Automotive

AI agents for car dealerships: answer the shopper before the showroom visit

Use AI for inventory questions, test-drive requests, trade-in routing and after-hours lead capture.

Vehicle shoppers arrive with specific questions: is the car available, what is the trim, can they test drive it Saturday, and what should they bring?

Connect the agent to inventory

Availability, model, trim, mileage and advertised price must be current. Stale inventory turns an instant answer into a bad lead experience.

Keep finance and trade-in claims controlled

The agent can explain the process and collect information, but it should not promise financing approval or fabricate a trade-in valuation. Route those steps to approved tools.

The useful outcome is a booked test drive, call request, qualified vehicle enquiry or transition into an existing finance or trade-in workflow.

Sources

  1. Cox Automotive, 2025 Car Buyer Journey Study
Ben Tannenbaum

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Ben Tannenbaum

Founder, Javo

Ben founded Javo. He is also the founder and CEO of Aiso, which analyses real conversations between people and AI assistants at scale, and before that built a pricing-data startup for coworking spaces. He studied statistics.

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