Run your fleet on numbers, not gut

Carlyle is the money layer for a rental car fleet. Before you buy a car, know what it will earn, what it will cost to keep, and when to sell it. Built by Johnathon, an All-Star Turo host who runs his own fleet.

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ROI report

Los Angeles · $22,000 sticker

Out the door$24,084
Earns in LA$1,240 / mo
Maintenance-$62 / mo
Break-evenmonth 21
Sell by125,000 mi
BUY

Workhorse class. Earns its keep with room to spare.

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This week in the market

What the scans are seeing

Pulled from Carlyle's live Turo scans and the service catalog - refreshed July 31, 2026.

What Carlyle does

The whole money layer, in one place

Price the buy, run the trips, keep the schedule, time the exit.

The report

One car, fully underwritten

Point it at a listing, a VIN, or a make and market. Every number below comes from live data, and it ends in a straight call: buy, pass, or negotiate first.

Out the door
$24,084
Earns in your market
$1,240 / mo
Maintenance tail
-$62 / mo
Break-even
month 21
Recalls and title
clear

BUY

The inbox

Your Turo mail, triaged

Deterministic rules decide what needs you. The model only writes the reply.

hey so the key fob just died?? car won’t start and I’m already lateGuest · 11:42 pm
Needs youThe trip is active right now.
Draft, written for you

You read it, you send it. Carlyle never posts to Turo.

The garage

Every service, on schedule

Oil + rotation32,500 mi
Brake fluid flush45,000 mi
CVT fluid inspect60,000 mi

Seeded per model from the 804-car service catalog, tracked against your real odometer.

Market data

Priced where you rent

Cars · Atlanta$48/day
Cars · Chicago$52/day
Cars · Dallas$49/day
Cars · Houston$47/day

Live medians from real Turo listings - the same numbers the report engine prices against.

Sell timing

Exit before the big bill

The smart exit lands ahead of the model's known big-ticket windows, not after them.

The problem

One wrong buy eats months of profit

Most fleet decisions come down to a spreadsheet and a gut feel. A car that doesn't rent, drops value fast, or needs a transmission at 80k can wipe out a season of earnings. The numbers that decide it are knowable before you sign. Carlyle puts them in one report.

Built on real data

The numbers behind every report

Nothing here is typed in by hand - these counts come straight from the data files the product runs on, and they grow as it does.

804

models in the maintenance catalog

3,650

service intervals priced

4,153

known repair windows tracked

4,256

live Turo listings priced across 8 markets

The part nobody mentions

A fleet is a business, and the tax code treats it like one

The monthly net is only half the story. Once a car is earning, it is a business asset - and a lot of operators keep more of what it makes than the sticker math suggests.

Depreciation works for you

The cost of a car in service gets written down over time, and the code allows accelerated methods for business vehicles. It is a paper deduction against real cash the car already earned.

The running costs come off

Maintenance, insurance, registration, cleaning, platform fees - the ordinary cost of keeping a rental on the road is a business expense, not money you quietly eat.

Cash can outrun taxable income

Because depreciation is a deduction you take without spending, a fleet often reports far less taxable profit than the money it actually put in your pocket. That is the real write-off.

Carlyle models the earning side of the car, not your tax return. We are not accountants and none of this is tax advice - the specifics depend on your situation, your entity, and the current rules. Take the numbers from your report to a CPA and have them confirm what actually applies to you.

Fleet plans

Priced for operators

Fleet Weekly

$10per week

  • 2 ROI reports a week
  • The garage: maintenance tracking, repair windows, sell timing
  • Ask Carlyle, 10 chats a day
  • Renews weekly - cancel the moment you are done
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Fleet

$100per month

  • Up to 10 ROI reports a week
  • The inbox: your Turo emails triaged, replies drafted, nothing missed
  • Ask Carlyle: run the numbers by conversation - paste a link or a VIN
  • The garage: maintenance tracking, repair windows, sell timing
  • The full report engine: income, maintenance, break-even, rentability

Fleet Pro

$300per month

  • Unlimited ROI reports
  • Live Turo scans on demand - your market, scanned when you report
  • The garage and the full report engine
  • Unlimited Ask Carlyle, including live scans mid-conversation

Cancel anytime.

From an operator, for operators

Carlyle encodes how I actually size up a car before I buy it for my own fleet: the earn, the depreciation, the maintenance tail, the trim math. It is the checklist in an operator's head - mine, refined over an All-Star Host's worth of buys - turned into a report you can run in seconds and share with a partner or lender.

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Know whether the next car earns its keep before you sign for it.