Buddy Automotive Innovations

Buddy Automotive has built an impeccable reputation for providing effective solutions designed to streamline business operations within the increasingly complex recycling landscape. Since its founding in 2003, Buddy’s primary objective has been to understand the unique challenges faced by recyclers and to develop tailored solutions that address their needs. Buddy Automotive is more than cool tech, they’re a strategic partner committed to not only their customers’ success but also the success of the entire industry.

When recyclers win, we all win.

Before smartphones became commonplace, Buddy placed technology directly in the hands of recyclers, revolutionizing the processes of vehicle inventory and acquiring salvage. Since Buddy’s inception they have assisted Recyclers in processing 5,000,000 vehicles and performed over 10,000,000 bids.

Along the way they’ve forged partnerships, accumulated the best supporting talent in the industry, designed workflows and cultivated third-party relationships all with the intention of making things better for customers. Over the past 20 years, their persistent pursuit of improvement has been driven by a single question: How can we make this better? This commitment to continuous enhancement remains at the core of Buddy Automotive’s mission.

Core products include Bid Buddy, the most comprehensive buying tool on the market, and Inventory Buddy, which changed the inventory game forever, increasing efficiency of the intake process by putting data directly in recyclers’ hands when they need it most. Buddy products have become industry standard when it comes to the aspects of the business that matter most – procuring inventory and processing it. However, it has been a greater responsibility to be a trusted steward of the industry as well as appropriately minding the integrity of the data with which Buddy has been entrusted.

Marty Hollingshead, owner of Northlake Auto Recyclers says it best, “I have been a Buddy Automotive Innovations customer for quite some time now, and I would like to say a few things about Mike Lambert and Buddy. The products are great and I can’t begin to say how much time, work, and money they have saved us here at Northlake. I have always been concerned with who has access to my data and what they do with it. Mike Lambert and Buddy Automotive Solutions, in my opinion, are the most trustworthy third-party providers that we have in the industry. I would recommend Buddy Automotive Innovations to anyone.”

Better than AI

And now, Buddy Automotive is ready to change the game again.

Buddy Automotive is enhancing their trusted Bidding and Inventory products with advanced tools that surpass conventional AI solutions. Buddy is prioritizing both accuracy and efficiency, delivering improvements without sacrificing data integrity and they’ve teamed up with a fellow industry leader to give recyclers efficiencies once believed impossible.

Bid Buddy has always evaluated auctions in seconds, ranking cars as most valuable based on proprietary algorithms and internal YMS data, profit history by vehicle, visibility into reruns, shared apps data with strategic trading partners and a host of other bells and whistles added over the years. Bid Buddy has increased efficiency and provided the data required to not only win vehicles but make the highest profit. COMING SOON; powered by VINMatch PRO Data, Bid Buddy can analyze auction photos, automatically identifying parts as good or bad! AS WELL AS… make Interchange selections; saving time, reducing mistakes.

Inventory Buddy has been the paperless, data-rich, non-negotiable inventory asset trusted by over a thousand users and SOON the VINMatch PRO integration does more than include the VINMatch report in the tablet, it will make correct Interchange selections based on that data. Reducing labor costs, creating efficiency and improving accuracy.

Buddy is working harder so you don’t have to.