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Start with the operating job
Name the decision that must be made before comparing categories. Transaction processing, product control, specialist opinion, and recurring exception intelligence are different jobs.
Buyer scope
Choose the lane that owns the decision.
Start with the job, authority, and evidence required. This page compares those boundaries without ranking named companies or guessing at private performance.
Decision map
Four buyer questions
More than one lane may matter. The point is to give each operating job to the party equipped and authorized to own it.
- 01
Do you need a system to record and run transactions?
Evaluate the dealership system and workflow platforms that own that operating job.
Mechanus IQ reads authorized operational exports. It does not replace the dealership system of record.
- 02
Do you need controls around a specific product or disclosure?
Evaluate the provider and compliance workflow responsible for that product decision.
Mechanus IQ is product-independent. It does not distribute, recommend, underwrite, or earn from third-party F&I products.
- 03
Do you need a formal opinion or specialist judgment?
Engage the lawyer, accountant, lender, or other qualified authority required for that decision.
Mechanus IQ can organize source-bound operating questions. It does not replace legal, tax, accounting, or lender authority.
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Do you need recurring cross-department exception intelligence?
Consider Mechanus IQ when the work is to rank operational exceptions, assign the next decision, and preserve evidence of what happened next.
The signed statement of work controls the actual sources, operating scope, cadence, gates, and exclusions.
Scope before comparison
Three checks before the shortlist.
02
Ask who holds authority
The provider that surfaces an issue is not automatically the party authorized to approve the legal, accounting, lender, or dealership action.
03
Keep evidence and billing separate
MIQ prices by rooftop store size. A finding or later recovery record may support the value case, but it does not recalculate the fixed retainer.
Public boundary
Useful without a scorecard.
- No named vendor scorecard or private competitor material.
- No unsupported claim about another provider’s clients, contracts, economics, or performance.
- No guarantee of recoverable margin before a dealer-specific diagnostic reviews authorized data.
- No product distribution, vendor kickback, or underwriter affiliation.
Your operating question
Compare your decision, not a logo.
The free mini-audit starts with the question on your desk and the authorized operating records available to examine it.