SelectFI Lending Solutions

SelectFI Lending Solutions We help automotive dealers pre-qualify their customers without an impact to their credit

Your rate sheet says yes. Your lender might say no.A rate sheet tells you what a lender published a while back. It doesn...
08/20/2026

Your rate sheet says yes. Your lender might say no.

A rate sheet tells you what a lender published a while back. It doesn't tell you what that lender is actually doing this week: tighter approvals on a vehicle, a paused program, an underwriter who's gotten more cautious. None of that shows up on paper.

So your go-to lender keeps getting first crack at deals out of habit, not because they're still the right fit. Then the decline comes back and everyone's surprised.

Know the fit before you submit. Not after you get declined.

selectFI tracks how lenders are actually behaving right now, not just what they published months ago.

The auto industry has modernized everything except the financing process.Your website is fast. Your VDP is clean. Your p...
08/19/2026

The auto industry has modernized everything except the financing process.

Your website is fast. Your VDP is clean. Your payment calculator gives a customer an idea of their payment. Yet when that same customer arrives at your showroom, they're asked to start over.

That's a handoff problem, and it's causing tension between your team and your customers before they can even take a test drive.

selectFI connects your payment calculator and the lender fit behind it directly into your CRM, so your team can pick up where your website left off.

See how it works at the link in the comments.

Guessing costs your customer more than it costs you.Your store doesn't feel a hard credit pull. Your customer does: week...
08/18/2026

Guessing costs your customer more than it costs you.

Your store doesn't feel a hard credit pull. Your customer does: weeks later, when they go to finance something else and find inquiries they didn't know they'd agreed to. Nobody at your dealership thinks of it that way, because the cost shows up somewhere nobody's watching.

A pull should confirm a lender you already believe in, not help you go looking for one.

selectFI finds the likely lender fit on a soft pull, so hard pulls only happen once there's a real deal behind them.

We’re excited to announce that Trent Cannon is joining selectFI as our new Head of OEM Strategy & Development, focused o...
08/17/2026

We’re excited to announce that Trent Cannon is joining selectFI as our new Head of OEM Strategy & Development, focused on building and growing key partnerships across automotive retail!

Trent brings more than a decade of experience across automotive, digital marketing, product innovation, and dealer strategy.

He knows the retail side of the business intimately, understands how technology gets evaluated and adopted, and has spent years building the relationships that move both forward.

We’re excited to have Trent on board. Welcome to selectFI!

08/14/2026

Most stores treat per-deal profit like a negotiation skill.

So that's where the effort goes: better word tracks, harder closes, more training on how to hold gross in the box. Meanwhile the actual leak is upstream: hours spent working deals that were never going to fund, and the ones that did fund taking longer than they needed to.

Nobody puts that on a board. It doesn't show up as a loss. It shows up as a slightly worse month, every month.

selectFI CEO Andrew Sweet unpacks where the money actually is.

What a week in Miami.The selectFI team came to to support some of the most important conversations happening across au...
08/14/2026

What a week in Miami.

The selectFI team came to to support some of the most important conversations happening across automotive and catch up with some of our favorite people in the industry, including our friends Paul Daly and Kyle Mountsier from ASOTU More Than Cars!

And we got to share some pretty big news while we were here.

selectFI and Impel announced a strategic partnership that brings selectFI’s payment prediction engine into Impel’s Automotive AI agents, giving shoppers access to individualized financing numbers through web chat, SMS and email.

There’s an important piece of that story that feels especially relevant this week.

When those financing conversations start with the shopper’s actual information and a consistent decisioning process, there’s less room for assumptions and bias to shape the numbers they see.

A strong way to close out and head home with a lot of momentum.

We’ve been looking forward to sharing this one.selectFI and Impel are officially partnering to bring selectFI’s financin...
08/13/2026

We’ve been looking forward to sharing this one.

selectFI and Impel are officially partnering to bring selectFI’s financing intelligence directly into Impel’s automotive AI agents.

That means shoppers can get individualized payment information during the same digital conversations they’re already having with a dealership, helping financing questions keep moving instead of becoming a handoff or a dead end.

This is a big moment for both teams, and an exciting step toward bringing real financing information earlier into the car-buying process.

Great to have Impel CEO Devin Daly, CMO Rob Murphy, and selectFI CEO Andrew Sweet together to celebrate the announcement.

We’re proud of what our teams have built together and excited to officially share it with the industry.

Financing is one of the biggest gaps left in the car-buying journey.Across nearly 50 million Impel conversations, financ...
08/13/2026

Financing is one of the biggest gaps left in the car-buying journey.

Across nearly 50 million Impel conversations, financing-related questions account for nearly 15% of shopper requests. Until now, those questions have often led to a generic payment estimate or a handoff to dealership staff.

That’s changing. selectFI is proud to partner with Impel to bring financing intelligence directly into Impel’s Automotive AI agents.

The integration gives shoppers access to individualized payment estimates through web chat, SMS, and email, using selectFI’s prediction engine, consumer consent, and a soft credit pull with no impact to the shopper’s credit score.

For dealers, that means financing conversations can keep moving while the shopper is still engaged, with better information flowing into the sales and F&I process.

Real numbers belong earlier in the deal. And now, they can be part of the conversation from the start.

Read the full release: https://tlnk.short.gy/Impel+selectFI

Your entire financing process depends on one person showing up to work.Every store has that manager: the one who just kn...
08/12/2026

Your entire financing process depends on one person showing up to work.

Every store has that manager: the one who just knows which lender likes which vehicles, which program changed last month, who actually calls back. That knowledge is gone the moment that person takes a vacation or leaves for the dealership down the street.

Everyone else on your team is working the same deals with less information. That gap gets bigger every time you add a rooftop.

selectFI takes what's in that manager's head plus hundreds more data points, and puts it in front of your whole team.

That way, the knowledge doesn't leave the room when they do.

A great credit score doesn't mean your lender is going to say yes.Most F&I offices treat it like a North Star: good scor...
08/11/2026

A great credit score doesn't mean your lender is going to say yes.

Most F&I offices treat it like a North Star: good score, easy approval. But your lender isn't just looking at the score.

They're looking at the VIN, the deal structure, the loan-to-value, and what they've actually been approving lately. A 750 can still get declined if the rest of the deal doesn't match what that lender wants right now.

Your lenders have always been looking at hundreds of data points. It's time your financing process acted accordingly.

Take a look at how it works at the link in the comments.

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