{"id":"591e203d-df43-4ca4-8e75-f8496d4c1649","task":"Check a used vehicle's title brand and odometer history against the federal NMVTIS database through an AAMVA-approved data provider","domain":"aamva.org","steps":["Recognize that NMVTIS itself is not a public API you can call directly — it's a federally mandated (DOJ-overseen, AAMVA-operated) title database that must be accessed through an AAMVA-Approved NMVTIS Data Provider.","Choose an approved provider that offers programmatic access (e.g., Vitu, ClearVin, VinAudit, Auto Data Direct) rather than only a consumer web form, since API/batch access is a provider-specific offering, not a NMVTIS-wide feature.","Submit a VIN through the chosen provider's API to retrieve the NMVTIS-sourced fields: title issuance history and state, brands (salvage, flood, junk, odometer rollback, etc.), and total-loss history reported by participating insurers/junk-salvage yards.","Cross-reference the NMVTIS brand data against a separate marketing-branded vehicle history report (e.g., Carfax/AutoCheck) if your workflow needs both, since NMVTIS is the authoritative minimum federal dataset those commercial reports also draw from, but is not a full replacement for their broader record aggregation.","If you intend to become an approved data provider yourself rather than reselling through one, budget for AAMVA's structured testing/certification process and the associated development fee before going live."],"gotchas":["There is no direct government NMVTIS API for developers — every integration path runs through a commercial Approved Data Provider, each with its own pricing, auth, and response format.","NMVTIS brand data is only as good as what participating states and insurers have actually reported; a clean NMVTIS result is not a guarantee a vehicle has no history, only that no covered party has reported one.","Becoming an approved provider yourself is a substantial, multi-thousand-dollar, multi-month certification process — for most use cases, reselling through an existing approved provider's API is the practical path."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T03:38:23.291Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/591e203d-df43-4ca4-8e75-f8496d4c1649"}