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Before the Lot

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Car-buying math and state rules: out-the-door prices, quote checks, leases and trade-ins

Summary by lookupd

Checks car-buying quotes, compares dealer offers, and runs loan, lease, trade-in and state tax math to estimate a true out-the-door price.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http before-the-lot https://beforethelot.com/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add before-the-lot --url https://beforethelot.com/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "before-the-lot": {
      "url": "https://beforethelot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Tools (16 tools)

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• what_can_i_afford Works out a car budget from the monthly payment someone is comfortable with: the most that can be financed, the highest out-the-door price after the trade-in ta
• out_the_door Itemizes the out-the-door price of a car from its selling price: rebates, doc fee, add-ons, sales tax with the state's rules and, given a city or county, its lo
• check_quote Reads a dealer's out-the-door quote, pasted as text (up to 8 KB) or given as line items, and checks it line by line: the out-the-door total, the doc fee against
• compare_quotes Ranks two to ten itemized dealer quotes for the same car by out-the-door total, with each one's gap to the lowest and to the walk line, and (with a state) each
• rebate_vs_apr Compares a maker's cash rebate taken with the person's own loan against the maker's special APR (with any cash that combines with it): each side's payment, inte
• loan_payment The monthly payment, total interest and total paid on a car loan from the amount financed, APR and term, with what a term over 60 months adds in interest compar
• lease_check Works a lease quote from the MSRP, selling price, residual and money factor (or the lease's APR): the depreciation and rent charges, the monthly payment with th
• refinance_check Compares a car loan as it stands with a new loan at a quoted rate, by default over the same months left so a lower payment cannot hide a longer loan, with any f
• trade_in_position Sizes up a trade-in from written offers (CarMax, Carvana, dealers) and what's still owed: the best offer still open, which is the floor a dealer's trade number
• payoff_plan A payoff plan for a car loan, for paying it off early with an extra payment each month: the months and total interest at the regular payment, and with an extra
• get_method The Before the Lot method for buying a car: an overview and its seven stages, from setting the budget at home to signing. Each stage says what to collect, what
• state_rules A state's car-buying rules: the dealer doc-fee cap or rule, sales tax (state rate, local add-on range, any cap), whether a trade-in lowers the taxed price, how
• dealer_email Drafts an email to a dealer or lender from one of six Before the Lot templates: request an itemized out-the-door quote, make an offer, share a competing quote,
• offers_page The address of a car maker's own page of current offers (rebates, special APRs, lease deals), and of a model's page where one can be built, with whether the mak
• desk_script A short line a buyer can say at a moment in the dealership's sales or finance office, such as being asked for a monthly payment, a credit check before a price,
• plan_link Builds a link to the free Before the Lot planner that opens with the numbers given already filled in, so the person can carry on in the web planner with their t

Details

• Version: 1.0.0
• Transports: streamable-http
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 577 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T08:53:06.478Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-01T08:53:06.478Z
• Website: https://beforethelot.com

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