FTC ad compliance · franchise & independent dealers

The fine print is where the fines live.

DisclosAI scans every page of your dealership websites and ads for FTC advertising violations — before a warning letter finds them first.

No tags to install. Point us at a URL and we read what a shopper sees.

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NEW 2024
2024 Sierra Crew Cab
4WD · Onyx Black · 12 mi
$38,4951 $44,990
$0 down · $529/mo2
Save $6,495 — offer ends March 313

Price excludes tax, title, license, $799 dealer doc fee, and $1,295 in dealer-installed accessories. Photo may not represent actual vehicle. See dealer for details.

Audit log3 flags
1
Pricing · all-in price
Advertised price isn't the full price the buyer pays.
Mandatory doc + accessory fees excluded → must be in the headline price.
2
Finance · triggering terms
"$0 down / $529/mo" triggers required disclosures.
APR, term, and total of payments missing (TILA / Reg Z).
3
Offers · expiration
"Save $6,495" savings claim lacks substantiation.
Expired date still live; reference price not substantiated.

Why now

The enforcement didn't end when the CARS Rule did.

In March 2026 the FTC sent warning letters to dealer groups over deceptive pricing, demanding advertised prices reflect the full, all-in cost. The standard is simple: the price you show is the price the customer pays. Catching the gap is the hard part.

97
dealer groups warned by the FTC in a single March 2026 sweep
200+
individual rooftops named across those letters
16
violation categories dealers now must monitor across every channel
$53k
max civil penalty, per violation, under the FTC Act

How it works

Scan the lot. Flag the risk. Fix it before it's a letter.

DisclosAI reads your sites the way a regulator's investigator would — line by line, disclosure by disclosure — and hands your team a prioritized punch list, not a legal lecture.

STEP 01 · SCAN

Crawl every rooftop

Point us at your domains. We render each VDP, SRP, special, and landing page exactly as a shopper sees it — across all your stores at once.

STEP 02 · FLAG

Read the fine print

The model checks advertised prices, payment claims, disclosures, and offer terms against current FTC standards and your state's ad rules — and cites what's wrong.

STEP 03 · FIX

Hand off a punch list

Every flag comes with the page, the element, the rule, and a plain-language fix — sorted by exposure, ready for your marketing team or vendor to action.

What we check

The places violations actually hide.

Most dealer ad risk isn't in one bad banner — it's spread across thousands of auto-generated listing pages. We check all of them.

PRICING

All-in price integrity

Advertised price vs. the true out-the-door cost — surfacing mandatory fees and add-ons hidden in the fine print.

FEES

Junk & add-on fees

Doc fees, nitrogen, etch, "market adjustments," and dealer-installed accessories presented without clear, conspicuous disclosure.

FINANCE

Payment & APR claims

"$0 down" and monthly-payment teasers that trigger TILA / Reg Z disclosure requirements they don't satisfy.

SAVINGS

Discount substantiation

"Was / now" strikethroughs and "save $X" claims that need a substantiated reference price to stand up.

OFFERS

Expired & stale specials

Time-bound offers, rebates, and incentives left live past their date or missing eligibility conditions.

CLAIMS

"Free," "lowest," "guaranteed"

Absolute and superlative claims — plus bait pricing on unavailable units — that invite a closer look.

Pricing

Priced per rooftop. Billed by how often you want eyes on it.

Compliance isn't a one-time fix — new inventory, rotating specials, and expiring offers put a clean site back at risk within days. So we monitor on a schedule that matches your exposure.

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Your first audit is free. We scan one rooftop and send back the flagged pages — no commitment.
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Monthly scan

Baseline

For single stores and independents that want a regular safety net.

$149/ rooftop
per month
  • Full-site scan once a month
  • All-in pricing & fee disclosure checks
  • Prioritized punch list with fixes
  • Emailed report
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Continuous

Enterprise

For large groups that need re-checks whenever a page changes — not on a clock.

Customgroup
pricing
  • Everything in Standard, continuous
  • Re-scan on publish / inventory change
  • Compliance score & peer benchmarking
  • State ad-rule coverage by market
  • Dedicated support & onboarding
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Annual agreement, billed monthly. Indicative pricing — final rates set by rooftop count and scan frequency.

Request an audit

See what a regulator would see.

Send us your domains and we'll return a sample audit of flagged pages across your group — no tags, no installation, no commitment.