VehicleIQ
An AI-powered vehicle research and comparison tool with a streaming Claude-powered chat and PDF export.
Researching a car means a dozen open tabs, no easy way to compare, and no fast way to estimate what a repair should cost.
Reviews, forums, and spec sheets live in different places, written for different audiences. Comparing two or three cars side by side means juggling all of it yourself, and getting a rough service quote usually means calling a shop and waiting.
Put an AI research assistant in front of the tabs, not another tab to add to the pile.
I built a Next.js app around a streaming chat interface powered by Anthropic's Claude API, so answers arrive token by token instead of after a long wait. Around that core I added AI-curated review and article search, a side-by-side comparison view, and a quote generator that turns a plain description of symptoms into a service estimate.
- A streaming chat interface powered by the Anthropic Claude API, with token-by-token responses
- AI-curated review and article search for any vehicle a user searches
- A side-by-side comparison view for up to three vehicles at once
- A service quote generator that turns a symptom description into a PDF estimate
- A responsive Tailwind interface built for fast, unglamorous research sessions
VehicleIQ is live and in active use for real vehicle research and comparisons.
It's the project I point to when someone asks what I can do with an AI API beyond a chatbot: real tool integration, streaming UX done right, and a comparison and quoting flow that saves the back-and-forth of manual research.