Your car-shopping trail should not live in someone else's breach log. DriveIntent Vault keeps searches, saved vehicles, and dealer messages under your control.

On March 15, 2026, CarGurus confirmed that 12.4 million records - including names, emails, phone numbers, vehicle search history, saved vehicles, dealer communication history, location data, and IP addresses - were exposed after a misconfigured cloud storage endpoint was exploited by ShinyHunters.

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Why this matters

CORE PROMISE

A marketplace breach should not become a permanent dossier of your budget, timing, and dealer conversations - Slide 1

A marketplace breach should not become a permanent dossier of your budget, timing, and dealer conversations

What It Does · Core Promise · Core Purpose

A marketplace breach should not become a permanent dossier of your budget, timing, and dealer conversations. DriveIntent Vault turns car-shopping history into a user-owned asset you can carry, share selectively, and revoke instantly.

One portable automotive intent vault replaces one permanent centralized marketplace trail.

Imports searches, saved listings, notes, and dealer threads into a user-governed record instead of leaving them stranded inside a marketplace account.
Lets a shopper share only the current intent slice - for example one SUV inquiry or one trade-in conversation - without exposing six months of browsing history.
Adds signed access receipts so every dealer, lender, or insurer request is visible, time-bound, and revocable.
Preserves the usefulness of marketplace coordination while removing the centralized honeypot that made the CarGurus breach so damaging.

I want the dealer to know I am interested in this car, not everything I searched last month.

Connect your existing search history, favorites, and dealer messages once. After that, new activity lands in your own vault first and is shared outward only on your terms.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The users hurt most are not abstract privacy maximalists - Slide 1

The users hurt most are not abstract privacy maximalists

Who It Serves · Target Audience · Target Users

The users hurt most are not abstract privacy maximalists. They are active shoppers, trade-in households, financing-sensitive buyers, and people managing multiple dealer conversations at once.

Four high-intent segments share one need: control over automotive intent and negotiation data.

Active comparison shoppers expose the richest search trail because they save many vehicles, adjust filters often, and revisit listings before purchase.
Trade-in households reveal both outbound intent and replacement timing, which can weaken their bargaining position if broadly visible.
Financing-sensitive buyers generate especially revealing lead data because lender conversations and dealer messages disclose urgency and budget constraints.
Privacy-conscious households still use marketplaces for discovery, but they want the coordination layer without surrendering a permanent behavioral archive.

I am not trying to disappear. I just do not want one platform to know my entire buying timeline and every dealer I contacted.

Segmenting by shopping behavior rather than age or lifestyle keeps the page grounded in the actual data that was exposed: searches, saved vehicles, and dealer communications.

ACCESS POINTS

The fix cannot require users to abandon digital car shopping - Slide 1

The fix cannot require users to abandon digital car shopping

Where To Find It · Access Points · Availability

The fix cannot require users to abandon digital car shopping. It has to travel with them across marketplace sites, dealer pages, lender forms, and mobile browsing.

The control layer works across existing automotive channels instead of replacing them with one more closed platform.

A browser layer captures searches, favorites, and listing notes into the user's vault as browsing happens.
Permission links let a shopper approve one dealer thread, one trade-in conversation, or one financing packet without opening the whole profile.
Mobile-first controls matter because marketplace browsing, photo saves, and dealer follow-up often happen on phones, not desktops.
Structured exports make it possible to move saved vehicles and comparison notes between CarGurus, dealer sites, spreadsheets, or other research tools.

I still want to use the sites that have inventory. I just do not want them to own my full shopping history.

Channel design starts from a practical rule: keep the user in familiar shopping flows, then insert the control layer where data would otherwise be copied or trapped.

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USER EXPERIENCE

The relationship model is not 'trust us.' It is 'see every request, approve the minimum, revoke whenever the moment pass

How It Works · User Experience

The relationship model is not 'trust us.' It is 'see every request, approve the minimum, revoke whenever the moment passes.'

Every data share becomes a user-visible receipt instead of an invisible permanent copy.

A dealer asks for access to one active inquiry thread, not to the shopper's full history.
Permissions can be scoped by time, counterparty, data class, and purpose, then revoked without closing the user's whole account.
Receipts show who saw what, when, and for which reason, making follow-up behavior auditable rather than mysterious.
This turns user trust from a vague policy statement into an operational process the individual can inspect.

VALUE & PRICING

The pricing logic should reward control, not lock-in

What It Costs · Value & Pricing · Pricing

The pricing logic should reward control, not lock-in. Start free for breach recovery and private history import; pay for advanced alerts, family workflows, and negotiation-grade masking.

Free entry removes breach friction, while premium revenue comes from higher-control workflows rather than data resale.

A free core tier gives users a realistic migration path: import history, create a vault, and start using revocable dealer permissions.
A premium tier can price advanced alerts, household coordination, and cross-site comparison tools at a subscription level normal consumers can understand.
Institutional integrations should pay for permissioned workflows, not for ownership of raw user behavior.
An optional data cooperative can return value to users who choose to share anonymized market patterns under explicit rules.

ASSETS & CAPABILITIES

Control becomes real only when the product can prove it

Proof & Evidence · Assets & Capabilities · Resources

Control becomes real only when the product can prove it. The core resources are not slogans - they are an encrypted vault, portable schemas, signed consent receipts, and a user-visible access ledger.

The evidence of trust is a receipt trail the user can inspect, export, and revoke.

The encrypted automotive vault stores search trails, favorites, notes, and approved shares as the canonical record.
Portable schemas keep saved vehicles, filters, alerts, and comparison notes usable beyond one marketplace.
Signed receipts prove when a dealer or partner requested access and what was approved.
An activity ledger gives the user visible evidence that permissions are active, expired, or revoked.

OPERATIONS & TIMING

The product has to perform at the moments users feel exposed: import quickly, alert immediately, revoke instantly, and c

How It Performs · Operations & Timing · Timing

The product has to perform at the moments users feel exposed: import quickly, alert immediately, revoke instantly, and carry context into the next dealership conversation without rebuilding everything.

Setup in minutes; access alerts and revocations happen at event speed, not support-ticket speed.

Initial activity import should pull searches, favorites, and message history into the vault in one short onboarding session.
Every new share request should be logged at the moment it happens, with visible status changes when it expires or is revoked.
Saved-vehicle portability should be ongoing, so users do not lose context when they pause shopping and return months later.
Performance is not just speed; it is preserving continuity without forcing users back into the platform's permanent archive.

ECOSYSTEM & ALLIES

This model gets stronger when inventory sites, dealers, lenders, privacy advocates, and data-wallet infrastructure all a

How It Grows · Ecosystem & Allies · Partners

This model gets stronger when inventory sites, dealers, lenders, privacy advocates, and data-wallet infrastructure all agree to accept permissioned automotive data instead of defaulting to permanent copies.

Partnership value comes from accepting user-governed data flows, not from aggregating another hidden archive.

Consumer privacy groups help frame the breach as a custody problem, not just a one-off cybersecurity story.
Dealer and lender partners matter when they agree to accept scoped shares and revocable tokens instead of demanding permanent exports.
Identity-wallet and consent-receipt infrastructure providers make selective disclosure practical at scale.
Earned promotion comes from proving that the control layer works alongside existing inventory channels instead of trying to replace them overnight.

INVESTMENT & READINESS

The biggest lift is not asking users to relearn car shopping

What It Takes · Investment & Readiness · Requirements

The biggest lift is not asking users to relearn car shopping. It is building the permission, portability, and audit infrastructure so marketplaces no longer need to hoard full intent archives by default.

User setup stays light; ecosystem integration carries most of the implementation cost.

Users should be able to import history, choose core permission defaults, and start with one controlled dealer share in a short onboarding flow.
The heavier investment sits in schemas, receipts, integrations, notifications, and secure storage architecture.
The product must support partial adoption, because the market will not switch every dealer and lender to permissioned exchange on day one.
Preparation is successful when users gain immediate control without waiting for the entire ecosystem to become perfect.

A marketplace breach should not become a permanent dossier of your budget, timing, and dealer conversations

A marketplace breach should not become a permanent dossier of your budget, timing, and dealer conversations

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

The users hurt most are not abstract privacy maximalists

The users hurt most are not abstract privacy maximalists

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

The fix cannot require users to abandon digital car shopping

The fix cannot require users to abandon digital car shopping

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

Explore More

The relationship model is not 'trust us.' It is 'see every request, approve the minimum, revoke whenever the moment pass

The relationship model is not 'trust us.' It is 'see every request, approve the minimum, revoke whenever the moment pass

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

The pricing logic should reward control, not lock-in

The pricing logic should reward control, not lock-in

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

Control becomes real only when the product can prove it

Control becomes real only when the product can prove it

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

The product has to perform at the moments users feel exposed: import quickly, alert immediately, revoke instantly, and c

The product has to perform at the moments users feel exposed: import quickly, alert immediately, revoke instantly, and c

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

This model gets stronger when inventory sites, dealers, lenders, privacy advocates, and data-wallet infrastructure all a

This model gets stronger when inventory sites, dealers, lenders, privacy advocates, and data-wallet infrastructure all a

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions

The biggest lift is not asking users to relearn car shopping

The biggest lift is not asking users to relearn car shopping

Business Model Perspective

Marketing Perspective

Strategic Questions