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DealerBuilt vs CDK Global

Name: DealerBuilt and CDK Global in AI answers about dealership management systems
Creator: Broadcastwell
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

DealerBuilt: 16 of 150. CDK Global: 90 of 150. Same ten buyer questions, same five engines, same day. There was no question where DealerBuilt was named and CDK Global was not. DealerBuilt was named by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews only.

CDK Global is the most named checked vendor in dealership management systems in this release, so every other vendor in the category is compared with it.

One capture on 22 September 2026, ten fixed questions, three runs per engine. Not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.

The DealerBuilt record · The CDK Global record

Side by side

All ten buyer questions, five engines, three runs. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.
Measure	DealerBuilt	CDK Global
Named	16 of 150 (10.7%, Wilson 95% interval 6.7% to 16.6%)	90 of 150 (60.0%, Wilson 95% interval 52.0% to 67.5%)
Own domain cited	3 of 150 (2.0%, Wilson 95% interval 0.7% to 5.7%)	13 of 150 (8.7%, Wilson 95% interval 5.1% to 14.3%)

By question

Counts per question, over that question's valid answers.

DealerBuilt and CDK Global, named per buyer question.
Buyer question	DealerBuilt	CDK Global
what is the best dealer management system for an independent used car dealer	0 of 15	5 of 15
best DMS for a small dealership with a handful of employees	0 of 15	7 of 15
best dealer management system for a powersports or motorcycle dealer	0 of 15	2 of 15
what are the best alternatives to CDK Global	3 of 15	15 of 15
what are the best alternatives to Reynolds and Reynolds	6 of 15	15 of 15
what are the best alternatives to Dealertrack DMS	5 of 15	15 of 15
Tekion vs CDK, which DMS is better for a franchise dealer	0 of 15	15 of 15
DealerCenter vs Frazer for an independent lot, which should I pick	0 of 15	1 of 15
what questions should I ask when choosing a dealership management system	0 of 15	0 of 15
best DMS for a dealer group running a dozen rooftops	2 of 15	15 of 15

By engine

Each engine's count over its valid answers to all ten questions.

DealerBuilt and CDK Global, named per engine.
Vendor	ChatGPT	Claude	Perplexity	Google AI Overviews	Google AI Mode
DealerBuilt	3 of 30	5 of 30	6 of 30	2 of 30	0 of 30
CDK Global	15 of 30	20 of 30	15 of 30	20 of 30	20 of 30

Measured head to head

No question in this release asked the engines to choose between DealerBuilt and CDK Global; the counts above come from the ten buyer questions.

What the engines said about each

Mid-sized dealers frustrated by data access restrictions should evaluate DealerBuilt for its full database ownership philosophy.

Claude, 22 September 2026. Full answer text in the deposit.

It is not trying to be the same kind of giant enterprise DMS as CDK or Reynolds, and that's the point.

Claude, 22 September 2026. Full answer text in the deposit. Dash punctuation normalized.

One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.

What to do with this

DealerBuilt claims its record, free, and runs the free check on its own name. The widest gap is on “Tekion vs CDK, which DMS is better for a franchise dealer”: that is the question to fix with Answer Repair, $490.
CDK Global claims its record, free: claim the CDK Global record.
Buyers: both figures are observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. Ask each vendor for a dated record.

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Receipt

Release: 2026-09, published 23 September 2026
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method: v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured: 22 September 2026
Base: 150 valid answers across ten questions; 0 excluded
Licence: CC BY 4.0, attribution to Broadcastwell
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Any named company may request one no-cost re-run at index@broadcastwell.com; both results are published.

Prepared by the Broadcastwell team.

Page owner: Vikram Patel, AI Architect. Corrections: index@broadcastwell.com

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

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