An AI consultant that reads your history reports

What it does

When your reports for a VIN are ready, open that car in your account and choose Read my reports. The consultant reads every report you own for it together, whether that’s CARFAX, AutoCheck, an auction record or all three. For an auction record it also looks at some of the lot photos we stored. Then it writes one reading:

• A verdict in one of three plain categories: no major red flags in the reports, some things to check, or serious concerns.
• Red flags, the most serious first, each naming the report it came from, such as CARFAX, AutoCheck or a Copart sale and its date.
• Good signs, each with the evidence for it.
• Questions for the seller, based on what these reports show.
• What a mechanic should check, given this car’s history.
• What the reports can’t tell you about this car.
• Recalls for this model, from NHTSA’s recall list for the car’s year, make and model. That list covers the model, not this exact car: whether this car’s repair was done is a separate check, at nhtsa.gov/recalls with the VIN or through a dealer for the brand.
• Negotiation points, drawn only from issues documented in your reports, such as asking for repair invoices or an inspection before you pay. Never a price or a value.
• About this model in general, in a separate, clearly labelled section that doesn’t come from your reports. It covers only widely documented patterns for that year, make and model, and says so when it has nothing reliable.

When two reports disagree, it says so and says what each one shows. A report that found no records is treated as a finding, not a gap. It looks for what changes a buying decision: title brands, total-loss records, structural damage, airbag deployment, odometer problems, long gaps, many owners in a short time, and use as a rental, fleet car or taxi.

Ask follow-up questions

Once the reading is there, you can ask about anything in the reports: what a title event means, whether the recorded damage sounds structural, what to ask before you put down a deposit. Each car comes with 15 follow-up questions by default, and the panel shows how many you have left. You can run or update the reading up to 3 times a day per car, for example after another report for it arrives.

If the answer isn’t in the reports, it says so and suggests how to find out: ask the seller, get an inspection or contact the title office. Would you rather ask a person? The Ask a person link under the reading opens our contact form.

Included with your reports

There’s nothing extra to pay. The consultant comes with the reports you buy, and it works on the reports in your account for that car. It answers in the language you use the site in: English, Spanish, French or Arabic. The reports themselves stay in English.

What it won’t do

• No valuations. It doesn’t estimate what the car is worth or what you should offer.
• It never calls a car safe. A report only lists what was reported to its sources, so the consultant says what the reports show and what they can’t show. It never says nothing is wrong.
• It isn’t a mechanic. It can’t see, drive or lift the car. It always recommends an independent pre-purchase inspection and tells you what the mechanic should look at.
• No legal, insurance or financing advice.
• It can make mistakes. It is written by AI. Check anything important against the report itself; the source named on each point tells you where to look.

The FTC gives the same advice for any history report: it doesn’t replace an inspection by a mechanic you choose.

Questions you can ask

• What should I ask the seller first?
• Is anything here a reason not to buy?
• What does the title history mean?
• The seller says it was never in an accident. Do the reports agree?
• Why do the reports show different mileage readings?
• From the auction photos, which parts of the car were damaged?
• What should the mechanic look at most closely?

Your privacy

To write the reading and the answers, your reports and your questions are sent to Anthropic, the company whose AI model, Claude, writes them. As our privacy policy says, Anthropic doesn’t use them to train its models. Before report text is sent, we remove email addresses and phone numbers from it; PDF reports are sent as they are. We keep the reading and your questions in your account, so you can come back to them later.