FOR AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET

Your product reference data is in the model. Some of it shouldn't be.

Cross-reference confidentiality is the entire moat of an aftermarket business. PartSentinel measures, per OE-number and per fitment, what every major LLM has learned — and which of your private cross-reference codes have leaked into training data.

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MEDIAN SENTINEL SCORE · AUTOMOTIVE
42
across 623K audited references
REFERENCES WITH LEAKED OE CROSS-REFS
14.6%
at least one confidential code recovered by ≥ 1 model
FITMENT HALLUCINATION RATE
1 in 7
parts misfit to the wrong vehicle by at least one model
EXAMPLES OF AI INFERENCE · AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET

What AI says about your XREFs — without ever seeing your XREF table.

FALSE EQUIVALENCE

AI cites your competitor as the equivalent for OE 1K0-407-151-D — when the validated equivalent in your private XREF is your own SKU.

INTERNAL CODE LEAK

ChatGPT recalls your internal engineering revision suffix "-R3" on a public forum thread — a code that exists nowhere on your public site.

INVENTED FITMENT

Perplexity confidently lists fitment for a 2014 model your part was discontinued for in 2018 — based on a scraped distributor PDF from 2017.

USE CASES

What aftermarket data teams use PartSentinel for.

01
CROSS-REF LEAK FORENSICS

Find which OE numbers and internal cross-references have leaked.

PartSentinel probes every model with structured prompts derived from your catalogue reference data. We diff returned cross-references against your ground-truth manifest and flag any code that exists nowhere on your public catalogue. We also estimate the probable scrape source — competitor catalogue, leaked PIM export, scraped PDF — with a confidence percentage.

Excel export · per-SKU exposure · scrape-source attribution
02
FITMENT VERIFICATION

Catch hallucinated fitments before mechanics do.

Models routinely hallucinate fitments — claiming a Volvo FH4 part fits a Renault Master, for example. The downstream cost is a returned part and a damaged channel relationship. We test every part against its real fitment matrix and report the per-model hallucination rate.

Fitment matrix · per-model heatmap · false-fitment list
03
OBSOLESCENCE DRIFT

See where AI is still selling your superseded parts.

When you supersede a part, models keep recommending the obsolete one for months. PartSentinel tracks supersession compliance per model and per family — and gives you a structured response template for upstream model providers.

Supersession-compliance dashboard · drift charts · provider response templates
04
CHANNEL INTEGRITY

Detect competitor cross-references gaining model authority.

If competitors are getting AI to recommend their cross-references over yours, you'll see it as a Competitive Exposure score change. Track quarterly drift; respond with targeted documentation pushes.

Competitive Exposure score · QoQ drift · per-competitor breakdown
INGESTION STACK

We speak your catalogue formats natively.

No manual mapping calls for the standard formats. Our parser is open-source — see /resources for the GitHub repo.

OEM Catalogue Service

Industry catalogue web service · 2024 schema · OE + reference + fitment

BMEcat 2005 / 3.0

Native parser · classification, references, attachments

ETIM 9.0

Class IDs, feature values, multi-language descriptors

PIM API

Akeneo, Pimcore, Contentserv, Stibo, SAP MDG

TPMS / IAM CSV

OE + supplier code + fitment, with mapping assistant

SAP MM extracts

Direct delta loads via signed S3 / GCS bucket

WHO BUYS

The conversation rarely starts with marketing.

PartSentinel is bought by the people responsible for catalogue truth, not for the brand. Below: the typical roles and the concerns we resolve.

ROLECONCERN
VP Aftermarket / VP ChannelChannel integrity. Competitor cross-references gaining authority. Returned-parts cost from hallucinated fitments.
Chief Data Officer / Head of PIMCatalogue truth across systems. AI Act exposure register ownership.
General CounselConfidential cross-reference leakage as IP exposure. AI Act dossier handoff to outside counsel.
CFOIP exposure valuation. Return-rate impact. Cost of inaction vs. cost of audit.
QUICK QUESTIONS

What aftermarket teams ask before booking.

Is my product reference data in scope?

Yes. We have an OEM catalogue service connector and a native BMEcat 2005 / 3.0 parser. We ingest the public part of your catalogue plus any private cross-reference table you choose to share — it never leaves our EU-resident infrastructure.

Some of my cross-references are under supplier NDA. Can you audit them?

Yes — and that's exactly why people buy us. We treat NDA cross-references as confidential ground-truth: they are used to detect leaks but never published, never shared, and never used to enrich any benchmark.

Do you cover heavy-duty trucks, off-highway and motorcycle?

Yes. The model panel and prompt templates are calibrated per channel (PC, HD, off-highway, motorcycle, marine). Score weights are tuned per channel — leaked cross-references in HD carry higher financial impact, so cross-reference detection is given heavier weight. Exact constants disclosed under NDA.

Can you compare us against named competitors?

We can compare anonymised cohorts — your score against the median of your peer cohort, with k-anonymity > 5. Direct named-competitor comparison is gated by signed mutual disclosure agreements.

DIRECTOR OF AFTERMARKET DATA · TIER-1 EUROPEAN SUPPLIER
We thought our internal cross-references were safe behind a B2B portal. PartSentinel showed us three models could recall them on demand. We didn't know that was even possible.
AUDIT YOUR CATALOGUE

50 references. 5 days. No commitment.

We pick 50 representative references with you, audit them on 10 LLMs, and ship a counsel-ready report with the cross-ref leak findings, the fitment hallucinations and the AI Act evidence pack.