Before a single listing is opened, we draft a short document that states what the car must do, how it will be used, and which trade-offs you will accept. You read it, you correct it, you sign it off.
The brief is usually one page. It records your performance preferences in plain terms, the equipment packages you consider essential, how much ownership history you want documented, and how wide a search across verified local options you are willing to run. Only after sign-off do we begin scanning, and every candidate we later present is measured against that same page.
Weights are fixed at sign-off and cannot be rebalanced mid-search. Inventory mentions stay subject to confirmation.
03 / Weighting
Every brief carries the same four weighted criteria. The weights are written down, reviewed with you, and only then does the local search begin. Anything outside the four stays a note, never a filter.
Weights are set per brief and never quietly adjusted mid-search. Read how equipment and history are verified, or send the brief through the engagement request.
Two of the four weights in the brief are settled by paperwork, not by the drive. Before a car reaches a shortlist, its trim package and its ownership record are read line by line and the result is written into the file.
Trim names travel badly between markets. A car sold as one package in Germany can arrive in Ukraine with a different wheel set, seat material or driver-assistance tier. We read the factory build sheet against the physical vehicle, then list what is present, what is missing and what was added after delivery.
Registration history is checked in sequence, not by count. A clean three-owner file with unbroken service stamps is stronger evidence than a single-owner claim with no invoices behind it. Where a document is missing, the gap is named and priced into the recommendation.
What cannot be verified is recorded as unconfirmed. A seller's assurance never upgrades a listing to fully documented.
A selection brief records your performance targets, equipment requirements, ownership-history tolerance and the local availability you will accept. We weight each part explicitly, then scan verified local options subject to confirmation.
Fixed fee disclosed in writing before engagement. Vehicle price, taxes, registration and delivery are separate.