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It’s 9am on a Monday. Thirty messages came in over the weekend: someone saw the SUV listing and wants to know if “it comes in silver”; two asked for a test drive but nobody confirmed a time; a customer is a month past due on her 30k service and no one called; and the part another customer has been waiting on for days finally arrived — except he was never told. It isn’t a lack of traffic — it’s too much traffic for one front desk. What leaves your plate: the first reply to every prospect, lead qualification, scheduling test drives and service with reminders, bringing back whoever is due for maintenance, and the “your part is in” notice all start happening on their own — with context, within budget, and with pricing, trade-in, and financing always waiting on the person who decides.

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How it works, in one line

In automotive the bottleneck isn’t having cars on the lot — it’s keeping up with many prospects and service customers at once without letting any of them go cold. The agent doesn’t replace the salesperson or the service advisor: it makes sure every lead is answered, qualified, and followed up, and hands the person what truly needs judgment — price, trade-in valuation, financing, and contract.

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Concrete flows

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1. Qualify the vehicle lead — and capture preferences into the CRM

Trigger: a prospect arrives by WhatsApp, email, or the vehicle listing form. The agent replies on the spot and runs a short qualification, one question at a time: which model they’re after (new or used, trim, transmission, color), price range, when they’d trade, whether a car is coming in on the deal, whether financing is on the table. As answers come in, it creates the lead in the CRM, fills the preference fields, and logs the conversation as activity — nothing gets lost in a WhatsApp screenshot. If the profile matches a vehicle in stock that’s already in the Company Brain, it notes the suggestion on the card. The result: when the salesperson opens the pipeline in the morning, every new lead arrives qualified and sorted by stage — not as a queue of unread messages to triage from scratch.
Qualification pulls from the Brain what’s worth asking for this kind of sale — a financed new car raises different questions than a cash used one. The script lives in the Brain, not in a fixed form.

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2. Schedule test drives and service — and the reminder that cuts no-shows

Trigger: the lead wants a test drive, or a customer wants to book a service appointment. The agent matches the agreed availability against the calendar (Google Calendar via Composio) and proposes times. Once confirmed, it logs the appointment as activity in the CRM, creates the task on the responsible salesperson’s or advisor’s board, and schedules an automatic reminder on the customer’s channel (WhatsApp or email) — the day before and a few hours ahead. If you want to keep a hand on the messaging, each send can wait for your approval before it goes out. The win isn’t “a bot that books slots.” It’s that the agreed test drive or service doesn’t vanish among dozens of parallel conversations, and the right reminder the day before knocks down the number of people who don’t show — and frees a bay or a demo car that would otherwise sit waiting.

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3. Bring back the overdue-service customer — on its own, on the right day

Trigger: a routine the agent schedules for itself sweeps the customer base for anyone with maintenance due or overdue — by mileage, by time since the last visit, or by the manufacturer’s recommended interval. The routine pulls from the CRM who’s entered the service window, cross-references the service history in the Company Brain, and fires — via Marcus — a reminder by email or WhatsApp: “your 30k service is coming up — want me to hold a slot?”. Anyone who replies drops straight into the scheduling flow from flow 2; anyone who doesn’t is marked for a fresh touch later and becomes a proactive notification in the advisor’s bell.
The service base is a dealership’s most forgotten asset. A routine has no hectic week — it circles back to whoever is due for service on the right day, every time, and turns a stalled spreadsheet into a full shop and a loyal customer.

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4. Follow up on the ordered part — and keep the customer informed

Trigger: a part was ordered for a service and the customer is waiting, or the order status changed. The agent tracks the order and, on every meaningful change — “shipped from the supplier,” “arrived at the shop,” “ready to install” — logs the update as activity in the CRM and prepares a note to the customer on their channel. When the part lands, it proposes booking the car back in, already matched against the shop’s calendar. Anything that’s status information flows freely; any message that touches the service amount, the approved estimate, or a charge is proposed for the advisor to approve — it never goes out on its own.
Why this matters: a customer left in the dark calls three times asking about the part and walks away annoyed even when the work was done well. Keeping them informed at every step, with nobody having to remember, is half of after-sales satisfaction.

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What stays human

The agent proposes, never decides alone, whenever the subject is:
  • Vehicle price and negotiation — discount, terms, any value conversation with the customer.
  • Trade-in valuation — what the used car coming into the deal is worth.
  • Financing — an approved simulation, credit terms, the installment, any decision involving credit.
  • Service estimate and charges — labor and parts amounts, estimate approval, refund, any adjustment to amounts.
  • Contract and signature — a formal proposal, purchase agreement, a work order that creates an obligation.
  • Heavy external, legal, or regulatory communication, governance decisions, and destructive actions.
In those cases the agent prepares everything — the draft, the customer’s context, the negotiation or service history — and waits for the decider to approve. Every action lands in the auditable trail, with author and justification.

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Where to start

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Upload stock and service history to the Brain

Ingest your vehicle sheets, the service-interval table per model, and your customers’ service history into the Company Brain. That’s where the agent pulls its first response, its qualification, and the service window from — without it, there’s nothing to consult.
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Wire a channel and let the agent take first line

Connect WhatsApp and let the agent qualify and log every lead in the CRM. Start with human approval before each external message and loosen it as it earns trust.
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Schedule the overdue-service routine

Create a routine that sweeps the service base and proposes bringing back whoever’s due for maintenance. One agent, one cadence, one channel — and autonomy grows like a ratchet, not a leap.

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Next steps

Commercial & sales

The full prospecting, qualification, and follow-up pattern — of which selling vehicles is a high-volume case.

People & after-sales

The relationship and retention side — the customer who comes back for service and refers the dealership.

Native CRM

Where the lead, the preferences, and the service history stay alive — no human memory required.

Routines

The routines that bring back the overdue service and follow up on the part — on the right day, every time.