About
Building the trust layer for global automotive
Every other major industry runs on shared infrastructure - Stripe for payments, Shopify for commerce. Automotive worldwide still runs on many disconnected systems, with the data that should drive margin trapped in silos. VehIQ wants to be the layer that connects them. Today it is a public site for vehicle data and valuations that show where every number comes from.
01 / The thesis
A gap nobody has filled.
Incumbent dealer-management systems are closed monoliths that innovate slowly; their switching cost protects them but also traps them. Hyperscalers carry neither the automotive domain nor the canonical vehicle data. That leaves a gap: no one has built the open, AI-native infrastructure layer the whole industry needs.
We start with the data: vehicle and registry data, and valuations that show their source, their time and their reliability. That is what exists today. The plan is to grow outward from there, one module at a time, toward the dealer side (a dealer management system and signals that price both the car and the time it takes to sell) and toward everyone who touches a vehicle. None of that exists yet: it is direction, not product.
02 / How we build
Four rules we build by.
- 01
Augment, don't replace
Land alongside the systems a dealer already runs, prove value on one module, then expand - no rip-and-replace risk.
- 02
Open by default
Owned data in open formats and versioned contracts, so compute is interchangeable and an ecosystem can form on top.
- 03
AI that shows its work
Every value the site shows carries its sources and a reliability tier, so a reader can check it instead of taking it on trust.
- 04
Sovereign by design
In-region data residency and a per-source licensing strategy, built in from day one rather than bolted on.
03 / Founder
Simon Axelsson
VehIQ is built by Simon Axelsson, founder of SIAX Technology AB. He has built production data platforms and business intelligence on a modern cloud and data stack, with hands-on experience of automotive data - the rare combination this infrastructure demands. VehIQ is architected from the start for data ownership, versioned contracts and outcome logging - building the moat at day one, not as an afterthought.
SIAX Technology AB · pre-seed · Sovereign by design