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- client
- Il Valutatore S.r.l. · used-car valuations
- asked for
- a valuation that starts from the way people describe their car
- built
- free-text matching, plate lookup, price from comparable listings, funnel to their CRM
- status
- in delivery
Type "golf variant 2017 2.0 tdi".
People do not know their car's catalogue code. They know it is a Golf Variant, 2017, the 2.0 diesel. That is all they type.
A model reads the sentence and returns make, model, year, month, fuel and engine. It walks Il Valutatore's own catalogue, 308 makes with their models and versions, and stops at the car the person meant.
input golf variant 2017 2.0 tdicatalogue 308 makesmatch Golf Variant 2.0 TDI, 2017next km, month, condition
The price comes from real cars.
The estimate takes the twenty comparables closest to the car, samples five across the price range, and moves the middle one by kilometres and registration year. Every price on the page stands on those comparables: the page never invents one.
- 308makes in the catalogue
- 20closest comparables behind each price
- 1sentence to start