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Part exchange
Dealer PX is fast and familiar, but structurally low because the dealer must create 20% margin on stock to cover, depreciating asset, funding stock, showroom/forecourt, and sales team costs.
Car Supernova Investor Presentation
Beat dealer PX offers from your mobile
Car Supernova turns consumer-owned cars into dealer-ready digital inventory, then sells them with certification, prep, and transaction control built in.
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Thesis
We are the new better dealer model.
Car Supernova removes showroom cost, cost of funding stock and cost of sales people and support staff
We capture the retail upside by certifying, preparing, listing, and transacting the vehicle itself.
Higher than PXSeller positioning
Dealer-readyCertified inventory standard
Remote saleRetail distribution model
The consumer starts digitally. Car Supernova takes control from tentative valuation through final retail sale.
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The Problem
At the moment, sellers can only choose between cheap certainty or painful effort.
Part exchange is fast but weak on price. Private sale can be stronger on price but is slow, risky, and full of hassle. Most owners accept less simply to avoid the process.
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Instant purchase
Convenient headline offers often soften after inspection and although they buy any car, they make a small profit selling the vehicle to dealers who then still need to create 20% margin.
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Private sale
Potentially better price, but most sellers do not want costs associated with selling a car and the hassle of buyer meetings, negotiation stress, paperwork risk, or post-sale disputes. They will also get unsolicted calls from dealers and other advertisers.
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Customer Promise
For the seller, the message is simple: we sell your car you get more money
The customer gets a guided process, a better route to price, and no need to manage buyer conversations, handover risk, or after-sale complications.
| Route | Price | Effort | Seller risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instant Buyer | Low | Low | Low |
| Dealer PX | Low | Low | Low |
| Private sale | High | High | High |
| Car Supernova | High | Low | Low |
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Price Proof
The upside from turning trade-value into retail-value for car sellers.
Five live examples show the spread between a low-friction cash-buyer quote and the same vehicle sold through a prepared retail route.
Avg upside
£3.5KBest case
£7.2KAvg uplift
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Why It Wins
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Operating Flow
This is a lower-cost dealer stack without retail overhead.
Car Supernova concentrates spend on valuation, certification, prep, and digital sale instead of showrooms, forecourts, and large selling teams.
No expensive retail footprint requiredLighter fixed cost
No seller-buyer negotiation burden on the customerCleaner experience
Centralized prep, imaging, and listing standardsOperational consistency
Digital inventory can sit across multiple outletsWider reach
Supernova behaves like a modern retail operator: source, certify, prepare, distribute, transact, and carry the buyer-facing promise.
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Market Opportunity
The UK opportunity is large, active, and already familiar with selling through high-friction or low-value routes.
Around 7 million used cars are sold every year. Car Supernova targets vehicles between £15,000 and £100,000, which will be 50-60% of the cars sold but 70-80% of total market by value.
7MUsed cars sold each year
3-4M iS Car Supernova's target market
3-4M iS Car Supernova's target market
£15K to 100K
Car Supernova will also cherry-pick based on
Average or below-average mileage
Age restrictions
Average number of owners / time
Car Supernova will also cherry-pick based on
Average or below-average mileage
Age restrictions
Average number of owners / time
Owner-sell market
We offer sellers a hassle-free managed process for a similar value outcome to private sale, without the stress, time cost, or buyer risk.
Dealer-led market
Roughly 80% to 90% of vehicles still move through dealers. That is where Car Supernova can offer a far better value proposition while delivering a controlled retail-standard outcome.
Why now
Buyers already start online and after Covid many continue to complete purchase online. Instead of trying to invent new demand, Car Supernova inserts a better operating model, tech, and AI into an existing, very large used-car flow.
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The Product
A seller uploads their car. Car Supernova turns it into retail-ready inventory.
The platform starts with AI-led intake, then moves into physical certification and prep so the car can be sold remotely like a dealer-stock vehicle, not a risky private listing.
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Register + upload
The customer enters vehicle data, and receives a tentative AI-driven valuation. If happy uploads basic photos.
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Confirm interest
Car Supernova accepts the vehicle into the physical inspection path.
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Evaluate + certify
A physical evaluator inspects the vehicle, verifies condition, and certifies it to a dealer-standard retail baseline.
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Prep + clean
A separate team handles valeting, minor detail correction and generating digital assets standardised and dealer standard by AI.
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List + distribute
The vehicle enters Car Supernova inventory and is published across digital retail outlets for remote sale.
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Trust Layer
Certification changes the buyer side because the car can be sold remotely with confidence.
Certified condition
Inspection is paid only per inspection, creating trust around condition, paperwork, and presentation quality without fixed inspection overhead.
Retail-ready listing
The prep team already exists and is paid per job, allowing Supernova to valet, digitise, and standardise each vehicle into dealer-like stock without carrying a heavy fixed team.
Remote retail logic
The driver network is already out there and is also paid per job, while listings are spread across digital retail outlets with supporting inspection to build trust for a click-and-deliver model.
Trust
Engine
Engine
AI intake
Early pricing and photo analysis remove dead-end vehicles quickly.
Certification
Physical verification turns an owner asset into a buyer-safe retail proposition.
Prep
Small fixes and cleaning make the asset feel inventory-grade.
Guarantee
Any limited buyer return promise sits with Supernova, not the seller.
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Buyer Experience
The buyer gets confidence. The seller gets distance from the transaction.
Seller is done once the car is picked up
No direct buyer dealing, no returns debate, no post-sale callback burden.
Buyer sees a retail-standard asset
Certification, paperwork, and prep make the vehicle suitable for remote purchase.
Buyer guarantee and consumer law protections sit with Car Supernova
The return promise becomes a platform issue, not a private seller issue.
This is closer to buying dealer stock online than buying from a private owner in an uncertain one-off transaction.
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Go To Market
Start with controlled supply, prove the operational loop, then scale inventory throughput.
Phase 1
Launch the seller intake flow, pricing, and accepetance in a tightly controlled geography.
Phase 2
Standardise certification, prep, and listing workflow to dealer-ready output to natonwide audience.
Phase 3
Expand consumer intake by neighbouring postcodes until big bang nationwide launch
Phase 4
Lauch in new markets
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Use Of Funds
Raising £600,000 to build the retail engine, not just the front end.
AI + product
Seller intake, image analysis, valuation logic, and internal operating tooling.
Build the stackField operations
Evaluator network, certification workflow, prep coordination, and handoff process.
Make it realInventory distribution
Digital outlet presence, transactional infrastructure, and early buyer confidence layers.
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Founder
Peter Holmes
Founder
This opportunity needs an operator who can bridge motor trade logic and systems execution.
Category understanding
The model depends on knowing where dealer margin really comes from and which parts of that stack can be rebuilt more efficiently.
Workflow discipline
The engine is operational: intake, inspection, prep, listing, transaction, and post-sale promise all need to connect tightly.
Commercial focus
The business wins by beating PX on value while keeping the experience clean enough for normal sellers to trust.
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Close
Offers car sellers a lower-cost, lower-friction route to maximise the value of their car .
Car Supernova beats dealer PX offers by certifying, preparing, and digitally retailing consumer-owned vehicles as dealer-ready stock.
MVP is in progress and will be ready for marketing testing by end of August.
£600K will be used for a soft launch, provide working capital, prove the model and build an executive team.
With a full exec team in place, proven tech and generating revenue Car Supernova will raise additional funds for a national marketing campaign to lauch this new model UK wide.
The message is simple.
£600KFirst round RAISE
UKLOCALISED Launch
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