Who we are, and what backs every offer
DriveOffer is an AMVIC-licensed vehicle wholesaler based in Edmonton, buying across Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Here's the team, the licence, and how we work.
Our History
How DriveOffer started
Before there was a DriveOffer, there was Samir Osman buying cars. For five years he ran a vehicle wholesaling business out of Edmonton: pricing cars himself, driving out to meet sellers, and moving vehicles on to dealers and auctions. More than 3,000 of them, one seller at a time.
What he kept running into was how hard the process was on the people selling. Listings that went nowhere, buyers who did not show up, offers that arrived thousands of dollars below what a car was really worth, and a lot of wasted evenings. He could give someone a fair number in about a minute. Getting that number to them, and making the rest of the sale painless, was the part that needed building.
DriveOffer is what came of that. Samir teamed up with Joshua Scurlock and Aaron Scurlock and the three of them merged what each already did well into one business.
Samir knows what a car is actually worth. Not what a pricing guide prints, but what it will sell for in the Alberta wholesale market this week, down to what a $5,000 insurance claim takes off the number and why a rebuilt title is a different conversation entirely. Joshua built the technology the whole thing runs on, bringing four years of building AI systems to the offer flow, the VIN lookup, the live market pricing behind every quote, and the system that carries a sale from a first message through to payment. Aaron brought the data science: three master's degrees from Stanford and two decades of analytics work, aimed at the question every seller actually has, which is whether the number in front of them is fair.
The buying happens in person, in Canada. We have 6 DriveOffer technicians working across Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, so which one comes out to you depends on where you are, and often that is the same day. Nobody drives to us; we come and collect the vehicle. The technology and analytics side is built remotely, from Florida and Virginia.
We started DriveOffer because selling a car should not cost you a month of evenings. Tell us about the car, get a real offer, and we take it from there: the paperwork, the payment, and coming to you. We will walk you through every step, and there is not much to walk through, which is the point.
Accountability
Licensed and accountable
Being licensed by AMVIC, the Alberta Motor Vehicle Industry Council, is what separates DriveOffer from an unlicensed curbsider. It means we operate under Alberta's vehicle-industry regulations, and that there is a real body you can check us with.
- AMVIC-licensed wholesaler, licence #B2036941 (Wholesaler class)
- 5 years wholesaling vehicles in the Edmonton area
- 3,000+ cars purchased directly from the public
- Carries $3,000,000/year in dealer-plate (garage) insurance on its own business operations
- 6 technicians across Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia; we come to you and pay by bank draft
Our Team
The DriveOffer team
The people behind every offer.
Joshua Scurlock
Co-Founder & CTO
Joshua Scurlock co-founded DriveOffer and built the platform it runs on: the offer flow sellers use, the VIN lookup and live market pricing behind every quote, and the system that carries a sale from the first message through to payment. He has four years of dedicated experience building AI systems, and brings that engineering background to the technology, the analytics, and the conversations sellers have with us.
Samir Osman
Co-Founder & AMVIC-Licensed Wholesaler
AMVIC licence B2036941
Samir Osman is a co-owner of DriveOffer, an AMVIC-licensed vehicle wholesaler (licence B2036941) based in Edmonton, Alberta. Over the past five years he has bought more than 3,000 cars directly from the public, coming to sellers across Edmonton and surrounding Alberta. That volume gives him a direct read on what private vehicles are actually worth in the local wholesale market.
Hasan Tayem
Field Operations Manager
Hasan Tayem is DriveOffer's Field Operations Manager, and one of the people a seller may end up dealing with in person. He buys the vehicles, coordinates the drivers who handle pickups and drop-offs, and steps in when a customer has something to resolve. He has spent about three years in the car business and has bought roughly 500 vehicles, learning the wholesale side from the ground up after earlier work in concrete and carpentry. Day to day that means walking the body of a car before the test drive, clearing a lien with the seller's own bank, and getting a straightforward pickup done inside fifteen minutes.
Aaron Scurlock
Data Scientist
M.S. Statistics, Stanford University
Aaron Scurlock is a data scientist at the U.S. General Services Administration, where he works on predictive analytics, statistical sampling and large language models across agency audit work. He holds three master's degrees from Stanford, in statistics, industrial engineering, and engineering-economic systems and operations research, plus a systems engineering degree from the University of Virginia, and has spent two decades in federal data science and financial management. At DriveOffer he keeps the numbers straight: what the pricing data actually says, and what the results actually show.
DriveOffer is owned and operated by DriveOffer LLC.
What We Stand For
Our values
Everything we do comes back to making this the easiest, most honest way to sell a car.
Fair, transparent pricing
Every offer is backed by live market data. No lowballing, no hidden fees.
Safety first
No strangers in your driveway, no cash meetups, just a secure sale.
Any car, any condition
New, old, financed, leased or barely running: we'll make an offer.
Where We Buy
Proudly Canadian, coast to coast
We purchase vehicles across the country and we're always expanding.