More qualified
car buyers.
Delivered.
The AI platform South African dealerships use to find ready-to-buy customers, close more sales, and stay ahead of the market — with world-class industrial intelligence and WhatsApp delivery in under 30 seconds.
No credit card · 5 qualified leads free · POPIA compliant
Most dealers wait.
The best ones hunt.
The average SA dealership holds stock 47 days. 25% of walk-ins get rejected for finance. The buyers who would have qualified are already browsing competitors online. Visio Auto finds them first.
Signal Detected
We monitor 84+ buying signals across SA — lease expirations, new jobs, property purchases, insurance claims, social mentions, CIPC registrations.
AI Qualified
Every prospect scored 0-100 for intent, budget, timeline, brand affinity, and bank-grade affordability. Only the ready-to-buy reach you.
Inventory Matched
Leads matched to specific vehicles in your stock by brand, model, price band, and buyer preferences. The right car for the right buyer.
Delivered in 30s
Qualified leads land on your WhatsApp within 30 seconds — with full buyer context, suggested vehicles, and AI-written talking points.
“Dealers using Visio Auto turn stock 1.6× faster. A typical 40-car-per-month dealer saves approximately R1.25M per year in floorplan interest.”
Visio Research Labs — Stock Velocity Analysis, 2026
Three offerings.
One platform.
The core of Visio Auto is simple: we sell qualified car buyers to dealerships, and world-class market intelligence to the OEMs and banks who fund them.
Six connected products.
One platform.
Every product solves one piece of the SA car-buying journey. Together they cover the whole thing — from pre-approval to delivery to buyer trust.
Visio Approve
Pre-approve buyers in 90 seconds
Compare four bank rates instantly. No credit pull. No rejected applications. Fewer wasted F&I hours.
Visio Inspect
AI condition reports from 12 phone photos
Build buyer trust on any used car. R49 per report or R299/mo unlimited. Confidence-gated grading.
Visio BDC
WhatsApp-native lead routing and templates
30 templates in English, Afrikaans, and Zulu. Built for SA dealers at SA prices. 5× cheaper than US tools.
Visio Intent
Real-time buying intent data for OEMs and banks
The forward-looking layer Lightstone and TransUnion do not publish. Subscribe monthly. Free public Index.
Visio Open Finance
Bank statement affordability for thin-file buyers
Approve the gig workers, freelancers, and self-employed buyers the bureaus cannot see. Audit-grade PDF for banks.
Simple pricing.
Pay for results.
Start free. Upgrade as you grow. Cancel anytime. No credit card required for the free trial.
Starter
For solo dealers and small lots getting started.
- 25 qualified leads/mo
- WhatsApp delivery
- Lead scoring (0-100)
- Basic market intelligence
- Email support
Growth
The anchor tier. Most dealerships choose this.
- 100 qualified leads/mo
- WhatsApp + voice delivery
- Full market intelligence
- All 84 signal types
- Visio Approve widget
- Visio Inspect reports
- Priority support
Enterprise
For OEMs, banks, and national dealer networks.
- Unlimited qualified leads
- Full Visio Auto Suite
- Visio Intent OEM tier
- White-label options
- Dedicated account manager
- Custom signal engineering
- SLA + priority support
Running an OEM marketing team
or bank credit-ops?
We have your data.
Lightstone and TransUnion sell historical records. NAAMSA publishes monthly averages. Nobody sells forward-looking buying intent — until now. Subscribe to Visio Intelligence to see what is about to happen in the SA auto market, not just what already did.
- →For OEMs: reallocate dealer co-op marketing toward higher-intent regions. Approximately 20× ROI on the Enterprise tier.
- →For banks: bid on the postcodes seeing application-stage intent right now. Approximately 30-40% lower cost-per-qualified-lead.
- →For everyone: published methodology, k-anonymity protected, POPIA compliant.
The SA auto market at a glance
New vehicle sales, March 2026 — best March since 2007
Year-over-year growth in Q1 2026
Chinese OEM market share — up from under 5% in 2022
Acquired Nissan's 60-year-old Rosslyn plant (2026)
Sources: NAAMSA monthly releases · TransUnion Q4 2025 Mobility Insights · trade press reports. See full report at /papers/intelligence-vol-1.
Verified. Published.
Honest.
We do not publish fake testimonials or stock-photo customer faces. When real dealerships give us permission to share their results, they will live at /customers. Until then, here are the numbers we can prove.
In our lead database, 54% concentrated in Gauteng.
Across lifecycle, financial, corporate, property, social, and macro.
From signal detection to your sales team's phone.
Peer-grade, free under CC BY 4.0, at /research.
Information Officer registered. 90-day retention. Published methodology.
Approve, Inspect, BDC, Intent, Open Finance, and Trust. All live.
Published research.
Peer-grade. Free for partners.
Our work is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. 10 papers covering SA automotive market structure, our signal-mining methodology, POPIA compliance, African luxury mobility, and the Suite architecture.
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