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Know Which Dealers
Are Ready

Before You Make The Call.

DealerHunters uses AI to monitor 22 automotive news sources daily, detect buying signals, and deliver scored leads to your inbox every morning at 6am.

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Trusted by automotive advertising agencies
Updated daily at 6am Central
Toyota of Lincolnwood
📍 Lincolnwood, IL
95
🔄 Ownership Change
Toyota of Lincolnwood has recently undergone a full ownership transition. The dealership is under new management and actively rebuilding vendor relationships across all departments.
Suggested Pitch
New ownership means new agency. Pitch a grand reopening direct mail campaign targeting a 15-mile radius — 30,000 households, 3-panel mailer.
The Process

From signal to sale in 24 hours

A fully automated intelligence pipeline that does the research so your team can focus on closing.

01
📡
Monitor
Our scrapers pull from 22 automotive trade publications every day at 6am — Automotive News, CBT News, Wards Auto, and 19 more.
02
🤖
Detect
AI reads every article, extracts ownership changes, new rooftops, hiring signals, and OEM events — and scores each lead from 0–100.
03
📬
Deliver
Scored leads land in your inbox by 6am with dealership name, location, signal type, and a custom pitch angle written for CR Advertising.
Intelligence Layer

Five signals. One clear picture.

Every buying moment leaves a trace. We're trained to find all of them.

🔄
Ownership Change
New owners replace every vendor in the first 6–12 months. Be first through the door with a turnkey relaunch campaign.
73% close rate
🏗️
New Rooftop
Grand openings need everything from day one — direct mail, digital, local awareness. A greenfield dealership is a greenfield budget.
68% close rate
📉
Weak Digital
No ads running. Low review count. Thin web presence. The door is wide open for an agency that shows up with a real plan.
54% close rate
👔
Leadership Hire
A new marketing director means a new budget cycle, new relationships, and a mandate to prove ROI fast. Exactly when agencies win.
61% close rate
🏷️
OEM Event
Factory push, model year clearance, manufacturer incentive. When the OEM is spending, the dealer is ready to amplify with local marketing.
58% close rate
Live Product

Your leads. Every morning. Already scored.

Filter by signal type, search by dealership name, mark contacted. Built for automotive advertising sales teams.

dealerhunters.com/dashboard
Last updated: Jun 24, 2026
All
Ownership Change
Marketing Hire
8 of 8 opportunities
8
Total Opportunities
3
Ownership Changes
74
Avg Score
1
Contacted
Toyota of Lincolnwood NEW
📍 Lincolnwood, IL
Ownership Change
95
Midwest Honda NEW
📍 Columbus, OH
Marketing Hire
72
Cedar Valley Ford
📍 Cedar Rapids, IA
New Rooftop
68
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Dealerships in database
0
Live news sources
0
Signal types detected
6am
Daily delivery time
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

One plan. Everything included. Cancel anytime.

DealerHunters Pro
$497
per month · billed monthly
  • ✓ Daily signal monitoring, 7 days a week
  • ✓ 22 automotive news sources scraped nightly
  • ✓ AI-powered lead scoring & extraction
  • ✓ 8,456+ dealership database with contact data
  • ✓ 6am email digest to your sales team
  • ✓ Live dashboard with filters & search
  • ✓ Unlimited opportunities tracked
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DealerHunters tells us exactly which dealers to call and why. We closed 3 new accounts in the first month. It's like having a full-time intelligence analyst on the team.

— Director of Sales, Automotive Advertising Agency
FAQ

Common questions

The pipeline runs every day at 11am UTC (6am Central). Your email digest arrives before your team starts their day, so leads are ready the moment they log in.

22 sources including Automotive News, CBT News, Wards Auto, Fixed Ops Magazine, Auto Remarketing, Car Dealership Guy News, NADA Newsroom, and press wires like PRNewswire and BusinessWire — plus four Google News RSS feeds tuned to ownership change, acquisition, and hiring signals.

We use GPT-4o-mini for dealership name, location, and signal extraction, cross-referenced against a database of 8,456+ verified dealerships. Each lead includes a confidence score so your team knows exactly how strong the signal is.

Yes. The live dashboard includes filter pills for each signal type (Ownership Change, Marketing Hire, Leadership Change, Expansion) and a real-time dealership name search. Filtered views update instantly with no page reload.

No. DealerHunters is a self-contained system. You get a daily email digest and a web dashboard — no CRM integration required, no additional tools. Each opportunity card includes a direct link to the Apollo.io contact search for the dealership.