Nick Ouritski and Jeff Lassen have debuted their new agentic operating system, promising a single intelligence layer that connects the entire dealership. +
Lumi was designed to bring the conversations car shoppers are currently having with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini onto dealership websites. +
The newly launched vAuto Test Drive is a digital platform designed to give dealers an opportunity to preview, test and contribute to the development of new and largely AI-powered inventory management tools. +
A new, autonomous, CRM-embedded Virtual Contact Assistant is the first in a “landmark” series of new and upcoming features from VinSolutions. +
Sofia V2 is backed by Drivee AI’s new ATLAS intelligence engine, adding real-time context and actionable recommendations for dealership staff. +
Executives say adding SocketTime’s service toolkit will give Numa’s AI agents the ability to improve fixed ops scheduling, communications and efficiency. +
CallSource Automotive has launched Zylo, a concierge built upon Spyne’s Vini AI platform and designed to work in concert with human service advisors. +
Analysts say dealers can gain a competitive advantage by connecting AI-powered tools to customer, inventory, pricing and service data. +
A new Impel report cites high rates of unanswered calls and mishandled leads, lost revenue and low winback rates to make the case for agentic AI as the next operating standard in automotive retail. +
Amit Maheshwari, Max Steckler and Jason Barrie will serve as the AI-enabled dealership conversation platform’s executive leadership team. +
