About FundDesk
Why FundDesk exists
Built by a finance manager who lived the problem. Jose Giron grew an independent dealership's finance department from $40K to over $1M in F&I production in a single year — all while serving as GM and partner at the store. He knows what it feels like to spin several deals in a day, chase customer stips and lenders' financing departments, and still be expected to run inventory, handle marketing, and troubleshoot the sales floor. Every hour spent chasing outstanding funds is an hour not spent selling the next car.
That's why he built FundDesk.
Independent dealerships don't need another CRM. They need what franchise dealers already have — a workflow purpose-built for the funding lifecycle. Track every deal from signed to funded. See what's aging. Know exactly which lender is holding you up. Get your team out of firefighting mode so they can focus on what actually moves the needle: selling cars.
The problem we solve
Independent dealerships operate with a fundamentally different stack than franchise stores. Cox Automotive and Dealertrack aren't built for your budget. Your DMS wasn't designed for funding triage. The tools you patch together don't talk to each other. So the F&I team burns hours every day on the same preventable friction.
Checking six portals to find status
RouteOne, CUDL, captive portals, lender emails, texts — funding status lives across half a dozen tools with no consolidated view.
Chasing stips that keep going stale
Customer promises to send proof of insurance 'tomorrow.' Tomorrow becomes next week. Nobody's tracking what's aging and what's ready to fund.
No visibility into deal aging
Which deals have been in transit too long? Which lender is slowest? Which stip is holding things up? Spreadsheets get abandoned by Wednesday.
Team coordination via sticky notes
Who's calling the customer? Who has the funding check? Who's escalating the lender? The best F&I teams solve this with communication. FundDesk builds it in.
Our vision
The workflow layer for independent F&I
FundDesk is a workflow layer — not another lender platform, not another CRM. It sits alongside the tools your team already uses, consolidating the funding lifecycle into one dashboard, one notification feed, and one audit trail.
We're building for independent dealerships first because that's where the gap is widest. Franchise dealers have Dealertrack. Enterprise groups have CDK. Independents have spreadsheets, text threads, and hope. That's the workflow we're replacing.
FundDesk is being built in partnership with the lender platforms that matter most — starting with Credit Union Direct Lending (CUDL) and expanding from there. Every integration we ship is sanctioned by the platform we're integrating with. Your data stays yours. Your lender relationships stay yours.
Ready to get out of firefighting mode?
Join dealerships getting early access to FundDesk. We're onboarding our first partners now.