Short — 2 sentences
Ricardo Gamon spent 20 years inside automotive — Sales to F&I to GSM — before founding Gladius in 2026 to build the CRM dealerships actually need. The platform now runs 5 vertical products on one shared OS.
Gladius
LoadingGladius — the operating system for automotive dealerships.
Founder bio
Short — 2 sentences
Ricardo Gamon spent 20 years inside automotive — Sales to F&I to GSM — before founding Gladius in 2026 to build the CRM dealerships actually need. The platform now runs 5 vertical products on one shared OS.
Long — 5 sentences
Ricardo Gamon spent 20 years inside automotive, working the floor from Sales through F&I to General Sales Manager before stepping out in May 2026. He left because the CRM the industry runs on — VinSolutions, Elead, DealerSocket — was built for managers to surveil reps, not for reps to close deals. Gladius is the operator-built alternative: one shared platform that now spans five verticals (Auto CRM, BDC, Detail, Stone Fabrication, Turf) with three customer rooftops in production. The platform's defensible moat is AWAIS — Autonomous Web Application Intelligence System — a homegrown, IQ-145 self-learning engine that watches every endpoint across all five products through one brain. The five-vertical bet is deliberate: the same operator playbook that fixed automotive CRM applies to any high-ticket, ops-heavy local business — and a shared OS lets each new vertical ship in weeks, not years.
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About Gladius
Gladius (Gladius Technologies LLC, Tampa, FL) is the operating system for high-ticket local businesses. Founded in 2026 by 20-year automotive operator Ricardo Gamon, the company now runs five vertical products — Auto CRM, BDC, Detail, Stone Fabrication, and Turf — on one shared platform. Its defensible moat is AWAIS (Autonomous Web Application Intelligence System), a homegrown application-layer intelligence engine with 66 active rules and 261 catalogued attack patterns. Plans range from $999 to $3,497 per rooftop per month with no per-seat fees.
Fact sheet
Founded
2026
Verticals
5 (Auto CRM, BDC, Detail, Stone Fabrication, Turf)
Customers
3 pilot rooftops live
AWAIS rules
66 active, 261 attack patterns
Pricing
$999 – $3,497 / mo per rooftop
Headquarters
Tampa, FL
Founder
Ricardo Gamon (20-year automotive operator)
Entity
Gladius Technologies LLC
Brand assets
No PNG logo files — the Syne extrabold wordmark is the logo. Copy the SVG; it scales.
Wordmark
Syne 800 · letter-spaced 0.18em · teal #34C3A6
AWAIS sigil
3 concentric rings · core · crosshair · teal mesh
Color palette
Navy
Navy-deep
Teal
Gold
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Screenshot
Founders HQ
Live AWAIS Sentinel Mesh across all 5 verticals.
/awais/mesh →
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AWAIS Mesh
The category page — IQ 145, 66 rules, 261 patterns.
/awais →
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Desking + Pricing
Three-tier pricing, no per-seat fees, contract terms.
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Public landing
The multi-vertical platform home.
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Recent shipped
The strongest things to point a reader at. Each is a public, indexable URL.
Live federation events across 5 verticals.
Side-by-side against VinSolutions, Elead, DealerSocket.
Three-tier pricing. Contract terms in plain English.
Pilot rooftops live in production.
Landscape lighting — Sarasota, FL.
Auto reconditioning — multi-store crew.
Cypress Lawn — turf operations.
Live ecosystem status, 30-day uptime grid.
Contact
Press inquiries
press@gladiuscrm.comReplied within 24 hours, including weekends.
Interviews / podcasts
Book via /demo →Use “Press / podcast” in the comments field so we route it to the founder, not sales.
Founder LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/ricardo-gamon-71514b244DMs open to journalists and podcast hosts.
Gladius Technologies LLC · Tampa, FL · 2026