We work for the buyer. That’s the whole company.
Auto Expert USA is a remote-first car-buying advisor for international and first-time buyers in the United States. We are not a dealer. We never sell vehicles. We never accept commissions, kickbacks, or referral fees from dealers, lenders, brokers, or insurance companies. The fee you pay us is the only revenue we have.
The company started because too many friends — especially friends new to this country — were signing six-year contracts with twelve point APRs, theft-etch products, gap insurance they’d been told was mandatory, and back-end fees they didn’t know they could decline. None of them were unintelligent. They just hadn’t spent ten years inside the industry the way an automotive engineer has.
We bring two things to a buyer: technical judgement (does this car actually break? does this engine swallow timing chains? is this transmission rebuilt in a hundred-thousand miles?) and dealer-floor judgement (which add-ons are profit, which fees are real, what the F&I office will pitch you in minute thirty when you’re tired). Both, in your language, before you sign anything.
Where we work
We focus our advisory work on the East Coast (Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, DC, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania), Texas, and the Midwest (Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa). These are the regions where we know the dealer landscape, state-by-state title and registration rules, and the lender programs available to international and first-time buyers in detail.
Pre-purchase inspections, hands-on
On the Concierge tier the founder personally performs pre-purchase inspections within driving distance, and we coordinate vetted mobile-mechanic partners (Lemon Squad, Alliance Inspection Management, regional independents) for vehicles outside that radius. Either way, no client buys a used car from a Concierge file without a third-party inspection report on it.
What we don’t do
- · We don’t sell cars or hold inventory.
- · We don’t take commissions from dealers.
- · We don’t take kickbacks from lenders.
- · We don’t share your information with anyone outside our advisory team.
- · We don’t pretend AI replaces a human reviewing your contract.
Founder
Eduardo Fernandes is an automotive engineer with hands-on experience in vehicle inspections, reliability assessments, and the resale market. He started Auto Expert USA after seeing the same dealer playbook used over and over against people who didn’t know to push back.