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View all87% of dealers use AI. 6% can tell you who's watching it.
CDK's new State of Dealership Cybersecurity 2026 report found that the overwhelming majority of dealership leaders have already put AI to work — but almost none of them have a plan
Flai Raises $27M After Its AI Started Booking 50,000 Dealership Appointments a Month
Flai, an AI platform handling calls, texts, and outbound campaigns for dealerships, closed a $27 million Series A and is now working with more than 10 of the top 50 dealer groups i
CarGurus' VINMax Shaves 9 Days Off Your Aging Inventory — Without Touching Price
CarGurus rolled out VINMax, an AI tool that automatically decides which VINs in your inventory need an extra marketing push based on real-time supply and demand — not a blanket pri
An AI BDC Just Showed Receipts: 50,000 Appointments a Month, $27M to Keep Going
Flai, an AI platform handling dealership calls, texts, and outbound campaigns, disclosed it's now booking 50,000 appointments a month across sales and service for more than 10 of t
CarGurus' VINMax Claims It Sells Cars 9 Days Faster — Here's What That Actually Means for Your Floor
CarGurus launched VINMax, a machine-learning tool that flags which VINs in a dealer's inventory need a marketing push based on live supply-and-demand data, and reported that booste
CarGurus Launches VINMax — An AI Tool That Picks Which Cars to Market Harder
CarGurus rolled out VINMax today, an AI model that scans a dealer's live inventory against real-time supply and demand data to flag which VINs need a marketing push before they age
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🔥 The AI Drop Your dealership is running AI blind, and CDK just proved it with a number you can't un-read. Eighty-seven percent of dealers use AI in daily operations. Six percent
The Dealer AI Guy — Week of October 4, 2026
🔥 The AI Drop The bank that doesn't sell a single car just told you how much ground you're losing on every one you do. Morgan Stanley dropped a note this week estimating franchise
The Dealer AI Guy — Week of September 27, 2026
🔥 The AI Drop LaFontaine Automotive Group just gave away the best lead-gen tool a service drive has seen since the postcard died — and called it "complimentary." Forty-plus Michig
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View allThe Next Dealer Website Won't Be a Website. It'll Be an Agent.
Dealer websites spent twenty years displaying inventory and collecting leads. The next generation will understand the lot, answer real buying questions, and move the transaction fo
Your Dealership Does Not Need Another Lead Product. It Has Productitis.
Ariel Coro coined productitis for the dealership habit of adding products instead of fixing broken processes. Here is how AI can help diagnose the problem without becoming another
No, More Inventory Does Not Automatically Make a Dealer More Visible to AI
Inventory can help a dealer qualify for vehicle-specific prompts. It does not make lot size a universal AI visibility factor. Here is what dealers should measure instead.
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