Why Dealerships Need a “Dealership Brain” for AI Success

About this episode

Todd Smith discusses the importance of AI in automotive retail and how dealerships should adapt their approach to AI adoption.

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a defining competitive advantage in automotive retail. On this episode of Inside Automotive, Todd Smith, CEO of QoreAI and author of The Intelligent Dealership, explains why dealers need to rethink how they approach AI adoption and data ownership. Smith argues that AI should not be treated like traditional software. Instead, dealerships must train AI systems using their internal workflows, operational knowledge, and transactional data to create what...

People in this episode

Host: Jim Fitzpatrick

Guest: Todd Smith

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• automotive retail
• data ownership
• AI adoption
• dealership operations

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• automotive
• dealership
• data
• AI systems
• operational knowledge
• transactional data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: QoreAI

Books & works: The Intelligent Dealership

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