Operator to operator.

Field-level operating notes on dealership leakage, controls, and regulatory change. Each briefing is written for the person who has to make the process hold on Monday morning.

Intelligence briefings

Regulatory Readiness Center

May 26, 2026

BC RIA 2027 Submission Builder

Build a browser-local draft letter from your private operating numbers. Dealer signs and sends; Mechanus IQ does not transmit or aggregate submissions.

Mechanus IQ

Interactive tool

Regulatory Readiness Center

May 26, 2026

BC RIA 2027 Readiness Center

Track official dates, authority status, final-rule unknowns, product boundaries, seller readiness, disclosure exposure, and no-PII registry evidence for the BC RIA transition.

Mechanus IQ

~1280 words

Regulatory Explainer

May 26, 2026

BC Restricted Insurance Agency 2027: dealer operating guide

The 2027 restricted insurance agency regime is not just a licence filing. It is a product map, seller-readiness, disclosure, authorization, and evidence-control problem that dealers should build before launch.

Bowen Schreyer

~2710 words

Cash Flow & Funding Velocity

Apr 18, 2026

Cash-in-transit is the first quiet leak

Contracts past day seven are not a finance inconvenience. They are a cash-conversion failure with lender, compliance, and management-control consequences.

Dan Douville

~1160 words

F&I Revenue & Compliance

Apr 16, 2026

Per-copy is the report. Variance is the story.

A strong per-copy average can hide reserve compression, product-mix drift, cancellation pressure, and disclosure risk. The average says fine while the desk changes underneath it.

Bowen Schreyer

~1330 words

Financial Structure & OEM Recovery

Apr 12, 2026

The biggest single lever the dealership has

Operators watch the numbers that move daily. The larger annual dollars often sit in OEM recovery, lender readiness, program compliance, and documentation discipline.

Dan Douville

~1190 words

Inventory & Market Intelligence

Apr 10, 2026

Aging inventory costs more than the floorplan interest shows

Floorplan interest is visible. Depreciation, market-position drift, attention cost, and wholesale recovery spread are usually larger and usually under-controlled.

Dan Douville

~1210 words

Service & Warranty Recovery

Apr 8, 2026

The back end nobody audits

Service and warranty performance can look acceptable in departmental averages while denial, sublet, labor-rate, and handoff leakage keep compounding underneath.

Bowen Schreyer

~1190 words