. A $3.1 million civil penalty paid to the Maryland Attorney General, plus full refunds to eligible consumers, who were charged more than $75 million between April 2020 and December 2025.
Oct 1, 2026
California SB 766 takes effect
California SB 766, the California Combating Auto Retail Scams Act: signed October 6, 2025, operative October 1, 2026. New York's FAIR Business Practices Act took effect February 17, 2026.

Executives are now being named personally in complaints. In the Manchester City Nissan matter, the dealership agreed to $4 million in consumer redress under a stipulated final order announced August 19, 2026, and two individual defendants had judgments of $4.89 million entered against each of them in October 2025, stipulated as consumer injury and suspended on sworn financial statements. A dealership that can prove what it said is in a different position from one that cannot.

Where it stands

Built as the independent layer.

Argus360 is in beta at the founders' own store, with the design partner program forming through The Dealer's Concierge and general availability anticipated in Q4 2026. The audit and scoring path is complete; Recovery and the Network view are coming next. It complements the compliance platforms dealers already use rather than competing with them, and it holds its own evidentiary standard: proof, on the record.

Go deeper

The product site has the field guides.

The compliance exposure brief, the interactive one-party consent map, and a walkthrough of how to read a report card.