AI CRM for independent car dealers

From the photo on the lot to the funded deal. One platform.

A premium website. One-tap inventory photos. Scan a VIN and the car is live on your site, pushed to CarGurus, and on Cars.com and DealerCenter via feed. Every inquiry lands in one inbox and an AI works it — by text, by email, or on a call it answers itself, 24/7. Then desk the deal, submit to the lender, print the jacket, ask for the review.

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Your browser will ask for microphone access — that's how the AI hears you. Then just talk, like a normal call. 3 min max, no form, no phone number.

  • Free trial: 7 days or 30 AI voice minutes, whichever comes first
  • No credit card
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Last updated 2026-09-24

Northwest Auto Brokers — AI agent · Inbound · 2019 F-150 XLT · stk 4471· AUDIO 00:25
00:0000:25
  1. CallerHi — do you still have the gray 2019 F-150 XLT? The one at twenty-seven nine?
  2. Store · AIWe do — stock 4471, it's on the front row. Are you trading anything in?
  3. CallerA 2014 Silverado, about 140 on it.
  4. Store · AIBring it — we'll appraise it while you drive the F-150. Saturday at 10 work? I'll text you the address and the stock number.
  5. CallerPerfect.
Outcome

Appointment booked → CRM updated.

Sat 10:00 AM · Deal moved to "Appointment set" · SMS sent: "Sat 10am — 2019 F-150 XLT stk 4471 — 1120 S Lane St. Reply C to change." · recording + transcript saved

Illustrative call, the platform's own voice. Hear it as your store — paste your website above.

Across every store and front office on Lead Friendly so far. Real counts from the platform, rounded down.

2,100+
calls run through Lead Friendly
2,300+
messages sent and answered
2,900+
contacts in the CRM
390+
vehicles listed

Is there an agentic AI CRM for car dealerships?

Yes — Lead Friendly is an agentic AI CRM built for car dealerships. "Agentic" means it does the work rather than storing records for you to work: you pick the car dealerships template and paste your website, and it builds an AI phone agent that answers and places calls, books straight onto your calendar, and then proposes the follow-up automations and campaigns your business should be running. Contacts, pipeline, calendar, call recordings, transcripts, and AI summaries are all in the same subscription, and every automation it proposes arrives paused so nothing sends until you approve it. Here is what that looks like for car dealerships. Every inbound call is answered and routed to the right department, with test drives and service visits booked on the spot — including nights and weekends when the BDC is off the clock.

What the agentic AI does for car dealerships

Pick “Auto dealership”, paste your site, and the BDC agent is ready:

  • Reads your site for inventory focus, departments, and hours
  • Routes sales/service/parts and books test drives + service visits
  • Proposes internet-lead, unsold-showroom, and service-due follow-up automations
  • Remembers each shopper's prior contact across the buying cycle
  • Logs every call, text, and email on the contact record in the built-in CRM

Automations are proposed paused and campaigns as drafts — nothing runs until you approve it, and money actions always ask first.

Stage 02 · The photo

Phone photo in. Listing photo out.

Shot on the lot with a phone. One tap later it's standing in a studio — or out on an open road that suits a truck. Every wheel in frame, every car in the batch matching.

2019 Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition photographed on a phone on the dealer lotPhone photo · on the lot
  • Taken onA phone, on the lot
  • Edited byOne tap
  • StylesWhite studio · road · showroom
  • Across a batchEvery car matches

Real photos of a truck in a live dealer's inventory — 2019 Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition.

How a car moves through it

Dealership software that runs the whole store. Nine stages, one platform, in the order it actually happens.

01

The website

A site that looks like the store you wish you had. Twenty-plus templates with real motion. Built for you, owned outright, one indexable page per vehicle.

YOUR STOREInventoryFinancingTrade-inGet pre-approved
Clean cars.
Straight prices.

112 vehicles in stock · updated today

2019 Toyota Tundra 17942019 Toyota Tundra 1794101,132 mi$35,800
2018 Audi Q5 Premium Plus2018 Audi Q5 Premium Plus82,810 mi$17,500
2013 Subaru WRX STI2013 Subaru WRX STI54,136 mi$16,999
02

The photo

Phone photo in. Listing photo out. One tap. White background, or a scene matched to the make and model. Batch-consistent. Runs Northwest Auto Brokers' listings today.

2019 Toyota Tundra photographed on the dealer lot with a phonePhone photo · on the lot
The same Tundra on a white studio backgroundStudio · one tap
03

The VIN

Scan it. It's live before you're back at the desk. Decode, price, photos — published to your site and pushed to CarGurus; Cars.com and DealerCenter via feed. You see the last push and the count.

CarGurus · pushedCars.com · via feedDealerCenter · via feed
VIN5TFAY5F17KX······
Vehicle2019 Toyota Tundra CrewMax
Trim1794 Edition
Mileage101,132
Price$35,800
Your websiteLive
CarGurusPushed 2:14 PM
Cars.comVia feed
DealerCenterVia feed
04

The lead

Every inquiry in one inbox. The AI already knows the car. Answer by text and hand you the warm ones, or take every call 24/7. Never invents a car you don't have.

What do missed calls cost you? →

  • Jordan M.SMS

    Is the black Tundra still…

  • Priya S.Call

    Booked · Sat 10:00 AM

  • Web visitorChat

    Q5 financing question

  • Marcus T.Email

    What’s my trade worth?

Is the black Tundra still available?
It is — the 2019 Tundra 1794 Edition, 101k miles, on the lot now. Want to drive it Saturday at 10?
Yes, 10 works.
Test drive booked · Sat 10:00 AM · on your calendar
AI · answered at 9:48 PM, store closed
05

The list you have

Two thousand old customers, sitting in the CRM. New stock, service due, positive equity. Drafted for you; you switch it on. Quiet hours and DNC enforced.

Positive equity · past buyersDrafted for you
Ready
Audience214 customersBought 2021–2023 · equity over $3,000
Sends9 AM – 8 PMIn each customer’s time zone
Hi Dana, your 2021 Civic may be worth more than you owe. Want a no-pressure trade number this week? — Your Store · Reply STOP to opt out
ConsentQuiet hours11 on DNC removedSwitch on
06

The desk

Desk it on the screen the lead came in on. Four-square, KBB values through Cox, F&I menu, fair-lending checks.

The desk, F&I and paperwork in detail →

KBB · in setup
Price$35,800
Trade (ACV)−$9,500
Down$3,000
Amount financed$27,640incl. tax, fees, service contract
Down60 mo72 mo84 mo
$2,000$566$487$431
$3,000$546$470$416
$5,000$506$436$386
Desk check · nothing to fixAPR disclosed · reserve within cap · trade appraised
Front $2,140Back $1,380Total $3,520
07

The lender

Submit from the desk. Any lender. Through Dealertrack — in certification with Cox — or email the credit app with KBB value and book-out sheet to lenders that aren't on it. Decisions come back to the deal.

Dealertrack · in certificationEmail packet · live
Credit submissionsDeal #2217 · 2019 Tundra 1794
Captive lenderSent 11:20 AM
Approved · 6.90% · 72 mo
Regional credit unionSent 11:21 AM
Countered · $2,000 more down
Second-chance lenderSent 11:22 AM
Packet sent
Credit applicationKBB valueBook-out sheetProof of income
08

The jacket

Approved. Print it. Sign it. Fund it. Buyer's order, RISC with the TILA box, disclosures — e-signed, tracked sold → funded.

Annual percentage rate6.90%
Finance charge$6,195.68
Amount financed$27,640.00
Total of payments$33,835.68
Buyer’s orderSigned
Retail installment contractSigned
Odometer disclosureSigned
Privacy noticeSigned
Sold · Sep 12Contract signedFunded · Sep 15
09

After the sale

The review. The Google profile. The books. Feedback text, review link, Google Business Profile managed, month-end reporting.

Google profile · we manage
September · lot & salesExample store
Units sold38+6 vs August
Avg days to sale31lot turns every month
Avg front gross$2,180per unit
F&I penetration64%service contract or GAP
27new Google reviewsfrom 36 review texts · 4.8 ★ average

Screens drawn from the app with example store data. Vehicle photos and listings are real.

One store, the whole loop

An independent store in Washington moved their website, inventory, phones, desk and lender packets onto Lead Friendly — a store with ten-year relationships with its old vendors. What changed wasn't one tool — it was not having six.

Read the case study →

The AI BDC

Use cases for car dealerships

Sales/service/parts reception

Every inbound call is answered and routed to the right department, with test drives and service visits booked on the spot — including nights and weekends when the BDC is off the clock.

Internet-lead speed-to-lead

Outbound calls to fresh internet leads within minutes — the window where contact rates are highest — to qualify the shopper and book the visit before the second dealer picks up the phone.

A dealership CRM without the per-seat math

Contacts, pipeline stages, appointment calendar, and full call/text/email history live in the same subscription as the AI agent. Sales staff see what the agent said; the agent remembers what sales staff logged.

Service-due + unsold follow-up

Reactivate service-due customers and re-engage unsold showroom traffic on the cadence you set — proposed as paused automations you approve before anything sends.

Missed-call rescue

A call that rings out becomes a logged contact, an instant text-back, and a follow-up task instead of a shopper who bought elsewhere.

BDC coverage without a BDC seat

A twenty-to-eighty-unit lot rarely justifies a salaried BDC seat, and one seat still only covers weekday hours. The agent does the two jobs a BDC exists for — fast first contact and persistent follow-up — across all hours, and hands off to a person for anything involving negotiation or a specific deal.

Your first 48 hours.

No wizard first. The phone rings first.

  1. 0:00
    Sign up. Name, email.
  2. 0:01
    Paste your website. The agent builds itself from your store.
  3. 0:02
    Your phone rings. It answers as your dealership.
  4. 0:05
    Your trial line is live. Missed calls get a text back; you get the summary.
  5. Day 1
    Scan a VIN, snap a photo. Watch it go white-background and publish.
  6. Day 2
    Connect your feed. Now it quotes your actual cars.

What happens when it doesn't know.

The first question every dealer asks.

Stock
Not in inventory → says so, offers what is. Never invents a car, a price, a payment.
People
Asks for Mike → transfers if he's on, else takes the message and texts him.
Money
Never quotes a payment, a rate or a trade value. Your desk works the payment for your staff, and a person gives the customer the numbers.
Law
AI disclosure, quiet hours, DNC, consent — enforced before any call or text leaves.
You
Every conversation recorded, transcribed, in the contact's timeline.

Compliance

Enforced by the platform, not your checklist.

Every outbound call passes through a single compliance guard that enforces: artificial-voice disclosure (auto-injected into the agent prompt), TCPA quiet hours resolved from the destination timezone, internal DNC + STOP/opt-out ledger, per-state two-party recording-consent decision, and per-destination velocity caps. Federal/state DNC list scrubbing of contacts you upload is your obligation under the platform's DNC attestation — see /compliance for the full posture.

Questions dealers ask.

Answers and pricing last updated September 29, 2026.

I already have a website and a DMS. Do I have to replace them?

No. Start with the phone and the inbox; connect your existing feed so the agent quotes your real inventory. Move the website when your current contract ends.

Does the AI actually know my inventory?

Once your feed is connected, yes — stock number, price, mileage, availability, daily. Before that it knows your business from your website and says plainly it can't quote stock yet.

Which marketplaces does it push to?

Pushed to CarGurus; Cars.com and DealerCenter via feed, and a standard feed any other platform can pull. You see the last successful push and the count.

Can I submit to my lenders?

Through Dealertrack — in certification with Cox — or email the credit app with KBB valuation and book-out sheet as one packet, for lenders that aren't on it.

Is AI calling legal?

Yes, under the FCC's 2024 ruling, when consent, disclosure, quiet hours and DNC are enforced. Lead Friendly enforces them before a call is placed. Inbound calls to your number are always fine.

What does it cost?

Plans from $49/month with AI minutes included; the website build is quoted per store and owned outright. Free trial: 7 days or 30 AI voice minutes, whichever comes first; no credit card.

Can a small or independent dealership run a BDC without hiring one?

That is the size of store Lead Friendly is priced and built for. A twenty-to-eighty-unit lot rarely has a staffed BDC, and enterprise dealership CRMs are quoted per rooftop on annual contracts that assume you do — plus a dedicated performance manager. Here the AI agent is the BDC: it answers sales, service, and parts calls, calls fresh internet leads back within minutes, and books test drives, with the CRM, telephony, and compliance in the same month-to-month subscription. Pick the auto-dealership template, paste your site, and it builds itself. No per-rooftop contract and no implementation project.

What is an AI CRM for car dealers?

An AI CRM for car dealers combines the customer database and pipeline of a dealership CRM with AI agents that do the BDC work themselves — answering sales, service, and parts calls, calling internet leads back, and booking test drives and service visits. Lead Friendly reads your dealership website, builds that agent, then proposes the automations a store should run — internet-lead speed-to-lead, unsold-showroom re-engagement, service-due follow-up — created paused so you approve before they send. The agent never quotes out-the-door pricing or negotiates; it routes, qualifies, and books, and every touch is logged on the contact record.

How is Lead Friendly different from enterprise dealership CRMs?

Enterprise dealer platforms are built and priced for franchise groups, and most still rely on your staff to make the calls. Lead Friendly is priced for independent and small franchise stores, and the AI agent does the calling itself: reception across sales/service/parts, internet-lead callbacks in minutes, and follow-up campaigns — with CRM, telephony, and TCPA/FCC compliance included in one subscription instead of stitched together from separate vendors.

Does the AI agent quote prices or negotiate?

No. The agent is hard-scoped to route, qualify, and book. It never quotes out-the-door pricing, payments, or trade values and never negotiates — those conversations belong to your desk. It books the appointment so your closers have the conversation in person.

How much does Lead Friendly cost for car dealerships?

Solo is the free trial: 7 days or 30 AI voice minutes, whichever comes first; no credit card. Starter is $49/month and Pro is $99/month for 400 included AI voice minutes, plus the full agentic CRM — the agent builds itself from your website and proposes your automations and campaigns. Annual billing is about 20% cheaper. Full breakdown at /pricing.

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