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Stocking Guide

What to stock and how to price it for a make and model in your area.

Stocking Guide

What to stock and how to price it for a make and model in your area.

At a glance
Price $1.99 per run.
Tool name generate_stocking_guide
Scope reports:stocking-guide
Built for Small Dealer

What it does

Market-side stocking intelligence for a dealer: supply count, demand-to-supply ratio (auction-bid AND lot-stocking thresholds), recent price drops nearby, recently off-market evidence (a sold proxy at last list), Max Bid formula with target margin + recon + floor plan, expected turn days, projected net profit, dealer economics (front-end gross + cost to market at the max-bid plan), top trims/colors/years, CPO market analysis. Use when a dealer asks what to stock or what to bid for a MAKE/MODEL (not specific VINs) in their local market, how a model is moving, or its right price band. To rank specific candidate VINs the user already has, use Acquisition Fit Report instead.

Arguments

Argument What it is Example
make Required Vehicle make (e.g. Toyota, Ford, Honda). Toyota
model Required Vehicle model (e.g. RAV4, F-150, Civic). RAV4
zip Required ZIP code of the dealer's lot (anchors the local supply analysis). 60601
radius_miles Optional Search radius in miles (default 50). 50
trim Recommended Specific trim level (e.g. XLE, LX, Sport). Improves Max Bid precision. XLE
year Recommended Specific model year. Use this OR year_range, not both. 2022
year_range Recommended Year range like "2020-2022". Use this OR year, not both. 2020-2022
target_margin_pct Recommended Dealer's target retail margin as a decimal (e.g. 0.15 for 15%). Defaults to 0.15. 0.15
recon_cost_usd Recommended Typical reconditioning cost per unit. Defaults to $1,500. 1500
dealer_type Recommended "franchise" or "independent". Anchors channel-specific medians in calculations. franchise
car_type Optional "used" or "new". Defaults to "used". used

What comes back

Asking for it in a chat client

I'm a franchise dealer in 60601 figuring out what to bid on at auction. Run a stocking guide for Toyota RAV4 XLE 2022s, 15% target margin, $1,500 recon.

Should I stock more 2021 Highlanders for my lot in 60601?

Running it from a backend

Grant an agent the reports:stocking-guide scope, then call the tool over MCP:

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "generate_stocking_guide",
    "arguments": {
      "make": "Toyota",
      "model": "RAV4",
      "zip": "60601"
    }
  }
}

See Server-side access for the token exchange and how to read the response.