For Operators, By Operators

The buyer standard
for agentic AI.

Automotive · Real Estate · Home Services

A buyer-side council of large retail operators. We set the standards autonomous AI must meet before it touches a transaction desk. We do not sell software, endorse vendors, or buy as a block.

5 minutes. See what we've built. No commitment.
The problem

Vendor chaos is the operator's risk now

Every vendor you already pay is shipping an "AI agent," and a wave of startups is selling overlapping ones. Four problems follow.

Franken-stack

Isolated agents from your CRM, DMS or listing platform, website, and agency that cannot share context.

Pricing you can't forecast

Usage and token models where one long buyer journey runs up an unpredictable bill.

Lock-in

You train a vendor's agent on your margins and rules, then can't take that logic anywhere else.

Governance gaps

A rogue agent quote creates real liability, and most vendors give you no audit trail or control.

What we are

A standards group, not a buying group

What the council does

  • Writes and publishes evaluation frameworks, vendor questionnaires, and scoring rubrics for agentic AI.
  • Defines technical and governance requirements.
  • Shares non-competitive operating knowledge.
  • Gives every member one standard to hand any vendor, which shifts leverage back to the buyer.

What it does not do

  • Discuss or coordinate member pricing.
  • Coordinate who to buy from or refuse. Each member decides independently.
  • Share competitively sensitive data.
  • Take vendor money that shapes the standards.

Because members compete, this scope is an antitrust requirement. Counsel sets the rules before the first working session.

The Operator Standard

Five things a vendor must meet

A vendor is scored against this before it earns access to the transaction desk. Three of the five are pass-or-fail.

1

Orchestration decoupled from the model

Open APIs, your choice of underlying model, no single-vendor stack.

2

Outcome-aligned pricing

Tied to results you care about, not open-ended token volume.

3

Data ownership and exit rights

Your data and trained logic stay yours and can leave without penalty.

4

Governance, security, and identity

Exportable audit logs, least-privilege scopes, control over what each agent touches.

5

Operational boundaries for autonomy

Hard limits and a human checkpoint before any high-exposure action.

Built:  Charter Built:  Operator Standard v1.1 Built:  Fillable vendor scorecard Proven:  Scored against 4 real AI vendors
Membership

Invite-only. Founders shape the standard.

No fixed size threshold. Founders admit members by reputation and fit. The test is whether you run high-ticket, high-consideration buyer journeys in automotive, real estate, or home services, and will contribute to the standards work rather than only consume it. Founding members shape the standard so it reflects how you actually run, including the F&I and licensing realities vendors gloss over.

Join the founding group

Enroll for founding review

Submit your operation for review. Founders evaluate fit, then invite a first cohort of operators.
The founding cohort closes at 12 operators.
1

Submit for review

Two minutes. Tell us how you operate.

2

Founders review for fit

We assess vertical, scale, and contribution. You hear back within five business days.

3

Intro call if it's a match

A 5-minute walkthrough of what we've built, then a founding seat.

Founding review application

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