Markist

Markist built AutoLenis after watching too many car buyers get taken advantage of at dealerships. The pattern was always the same: a buyer walks in alone, sits across from a team of trained negotiators, and leaves having paid more than they should have — often without ever realizing it. The deck was stacked, and almost nobody noticed.

AutoLenis gives buyers the same leverage dealers have always had. Instead of one buyer negotiating against one dealership, the platform makes 8 local dealers compete privately for every buyer's business. Dealers submit their best offers in a 48-hour auction, and the buyer picks the one that wins. No haggling, no pressure, no information asymmetry. The competition does the work that exhausting back-and-forth used to do.

Markist's background spans technology and financial services — fields where transparency and incentives shape every outcome. That perspective is baked into how AutoLenis works: surface the real numbers, align the incentives in the buyer's favor, and let a fair process produce a fair price. The platform works in every US market because the dealer-discovery system finds local dealers near any zip code automatically.