Cara — Find the car you're looking for. Don't be the product.

Cara is a privacy-first AI car-shopping agent. Every “free” car site sells your data and attention to dealers, OEMs, and finance partners. Cara's customer is you. We stitch real-time listings, market comps, vehicle history, NHTSA safety, and trade-in valuations into one place — so you stop bouncing between eight tabs and a stale spreadsheet.

How Cara is different

Pricing

Scout: $0/week. 100 credits/week. For early explorers gathering intel on the road ahead.

Agent: $5/week. 500 credits/week. Deeper intel and smarter tools for people actually buying.

Handler: Coming soon. Flat fee per car. A dedicated human expert backed by Cara handles the dealer for you.

Cara
A friend in the car business

Your car-buying advantage.

Pricing, history, ownership costs, and market comps — one AI, one conversation. No more tab-surfing and custom spreadsheets.

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  • Deal-quality scoring
  • Live market pricing
  • Side-by-side comparison
  • Personalized fit score
  • AI recommendations
  • 98% coverage
  • All 50 states
The unfortunate truth about “free”

On every “free” car site, you are what's being sold.

That's why one Civic search turns into a week of phone calls. Why every listing somehow has a “Great Deal” badge. Why the experience steers you toward whoever's paying the most for leads that day. Cara is the opposite shape of business.

Them — paid by dealers

  • Your search history sold to dealers, OEMs, insurance, and finance partners.
  • “Great Deal” badges that conveniently match the highest-paying lead.
  • Reviews from 2019 stapled to a 2023 trim. Stale “best of” awards.
  • Filters carefully designed not to expose dealer markup or slow inventory.
  • One Civic search = a week of unsolicited calls, emails, and texts.

Cara — paid by you

  • No kickbacks. No preferential placements. Just the most honest information we have.
  • Slow-mover inventory and deal-quality scoring as real filters — so you know when you have room to negotiate.
  • NHTSA safety ratings and known model-year issues surfaced upfront.
  • A fit score that gets smarter the more you tell it about your life.
  • Your data stays yours. View and edit what Cara learns about you. Delete it anytime.
How Cara is different

The whole journey, in one place — instead of eight tabs and a stale spreadsheet.

Search, evaluate, compare, trade in, negotiate. Each step uses real-time inventory, real comps, and a profile of what you actually care about.

Search · the differentiator

Search by the things dealers don't want you searching by.

Slow-mover inventory. Deal-quality as a filter, not a badge. NHTSA safety. Quiet rides, tall-driver headroom, “good in snow.” Search like a person — not a spec sheet.

  • Sort by days on lot — cars sitting longest mean more room to negotiate
  • Qualitative search (“luxury feel,” “good for new drivers”)
  • Smart loosening when nothing matches — and Cara tells you what she changed
  • Map view so the perfect car two towns over doesn't slip past
02 · /search results + map + filters
Search canvas — VIN details with filters, results list, and map, dark theme
03 · /lineup side-by-side
My Lineup — side-by-side cost-of-ownership comparison across saved vehicles, light theme
My Lineup · the spreadsheet, killed

Compare the cars you're actually considering — and edit any number.

Pin vehicles as you go. Cara holds the side-by-side with estimated out-the-door math: loan vs. lease vs. cash, insurance, fuel, maintenance, depreciation. Disagree with a number? Override it. Totals re-flow. It stays current — your spreadsheet won't.

  • Estimated cost-of-ownership across loan, lease, and cash
  • Per-VIN overrides for miles, down payment, APR, condition
  • Tags, pins, and notes you can return to next week
  • If a car sells, Cara flags it and recommends the closest match
Trade-in · know your number

A trade-in number you can actually use.

Cara pulls live comps in your zip — private-sale and trade-in — and shows you a confidence range, not a take-it-or-leave-it figure. Walk in knowing when you have room to negotiate.

  • Comparable listings in your area, not a stale national average
  • Private-sale vs. trade-in side-by-side
  • Condition adjustments with explanations
04 · trade-in estimator
Cara trade-in valuation widget — dual range, market sparkline, confidence stamp, and receipt-style breakdown
More reasons

Things Cara does that other car sites skip.

Filter

Days on lot + deal category

Two filters dealers don't want exposed: how long a car's been sitting (leverage to negotiate) and how its price compares to the market — great deal, fair, or overpriced.

e.g. “60+ days on lot · ‘Great deal’ or ‘Fair price’ only”
Search

Search like a person

“Quiet ride.” “Good for tall drivers.” “Holds three car seats.” The way you actually think.

e.g. “Luxury feel under $35k, good in snow”
Score

Fit score on every result

A single number for “is this car right for me.” Built from your stated and inferred preferences.

e.g. “92/100 fit”
Filter

Features that actually matter

CarPlay, heated seats, adaptive cruise, blind-spot. Filter to what you'll touch every day.

e.g. “Has CarPlay + heated seats + ACC”
Smart

No dead-end zero-results

If your criteria find nothing, Cara loosens the right ones and shows her work.

e.g. “Dropped sunroof, raised mileage → 14 results”
Safety

Safety as a filter

NHTSA crash-test ratings shown where available (~75% of listings). Filter to what meets your bar.

e.g. “Only show me 4-star and above”
Math

Editable side-by-side

Loan vs. lease vs. cash, pre-filled estimates. Override any number, totals re-flow.

e.g. “What if APR is 6.9% with $4k down on 60-mo?”
Trade-in

Trade-in estimate that helps you negotiate

Real comps in your zip, not a stale national average. Private-sale and trade ranges side-by-side.

e.g. “$14.2–15.8k trade · $16.5–18k private”
Map

Map view of inventory

The perfect car two towns over shouldn't slip past you because the list cut off at page 3.

e.g. “8 RAV4s within 60 mi · 2 within budget”
Abhi Vora
Why I'm building Cara
“I spent years inside the auto-tech industry, watching exactly how shopper data gets collected, scored, and resold. Then I tried to buy my own car and it was still a mess. If Cara is going to actually be on your side, my customer has to be you — not the dealer. Most shoppers won't pay for what they think is free, so this might fail. But I think it's the only way it actually works.”
Abhi VoraFounder, Microverse Labs
Pricing

Choose your plan

Start free, no credit card required. Upgrade anytime.
Easy cancellation and your money back if you're not satisfied.

the explorer

Scout

$0/week
100 credits/week

For early explorers gathering intel on the road ahead.

  • Search new and used cars across all 50 states
  • Personalized recommendations and fit score
  • Save favorites and compare across listings
  • Price-drop and new-listing alerts (coming soon)
Pre-release
done-for-you

Handler

Coming soon
Dedicated human + Cara on your deal

A human expert, backed by Cara, handles the dealer for you. Pre-release; volunteers wanted.

  • Everything in Agent, plus:
  • Dedicated expert handles dealer outreach
  • Out-the-door quote collection + comparison
  • Line-by-line F&I review at signing
  • Trade-in and delivery coordination

Prices exclude applicable tax. Usage limits apply on Scout and Agent. Handler is pre-release — pricing finalized at launch. Volunteers welcome.

Frequently asked questions

Honestly, Cara uses them under the hood — we're not trying to compete with them. The hard part isn't the AI; it's stitching together real-time listings, market comps, financial math, vehicle history, and reviews into something that doesn't make you bounce between eight tabs and a spreadsheet. That's the job Cara is trying to do.
Subscriptions. Scout is free. Agent is $5/week. Handler (coming soon) is a flat fee per car we help you buy. No misleading preferenced placements, no kickbacks from dealers or partners, no hidden lead-sale revenue. That's why our recommendations stay on your side — it's the whole business model.
Your privacy comes first. Your chats, preferences, and saved vehicles are yours — we don't share your personal information without your explicit permission. The profile Cara builds is visible to you in a dashboard, and you can request a copy of your data any time.
Concierge-style car buying typically saves consumers 3–10% off MSRP by avoiding dealer markups, unnecessary add-ons, and inflated fees. That's an industry benchmark, not a guaranteed Cara outcome — actual savings depend on your market, vehicle, and the specific deal. The savings in time and stress are also real.
Yes. Cara pulls real market comps and shows you private-sale vs. trade-in estimates with a confidence range. Once Handler launches, we'll coordinate the trade-in handoff as part of your new-car deal.
Stop tab-surfing

Try Cara. Free.

Take her for a spin on a car you're actually looking at. If it's useful, come back.

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