The instruments

Nine, numbered. Each answers one question with a figure, a provenance and a grade, priced per unit or per year. What a buyer pays for today instead is on the line below each; so is how much of it is real this minute.

Live: read from production this minute. Modelled: from a stated method, the yard still thin. Pilot: running with consenting fleets. Next: named, priced, not yet built.

Edge ResidualLiveModelled

Answers: What is this vehicle worth, by variant, age, kilometres and state; the resale curve; an IDV or LTV table.
Who pays: Lenders · insurers · leasing · fleet CFOs
What they pay for today: Valuers at ₹500 to ₹2,000 a vehicle; flat depreciation tables; gut.
Unit and anchor: From ₹49 a valuation · tables from ₹3 lakh a year
Now: Live arithmetic from list prices and the hammers so far; the curve is modelled until the yard deepens; every figure graded.
On the API: The register's variants and dated prices are live on v1; the valuation call is next.

Edge LaunchLive

Answers: What launched, what moved in price and where, what dealers put on the floor, what bodies got built on which chassis, and how verified operators received a launch in its first 72 hours.
Who pays: Makers · tyre, battery and body makers
What they pay for today: Clipping services, agency launch trackers, dealer hearsay.
Unit and anchor: From ₹1.5 lakh a class a year · a reception study from ₹3 lakh
Now: Live: the makers' sites read nightly, the wire, the price ledger, the floor. The operator panel is next; the Circle and the apps are the panel.
On the API: The price ledger and the wire are live on v1; the floor feed is next.

Edge DemandLiveNext

Answers: Where demand for a segment is moving, by district and month, and where it will be next quarter.
Who pays: Makers' regional sales · lenders · tyre and battery makers
What they pay for today: Annual research reports, one-off surveys, sales feel.
Unit and anchor: From ₹2 lakh a segment a year · district feeds on the API
Now: The register's intent is live: compares, finance asks, callbacks, PIN-level asks. VAHAN registrations and e-way bill volumes are next; forecasts carry commitments.
On the API: District feeds are next.

Edge NetworkLive

Answers: How each dealer of a maker actually performs: response time to real enquiries, callback rate, stock accuracy, sentiment, coverage gaps against freight corridors.
Who pays: Makers' network heads · dealer groups
What they pay for today: Mystery shopping and satisfaction surveys at ₹20 to ₹50 lakh a year.
Unit and anchor: From ₹5 lakh a maker a year
Now: Live for what the register sees: the doors, the enquiries, the floor, the reviews. Thin until enquiry volume grows, and says so.
On the API: The directory is live on v1; performance rows are next.

Edge WatchPilot

Answers: Is the financed vehicle moving and earning, where, and what is it worth if it must be recovered; then the recovery sold on the yard.
Who pays: NBFCs and banks with commercial vehicle books
What they pay for today: Device GPS vendors with no economics and no consent story; field collection teams.
Unit and anchor: ₹30 to ₹60 a vehicle a month · yard fees on recoveries
Now: Nazar is live in pilot, consent-first and device-free. The telemetry-to-valuation-to-remarketing loop is the first of its kind.
On the API: Nazar's records to the lender's system, per contract.

Edge CorridorPilot

Answers: What a corridor does to a fleet: speeds, dwell, breakdown density, weather, and in time tyre and fuel wear.
Who pays: Fleets · insurers · service networks · logistics
What they pay for today: Nothing at corridor grain; GPS vendors sell dots.
Unit and anchor: Nazar Pro per vehicle a month · corridor reports a year
Now: The Nazar pilot is live; corridor history and routing are being built.
On the API: Corridor tables, per contract; the public atlas is on the releases page.

Body Book CertifiedLiveNext

Answers: Which bodies are approved on which chassis, ratified by the builder, as a certificate an insurer or lender accepts.
Who pays: Insurers · lenders · body builders · makers
What they pay for today: Nothing: the 2014 question that never got an answer.
Unit and anchor: From ₹499 a certificate · insurer licence a year
Now: Stages one to three are live: the envelope from Rule 93, the observed bodies read from photographs, ratification by builders and makers. The certificate is stage four.
On the API: Envelope and observed bodies are live on every variant on v1; the certificate is next.

Ustad EnterpriseLiveNext

Answers: The register's assistant on a maker's sales floor, a dealer group's staff phones, a lender's field agents: specs, prices, on-road, fitment, in three languages, with the client's own price lists blended in.
Who pays: Makers · dealer groups · NBFCs
What they pay for today: Nothing comparable in Indian languages; generic chatbots.
Unit and anchor: From ₹499 a seat a month · embed licence a year
Now: Ustad is live on the register; the enterprise workspace is the work.
On the API: The embed licence; seats on the enterprise workspace.

ProgramsLive

Answers: The instruments installed inside a client: a diagnostic in three weeks, a build, an operated fleet of agents, a quarterly readout.
Who pays: Any of the above
What they pay for today: Strategy consultancies and IT services, separately.
Unit and anchor: Fixed fee · build · retainer
Now: The factory is live, as the method page shows.
On the API: Starts with a three-week diagnostic.

v1 of the public API and its reference live at docs.truckaurbus.com; the first call takes a minute. API docs →

Why these are first of their kind

Forecasts that carry commitments: every prediction hash-logged at publication and scored in public. Nobody in Indian automotive research does this.
A resale index built from real hammers with grades: the missing blue book for commercial vehicles.
A verified-operator reception panel in three languages, drawn from the Circle and the apps, not a recruited survey.
Dealer performance measured from live enquiries, not mystery shopping.
A telemetry-to-valuation-to-remarketing loop for lenders, device-free and consent-first.
The Body Book certificate: the question the industry asked in 2014.

The machine underneath

A verified register with a dated price ledger and on-road rules for fourteen states; a yard whose every bid is hash-chained and whose closes are real hammers; a directory of dealer doors measured by the enquiries that pass through it; Nazar, telemetry from the driver's phone with a provable record; Ustad and the Circle, the operators' own words in three languages; the agents that read the makers' sites and the trade press nightly.

The wall

Scores are never for sale. Client data never enriches the public register without contract. Register evidence never leaks a client. Engagements never move a public number.

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