Customers
Every automotive channel, one key.
The teams building on CarHub all have the same problem from a different angle: a vehicle arrives as photographs, and something downstream needs it as structured data. Here is who they are and where each one starts.
5 segments · 24 endpoints · start with one, not the platform
Who builds on it
Nobody adopts the whole stack on day one.
Each segment arrives through a single endpoint that solves the expensive problem first, then widens once the key is already in production.
Marketplaces & DMS
Classifieds, marketplaces, dealer groups and the DMS vendors behind them
Listing photos come from whoever was holding the phone. Six sellers, six driveways, six exposures — one inconsistent results page.
Starts with
POST/v1/render/background
image-backgrounding · per image
Dealerships & dealer groups
Franchised and independent dealers, dealer groups and used-vehicle operations
Fresh inventory waits for photography, appraisal and data entry before it can appear online — and every rooftop presents it differently.
Starts with
POST/v1/render/background
image-backgrounding · per image
Insurance & claims platforms
Insurers, MGAs, claims platforms and the assessors working inside them
A policyholder sends eight photos. An assessor opens them one at a time to decide whether this is a bumper scuff or a total loss.
Starts with
POST/v1/damage/detect
damage-detection · per image
Rental & vehicle sharing
Rental desks, car-sharing operators and anyone handing over keys at volume
The customer says the scratch was already there. The agent says it wasn’t. Nobody photographed that panel at check-out.
Starts with
POST/v1/inspections
the bundle — eight stages · per vehicle
Auctions & logistics
Auction houses, remarketers, transporters and the yards in between
A car changes hands four times between the yard and the buyer, and the only condition record is a paper sheet somebody filled in at dusk.
Starts with
POST/v1/inspections
the bundle — eight stages · per vehicle
First call
The endpoint each segment buys first.
Not the biggest endpoint — the one that removes the most manual work per call.
- Marketplaces & DMS
Classifieds, marketplaces, dealer groups and the DMS vendors behind them
POST/v1/render/backgroundimage-backgrounding · per imageThe shortest path to a visible change on your results page. One image in, a rendered URL out — no schema of yours changes, and you keep the originals.
- Dealerships
Franchised and independent dealers, dealer groups and used-vehicle operations
POST/v1/render/backgroundimage-backgrounding · per imageStandardised imagery is immediately visible to merchandising teams and buyers. It can be tested on existing stock before changing the appraisal workflow.
- Insurance & claims
Insurers, MGAs, claims platforms and the assessors working inside them
POST/v1/damage/detectdamage-detection · per imageOne endpoint, one image, a set of typed masks. You can run it against last month’s closed claims and compare it to what the assessors decided before anything reaches production.
- Rental & car sharing
Rental desks, car-sharing operators and anyone handing over keys at volume
POST/v1/inspectionsthe bundle — eight stages · per vehicleBoth ends of the rental run the identical call. The Capture SDK walks a customer or an agent through a complete shot set, so the evidence exists before the dispute does.
- Auctions & logistics
Auction houses, remarketers, transporters and the yards in between
POST/v1/inspectionsthe bundle — eight stages · per vehicleOne call is the entire report, billed as one blended inspection. A driver with a phone is the whole capture apparatus — no lane, no booth, no trained inspector.
What we don't claim
Every segment gets a limit in writing.
The models report what they saw. The decision stays in your system, where you can audit it. Here is the boundary for each segment, before you ask.
Marketplaces & DMS
Image production is exposed as infrastructure, not as a batch retouching service. You call it per image, inside your own pipeline, and the original file is never replaced.
Dealerships
CarHub returns evidence, structured data and media assets. Your DMS remains the source of truth for stock status, pricing approval and publication.
Insurance & claims
Severity is a grade, not a decision. The models report what was seen and how bad it is; the rule that fast-tracks, refers or rejects a claim stays yours, in your system, auditable by you.
Rental & car sharing
There is no “compare two inspections” endpoint, and we would not trust one that hid its arithmetic. What the platform guarantees is that both inspections carry the same part decomposition and the same damage schema — the delta is a set difference over part IDs, computed by your rules, in your system.
Auctions & logistics
The report is only as complete as the walkaround. video-onboarding reports which positions it actually got — a panel nobody filmed comes back as missing rather than as undamaged.
Talk to someone running your workload.
Tell us which segment you are in and we will walk through the first endpoint, the volumes it takes to matter, and what stays your responsibility.