Sales · Sales & Showroom

How fast can AI respond to my dealership's sales leads?

Auto Advisor's Sales agent drafts a first-touch qualifying reply for every un-responded lead on a scheduled sweep, so your closer has a ready-to-send message minutes after the lead lands. It proposes the test drive, drafts confirmations, reminders, and no-show chases, and never sends anything itself: a human sends every prospect message.

Contacting a web lead within five minutes makes you about 100 times more likely to reach them and 21 times more likely to qualify them than waiting 30 minutes. (InsideSales / MIT lead-response study (Oldroyd, 2007).)

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What it does

What does the Sales agent actually do?

Puts a ready-to-send reply in front of every sales lead within minutes and keeps working the appointment, reminder, and no-show cadence so no buyer goes cold.

Drafts a first-touch qualifying reply for every un-responded lead, on a scheduled sweep across showroom-enabled stores.

Proposes a test-drive appointment for engaged leads: a one-tap approval by default, booked inline in Auto mode through the same idempotent write.

Drafts appointment confirmations, one pre-appointment reminder per lead per day, and no-show re-engagement messages.

Extracts trade-in, timeline, and financing interest from a prospect's reply and saves it onto the lead.

Computes a speed-to-lead block (SLA hit rate, average response minutes, first-touch backlog) every run.

What it reads to do the work

Your sales leads and their message history
The Showroom capability flag on your store (service-only shops never see this agent)
The autonomy mode you set for it (defaults to Approve)

How you stay in control

How do I stay in control of what it does?

Every agent runs in the mode you choose, Off, Approve, or Auto, and every agent starts in Approve so a human signs off before anything happens. Here is what Sales can do, with the gate on each action, and the rails that hold in code, not in a policy document.

The actions, and their gates

Queue a first-touch, confirmation, reminder, or no-show draft your salesperson sendsYou approve it
Set the sales appointment (one-tap by default; inline in Auto mode)You approve it
Save extracted qualification onto the lead's recordRuns logged, no tap needed

The guardrails, held in code

It never auto-sends to a prospect and never quotes a price, payment, or rate; both rules are hard-coded into every message prompt, and every prospect message is a draft in every mode.
TCPA and Do-Not-Call data ride on every draft payload, so the compliance decision is in front of the human at send time.
Per-run caps and one stable idempotency key per lead per behavior per day.
It deliberately does not stamp a lead as responded; your human’s send is the real first response.
A fail-closed Showroom gate: service-only shops cannot reach this agent, even with a hand-crafted request.

What it will not do

What does Sales not do yet?

Every claim on this page maps to shipped, tested code, and the same discipline applies to the limits. Here is where the edge of the product is today, stated plainly, so nothing on your shop rests on a promise.

It never sends a message to a prospect. A 'reply in 81 seconds' means your closer had a ready draft in 81 seconds; the send, and the credit, are your team's.
Show rate is not yet computed; response-time and appointment-set stats are.
The automatic trade-in handoff to the Appraisals agent is still being wired; today an appraisal starts from the Showroom screen.

The numbers it moves

Which numbers does Sales actually move?

Only measured numbers are listed here; a metric the product does not compute does not get claimed.

Lead response time and the 30-minute SLA hit rate (computed every run)

Appointment-set rate

Questions about Sales

Do you work with car dealerships, including franchise new-car stores?

Yes, dealerships are a first-class audience, not an afterthought. Used-car and aftermarket lots and name-brand franchise rooftops run the same fifteen-agent crew as a repair shop, with the Sales and Showroom agents on: the Sales agent drafts a first-touch reply for every lead in minutes and proposes test drives, Appraisals puts estimate bands on trade-ins and finds high-equity units to buy, and Inventory drafts listing copy and flags aged units and price-band drift, while the Service Drive runs your fixed-ops side. It sits on top of your dealer DMS and CRM (DealerCenter, Frazer, DealerSocket IDMS, Wayne Reaves, AutoManager), nothing ripped out, so your salespeople sell and your advisors write service instead of operating another dashboard.

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