An AI chatbot for car dealerships and an AI assistant for your staff

Yes, it is an AI chatbot for car dealerships, and it comes with the dealer website you build in AutoDealer.io. It runs on that website only, so it cannot be added to a site built somewhere else. There it answers shoppers from your published cars and your own FAQ entries at any hour, and turns a shopper who wants to come in into a lead for your team. Your staff get a second assistant inside the dashboard.

No. It quotes the asking price you published and never makes one up. It cannot approve financing, run credit, quote a personal monthly payment or a rate, give a trade-in value or hold a car; for those it offers to have someone from your team follow up. If you switch on the out-the-door estimate, it gives the same estimate your vehicle page shows, built from your own fees and tax rate, and says that tax and registration depend on where the buyer registers the car.

It is an AI chatbot, not live chat: nobody on your team types in it, and it tells shoppers it is an AI. When a shopper wants to come in, test drive a car, trade one in or talk to someone, it asks for a name and a phone or email and saves a lead with the car attached, marked AI chat. Lead routing assigns it like any website lead, and your team is told. A test drive is a request: the chatbot cannot book the time, so your team confirms it.

Yes. Each dealership’s data is kept apart from every other’s, sensitive fields are encrypted, and changes are recorded in the audit log. The website chatbot sees only what a shopper could: your published cars, their photos, your public pages and the FAQ entries you give it. It has no path to your costs, your customers, your deals or your documents, whatever is typed into its settings. The staff assistant reads only what the signed-in person’s role allows.

It answers from your inventory, leads, customers, deals, tasks, title work and books, and prepares the next step as a card. Ten skills each give it a playbook for one job: lead handler, appointment concierge, deal closer, pricing strategist, recon strategist, marketing and website manager, title and compliance runner, BHPH collector, cashflow advisor and vendor analyst, and accountant. It is one assistant that loads the skill a question needs, not ten separate agents, and it follows each person’s role. The accountant comes with a plan that records entries in Books, and with the trial.

Not unless the owner allows it. Every change starts as a card, and a new dealership starts on Ask me first, where every card waits for a person to press Approve. The owner can choose Do the routine, where eight everyday jobs such as descriptions, tasks and lead assignment apply on their own, or Run it, which adds more, including price changes and an email from a template you wrote. Money and irreversible changes always ask, a message typed on Telegram never approves anything, and at most 10 changes apply on their own in one reply and 50 in a day. What it changed on its own is in the audit log as Assistant (for the person whose setting allowed it), with Undo while the change can still be put back.

It does not call anyone, and it is not a BDC. Email is the only way it writes to a customer. It drafts an email in its own words for a person to read and approve, and it can send one of your message templates, which also waits for approval unless the owner lets templates go out on their own, at Run it or under Fine-tune. A borrower with a live in-house loan gets no templated email before 8 AM or after 9 PM, and nobody gets one while a message they sent is still unanswered. From the Inbox it can add an email’s sender as a lead or put the email on a customer’s timeline, always as a card a person approves.

Yes. Attach up to 25 photos or PDFs in the chat, use your phone’s camera, or send them in Telegram. It says what it sees first, then asks what you want done. It reads a VIN and checks it against its check digit, adds a car you just bought from its photos, files a title or a bill of sale on the right car, and fills in a customer from a driver’s license photo. Nothing goes onto a record until a person approves the card, and a license card is approved in the dashboard, not on Telegram.

Yes. Under Settings, My connected apps, copy the server address into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any app that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It signs in as you and reads with your role. If you allow it when you connect, it can prepare changes, which arrive as cards a person approves, like the assistant’s own. It never applies a change or contacts a customer itself, it stops when the assistant is turned off, and you can disconnect it at any time.

Yes, through Telegram. Each person connects their own Telegram account, and the same assistant sends a morning message and alerts about your own leads, deals, cars and titles, answers questions, and puts Approve and Reject buttons on standard cards. A typed reply never approves a card, and money stays in the dashboard. The alerts page covers what arrives and when.

No separate subscription. Both assistants are part of AutoDealer.io and run within your plan’s monthly AI allowance, which also covers photo reading and styling and market price checks. If the allowance runs out, the staff assistant pauses until the 1st, and the website chat asks shoppers to call or visit instead. And yes, it works in Spanish: the staff assistant answers each person in the language they chose in their profile, and on a Spanish website the chatbot answers shoppers in Spanish, or in the language they write in.