Eighteen years in car retail. Now he fixes what ChatGPT says about your store.
Adrian Marin spent eighteen years in car retail, from the sales floor to the general manager's office. He founded Storefront Audit in Temecula, California to measure what Google and the AI engines say about a business, dated and signed out, and then fix the records behind the answer.
He was general manager of Carlock Nissan of Jackson, Tennessee, from February 2015 to November 2017.
The record.
Carlock Nissan of Jackson, Tennessee. A 52-person store selling more than 1,500 units a year. By his own store records: CSI up 100 points, service and parts profit up $40,000 a month, and record months of 100+ new units in December 2015 and March 2016.
Keyes Automotive Group, then Ontario Volkswagen.
He trained salespeople, F&I managers and sales managers. He has heard every objection a buyer has.
In September 2026 he asked ChatGPT, signed out, about 48 franchised stores: 502 dated answers, and 18 of those stores came up in none of their open answers. The numbers. The method.
Find Adrian Marin elsewhere.
Other people share the name Adrian Marin. This one lives in Temecula, California, ran Carlock Nissan of Jackson, Tennessee, and founded Storefront Audit.
- LinkedIn: dealer-side posts on what shoppers and AI engines see.
- Gone From Here on YouTube: the stories behind places in Southern California we pass without a second look.
- The Valley Dig: true stories, odd history and old ghosts from Southwest Riverside County, plus one short weekly tip for local business owners.
- Facebook and Instagram: Temecula Valley history posts.
Storefront Audit is a Temecula, California company founded and run by Adrian Marin, a former automotive general manager. It measures how Google and AI assistants describe and recommend a business, in two separate offers. The AI Visibility Index serves franchise and independent car dealers. The local-business audit serves owner-operated businesses in Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Lake Elsinore, Wildomar, and the wider Southwest Riverside County area. The service checks how a business appears in Google Search, Google Maps, and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, analyzing Google Business Profiles, review performance, website speed, competitor rankings, and local citations to show owners exactly why they are losing customers and what to fix first. It works with 14 verticals including HVAC, dental, plumbing, auto repair, law, medical spa, and chiropractic.
Two offers. They do not overlap.
For dealers
The AI Visibility Index. I ask the AI engines the questions a car buyer asks in your market, signed out and dated, then fix the sources the engines read about your store and run the same questions again every month. Published indexes: Dallas, Hickory, Clearwater.
For local businesses
A free Google Business Profile audit for owner-run businesses in Temecula and SW Riverside County. Go further with a written plan or a monthly program, priced on the local page.
Where the dealer work comes from.
Adrian Marin spent eighteen years in car sales, from the floor to the general manager's office. That is why the dealer side leads with measurements a general manager can check against his own store: which questions, which engine, which day, and who the engine named.
Why he built it.
Adrian Marin has spent years watching owner-operated businesses in his community lose customers to competitors with half the quality, just because their Google presence was weaker. A good plumber getting outranked by a mediocre one. A dentist who has been serving Murrieta families for a decade losing new patient calls to a newer practice with more reviews and a faster website. Not because the better business was doing something wrong, but because they did not know what Google was actually measuring.
The data that reveals these gaps has always been available. The problem is that making sense of it required either a marketing agency (expensive, and often not straightforward about what the numbers mean) or professional tools built for agencies, not owners. A dentist in Murrieta with four staff members does not need a seven-tab analytics dashboard. They need a plain-English explanation of three things they can actually fix. Storefront Audit was built to close that gap, to give the owner-operator the same competitive picture an agency would build, delivered free in under five minutes.
The tool is AI-powered because AI made it possible to do the analysis at a cost that allows giving it away. The judgment, the local context, and the follow-up still come from a person who lives in Temecula, reviews the output, and will not sell a business owner something they do not need.
Who it is built for.
For the local-business audit: owner-operated service businesses with 1 to 10 employees across SW Riverside County, the businesses that live and die by their Google reputation. The dealer index is built for franchise and independent car dealers.
Adrian Marin
Founder, Storefront Audit · Temecula, CA
Adrian spent eighteen years in car retail, from the sales floor to the general manager's office. He built Storefront Audit for the two kinds of owners he knows best: car dealers who need to see what Google and the AI engines say about their store, and local owner-operators losing customers to competitors who are just easier to find.
What drives him is people. His two kids first. Then the people he hired and developed over those eighteen years. He's watched them buy their first homes, get married, and have kids of their own. Helping the people around him grow and reach their goals is the job he never put down. Storefront Audit is that same work, done for business owners: show them the facts, tell them what to fix first.
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The plain facts on what Storefront Audit does, what it costs, and where it works.
What is Storefront Audit?
Storefront Audit is a Temecula, California company founded and run by Adrian Marin, a former automotive general manager. It measures how Google and AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity describe and recommend a business, in two separate offers: the AI Visibility Index for franchise and independent car dealers, and a free Google Business Profile audit for owner-run local businesses in Southwest Riverside County.
Is Storefront Audit legit?
Yes. Storefront Audit is a real business based in Temecula, California, founded and operated by Adrian Marin, a former automotive general manager whose full background is on this page. The free audit costs nothing, requires no credit card and no sales call, and every number in the report comes from verifiable sources such as Google Places and PageSpeed data. The company can also be verified on LinkedIn and Facebook under Storefront Audit, and its Google Business Profile showed a 5.0 rating from 3 Google reviews on October 9, 2026.
Is the audit free?
Yes. The audit costs $0, requires no credit card, and requires no signup. You enter your business name and city and receive a full report. The only thing asked is an email address so the report can be sent.
What does the dealer service cost?
The AI Visibility Index is $2,500 a month per franchise store with no contract, or $1,500 a month for a single independent rooftop, after a one-time $2,500 setup. AI Source Repair, a fixed-scope cleanup of the sources the AI engines read about your store, is $797 one time, and it counts toward the setup if you start the monthly, so the setup is then $1,703. Groups are priced on the call.
Where does Storefront Audit operate?
Storefront Audit is based in Temecula, California and serves owner-operated small businesses in Temecula, Murrieta, Menifee, Lake Elsinore, Wildomar, and the wider Southwest Riverside County area.
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