AI Agents for Automotive

Connected Intelligence Across Vehicles, Service, and Ownership

We engineer agents for vehicle discovery, service intake, maintenance coordination, parts information, fleet operations, and owner support — connected to the systems your dealership or fleet already runs, with technicians and advisors holding every decision that matters.

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Operating Context

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How This Industry Operates

Automotive retail and service runs on exact data. A towing-capacity question has one right answer per trim; a part either fits a VIN or it does not; a service bay has capacity on Thursday or it is booked. That data is real, but it is scattered — across a dealer-management system, a service scheduler, a parts catalogue, a CRM, and a fleet platform that rarely share a record cleanly. Staff absorb the gap by re-keying, cross-checking, and calling each other.

This is the environment agents are built for: high-volume retrieval and coordination with a clear right answer, wrapped around decisions that must stay human. Identifying the vehicle, pulling its history, checking fitment, holding a slot, writing the update back — an agent handles the mechanics. What is wrong with the car, what it costs, and whether a claim stands remain with technicians and advisors.

We engineer that boundary deliberately. Every agent we ship for dealerships, workshops, and fleet operators works from approved data sources, writes to systems only with permission, and hands a structured brief to the person who decides.

02

Operational Challenges

Where the Work Slows Down

Specification-Heavy Enquiries

Buyers ask about towing capacity, trim differences, drivetrain options, and model-year changes — questions with exact answers buried in spec sheets that sales staff answer from memory or not at all.

Appointment Coordination

Matching the work required to bay capacity, technician skills, loaner availability, and the customer's calendar takes multiple calls and emails per booking, and no-shows follow when it drags.

Incomplete Service Descriptions

"It makes a noise when I turn" arrives with no speed, no conditions, and no history attached. Technicians burn diagnostic time recovering context the intake process should have captured.

Parts Compatibility

Fitment shifts by VIN, trim, and production date, and a part ordered from the wrong supersession chain stalls the bay and sours the customer. Counter staff carry that risk on every lookup.

Fleet Maintenance Scheduling

Every vehicle in a fleet runs on its own service interval, utilization curve, and inspection deadline. Keeping them all maintained without pulling too many off the road at once is a standing scheduling puzzle.

Fragmented Owner Communication

Recall notices, service reminders, and warranty updates reach owners through disconnected channels — or not at all — and nobody holds the full conversation history when the owner finally calls.

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Purpose-Built Agents

Six Agents Designed Around This Work

01

Vehicle Discovery Agent

Helps buyers narrow a full inventory to a grounded shortlist by matching their stated needs against verified specification data rather than listing copy.

Responsibilities
Receives buyer requirements — budget, body style, seating or towing needs, fuel preference — through website chat and enquiry forms
Retrieves live inventory with trim, drivetrain, and option details from the dealer-management system
Checks each requirement against manufacturer specification data, not marketing descriptions
Prepares side-by-side comparisons highlighting the differences that matter for the buyer's use case
Routes qualified enquiries to a sales advisor with the buyer's context and shortlist attached

dealer-management system, inventory, vehicle data, CRM, messaging

Pricing, financing terms, and trade-in valuations are always presented by a sales advisor — the agent shares specifications and availability, nothing commercial.

02

Service Booking Agent

Coordinates service appointments end to end, matching the work required to bay capacity, technician skills, and the customer's calendar.

Responsibilities
Receives booking requests from web forms, phone transcriptions, and messaging channels
Checks the vehicle's service history and open recalls before proposing a slot
Retrieves technician availability and bay capacity from the service scheduler
Prepares confirmed appointments with drop-off instructions, loaner status, and expected duration
Records booking details and customer notes in both the scheduler and the CRM

service scheduler, dealer-management system, CRM, messaging

Any change to promised scope, cost, or timing beyond the original booking goes to a service advisor before the customer hears it.

03

Diagnostic Intake Agent

Turns a vague fault report into a structured intake brief so technicians start with symptoms, history, and recall context instead of a blank work order.

Responsibilities
Receives symptom descriptions and asks structured follow-ups — when it happens, at what speed, which warning lights showed
Retrieves the vehicle's service history, mileage, and prior repair records from the dealer-management system
Checks reported symptoms against open recalls and technical service bulletins from approved sources
Prepares a structured intake brief for the assigned technician to review before the vehicle arrives
Flags safety-related reports — brakes, steering, restraint systems — for priority human attention

dealer-management system, vehicle data, service scheduler, messaging

Every intake brief is a starting point for a qualified technician, never a diagnosis, and safety-related symptoms trigger an immediate advisor callback.

04

Parts Compatibility Agent

Answers fitment questions by resolving a specific VIN against approved parts-catalogue data before any order is placed.

Responsibilities
Receives part enquiries from counter staff, technicians, and trade customers
Checks fitment against VIN, trim level, and production-date ranges in the approved parts catalogue
Retrieves stock levels, supersession chains, and alternative part numbers from inventory
Flags ambiguous cases — mid-year production changes, region-specific variants — for parts-desk confirmation
Records each lookup with its source data so wrong-part patterns can be traced

parts catalogue, inventory, dealer-management system, vehicle data

Ambiguous fitment and orders above a set value threshold require a parts specialist's sign-off before anything is ordered.

05

Fleet Operations Agent

Keeps a multi-vehicle maintenance calendar coherent by tracking service intervals, utilization, and downtime windows across the entire roster.

Responsibilities
Retrieves odometer readings, fault codes, and utilization data from the fleet platform and telematics feeds
Checks each vehicle against its manufacturer service interval and statutory inspection schedule
Prepares maintenance windows that group work while keeping availability above the fleet manager's operating threshold
Updates the fleet platform when bookings are confirmed, deferred, or completed
Routes vehicles with active fault codes or overdue safety inspections to the top of the manager's queue

fleet platform, service scheduler, vehicle data, dealer-management system

The fleet manager approves each proposed schedule before bookings are placed and can defer or reprioritize any vehicle at any time — the agent executes only the approved plan.

06

Owner Support Agent

Gives owners one consistent channel for questions about their specific vehicle — warranty status, recalls, feature how-tos, and service reminders.

Responsibilities
Receives owner questions across chat, email, and messaging, and identifies the exact vehicle from CRM records
Retrieves warranty coverage, recall status, and owner-manual content matched to that VIN
Prepares plain-language answers drawn from approved manufacturer documentation, with the source noted
Updates the CRM after each interaction so advisors see the full conversation history
Routes warranty disputes, complaints, and anything ambiguous to a named human advisor

CRM, vehicle data, dealer-management system, messaging

Warranty claim decisions, goodwill gestures, and complaint resolutions rest with named human staff — the agent prepares the file and hands it over.

04

Example Workflow

One Request, End to End

1
Request Received
An owner, buyer, or fleet manager raises a request through chat, web form, phone transcription, or email.
2
Vehicle Context Identified
The agent resolves the exact vehicle — VIN, trim, mileage, service history — from dealer-management and CRM records.
Data RetrievedHuman approval
Specifications, availability, fitment, or scheduling data is pulled from approved sources, never reconstructed from guesswork.
4
Response Prepared
A booking, comparison, intake brief, or answer is drafted with its sources attached and any uncertainty flagged.
5
Systems Updated
The scheduler, CRM, fleet platform, or inventory record is written back so no channel falls out of sync.
6
Specialist Briefed
A technician, advisor, or fleet manager receives a structured brief and takes the decision that matters.

05

Systems Landscape

Connected to the Systems That Run the Work

Dealer Management Systems
CDK
Reynolds & Reynolds
Tekmetric
or a custom DMS
Service Scheduling
Xtime
Shopmonkey
or an in-house scheduling tool
Parts Catalogues & Inventory
manufacturer electronic parts catalogues
PartsTech
or internal parts databases
CRM & Messaging
HubSpot
Salesforce
WhatsApp Business
or email
Fleet & Telematics Platforms
Geotab
Samsara
or a custom fleet management system
Vehicle Data Sources
VIN decoding services
manufacturer specification feeds
and official recall databases

06

Human Control & Governance

Technicians Decide. Agents Prepare.

Safety and repair decisions remain with qualified technicians — agents assemble context, they do not draw conclusions. Compatibility and specification data comes exclusively from approved catalogues and manufacturer sources, never from open-web guesswork. Every retrieval, write-back, and handoff is logged, so you can trace any answer to its source and any action to its approval.

Controls Built Into the Architecture
Role-based permissions per agent and per system
Approval checkpoints before customer-facing commitments
Full audit trail of retrievals, write-backs, and handoffs
Data boundaries between customer, vehicle, and financial records
Evaluation suites run against real enquiry histories before launch
Continuous monitoring with drift and error alerts
Safe fallback to a named employee on low confidence
Repair and safety decisions reserved for qualified technicians
Specification and fitment data from approved sources only

07

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Start With One Workflow

Pick the process that consumes the most hours in your operation — service booking, fitment enquiries, fleet scheduling. We will map it end to end with you: the systems it touches, the data boundaries it needs, and exactly where your people stay in charge. Then you decide whether to build.