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Ten rooftops. Hand-picked. Capped forever. The operators who show up before the category has a name get their name on it.
A wooden crate delivered to your office on day one. Hand-signed letter from the founder on Fraunces stationery. Challenge coin stamped with your Founding number. Brass crest for the desk. The field manual in hardcover. Bourbon.
Your principal gets the founder's actual cell number on day one. One rule: text only, and only about things that matter. Nobody abuses it. Everybody mentions it.
$1,198 per rooftop per month, locked forever. While the rest of the market pays $1,997, you pay what the Founding Ten paid on day one. The math compounds over ten years.
Every Founding rooftop gets its name carved in wood and brass on a wall in the Gladius office. When you visit, you find your plate. When you leave, the plate stays. The longest-running scoreboard in the industry.
You see every unreleased feature 30 days before public release. You vote on the rollout order. Your feedback at the monthly Council call shapes what ships next.
Quarterly award for the Founding rooftop with the highest close rate. Real hand-finished brass laurel wreath. Ships to your showroom. Stays on the desk until the next quarter's winner is announced.
A hardcover book, updated annually, that collects the best tactics from across the Forged Dealers. Indexed, printed, shipped. Only Founding and Forged Dealers have it. There is no digital version.
Our team migrates your data from your current CRM — engagement player, bundled suite, legacy holdover, or enterprise stack. You run old and new in parallel during onboarding so your team never loses a deal.
The exclusion is the identity. We will not pick a dealer who refers to customers as “ups.” A store that pays its BDC under $18 an hour and calls it entry-level opportunity. A group whose F&I process is designed to confuse. Anyone who asks on the first call whether they can auto-send 47 follow-ups to harass a customer into responding.
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The founder reads every application personally. Forty-eight hour reply, whether the answer is yes or no.
Everyone who signs after you pays full rate and does not get the crate, the coin, the cell number, or the wall. That was the deal on day one and it stays the deal forever.