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AI Automation for Automotive

One Car, One Registration. And It Might Sell Tomorrow.

Almost nothing in this trade is a generic enquiry. Somebody is asking about one specific vehicle, and that vehicle is either on your forecourt or it went on Saturday. An automation that answers confidently from yesterday’s stock export is not a small problem — the correction lands after somebody has driven forty miles, and you have spent your reputation to save a phone call.

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12+ years in digital marketing Working with Automotive businesses
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What decides thisLive stock
Two businessesOne phone
The Numbers First

Sales and service want opposite things

These arrive through the same channels and look similar for about one sentence, after which they have nothing in common.

  • “Is the blue one still available?”Perishable. Answer in minutes or lose it
  • “My car is making a noise”Needs a slot, not a salesperson
  • “What would you give me for mine?”A judgement. Never automate it
  • “Can I book a test drive?”A diary question with a car attached
  • “Is my car ready?”Asked repeatedly, all day
  • “How much is an MOT?”Fixed answer, asked constantly

Rows one and two are the split that matters. A sales enquiry is somebody choosing to spend thousands and a service enquiry is somebody with a problem, and sending both to the same place means one of them always waits. Routing them apart, correctly, before anybody reads them, is the largest single improvement available here and it needs no clever technology at all.

Straight Talk

Live stock, or say you will check

The rule we would apply is short: if the automation cannot see your stock system as it is right now, it does not get to answer availability questions. It takes the name and says somebody will confirm within the hour. That sounds like a weaker product and it is a considerably better one, because the alternative is a confident wrong answer about a car that sold on Saturday.

Where a live connection does exist, this becomes the strongest automation in the trade. An enquiry at half past nine at night about a specific registration, answered accurately, with two viewing slots offered from the real diary, is a booked appointment that would otherwise have been a voicemail and then a competitor.

Service is a different build with a different rhythm. The questions are repetitive and factual — what an MOT costs, whether you can collect, how long a job takes, whether the car is ready — and the wins come from volume rather than from value per enquiry. It also has the single most requested feature nobody builds: telling the customer the car is ready without waiting for them to ring and ask.

What we will not build is a valuation, a part-exchange figure or anything touching finance. A number attached to somebody’s car is a judgement your business is accountable for, and finance is a regulated conversation. Those stay with people who can be held to them, and this page names no regulator because which one applies depends on your business.

  • No live stock, no availability answers — It takes a name and says somebody will confirm.
  • Sales and service routed apart — The largest improvement here, and the least technical.
  • No valuations, no finance — A judgement with money attached stays with a person.
  • “Your car is ready” unprompted — Most requested, least built.
  • Out of hours is where the sales are — Evening enquiries are somebody browsing seriously.
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A confident wrong answer about a car that sold on Saturday costs more than the phone call it saved.

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Ghalib Ashrafi Founder & Digital Strategist · 12+ years across search, social & web

What we build for the motor trade

Six builds. The first two are routing and honesty, which is where the value actually is.

01

Sales and Service, Split at the Door

Read once, routed correctly, before anybody opens it. Two businesses stop competing for the same attention, and the person with a noise in their engine stops waiting behind a test-drive enquiry.

02

Availability From Live Stock Only

Connected to the system that actually knows, or it does not answer. Where no live connection exists we say so and it takes a name instead — deliberately weaker, and it does not send anybody on a wasted journey.

03

Test Drives and Service Slots

Real times from the real diary, booked while the person is still interested. Offering a slot that does not exist is worse than offering none, because the correction arrives the next morning.

04

“Your Car Is Ready”

Sent when it becomes true rather than waiting to be asked. It removes a whole category of incoming calls and it is the thing customers notice most, which is a rare combination.

05

Missed Calls Become Callbacks

The enquiry that rang during a handover, captured with a name, a number and which vehicle. A voicemail nobody returns is the most expensive thing in this trade.

06

A Hard Stop on Money

No valuations, no part-exchange figures, no finance. Those are judgements your business is accountable for, and a number produced by a system nobody can question is not one you want in writing.

LiveOr it does not answer
SplitSales from service
NeverValuations or finance
UnpromptedReady notifications

What clients say

Real clients, quoted in their own words — published with their permission.

More of them, in full, on our reviews page.

— Our Proprietary Methodology —

The Visibility Framework™, applied in Automotive

The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.

Step 01

Audit The Hours

Where time actually goes, task by task, scored on volume, repetition and the cost of getting it wrong. Ends in a ranked blueprint with estimated hours saved — yours to keep either way.

Step 02

Design The Guardrails

Before any building: what the agent may touch, where a human must approve, what happens when it is unsure, and which data is never allowed near a third-party model.

Step 03

Build & Evaluate

One workflow at a time, in your accounts, scored against real examples from your business before it touches live work. Shipped early so it meets reality while it is still cheap to change.

Step 04

Run & Improve

Monitored for cost, failures and quality drift. Models change, your business changes, and an automation nobody tends becomes a liability rather than an asset.

Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment

If the audit concludes that a task is not worth automating, we will tell you and refund the difference rather than build it anyway. And if a workflow we built does not hit the outcome we agreed in the blueprint, we keep working on it at no extra cost until it does or we take it out.

Investment

AI Automation pricing for Automotive, in GBP

Quoted in pounds after we have seen whether your stock system can be read live, because that single fact decides what is buildable. Nothing here touches valuations or finance, and we name no regulator on this page because which one applies depends on your business.

Split and Capture

Routing, missed calls, service questions.

£2,000 – £4,500
  • Sales and service separated automatically
  • Missed calls captured with the vehicle attached
  • Fixed service answers — MOT, timings, collection
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Group

Several sites under one brand.

£11,000+
  • Per-site stock and diaries, one standard
  • Ready notifications across the group
  • Evaluated against your own enquiries before going live
  • Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
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Every plan is scoped around your market — start with a free first look and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.

What you’re actually committing to

Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.

  • The audit is credited, not sunkPay for the audit, and the full amount comes off the build if you proceed. If you don’t, the blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone else.
  • A fixed build price after the auditQuoted once we know what we are building. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our risk — the price only moves if you change the scope.
  • You own everythingAccounts, API keys, workflows, prompts, evaluation sets, logs and documentation — all in your name from day one, and still yours if we never work together again.
  • Running costs are yours and visibleAPI usage is billed by the provider directly to you. We never resell tokens or mark up usage, and you see the real number.
  • The retainer is month to month30 days’ notice, no exit fee. Stop it and your automations keep running — you are simply maintaining them yourself.
  • Human approval is the defaultAnything customer-facing or irreversible needs a person until the evaluation data justifies otherwise, and that decision is yours to make, not ours.

These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.

Automotive AI Automation questions, answered

What if our stock system cannot be connected? +
Then the automation does not answer availability questions. It takes the name and says somebody will confirm within the hour. That is a weaker product deliberately, because a confident wrong answer about a car that sold on Saturday costs you more than the call it saved — the correction arrives after somebody has driven forty miles.
Separating sales from service before anybody reads the enquiry. They arrive through the same channels and want completely different things — one is a person choosing to spend thousands, the other has a noise in their engine — and while they share a queue, one of them always waits.
No. A number attached to somebody’s car is a judgement your business is accountable for, and finance is a regulated conversation. Both stay with people who can be held to them. We will not put a figure in writing that nobody can be questioned about.
It is where a good share of serious browsing happens — evenings and Sundays, when somebody has time to look properly. An accurate answer at nine at night with two viewing slots offered is a booked appointment; a voicemail is usually a competitor.
Different rhythm, same principle. The questions are repetitive and factual, so the value comes from volume rather than from any single enquiry. The most requested build is also the least common: telling a customer their car is ready without waiting to be asked.
That one is about catalogues where the same item exists many times over. Here almost every enquiry is about a single physical vehicle with a registration number, which either is still there or is not. The perishability is the whole difference.
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