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AI agents for sales teams at auto dealers
Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your dealership sales team already uses, from retyping portal leads between walk-ins to drafted replies and test drive times waiting for your approval.
Dealership sales teams get back the hours lost to lead logging, scheduling back-and-forth, and appraisal paperwork.
AI Employees for Auto Dealer Sales in 4 simple steps
Manual Time
We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.
Actionist Automations
We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.
Your Benefits
How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.
Easy to use
We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.
Where you spend your time
We know how your week actually goes
- Every portal lead logged with its sourceCars.com, AutoTrader, CarGurus and OEM inquiries reach the CRM with the stock number and source filled in.
- Test drives booked without the diary danceOpen slots across each salesperson's calendar are offered to the shopper, so six texts do not fix one hour.
- Trade-ins arrive as a finished packetVIN, mileage, photos and market references are gathered before the used car manager values the trade.
- Quote sheets drafted before the desk asksPayment options and the out-the-door breakdown are laid out from the deal record for the desk to adjust.
- Quiet leads and past owners get workedStale inquiries, lease-end owners and service-lane customers surface as drafts, not buried CRM rows.
- Built around how your floor sellsThese are examples of what a dealership sales agent can do. Build a custom agent for any job you repeat.
And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..
An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Auto Dealer Sales team's day.
Where the hours go
Portal leads arrive faster than anyone can log them, so the reply comes after the shopper has already heard from two other dealers while the salesperson is on the floor with a customer.
An agent reads each Cars.com, AutoTrader, CarGurus and OEM inquiry on a schedule, checks the unit against stock, logs it with its source, and drafts a first reply for the salesperson to approve.
Test drives take six texts to arrange, then a quarter of them never show, and nobody rebooks the no-show until the shopper has bought elsewhere.
An agent offers real open slots from the salespeople's calendars, sends the confirmation and day-before reminder drafts, and queues a same-day rebooking message once a visit is marked missed.
A trade-in sits unvalued while the used car manager waits on photos, mileage and a lien holder, and the shopper cools off on the very deal the trade was meant to close.
An agent chases the missing details, pulls the KBB, Black Book and MMR references, adds the history report, and hands the used car manager a finished packet to value.
The CRM is only as good as the notes typed at closing time, so stale leads, lease-end owners and service-lane trade candidates stay invisible until a month-end panic.
An agent tidies notes from the day's logs, flags leads gone quiet, and builds a weekly list of equity, lease-end and service-lane owners with a follow-up draft for each.
Actionist Will Automate
What one automation looks like
A week with your Auto Dealer Sales agents
Some of the apps for your Auto Dealer Sales team
Some of the sales, scheduling and messaging apps your dealership agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.
Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens
Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.
Your benefits
Where the time goes back
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Lead response270 min / weekLogging portal leads by hand
Between walk-ins someone opens each Cars.com or CarGurus email, finds the stock number and retypes the shopper into the CRM, usually after the buyer has heard from another dealer.
Lead response Agent0 minAgent logs and drafts the replyAn agent reads the notifications on schedule, matches the unit, logs the record with its source, and queues a drafted reply for the salesperson to approve in Slack.
- Test drives150 min / weekTexting back and forth to fix a time
A salesperson compares calendars, proposes a slot, hears back an hour later, proposes another, and then loses a quarter of the visits to no-shows nobody follows up.
Test drives Agent0 minAgent offers slots and rebooks no-showsAn agent offers open times from the real diary, drafts the confirmations, and queues a same-day rebooking message when an appointment passes with no arrival.
- Trade-ins210 min / weekChasing details and valuation figures
The salesperson asks for the VIN, mileage and photos in pieces, then opens KBB, Black Book and MMR in separate tabs and pastes the numbers into a sheet for the used car manager.
Trade-ins Agent0 minAgent assembles the appraisal packetAn agent chases the missing details, pulls the valuation figures and history report, and posts one finished packet to the used car manager, who decides the number.
- Desking180 min / weekRebuilding quote sheets for each deal
Payment options, rebates and fees are keyed by hand from the last deal's worksheet, with a real chance of quoting an incentive that expired on Friday.
Desking Agent0 minAgent drafts the quote from the deal recordAn agent drafts the payment options and out-the-door breakdown from the deal and the current incentives, and holds it for the desk manager to adjust.
- CRM and revival240 min / weekTyping notes at closing and hunting for old leads
At the end of a shift notes are typed from memory, and lease-end owners, quiet leads and service-lane trade candidates are only found when someone has a free afternoon.
CRM and revival Agent0 minAgent writes notes and builds revival listsAn agent drafts the day's notes from logs and messages, then each week lists quiet leads, lease-end owners and service-lane candidates with a follow-up draft for approval.
What that's worth
Calculate what your team saves
Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~9 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How easy it is to use
We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.
From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.
- Step 1
Enter your website
- We'll research your business
- Automatically configure everything for you
- Step 2
Actionist Auto
Optional- Watches you work
- Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
- Step 3
Marketplace
- Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
- Pre-configured by other users
- Step 4
Invite your team
- We'll automatically onboard them too
- Focus on the things that matter
Enter your website URL for a personalised demo
See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.
You stay in control
A sales agent that sees your leads, pricing and customer history is only worth having if you stay in charge. Actionist is built so you see everything it touched, approve whatever reaches a buyer, and keep the decisions that belong to people.
A first reply, a test drive confirmation or a rebooking offer is drafted and queued for a salesperson to approve. Nothing goes to a shopper unless you widen that autonomy yourself through Approval Modes.
The agent prepares the quote sheet and the appraisal packet. The desk manager sets the price, the used car manager sets the trade value, and any credit decision stays with finance.
Each lead logged, merged or tagged by the agent is recorded with a timestamp, so a manager can see what changed and why, and put it back if needed.
Shopper details, trade photos and deal records are encrypted and are not used to train any model. If it must stay on your own infrastructure, you can self-host Actionist on a VPS.
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Frequently asked questions
Does my dealership sales team need to be technical to use Actionist?
How do I get started with an agent for our sales desk?
How do I make customised AI agents for how our floor sells?
How quickly can I set a dealership sales agent up?
Will it message a shopper without a salesperson seeing it first?
How does it work with a DMS or CRM that has no API, like our older desking tool?
Can it set a trade-in value or approve a price?
Is our customer and deal data safe, and is it used to train AI models?
What does the agent do when a phone lead calls or leaves a voicemail?
See an agent log your portal leads and prep the trade-in
Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent read a portal lead, draft the reply, line up a test drive, and build a trade-in packet, all waiting for your approval.