Module 01
CRM trade flag
Every trade auto-creates a recon job in the Detail module the moment the appraisal posts. No paper handoff, no double-entry, no "who told the detail team?" The job is on the board before the customer signs.
Gladius
LoadingFrom trade-in to frontline-ready, tracked in real time. No paper clipboards. No SMS chains.
Auto CRM · Detail subdivision · Inventory bridge · Live at Elmer Auto Reconditioning
The workflow
The problem with recon today
Recon is one of the most expensive workflows on a dealer’s P&L, and it usually runs on the least amount of system. Four ways that costs you money every week:
Trade lost in the back
Trade comes in, gets parked behind the building, and the next time anyone notices it the desk is already pricing the deal it should have come out of.
Paper checklists
Detail crew runs off a clipboard. Manager keys hours into a spreadsheet at the end of the week. Nobody knows who is fast and who is slow until the math is too late.
Three invoices, three vendors
Cosmetic in one inbox, mechanical in another, sublet on a text thread. The GSM doesn't know real frontline cost until the deal closes and the bills land.
Aged stock = unfinished recon
Half of every aged-unit list is a recon that stalled three weeks ago and nobody re-flagged. The unit is on the lot but not actually frontline-ready.
The bundle fixes all four with one workflow.
What the bundle delivers
Module 01
Every trade auto-creates a recon job in the Detail module the moment the appraisal posts. No paper handoff, no double-entry, no "who told the detail team?" The job is on the board before the customer signs.
Module 02
Door tablet runs the PWA. Crews scan VIN, clock in with PIN, log time per stage, photo-document the work, and sign off. No paper, no manual time-card entry, no after-the-fact reconstruction.
Module 03
Frontline-ready sign-off pushes the unit into the live inventory feed automatically. The desk sees the car ready to merchandise the moment the crew is done — not the morning after.
Module 04
The GSM sees actual costs per unit before pricing — cosmetic hours, mechanical sublet, parts. Used-car gross is real, not aspirational, because the recon number is live, not reconstructed.
Module 05
Per-detailer leaderboard with Today / 7-day / 30-day tabs. Jobs-per-hour, minutes-per-VIN, tier readiness. Defensible row-level math next to every number — no black-box scoring.
Module 06
Same UI across every recon bay you operate. Cross-store rollup on the founder tab. The store that wins gets the playbook; the store that loses gets the visit.
Module 07
Supplies (compound, pads, coatings, wax) tracked by UPC. Auto-decrement on use, auto-reorder when a SKU drops below the threshold. The supply closet stops being the manager's headache.
For dealers running their own recon
If your store runs its own recon bay, the bundle is the system you should have had ten years ago. Four things change the day you turn it on:
PIN clock-in on a door tablet, VIN-scan to open the job, photo-documented sign-off. Every minute and every line item lives in one place — not in a clipboard, not in a manager's head.
Scheduling, time tracking, photo documentation, supply inventory, leaderboard, training tracker. One backend, one login, one bill — instead of three or four tools that don't talk.
The leaderboard does the work. Detailers self-organize around the Today tab. Manager walks in with one conversation already loaded — not a daily standup that nobody wants.
Each unit carries its own labor + parts + sublet total. The desk sees true frontline cost before pricing, and the owner sees per-unit recon margin instead of a monthly lump.
For dealers using a 3rd-party detail shop
If you send your trades to an outside recon shop, the bundle still works — the vendor runs the PWA on their door tablet and you see every minute as it happens. Three changes the day you switch on:
Your reconditioning vendor runs the PWA for free as long as your dealership is on the bundle. Their crew clocks in on it, you see every minute of work on your unit — no separate vendor login required.
Every unit on the recon lot has a live status: in cosmetic, in mechanical, awaiting sublet, frontline-ready. No more calling the shop to ask "is car 2287 done yet?" — the answer is on your screen.
Per-unit cost rolls up as the work happens. When the vendor invoice arrives, you reconcile against your own running total — not against their word and a paper line item.
Real proof
Elmer is a multi-rooftop reconditioning operation in Florida. They ran on a paper PIN clipboard, a shared spreadsheet, and a manager’s memory until we ported them onto the Detail subdivision in a single week. The crew picked it up by day three.
Subdivision audit
220 / 220
106/106 hard checks · 12/12 DB checks · 100/100 scanner. Final pass on the locked subdivision at commit 8847bfc. No fabricated wins; every check is reproducible from the audit script in the repo.
Customer
Elmer Auto Reconditioning
10 detailers · 3 Florida rooftops · FULLY LIVE since 2026-05-27. PIN clock-in, VIN-scan, multi-store, per- detailer leaderboard (Today / 7-day / 30-day), Gladius University training tracker, transparent efficiency engine.
Pricing
The bundle is built from two pieces that already stand on their own. The Auto CRM tier handles the dealership side; the Detail subdivision handles the recon shop side. Both are listed transparently on /pricing.
Auto CRM
$1,997 · Professional
50 users. Full CRM, AI, call tracking, payments, DMS integration. Most multi-rooftop recon operations sit here.
$3,497 · Enterprise
Unlimited users. Right tier for dealer groups running 3+ rooftops + a central recon hub.
Detail subdivision · add-on
Starts at $399/mo
Single-shop tier on the Detail subdivision pricing ladder. Scales to $799/mo (multi-location, up to 3 shops) and $1,497/mo (unlimited locations). Bundle pricing varies by shop count — we’ll quote you off the standalone Detail tiers, not a made-up number.
Pilot terms
90-day pilot. Cancel without penalty inside the window. We migrate you off cleanly — you keep your data exports. Multi-store discount available; see /groups for the dealer-group ladder.
Detail pricing source: src/lib/verticals.ts · Auto CRM tiers: /pricing · honest framing, no flat add-on promises
Next step
Bring one rooftop and one recon bay. We’ll wire the CRM, stand up the Detail PWA on your door tablet, and walk your crew through PIN clock-in in a single session. Pilot the whole workflow for 90 days; cancel inside the window without penalty.
Gladius Technologies LLC · Tampa, FL · 2026. Built by a 20-year operator who watched too many trades sit on the recon line for three weeks with nobody flagging them.